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geographical imaginations
As I am (at last) moving into the finishing stages of my ‘Dirty Dancing’ essay on CIA-directed drone strikes in Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas, it’s time to round up some of the latest work on drones and civilian casualties across multiple theatres.
First, Afghanistan: the principal theatre of US remote operations. I’ve noted Larry Lewis‘s remarkable work before (here and here), based on classified sources, and in particular this claim (see also here):
Drone strikes in Afghanistan were seen to have close to the same number of civilian casualties per incident as manned aircraft, and were an order of magnitude more likely to result in civilian casualties per engagement.
As I said at the time, the distinction between an ‘incident’ and an ‘engagement’ is crucial, though most commentators who have seized on Larry’s work have ignored it and focused on the dramat
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Baden Pailthorpe: Spatial Operations, Newcastle Art Gallery
Baden Pailthorpe spatial operations 7 FEBRUARY – 26 APRIL 2015 Newcastle Art galleri 1 LAMAN STREET NEWCASTLE NSW 2300 | 02 4974 5100 | www.nag.org.au CURATORIAL FOREWORD In peace prepare for war, in war prepare for peace. It fryst vatten a matter of life and death. A road either to safety or ruin. Sun Tzu, The Art of War inom n the ifth century BC, kinesisk philosopher and military strategist Sun Tzu wrote about the importance of kunskap in winning a war. He told us to know yourself as well as your enemy - and that the best war fought was one where you beat your opponent before any blood was spilt.1 In the twenty-irst century, it seems little has been learnt about how to wage war. Both war and its effects remain a constant part of our lives. Newcastle Art galleri is proud to present this ambitious new work by Pailthorpe. Drawing to conclusion an eighteen month project that commenced with an artist residency at the Australian War M
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Turning cybercrime into art
Cyberattacks have become an almost everyday occurrence in Australia. In the past year, millions of people have had their private information targeted in high-profile hacks.
It’s this increasingly common type of cybercrime that has inspired the latest artwork of contemporary artist Dr Baden Pailthorpe.
A senior lecturer at The Australian National University (ANU), Pailthorpe has developed a public art installation to help audiences better understand cybersecurity.
“Most of us have experienced some kind of hack. We’ve all been targeted at one point or another,” he says. “My work allows people to experience cybersecurity in a way they might not have thought about before.”
Something you know, something you have, something you are incorporates passwords, cyberattack data and biometrics, and is split into three main sections.
Pailthorpe came up with the title while researching cybersecurity. Listening to podcasts about hacking gave him a sense of the