Aerial views, archive and politics of the truth. The use of images in Tear Gas in Plaza de la Dignidad by Forensic Architecture
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Aerial Views, Digital Images, Archive, Visual Studies, Social Outbreak, Geopolitics
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This article analyzes the visual and discursive strategies used by the interdisciplinary collective Forensic Architecture (FA) in the development of the audiovisual material Gas Lacrimógeno en Plaza de la Dignidad (2020). This research sought to document the excessive use of chemical gas by the Carabineros de Chile against the protesting masses on the fringes of the 2019 social uprising. From the perspective of visual studies, the text focuses on the tracking, use and montage of images captured through surveillance devices such as drones and satellites, used by the AF to create a visual testimony. It proposes to analyze these images as a digital complex that combines documentation, archiving, and disembodied and machinic information, acting as a political cog in the production of truth by recording various forms of contemporary geopolitical conflict from the air.
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Carla Nicole Ayala Valdes, Università di comunicazione e lingue. IULM
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