The Echo of the Invisible

Through interconnected satellites, data cables and hubs, the Information Age supplies the United States with the infrastructure to kill opponents across the globe almost in real-time without leaving its territory via drone strikes.
With ’The Echo of the Invisible’, Benjamin Schupp explores the implications of the Ramstein Air Base in Germany being one of the main relay stations for drone signals, especially when strikes happen in the Middle East and beyond. Schupp aims to highlight the global impact that data transmission and evaluation have on this type of warfare, controlling lethal forces that are ready to strike from multiple countries across the globe and raise questions of agency by proposing a method of reverse watching.