Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden - overview on Firecracker
- Submitting institution
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University of South Wales / Prifysgol De Cymru
: A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - A – Faculty of Creative Industries, University of South Wales
- Output identifier
- 3441190
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- Book plus contextual information
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2015
- URL
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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B - Screen Media
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- In 2014, Barnard undertook multi-disciplinary research funded by a highly competitive Albert Renger-Patzsch Award, to significantly extend major themes addressed previously in her Virtual Iraq (2008) and developed further in her more recent Whiplash Transition (2014).
The output, Hyenas of the Battlefield, Machines in the Garden (2015), is an original photo book that creates a new, comprehensive analysis of the impact of modern-day warfare, examining the ‘unholy alliance’ between technology, the military, and entertainment industry. Contextual information is also provided that explicates the research process and insights gleaned together with evidence of the public dissemination of the research through different forms including photographic exhibitions.
Research entailed working closely with primary sources and industry specialists that build cameras for unmanned aerial vehicle systems (UAV); clinical psychologists working with virtual reality (VR); military psychologists treating UAV pilots with PTSD; UAV pilots; and the charity Reprieve in Pakistan. As part of the research process, Barnard attended the annual unmanned systems conference in the USA where military and government officials exchange information on technological developments with representatives from global corporations such as Boeing and General Atomics Aeronautical Systems. The material is collated from both real and virtual worlds with the objective of blurring fact and fiction designed to addresses photojournalism’s ‘truth claims’ and the indecipherable, all-consuming nature of the industrial-military complex.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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