J.M. Badoud In search for the words to express the symbolism of contemporary U.S. military service, I reconstructed the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (GWOTEM) Ribbon. President Bush established this award to recognize overseas military service in the fight…
Category: POWER
POWER – Vol. 8, No. 1, 2011
Duration
Diana Heise Duration is a single channel digital video and an experiment in database structure that explores the effects of militarism. The piece uses moving images that were photographed on gun missions during the Vietnam War. With inspiration from structuralist…
Criminals (Rio de Janeiro)
Cyríaco Lopes Criminals (Rio de Janeiro) is made of altered images of criminals taken from the Brazilian press. They are the soldiers of an undeclared civil war, victims and perpetrators, actors of an environment that learned to live with a…
Our Clean Battlefield
Bob Paris Our Clean Battlefield comments on the sanitized way that American television news reports on the nation’s wars. TV’s preference to avoid actual human casualties and chart the progress of the war by satellite fly-overs, special effects, and…
The Gift of Giving
Oscar Perez Our reality is based on the shaping of our of sensory information, but these tools have limitations, unable to capture the full spectrum of our surroundings. Add geographical and cultural differences to the equation and an uncomfortable picture…