Investigative Aesthetics in Architecture and Journalism: Eyal Weizman in conversation with Malachy Brown.

This evening marks the publication of Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability, an in-depth introduction into the group and its practice. Visit the e-Flux website for more information.

The evening will start with Weizman presenting the group’s most recent investigative work on enforced disappearance in Mexico, after which he will be joined by Malachy Browne of the New York Times to discuss new techniques in open source investigations and civil society forensics, and the impact they are having on investigative journalism.

Eyal Weizman is the founding director of Forensic Architecture, a professor at Goldsmiths, London, and one of the founders of DAAR in Beit Sahour, Palestine. His books include The Roundabout Revolutions (Sternbberg Press, 2015), The Least of All Possible Evils (Verso, 2012), and Hollow Land (Verso, 2007).

Malachy Browne is a Senior Story Producer with the New York Times. He focuses on international investigative reporting that combines visual forensics with open source data and traditional reporting. Prior to joining the Times, Browne worked with social journalism start-ups Storyful and Reported.ly. He co-founded Right to Know, an Irish organization campaigning for access to public information. A recovering computer programmer, he takes an interest in the interface of technology with journalism.

Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
Zone Books, May 2017
English
7.5 x 9 in, 368 pp, 100 color illus., hardcover
ISBN: 9781935408864