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"Cinematography of Devices": Harun Farocki's Eye/Machine Trilogy
2015
German Studies Review
Harun Farocki's 2001 installation Eye/Machine tackles issues of surveillance surrounding the "intelligent" weapon systems deployed in the 1990/91 Gulf War. Farocki is especially interested in the image processing systems behind these weapons, their operational images that are both generated by machines and read by machines-images that require neither human creators nor human spectators. The article examines how Farocki turns these images into aesthetic artifacts even though they were never
doi:10.1353/gsr.2015.0086
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