ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
Regular readers know that I have been thinking about the increasing interest militaries around the world are paying to the electromagnetic spectrum [EMS], as an enabler of technology, a type of fires, a manoeuvre space and a domain. The fact that EMS is a shared civilian - military resource problematises military desires to dominate, appropriate and ensure access.
In the techno-world in which we live, we are all reliant on the EMS to enable digital and cyber technologies, to allow networking and interconnectivity, and also interoperability.
I've been interested in the EMS for some time.
When I started painting airborne drones in 2015, I also started visualising the normally invisible signals that connect the drones to remote controllers and to GPS satellites. I also visualised sensor detection, targeting and transmission arrays. These paintings were informed by my Master of Philosophy research at the University of Queensland. I completed my M. Phil in 2017. My paintings from 2020 are inspired by my PhD research, Curtin University, Western Australia
ONLINE EXHIBITION
This online exhibition of fifteen paintings tracks my interest in the EMS and my ideas of the 'spectrum warfighter'. This fighter could be human, an enhanced human, a robot, an algorithm, an avatar in a simulated wargame. One question I think about a lot is - how doe we memorialise when the warfighter is no longer human? This question has lead me to another question - how do we memorialise when the warfighter was never alive?
Please click on the hyperlinked titles to read the previous posts for each painting.
Cheers,
Kathryn
Not a Game Gouache and watercolour on paper 57 x 76.5 cm 2016
Space Net Gouache on paper 56 x76 cm 2017
Charting the Invisible gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm 2019
01010111 01000001 01010010 WAR Gouache on paper 30 x 42 cm 2021
Theatre of War-Spectrum Gouache on paper 56 x 76 cm 2021
Spectrum Warfighter Gouache and watercolour on paper 30 x 42 cm 2021
Theatre of War-Domain Dominance Gouache on paper 56x76 cm 2021
Theatre of War-Spectrum Access Gouache on paper 56 x 76 cm 2021
Theatre of War-Infrared Gouache on paper 56 x 76 cm 2021
The Tree Asks, What Can't You See? Gouache on paper 30 42 cm 2021
Theatre of War-Photon Gouache on paper 56 x 76 cm 2021
Spectrum Warfighter 2 Oil on linen 61 x 66 cm 21
Theatre of War - Photons Do Not Care Oil on linen 92 x 112 cm 2021
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