Zoomed
A continuing project on aerial surveillance, drone warfare, and dirt.
5 xerox transfer, intaglio prints from glitched Google images. 5 piles of dirt.
Tech companies and the military-industrial complex go hand in hand. One such example of this hellish marriage is the expansion of aerial surveillance and drone technology to oppress, surveil, and shed blood globally. This technology is so effective in these arenas because it abstracts human experiences: “As sight lost its direct-quality and reeled out of phase, the soldier had the feeling of being not so much destroyed as derealized or dematerialized, any sensory point of reference suddenly vanishing in a surfeit of optical targets.” (Paul Virilio, War and Cinema). With optical targeting the physical presence of land and bodies is lost. It becomes a lot easier to kill indiscriminately when war turns from the face-to-face combat of the battlefield to a sort of video game. This isn't just confined to the arena of warfare. Technocapitalism largely distances us from our bodies and the land, abstracting and fragmenting the self as we become streamlined into the vector of information. In 'Zoomed', glitched images are no longer simply images ruined by a profit-driven algorithm but elevated into something beautiful; and the land that we are distanced from through aerial surveillance technology is rematerialized beneath our feet. |
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