Invisible Violence: Drone Warfare and Landscape after 9/11
Invisible Violence: Drone Warfare and Landscape after 9/11

Summary/Abstract: The paper investigates representations of landscape in selected examples of contemporaryartworks that were produced in the aftermath of and in direct response to the 9/11 terroristattacks and the subsequent war on terror. Focused on the work of Hito Steyerl, TrevorPaglen, and Simon Norfolk, the paper seeks to examine how the development in militarytechnology, primarily the increasing reliance on computerised vision, as manifested by theuse of drones, has generated new ways in which landscape is perceived and represented,experienced and mediated. In the text, discussed artworks are shown to confront the mechanisedvision of landscape with aesthetic concepts such as the sublime in order to account forthe changes in human experience of space in the 21st century.

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