Dear Colleagues, I am excited to invite you all to participate in Theorizing the Web Presents: Surveillance of Black Lives <http://www.movingimage.us/visit/calendar/2020/07/16/detail/theorizing-the-web-presents-surveillance-of-black-lives>. In this first installment of *Theorizing the Web Presents*, a new series highlighting critical perspectives on timely issues at the intersection of tech and media, Museum of the Moving Image welcomes scholar and journalism instructor Allissa Richardson <https://annenberg.usc.edu/faculty/allissa-v-richardson> and scholar and AI policy advisor Mutale Nkonde <https://datasociety.net/people/nkonde-mutale/>, who will speak about the impact of surveillance during the movement for the liberation of Black Lives and the COVID-19 pandemic. Topics explored will include facial recognition used in policing, tracing software associated with the pandemic, and how images of Black death have created a treacherous techno-mediascape that extends state matrices of power and systems of oppression faced by Black people in the United States. The discussion will be led by scholar and Theorizing the Web board member Apryl Williams. *Join the live event on YouTube on Thursday, July 16, 7:00 p.m. EDT. <https://youtu.be/mYaJQAhUEM4>* All the best, Apryl Apryl Williams, PhD Fellow | Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society <https://cyber.harvard.edu/story/2019-06/berkman-klein-center-announces-2019-2020-community> | Harvard University Assistant Professor | Department of Communication and Media <https://lsa.umich.edu/comm> & the Digital Studies Institute <https://www.digitalstudies.umich.edu/> | University of Michigan