The San Jose Museum of Art presents the first survey of work by artists who are responding to the uncertainties of the post-9/11 world. Covert Operations: Investigating the Known Unknowns includes works by international artists who pursue the complex relationships among freedom, security, privacy, and secrecy in the violent and volatile decades following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. These artists employ the tools of democracy to bear witness to attacks on liberty and abuses of power. Part 1 of the exhibition, opened June 30, 2015, focuses on artists who use the visual language of gaming in their work: Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0, Harun Farocki, and Anne-Marie Schleiner and Luis Hernandez Galvan. On August 29, the main section of the exhibition opened with works by Ahmed Basiony, Thomas Demand, Hasan Elahi, David Gurman, Jenny Holzer, Trevor Paglen,

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