Archive for February 2009
A Novel in the Form of a Car Bomb
“A Novel in the Form of a Car Bomb”, is a new work by artist and writer Mary Walling Blackburn. She receives ‘google news alerts’ via email regarding recent car bombs. She immediately parses through these missives, lifts details and incorporates them into a psycho-philosophical investigation of how we surveil and approach car bombs because of the distances between the explosion and the witness/reader.
Given that the development of the car bomb is contingent on its rapid exploitation of new technologies Walling Blackburn makes the production of the work and its dissemination contingent upon recently developed applications that transfer data between cell phone and web, web and bomb. This triangulation of technologies (bomb/web/cell phone) is intended to echo the car bomb’s appetite for and integration of modern innovations. Consequently, Twitter, a micro-blogging application that delivers texts to a user’s cellphone or their Twitter web account, hosts “A Novel in the Form of a Car Bomb”.
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