The Drones made Honey in the Lion’s Skull
Video installation | 2017
On Feb. 21, 2010, a convoy of vehicles carrying civilians headed down a mountain in central Afghanistan. American eyes were watching. For more than four hours, the U.S. military — including a Predator drone crew in Nevada, video screeners in Florida, an AC-130 airplane crew in the sky and an American special operations unit on the ground nearby — tracked the convoy, trying to decide whether it was friend or foe.
The language of this transcript displays the tacit disregard these US military personnel have for human life. The drone program places a critical distance between the pilots and their victims that re-enforces dehumanization.
This is a visual response to the the official U.S. military transcript of the radio transmissions and cockpit conversations that day, obtained by the Los Angeles Times through a Freedom of Information Act request.
This video was made in collaboration with Ryan Cherewaty and exhibited at:
The language of this transcript displays the tacit disregard these US military personnel have for human life. The drone program places a critical distance between the pilots and their victims that re-enforces dehumanization.
This is a visual response to the the official U.S. military transcript of the radio transmissions and cockpit conversations that day, obtained by the Los Angeles Times through a Freedom of Information Act request.
This video was made in collaboration with Ryan Cherewaty and exhibited at:
- Plan D – Techno-Optimism/Techno-Pessimism International Design festival, Zagreb.
(September 2017) - INFRA – A collaborative exhibition at 'La générale', Paris.
(October 2017) - Art Games Demos #4 – Gaming Festival, Lyon.
(December 2017) - GOGBOT Festival, Enschede NL.
(September 2018) - TEC Art Festival, Rotterdam NL.
(February 2019)
La générale, Paris – October 2017
Plan D, Zagreb – September 2017
