| 1 - Flying
UN mine seeker. 2 - Detention of unlawful combattants, Guantanamo Bay, 2003.
3 - Advertising blimp in US sports-stadium. 4 - Observation blimp at the
Westbank, Palestine, 2004. 5 - Robocontest, EPFL/Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne, November 2005. Goal of the contest was to destroy the balloons
as quick as possible. The robots on the ground accomplished their manoeuvres
in time. The flying robots failed. 6 - Performance "Passion5" during the
"late shift" project series in Zurich at November 3, 2005. Right: Yannick
Fourier; Left: "laboratory technician Olsen". Blimp re-construction by Yannick
Fourier (Autonomous Systems Laboratory), based on the research of Prof.
Dario Floreano and Jean-Christophe Zufferey (Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland). 7 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri lived
18 years at Paris Airport, Terminal 1, waiting for his visa to England.
In the background the poster of the film "The Terminal", the film version
of Nasseri's story, directed by Steven Spielberg. 8, 9 - Installation of
"naked_bandit / here, not here / white_sovereign" at Archilab Biennale Orleans,
"Naked City", 2004. Autonomous flying robot targeting black balloons and
visitors. 10,11 - Installation of "naked_bandit / here, not here / white_sovereign"
at the "Tracer" exhibition, Witte the With, Rotterdam, September 2004. Curated
by Andreas Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles. 12 - Installation of "naked_bandit
/ here, not here / white_sovereign" at ICC Tokyo, 2005. Two computers are
running scripts which have the potential to escape the inclusive exclusion
dilemma on a formal language level. |
