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Heba Y. Amin : the general's stork / edited by Anthony Downey.

Contributor(s): Downey, Anthony [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Research/practice ; 02.Publication details: Berlin : Sternberg Press, [2020] Description: 157 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 18 cmISBN: 9783956794780; 3956794788Other title: General's storkContained works: Amin, Heba Y., 1980- Works. SelectionsSubject(s): Amin, Heba Y., 1980- | Storks in artLOC classification: N7385.A575 | A4 2020
Contents:
There's Always Someone Looking at You : Performative Research and the Techno-Aesthetics of Drone Surveillance / Anthony Downey -- A Bird's-Eye View : The Release of Menes the Stork / Haitham Mossad -- Reductio Ad Absurdum / Heba Y. Amin in conversation with Adel Iskandar -- Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't after You / Heba Y. Amin in conversation with Laura Poitras -- Which Reality Do You Want? / Heba Y. Amin in conversation with Adam Harvey.
Summary: Heba Y. Amin's 'The General's Stork' explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare from a bird's eye view. Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context of Middle Eastern geographies, Amin explores the extensive research that went into the development of a multidimensional and ongoing work. She also gives further background as to how, in 2013, the Egyptian authorities sought to detain a migratory stork that it accused of being an international spy.
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Heba Y. Amin's 'The General's Stork' explores historical accounts of biblical prophecies, colonial narratives, and the politics of technological warfare from a bird's eye view. Focusing on how military technologies were developed in the specific context of Middle Eastern geographies, Amin explores the extensive research that went into the development of a multidimensional and ongoing work. She also gives further background as to how, in 2013, the Egyptian authorities sought to detain a migratory stork that it accused of being an international spy.

There's Always Someone Looking at You : Performative Research and the Techno-Aesthetics of Drone Surveillance / Anthony Downey -- A Bird's-Eye View : The Release of Menes the Stork / Haitham Mossad -- Reductio Ad Absurdum / Heba Y. Amin in conversation with Adel Iskandar -- Just Because You're Paranoid Doesn't Mean They Aren't after You / Heba Y. Amin in conversation with Laura Poitras -- Which Reality Do You Want? / Heba Y. Amin in conversation with Adam Harvey.

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