19 January 2008 - Talks at the ICA
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The New Sex Crimes: Electronic Obscenity + Censorship
19 January 2008
The New Sex Crimes is a double bill of talks takes a critical look at the emerging relationship between the internet, sexuality and the law.
The UK government is currently pushing ahead with plans to criminalise the possession of "extreme pornography". This new law has been proposed as a supplement to existing obscenity laws, as a way of keeping up with new developments in information technology. The proposed changes would dramatically alter obscenity law; the result is likely to have far-reaching and unexpected consequences for artists and film-makers of all kinds and the institutions which fund them. A panel discusses the implications of the proposed law for contemporary artistic practice.
Speakers: Adeola Agbebiyi, film and video examiner, British Board of Film Classification; filmmaker Hammad Khan; professor Julian Petley, chair of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom and author of Censoring the Word; Feona Attwood, principal lecturer in media at Sheffield Hallam University; Deborah Hyde, Backlash.
www.backlash-uk.org.uk
The New Sex Crimes: Netting Paedophiles or Ruining Lives?
19 January 2008
The New Sex Crimes is a double bill of talks takes a critical look at the emerging relationship between the internet, sexuality and the law.
Following a spate of high-profile prosecutions of celebrities for downloading child pornography and the fallout from Operation Ore, are we in danger of losing the distinction between acts of paedophilia and dangerous thoughts? What has fuelled the police prosecutions against child pornography, how do they work and what are the implications for our understanding of paedophilia, the internet and the law?
Duncan Campbell, former assistant editor of the New Statesman and an award-winning investigative journalist who has written about the Operation Ore child pornography prosecutions in the UK, will be speaking to David Whitehouse QC, the barrister who recently defended actor Chris Langham on charges of downloading child pornography. Chair: Libby Brooks, deputy comment editor at The Guardian and author of The Story of Childhood.
