Harun Farocki
(B.1944, Nový Jicin (Neutitschein), Czechoslovakia // D.Berlin, 2014)- Parallel I-IV, 2014
- War Tropes, 2011
- Serious Games, 2010
- The Silver and the Cross, 2010
- Deep Play, 2007
- Vergleich über ein Drittes / Comparison via a Third, 2007
- Transmission, 2007
- Arbeiter verlassen die Fabrik in elf Jahrzehnten / Workers Leaving the Factory in Eleven Decades, 2006
- Hörstationen / Listening Stations, 2006
- Synchronisation / Dubbing, 2006
- Zur Bauweise des Films bei Griffith's Film / On Construction of Griffith's Films, 2006
- Gegen-Musik / Counter-Music, 2005
- Drei Montagen / Three Assembles, 2005
- Ausweg / A way, 2005
- Aufstellung / In Formation, 2005
- Serie: Auge / Machine, Eye / Machine III, 2003
- Serie: Auge / Machine, Eye / Machine II, 2001
- Serie: Auge / Machine, Eye / Machine I, 2000
- The Expression of Hands, 1997
- Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet at Work on Franz Kafka's, 1983
- An Image, 1983
- Some problems of anti-authoritarian and anti-imperialist urban warfare in the case of West Berlin or: Their Newspapers, 1968
- The Words of the Chairman, 1967
Serie: Auge / Machine, Eye / Machine II, 2001
2-channel installation, color & B/W, sound. 15 m (loop)
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In modern weapons technology the categories are on the move: intelligence is no longer limited to humans. In "Eye / Machine II" Farocki has brought together visual material from both military and civilian sectors, showing machines operating intelligently and what it is they see when working on the basis of image processing programs. The traditional man-machine distinction becomes reduced to "eye/machine", where cameras are implanted into the machines as eyes. As a result of the Gulf War, the technology of warfare came to provide an innovative impulse which boosted the development of civilian production. Farocki shows us computer simulated images looking like something out of science-fiction films: rockets steer towards islands set in a shining sea; apartment blocks are blown up; fighter aircrafts fire at one another with rockets and defend themselves with virtual flares. "Eye / Machine II" is the continuation of a wider examination of the same subject: intelligent machines and intelligent weapons.
View installation at Fundación PROA (Buenos Aires), 2013
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