Quotes – Paisagem Fabricada

LAURA POITRAS & HITO STEYERL

HS: It means that you decide, OK, there is this subset of documents and I’m going to partner up with a specific organization and let’s work on that topic. And that becomes a kind of aesthetic decision.

LP: No, that’s just a strategy of publication. It wasn’t about aesthetics.

HS: I disagree. It really is a formal decision, about how to format information, about its form. And that’s important on the level of safety, of course, but also in terms of protecting your autonomy and the autonomy of the work. It is about aesthetic autonomy, too. To go back to our first meeting, it was so interesting because we began a series of conversations about Turkish jet strikes in Turkey facilitated by American drone reconnaissance, and then two years later you published the corresponding NSA documents about those strikes with Der Spiegel, which showed exactly the station that relayed the information to the Turkish air force to send jets to perform the airstrikes. It’s like you and Snowden suddenly provided something I thought would be hidden forever: the perspective, the aerial perspective.

Na íntegra, aqui: https://artforum.com/inprint/issue=201505&id=51563

Quando a Terra virar arteWhen the Earth becomes art

As the planet becomes the content of new information environment, it also tends to become a work of art. (… some years …) If the planet itself has thus become the content of a new space created by satellites, and its electronic extensions, then we can confidently expect to see the next few decades devoted to turning the planet into an art form. We will caress and shape and pattern every facet, every contour of this planet as if it were a work of art.

(Marshall McLuhan – 1964 and years later)

As the planet becomes the content of new information environment, it also tends to become a work of art. (… some years …) If the planet itself has thus become the content of a new space created by satellites, and its electronic extensions, then we can confidently expect to see the next few decades devoted to turning the planet into an art form. We will caress and shape and pattern every facet, every contour of this planet as if it were a work of art.

(Marshall McLuhan – 1964 and years later)