MigAA – Aesthetic–Responsibility–Drones

2-7th of May 2013, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Weissensee Art Academy Berlin

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An aesthetic of contemporary life inhales new relationship to objects, and the attached to us object changes the perspective to it. If the object for Marshall McLuhan in 60s was an extension of man, for Vilém Flusser in 80s the man became an extension of “apparatus.” The roles have been switched literally and physically: since then machine is the one who creates and man is the one who serves it. Who in the changing world will be dictating the aims? Who will be responsible if the unmanned vehicle will kill a man?
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