Artist Talk, Form and Admissibility: Experiments at the Intersection of Art, Law and Innovation

What role can the visual arts play in fact-finding and reporting on human-rights issues? Hayden Visiting Artist Bradley Samuels, founding partner and director of SITU Research, in Brooklyn, New York, discusses emerging methods, tools, and technologies for the visual and spatial analyses of human-rights violations, in both legal and advocacy contexts. Samuels presents a selection of recent casework with a focus on the interdisciplinary nature of these efforts. The talk includes recent work on the destruction of cultural heritage for the International Criminal Court, as well as video on the subject of the Kiev Euromaidan protests, currently on view in the exhibition Before the Event/After the Fact: Contemporary Perspectives on War.