{"id":3019,"date":"2014-04-09T10:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2014-04-09T10:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T16:18:20","slug":"for-shame-the-giant-poster-that-shows-drone-pilots-the-people-theyre-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peaceeconomyproject.org\/wordpress\/for-shame-the-giant-poster-that-shows-drone-pilots-the-people-theyre-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"For Shame: The Giant Poster That Shows Drone Pilots the People They’re Bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not just a pixel on a screen<\/h3>\n

by\u00a0Robinson Meyer<\/a>, The Atlantic
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A drone’s view of the huge poster placed in northwest Pakistan by Not a Bug Splat (Not a Bug Splat)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

A new project<\/a>, initiated by a collective of artists from around the world including\u00a0the French JR<\/a>, has tried to reach the people pulling the trigger in America’s drone wars\u2014the drone operators themselves.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s called \u201cNot A Bug Splat<\/a>,\u201d and its gets its name from the term drone operators use for a successful \u201ckill,\u201d because\u2014in the pixelated grayscale of the drone camera\u2014ending a human life looks like squashing a bug.<\/p>\n

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The collective created a huge poster of a child whom organizers say lost his family to drone strikes in Pakistan\u2019s heavily bombed province,\u00a0Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cNow, when viewed by a drone camera, what an operator sees on his screen is not an anonymous dot on the landscape, but an innocent child victim\u2019s face,\u201d reads the project\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

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In the last decade, drone operators have killed as many as 3,600 people in northwest Pakistan alone. Those people\u2014they include as many as 951 civilians and 200 children<\/a>\u2014died without trial or jury. They were specks on the screen, and then they were dead.<\/p>\n

Not a Bug Splat<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t only for drone operators, though. It also addresses itself to other eyes in the sky:<\/p>\n

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The installation\u00a0is also designed to be captured by satellites in order to make it a permanent part of the landscape on online mapping sites.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

It is an incredible object and project. And I wonder if, by joining the satellite image record, it will prove especially lasting. Satellite images have long straddled the line between military technology and scientific record, between war and art. Not a Bug Splat uses the power of one to comment on the other, and it challenges\u00a0all<\/em>\u00a0those who have access to images photographed from the sky to use their power to make a more just world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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