Even though the Obama administration pledged last spring to create tighter accountability guidelines for drone strikes, the USs drone program remains largely shrouded in secrecy. A collective of artists based in the US, Pakistan, and France have now launched a project, #NotABugSplat, to put a human face on the casualties. In military parlance, a bugsplat is the targeted kill in a drone strike, though that term and the practice have come under fire for dehumanizing the surrounding, often unseen deaths involved. Starting in the Khyber Pukhtoonkhwa province of Pakistan — where drone attacks occur with startling regularity — the artist collective worked with the Foundation for Fundamental Rights to install a massive portrait of a victim that would otherwise be invisible to drone operators and satellites.
Art collective aims to humanize drone casualties with massive portraits of victims
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2014
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