The Milgram Reenactment is an artwork by artist Rod Dickinson, in collaboration with actor Graeme Edler and writer Eliot Albert, and latterly Steve Rushton. The project is a reconstruction of one part of Stanley Milgrams Obedience to Authority experiment conducted at Yale University in from 1960. The Reenactment took place in the Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow on February 15th and 17th 2002. Subsequently a film of re-enactment has been edited into two versions. A 3.5hr single channel installation version and 1.5hr screening version. For photographic documentation of the reenactment go to:  ARCHIVE SECTION  The video and the laboratory installation have been shown as part of History Will Repeat Itself, Strategies of re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and performance, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, a cooperation between HMKV Dortmund and KW Berlin, 16 Feb - 13 April 2008. A catalogue to accompany the exhibition was published by HMKV Dortmund and KW Berlin. The video has been shown at (selected exhibitions): Dazibao Montreal 2007, Kunstwerke Berlin 2007, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund 2007, Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art in Oldenburg in Germany 2006, Dresden Kunsthaus, A Retrospective of British Media Art, 2006, Witte de With, Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Science Museum, London(UK), Bergen Kunsthall (Norway), TENT gallery , Rotterdam (The Netherlands), Gallery W139 Amsterdam (The Netherlands), Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (Lithuania), South London Gallery, London (UK), Side-Cinema, Newcastle (UK). For info and enquiries about the re-enactment contact Rod Dickinson:  Rod Dickinson  The Jan Van Eyck Academy (The Netherlands) and Revolver (Germany) have published a book about the re-enactment, edited by Steve Rushton, with essays by Tom McCarthy, Vivienne Gaskin and Steve Rushton. This web site and the book about this project "Essays on Rod Dickinson's Re-enactment of Stanley Milgram's Obedience To Authority experiment" were designed by Sacha Davison Lunt. During the experiment subjects were asked to give seemingly real electric shocks to another individual. Ostensibly the experiment was to test the limit to which subjects were prepare to follow the orders of an experimenter. How severely would they be prepared to hurt a fellow human because they were ordered to do so. The Re-enactment represented 8 subjects moving through the Obedience experiment in real time. Using transcripts from the original experiment each actor took the role of a specific subject. Each aspect of the experiment was repeated for each subject. Under the guise of a memory test, subjects were asked to give seemingly real electric shocks to another individual. Ostensibly the experiment was to test the limit to which subjects were prepared to follow the orders of an experimenter, and how severely would they be prepared to hurt a fellow human because they were ordered to do so. The experiment is most remembered for its statistical results; that two thirds of the subjects obediently continued to adminster the maximum 450 volt shock until they were told to stop. Less well known is the microcosm of human drama and anxiety, that was played out repeatedly, in front of the electro-shock machine. The reenactment mirrored and extended this reptition over its 3.5hr course. This project and web site are dedicated to my friend and collaborator; actor Graeme Edler. Graeme unexpectedly died on February 10th 2004.  DEDICATION