Pigeon
| Gediminas Urbonas New York, September 26th 2009, 13:00 - 13:30 Download |
"La colombe qui fait bourn!" The dove that goes boom! Similar to other animals pigeon is lending out their features to the war techniques. Like Trojan horse and Medici’s giraffe, Warhorses and Elephants, Durer’s Rhinoceros and bomber dolphins , pigeons become devices that share their belonging to both – nature and techne. Animals lending their skin to the camouflage patters, logic of their movements to the one of robots, their muscles to carrier of ammunitions, their senses to control protocols, their species names to name technologies or war. But there is little difference if one looks at pigeon, as pigeon is a messenger, that guarantees intelligence to the war machine.
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