[spectre] Movable Borders: Here Come the Drones!

[heath bunting]

On Thu, 18 Apr 2013, marc garrett wrote:


rocket firing drone vs stone throwing people

http://www.sparror.cubecinema.com/james-kennard/stone_vs_drone/stone_vs_drone.html



attack on camera systems at immigration detention centre in switzerland

http://www.bblackboxx.ch/materialien/drohnen-memory-poster/



> Sorry for any cross posting...
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> Movable Borders: Here Come the Drones!
>
> Exhibition Opening on Saturday 11th May 2013, 2-5pm
> It ends on 26th May.
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> Free Workshop - Saturday 18 May 2013, 1-5pm
> MOVABLE BORDERS: THE REPOSITION MATRIX with David Young
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> The devices that once populated the creepy dystopian futures of science 
> fiction have broken through into our daily reality. Drones are becoming part 
> of everyday life. They scout our public (and private) spaces, carrying out 
> surveillance or reconnaissance in the service of nation states and as 
> unmanned robotic tools, armed with missiles and bombs, acting in defence of 
> "national security".
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According to a European commission document drones will be commonplace in 
> the skies within a decade. There are already many companies building these 
> airborne, robotic spies for military and police use and this has "prompted 
> concerns from civil liberties groups, who fear that the unmanned aircraft 
> will result in more forms of surveillance.” (Jamie Doward)
>
> During the two weeks of Movable Borders: Here Come the Drones! people are 
> invited to visit the gallery, view artworks and join a workshop by artists 
> who are contemplating how drones are changing the way we see and relate to 
> each other and the world around us.
>
> Artworks and projects by Bureau of Inverse Technology (US & AU), Lawrence 
> Byrd (US), Patrick Lichty (US), Dave Miller & Gavin Stewart (UK), The Force 
> of Freedom (DE) and Dave Young (NL)
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> More info
> http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/movable-borders-here-come-drones
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