Trapped in the System: Interview with Rune Peitersen

Abstract

In the interview, Mark Curran and Rune Peitersen talk about topics of the artist’s visual explorations, which in his past projects (which concern the usage of military drones), revolve around physical distance and the powerlessness of drone operators and their targets, while considering whether the visua lrepresentations of drone warfare has any power to elicit empathy. On the other hand, in another system of control, the same distance and its relationship to the viewer is stressed in the interplay between human interest and interference with nature in Peitersen’s latest ongoing project, in which he questions systematization again, this time not due to artificial algorithmic intelligence, but as a human-made system of attempted ownership of nature.