Sculpture makes drone strike casualties more visceral

In Artificial Killing Machine, visitors sit in a chair below cap guns that fire for each drone strike death reported publicly, which print out on a tally from a public database.

Artist Jonathan Fletcher Moore notes:

Since 1999, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has aggregated data on the impact of the United States covert drone war across the globe. This database has been made accessible by data artist Josh Begley through a publicly accessible API called Dronestre.am.

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Artificial Killing Machine, 2015 (via polygonfuture.com)