Unmanned 2022


Unmanned is a series of 3D printed action figures that interrogates the militarized fantasies embedded within popular Western imagination. Specifically the ongoing automation of lethal force—an emergent class of weapons and weapons systems (L.A.W.S.) developed by military powers and private companies intent on removing human decision making from the equation of lethal force. Such weapons are oftentimes imagined as fictional, anthropomorphic killer robots. The us of L.A.W.S. is not a faraway dystopia, but a present day crisis. AI is increasingly used in warfare with the promise of increasing efficiency in how war is waged and making wars more humane. Within a cultural imaginary where pervasive fantasies of killer robots override the believability of present day warfare,  does embedding reality into such fictions make them more real


Kratos - BQM-167A Air Force Subscale Aerial Target (AFSAT)

United States of America













Israel Aerospace - IAI Harop / IAI Harpy 2 Loitering Munitions System

Israel












Samsung Techwin and Korea University - SGR-A1 Automated Turret

South Korea









China Academy of Electronics and Information -
CH-901 Drone Swarm Launcher Truck

China









Rubin Design Bureau - The Poseidon Nuclear Torpedo

Russia







Vigor Industrial / DARPA - Sea Hunter

Medium Displacement Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MDUSV)

United States of America









FLIR - Unmanned Systems

R800 Skyraider and SUGV

United States of America








Howe and Howe, Inc - Ripsaw M5 Electric Drive Super Tank

United States of America