Conference Art: Contributing to international workshop on drones & international intervention at The University Of Surrey, July 2012 UK
On 12 -13 July 2012 I contributed artwork to an international 2 day workshop at The Centre for International Intervention [cii], School of Politics, University of Surrey, UK. The conference, Hitting the Target?” How New Capabilities Are Shaping Contemporary International Intervention, was held to discuss how new capabilities generated by new technology affects intervention at a legal, political and military level. This turned into an exhibition to stimulate discussion between delegates. I also sent a video presentation and the feedback encouraged me that art has the ability to both broaden our vision and make a difference to the way we conceive the world around us.
NATO, University of Leeds, and ICRC delivered the keynote speakers with a range of international participants working on these issues. My abstract was also included in the public exhibition that I shared with some photographs by Al Jazeera photo-journalist Noor Behram and in the workshop programme. These images are reproduced below with the text which accompanied each AO-size print. From 2014 Professor Sir Michael Aaronson n has moved on from Surrey and taken the intervention studies into new frontiers.
