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With the installation of Canadian-made cams on American bombs, the utopian birds-eye view has become increasingly dronified, turning innocent google maps into sinister targets. In Running for Cover, queer themes and tactics of mapping through jogging, rhyming through highlighting, colonizing through punctuation and variously percolate through his recent work. This talk will include several roughcuts and works-in-progress that have grown out of Greyson's 2013 incarceration in a Cairo prison, including: Towel, Pink:Diss, Last Car, Gazonto, Bulldozer Bronfman and Prison Arabic in 50 Days.

John Greyson is a Toronto video/film artist whose works include: Fig Trees, Lilies, Zero Patience, Urinal, and The Making of Monsters. He teaches at York in Film, and serves on the boards of Vtape, Toronto Palestine Film Festival and Cinema Politica.