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Jonas Henderson, Emma Martin, DEW Line, radar, colonial, Distant Early Warning Line, Inuit, indigenous, Stephen Bulger
4 December 2022
Colonial Gazing, Part 1: Pictures to Places
Jonas Henderson and Emma Martin study the DEW Line photographs within the CCA’s collection
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Jonas Henderson, Emma Martin, DEW Line, radar, colonial, Distant Early Warning Line, Inuit, indigenous, Nunangat, Yukon
10 December 2022
Colonial Gazing, Part 2: The Silent Attack on Inuit Nunangat
Emma Martin and Jonas Henderson study the DEW Line photographs within the CCA’s collection
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10 December 2022
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North Warning System / Donovan Wylie ; book design: Donovan Wylie, Gerhard Steidl, Bernard Fischer.
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38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 24 x 30 cm
Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2014., ©2014
North Warning System / Donovan Wylie ; book design: Donovan Wylie, Gerhard Steidl, Bernard Fischer.
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38 unnumbered pages : color illustrations; 24 x 30 cm
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Göttingen, Germany : Steidl, 2014., ©2014
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55 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 58 cm
[Dudelange] : Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA) en collaboration avec les Centres d'art Dudelange, 2021.
DEW line sites / Marie Sommer.
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55 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 58 cm
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[Dudelange] : Centre national de l'audiovisuel (CNA) en collaboration avec les Centres d'art Dudelange, 2021.
$88.00
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The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the north coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska and the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It intended to detect incoming bombers of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and provide early warning of any sea(...)
Early warning systems: Art, the DEW line, and an arctic on the front lines
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The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the north coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska and the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It intended to detect incoming bombers of the Soviet Union during the Cold War and provide early warning of any sea and land invasion. Today, the Arctic is seen as a place primed for data storage and vaults––doomsday structures with a utilitarian vernacular of architecture, protecting the "knowledge" of places further south rather than recognizing the local presence and expertise of place and Indigenous lifeways and Indigenous science. This book looks at the role of artists as early warning systems and explores the ways we connect and disconnect place and people through technology and the ideas of boundaries.
Art Theory