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n Impact (there is no aftermath) the camera is aggressively propelled towards the location and destroys itself on the target. The result of the impact is the physical destruction of the camera and the electronic destruction of the target, which although left physically intact, ceases to exist televisually. As a consequence of this televisual absence there is no aftermath to be broadcast, there is just the end of the program.

The video image obtained from this event (the recollection of the camera’s existence) takes on an aesthetic familiarity referencing the military rhetoric of distant, sanitised and remote warfare, where destruction is safely mediated through the screen. However, when further considered the footage obtained from the projectile may be perceived as the inversion of the classic warfare imagery we are accustomed to (Smart Bombs destroying their targets). What is destroyed is our ability to watch and our ability to consume the aftermath of destruction.
  IMPACT (there is no Aftermath)
Standard definition video
2004
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