Lawrence Abu Hamdan is a 2015-2017 Vera List Center Fellow, whose fellowship project is part of the Vera List Center’s Post Democracy cycle of programs.

The artist’s work often explores the role of voice in law and the politics of listening. During his fellowship at the VLC, and in collaboration with faculty and students in fall 2016, Abu Hamdan will develop a new case study on ShotSpotter, a technology that registers gunshots, alerts police of their whereabouts, and is at this point installed throughout New York City. Abu Hamdan will lead an audio investigation into Shotspotter as a way to not only understand this algorithmic surveillance technology but to raise fundamental questions about the politics of representation, in particular the limits of free speech and the diminishing possibilities of recourse to silence. http://www.veralistcenter.org/engage/people/1990/lawrence-abu-hamdan/

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