The Territory of Images

Thanks to the Millennium Film Journal I have had the opportunity to write about another one of my heroes, Harun Farocki. In the latest issue, MFJ55 Structures and Spaces,  is my essay/review “The Territory of Images: Harun Farocki, Images of War at a Distance” on his show at the Museum of Modern Art. MoMA is collecting nearly all of his work, so one room had a video library that allowed visitors to watch many of his single channel works on demand. The rest of the space in the exhibition was devoted to installation work from the last ten years. This work addresses implications of newer perceptual apparatuses (video surveillance, automated remote warfare, virtual reality simulations) – forms that more explicitly articulate and complicate the politics of geography and space.