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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Zona interdetta al transito. Photo: Cécile Bonato

MigAA – (Il)legal Aesthetics

January – March, 2013, Ptarmigan, Tallinn, Estonia.

Systems reward the assertive. The worlds of economics, culture, academia and science all follow a strict adherence to Darwinist principles. The strong triumph; the weak are swept away. All attempts to rectify this, through state activity, the social conscience or charity are subject to the same systems that nurture these inequalities.

The rules of law binds these spheres, yet these ties are not absolute. The concept of legality is fluid, and those who have conquered these systems are often the ones who least observe the regulations which have benefited them.
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