Message in a Bottle: From Ramsgate to The Chatham Islands by Layla Curtis - On May 25, 2004, fifty bottles containing messages were released into the sea off the south-east coast of England near Ramsgate Maritime Museum, Kent. The intended destination of the bottles is The Chatham Islands in the South Pacific Ocean. The islands, which are 800km east of mainland New Zealand, are the nearest inhabited land to the precise location on the opposite side of the world to Ramsgate Maritime Museum. It is anticipated that the bottles may be found several times before reaching the Chatham Islands. Continue reading

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The All Seeing Eye I and II by Radim Labuda - The installation videos are minimal formal re-working of the original military footage downloaded from the Internet. Video showing a landscape in night vision with a crosshair brings to mind many possible previous experiences: video games, images of Afghanistan and Iraq produced by specialised devices to “search and destroy”.

The movement of the camera across the terrain is remapped to a static landscape - as if the viewfinder was revealing only small sections of the landscape at a time. Camera movement is remapped relative to the static objects in the footage. The image is stabilised by motion-tracking technology which allows for compensation for much of the movements of the aircraft. Continue reading

Threatbox.us by Marie Sester :: November 17, 2007 - January 13, 2008 :: Fargfabriken, Laboratory of the Contemporary, Stockholm, Sweden.

Threatbox.us is an art installation with web surveillance interface in which a movie frame “attacks” visitors via a robotic video projector and computer vision tracking system. The beam of light that technologies of vision cast upon the world is also always the line of sight for a weapon with which to destroy what the beam presents as its ‘objective’ — its target. The moving projection becomes an aggressor. The merging of these technologies of vision and of destruction result in our “military-entertainment” industry. Threatbox.us seeks to question the ideological onslaught of American military-entertainment politics. Continue reading

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