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dronestagram-yemen-landscape
This image is from the booktwo.org website by James Bridle. It is for the project Dronestagram on tumblr and instagram, etc. I would like to reference Bridle's project of documenting drone strikes as well as draw connections to the photographs of László Moholy-Nagy, which were geometric and Constructivist in approach. These images have the feel of the work of László Moholy-Nagy when viewed as such. The further context of the dronestagram adds another conceptual level. In some ways, I think that this may have been something that Moholy-Nagy would try and avoid- the overt political statement.
Our viewpoint today is even further away than the top of the radio towers of Berlin for Moholy-Nagy, but always are confronted with new "ways of seeing" and being in the world. I would like to overlay these types of image with some graphic work inspired by László Moholy-Nagy.
Inspired by dronestagram, but not limited to it. Options would be to scan Google Maps for "other" landscapes.
"The political and practical possibilities of drone strikes are the consequence of invisible, distancing technologies, and a technologically-disengaged media and society. Foreign wars and foreign bodies have always counted for less, but the technology that was supposed to bring us closer together is used to obscure and obfuscate. We use military technologies like GPS and Kinect for work and play; they continue to be used militarily to maim and kill, ever further away and ever less visibly."
dronestagram-yemen-landscape
This image is from the booktwo.org website by James Bridle. It is for the project Dronestagram on tumblr and instagram, etc. I would like to reference Bridle's project of documenting drone strikes as well as draw connections to the photographs of László Moholy-Nagy, which were geometric and Constructivist in approach. These images have the feel of the work of László Moholy-Nagy when viewed as such. The further context of the dronestagram adds another conceptual level. In some ways, I think that this may have been something that Moholy-Nagy would try and avoid- the overt political statement.
Our viewpoint today is even further away than the top of the radio towers of Berlin for Moholy-Nagy, but always are confronted with new "ways of seeing" and being in the world. I would like to overlay these types of image with some graphic work inspired by László Moholy-Nagy.
Inspired by dronestagram, but not limited to it. Options would be to scan Google Maps for "other" landscapes.
"The political and practical possibilities of drone strikes are the consequence of invisible, distancing technologies, and a technologically-disengaged media and society. Foreign wars and foreign bodies have always counted for less, but the technology that was supposed to bring us closer together is used to obscure and obfuscate. We use military technologies like GPS and Kinect for work and play; they continue to be used militarily to maim and kill, ever further away and ever less visibly."