artificial killing machine
raspberry pi, motors and a printer.
- artist
- jonathan fletcher moore
- role
- software developer
- year
- 2016-2018
- type
- installation
Artificial Killing Machine is Jonathan Fletcher Moore's installation about deaths from military drone strikes. A chandelier of toy cap guns fires once for every recorded death, and a thermal printer puts the details of the strike on paper.
programming
The control program checks the strike database every five minutes. When a new entry appears the machine wakes: one cap fired for every death in the record, and the printer commits the entry to paper, where it stays.
The database is aggregated since 1999 by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism, and data artist Josh Begley made that it publicly available through an API called Dronestre.am.
techniques
- raspberry pi
- python
- i2c motor control
- servo motors
- thermal printer
- dronestre.am api
links
artificialkillingmachine.com · project page (polygonfuture) · video (vimeo)
Jonathan Fletcher Moore, concept and hardware · Fabio Piparo, software · data via Josh Begley's dronestre.am