Here Come the Drones! Reviewed & interview with Dave Young on The Reposition Matrix workshop.

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Here Come the Drones! Reviewed & interview with Dave Young on The
Reposition Matrix workshop.

By R�gine Debatty from We Make Money Not Art, reviews 'Movable Borders:
Here Come the Drones!' show at Furtherfield, and interview with Dave
Young about his Drones workshop 'The Reposition Matrix'.

The title of the show is pretty self-explanatory. Because, yes! The
drones are indeed getting closer. Nowadays UAVs aren't just shooting at
terror suspects and innocent civilians in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen
and Somalia, they also have civilians uses such as monitoring orangutans
and other endangered species or helping farmers check the condition of
their crops which is obviously valuable and exciting. But drones are
also enrolled to increase control and surveillance over our heads: the
German railway network is deploying them to combat graffiti-spraying
'gangs' and a European commission document suggests that, in the coming
years, drones could be used in crisis management, law enforcement,
border control and firefighting. Human right activists are calling for
"greater clarity and transparency about when and how these tools are
deployed." Eric King of Privacy International also told The Guardian
that "the secretive way in which surveillance drones have been put into
operation, and the failure of the police to recognise and address the
human rights issues involved, has created a huge potential for abuse."

Review/Interview by R�gine Debatty
http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2013/06/the-reposition-matrix.php#.Ua9HdutAsb1

The 'Movable Borders: Here Come the Drones!' exhibition has now ended�
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/exhibition/movable-borders-here-come-drones

MOVABLE BORDERS: THE REPOSITION MATRIX workshop now ended also�
http://www.furtherfield.org/programmes/event/movable-borders-reposition-matrix-workshop


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