This issue of Intermedialities proposes to examine the dynamic relationship between forms of concealment and forms of detection. Its premise is that the domain of the hidden, and the ways of (self)concealment, are constructed in synergy with the ways of perceiving, interpreting, judging and tracking down that are specific to a given context and time. As a strategy, concealing responds to a range of needs: to protect that which is sensitive, to retain a strategic advantage, to deceive, to avoid social disapproval or sanctions. Thus, the art of disguise evolves with the advancement of technology, but also according to the development of social norms and relations of power. The contributions in this special issue address the logics of concealment from the point of view of digital media, cultural studies, cinema, photography, and literature. Some adopt a historical perspective in order to shed light on the development of these forms, while others focus on elucidating the logics, tensions, and paradoxes of the contemporary world.
Summary
Introduction: The Mediality of Concealment: Material Practices and Symbolic Operativity
Nathalie Casemajor, Sophie Toupin
Articles
Voyage sous « Goyave », entre autres clefs d’accès de biais à l’univers romanesque de Yodi Karone
Blaise Tsoualla (Université de Buéa)
“Imprisoned Photographs”: The Looted Archive of Photo Rissas (Rassas)—Ibrahim and Chalil (Khalil) Rissas
Rona Sela (The David and Yolanda Katz Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University)
Prises de vue clandestines comme exercice du (contre)pouvoir de l’art : Trevor Paglen et Mohamed Bourouissa reprennent le contrôle du visible
Katrin Gattinger (Université de Strasbourg)
Les gueules cassées ou l’éthique de l’écran crevé : du masque au visage cinématographique
Karine Chevalier (Université de Roehampton)
Inhabiting the Profile: Zach Blas’s Facial Weaponization Suite
Sebastian Althoff (Institute for Media Studies, Ruhr-University Bochum)
Hiding from whom? Threat-models and in-the-making encryption technologies
Ksenia Ermoshina & Francesca Musiani (CNRS/CIS)
Storing Authenticity at the Surface and into the Depths: Securing Paper with Human and Machine Readable Devices
Aleksandra Kaminska (Université de Montréal)
Research-Creation
Surveillant Intimacies
Mél Hogan (Department of Communication, Media and Film, University of Calgary)
Guest Artist
Caché-e – Away from Keyboard
Julie Morel