Visual Interventions in the Surveillance Studies Network

Established in 2018, the SSN Arts Prize is a bi-annual award that celebrates the provocative and timely work of international surveillance artists today. The winners of the SSN Arts Prize for 2020 and 2022 are sava saheli singh (2020) and Elham Fatapour (2022). Honorable mentions were awarded in 2020 to Pip Thornton and Florian van Zandwijk, and in 2022 to Wendy Wong and Jessica-Maria Nassif. Juried by a committee of members of the Surveillance Studies Network editorial team, the prize is awarded to artists and creative practitioners whose work considers surveillance in sophisticated, creative, and new ways that promote audience engagement. The winners and honorable mentions are celebrated at the biennial Surveillance Studies Network conference. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the rescheduling of the 2020 Surveillance Studies Network conference, they are celebrating two years of the award in this one edition. The winners of the 2020 and 2022 SSN Arts Prizes were awarded this prize in Jun 2022 at the 9th biennial Surveillance Studies Network hosted by Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands.