Event overview
London premier of the installation Endless War, by Goldsmiths' Graham Harwood (YoHa) and Matthew Fuller. Part of the V&A's Digital Design Weekend.
Endless War is a large moving image installation using data from the Wikileaks release of the US army Afghanistan war diaries. On 25th July 2010, WikiLeaks released the Afghan War Diary, exposing over 91,000 reports covering the war in Afghanistan from 2004 to 2010. Written by soldiers and officers, the data includes intelligence information, descriptions of military actions, meetings, and other information. While some of the data was interpreted and published by newspapers, the full data set – containing endless permutation of jargon, acronyms and cross-references - remains mostly inaccessible.
Endless War is a video installation revealing the real-time processing of this data, seen from a series of different analytical points of view: each individual entry, phrase matching between entries and searches for the frequency of terms.
It shows how the way war is thought relates to the way it is fought. Both are seen as, potentially endless, computational processes. The algorithmic imaginary of contemporary power meshes with the drawn out failure of imperial adventure.
Endless War is presented at The White Building as part of the V&A Digital Design Weekend 20 & 21 September and is curated by Shiri Shalmy.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 19 Sep 2014 |
6:30pm - 9:00pm Private View |
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| 20 Sep 2014 | 11:00am - 6:00pm | |
| 21 Sep 2014 | 11:00am - 6:00pm |
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