On July 14, 2018, Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old barber, was walking down the street in Chicago’s South Side when the five police officers stopped him for carrying a gun. Within seconds, officer ...
The director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, has been denied entry to the US after being classified as a “security threat” by a Homeland Security algorithm. The unconventional artist and ...
Born in Israel and educated at the Architectural Association (AA), Eyal Weizman could be considered more a detective than an architect. In 2011, Weizman established Forensic Architecture, an agency ...
On May 24, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before being shot by off-duty Border Patrol officers. For nearly an hour, police massed in ...
Triple-Chaser, Forensic Architecture, 2019. High-definition video, color, sound; 10:43 min. (Courtesy Forensic Architecture and Praxis Films.) “While my company and the museum have distinct missions, ...
A still from “Triple-Chaser” showing various Safariland tear gas canisters (image courtesy Forensic Architecture/Praxis Films) Forensic Architecture’s submission for the 2019 Whitney Biennial includes ...
LONDON — Last year, Israeli police officers raided a Bedouin village in the Negev desert called Umm al-Hiran. Israeli authorities said that during the raid a villager had purposely run over an Israeli ...
On June 15, 2017, London woke up to a terrible shock. The night before, in the affluent borough of Kensington and Chelsea, a fridge-freezer had exploded on the fourth floor of the 24-storey public ...
From biometric identification technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to communications interception equipment and unmanned surveillance drones, modern nation states have a vast array of ...
Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture, will lecture at the Barbican in cooperation with The Architecture Foundation discuss the group's practice combining architecture and digital forensics.