Dictionary of War
Virutous War - James Der Derian
New York, September 26th 2009, 16:00
Technology in the service of virtue has given rise to a global form of virtual violence, virtuous war. In virtuous war, made-for-TV wars and Hollywood war movies blur, military war games and computer video games blend, mock disasters and real accidents collide, producing on screen a new configuration of virtual power, the military-industrial-media-entertainment network.
Urban Warfare - Gar Smith
New York, September 26th 2009, 15:30
Wounded Cities - Ida Susser and Jan Schneider
New York, September 26th 2009, 18:00
When a riot becomes a war - Suketu Mehta
New York, September 26th 2009, 17:30
Explosion Implosion: war in our time - Susan Crile
New York, September 26th 2009, 17:00
In EXPOLSION IMPOSION: War in Our Time, I show four series of paintings and works on paper that are concerned with war and/ or terrorism and torture. I talk about its affect on society the society. The four series are, FIRES OF WAR, 9-1, ABU GHRAIB: Abuse of Power and IN OUR NAME: Black Sites and Guantanamo. These works explore the sensory and experiential nature of violence, war and torture as distinct from their conceptual and historical dimensions.
War Games - Ashley Dawson
New York, September 26th 2009, 16.30
When Schiller penned his Aesthetic Letters shortly following the French Revolution, he saw the "play drive" as a virtuous alternative to the violence that had engulfed the world of politics, a force capable of reconciling the conflict between human beings' material, sensuous nature and their capacity for reason. Much of the subsequent history of aesthetic theory hinges on this vision of creativity as a redemptive alternative to the fallen world of modernity. But gaming is serious business.
The Wall - Richard Sennett
New York, September 26th 2009, 15:00
Annexpression - Tony Conrad
New York, September 26th 2009, 14:30
The unexpected degree to which having a job is not only selling your time, but is also selling your voice. The annexpression job divide is a ragged edge, in which those with expressive options overlap with job holders in certain ways; still, the overwhelming preponderance of those with jobs have sold their voices almost completely, as their outlook has been annexed to corporate enterprise - and as they have moreover introjected the workplace values, political postures, and social outlooks of their employers.
Re-appropriating the city of fear - Fiona Jeffries
New York, September 26th 2009, 13:30
Pigeon - Gediminas Urbonas
New York, September 26th 2009, 13:00
"La colombe qui fait bourn!" The dove that goes boom! Similar to other animals pigeon is lending out their features to the war techniques. Like Trojan horse and Medici’s giraffe, Warhorses and Elephants, Durer’s Rhinoceros and bomber dolphins , pigeons become devices that share their belonging to both – nature and techne. Animals lending their skin to the camouflage patters, logic of their movements to the one of robots, their muscles to carrier of ammunitions, their senses to control protocols, their species names to name technologies or war.
