Early Warning Systems: Art, the Dew Line, and an Arctic on the Front Lines
Language: English
Published by Hirmer Verlag GmbH 2025-01-19, 2025
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- Title
- Early Warning Systems: Art, the Dew Line, and an Arctic on the Front Lines
- Author
- Julie Decker, Ian Hartman, Julia O'Malley, Jonathon Keats, Chad Briggs, Charles Stankievech, Priscilla Hensley, Ben Huff
- Publisher
- Hirmer Verlag GmbH 2025-01-19
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3777443190
- ISBN 13
- 9783777443195
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.
With the DEW Line as a framework, Julie Decker examines ideologies of warning. The DEW Line is a symbol of both the past and future. Today, we think about planetary boundaries, the boundaries of survival, and other human limits.
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About the Author
Jonathon Keats is a conceptual artist, critic, and writer based in San Francisco and Northern Italy. He is a contributing editor to Art + Auction and Forbes Life.
Charles Stankievech is an artist, writer, and curator. He is associate professor and director of visual studies in the Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design at the University of Toronto. In 2011, he co-founded the art and theory press, K. in Berlin.
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