"Look up", an article for Meta intellectual collective, 2020
"Our lives are saturated with images from a top-view, disembodied, detached, one-way and omniscient: drone footage on the evening news, navigating apps on top of aerial photos on the cell phone, works of art; thetop-view undergoes a process of normalization as it integrates into everyday practices as well as the law, military and civilian operations As one. According to Hagit Kiser, today's "overview" has become an intentional, all-embracing sovereign perspective that dominates space. Therefore, Jose Rabasa explains that an aerial photograph is a complex form of representation, as it were, that captures "what is found" in its entirety, as an objective landscape. However, the mechanical evidence of the event captured in the aerial photograph - which we take for granted - contains erasure, exclusion, power relations, control and supervision. The aerial photographs are decoded, censored, stripped of their quality and presented to all users as an abstract or distorted image."
https://metamag.co.il/art/look-up/