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Dave Young (IE) is an artist/performer/educator originally from Dublin. His current research deals with the Cold War history of networked culture, exploring the emergence of cybernetic theory as an ideology of the information age, and the influence of military technologies on popular culture.

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The Reposition Matrix is a workshop series that aims to reterritorialise the drone as a physical, industrially-produced technology of war, and consequently explore how this affects our understanding of the covert drone campaigns in the Middle East. Participants will be challenged to collaborate on developing a cartography of control: a map of the organisations, locations, and trading networks that play a role in the production of military drone technologies.

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Darkened room & spotlights.
Boardroom table with 6-10 accompanying chairs.
Wallspace for worldmap print.

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-Dave Young is an artist/performer/educator originally from Dublin, Ireland. His current research deals with the Cold War history of networked culture, exploring the emergence of cybernetic theory as an ideology of the information age, and the influence of military technologies on popular culture.
+Dave Young (IE) is an artist/performer/educator originally from Dublin. His current research deals with the Cold War history of networked culture, exploring the emergence of cybernetic theory as an ideology of the information age, and the influence of military technologies on popular culture.
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-Although certainly having their roots in the Cold War, the military strategies that have been developed to fight the ''War on Terror'' employ all the logic and advanced technologies of the modern control society. This text is an examination of these strategies, particularly how they might be emblematic of a transition from an era when society was disciplined by visual power, to the contemporary prevalence of modulations and soft control as characterised in modern 'automatic warfare'.
+The Reposition Matrix is a workshop series that aims to reterritorialise the drone as a physical, industrially-produced technology of war, and consequently explore how this affects our understanding of the covert drone campaigns in the Middle East. Participants will be challenged to collaborate on developing a cartography of control: a map of the organisations, locations, and trading networks that play a role in the production of military drone technologies.
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-Darkened room & spotlights.
+*Darkened room & spotlights.
-Boardroom table with 6-10 accompanying chairs.
+*Boardroom table with 6-10 accompanying chairs.
-Wallspace for worldmap print.
+*Wallspace for worldmap print.