Jennifer Golbeck: Spy Blimp

January 7-28, 2027
Tuesday - Sunday
10am-4pm
Free
XOJ Gallery

Opens Thursday, January 7, 6-8pm

About the Exhibition

Hovering above the skyline off Cudjoe Key, the blimp known locally as Fat Albert has been a topic of rumor and speculation for decades. Goldbeck’s photo series highlights the tension between stunning skies and a lurking, quiet tool of government monitoring. Isolating the blimp recontextualizes it as evidence of modern surveillance’s ominous scale, and becomes an accidental love letter to the Keys’ showy Gulf Coast sunsets.

First Thursday Open House

Thursday, January 7, 6-8pm

About the Artist

Jen Golbeck is a professor at the University of Maryland. She is an expert in artificial intelligence, social media, psychology, privacy, and malicious online behavior. She is a sought after speaker and science communicator, and works as a journalist covering stories related to her scholarly work.

​Jen also rescues special needs golden retrievers and shares their lives on social media as The Golden Ratio.

Also on view January 7-28, 2027

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