The Cloud of War
Julia Nueno Guitart
Current
The Cloud of War explores how the uncertainty of war, famously characterised by Clausewitz as a fog enveloping actions on the battlefield, is reshaped by a data-driven cloud guiding military decisions. Through the integration of computational systems into every stage of military operations—from intelligence gathering and analysis to operational planning, from embedding legal validation within workflows to post-operational assessment—probabilistic and systematic processes are employed to plan and justify military actions. This project is a research into the material traces and optical qualities of this cloud by developing a methodology that interrogates computational systems through their spatial evidence, media circulation and in the continuous recombination of people's experiences and practices eluding their harm.
Through three case studies—the appalling destruction during the bombing campaign in Gaza in October 2023, the attacks organised by settlers on aid trucks coordinated through social media between May 2024-July 2024, and the deployment of facial recognition surveillance to control Palestinian movement in the Old City of Jerusalem since 2021—I investigate how space and life are not only reshaped by the destructive potential and lethality of targeting systems, but also reorganised to sustain and enforce their functioning. This research begins in Palestine, taking it as a lens to interrogate computational systems as spatial arrangements.
FA Open Verification Fellowship
Julia Nueno Guitart’s website
Website
Through three case studies—the appalling destruction during the bombing campaign in Gaza in October 2023, the attacks organised by settlers on aid trucks coordinated through social media between May 2024-July 2024, and the deployment of facial recognition surveillance to control Palestinian movement in the Old City of Jerusalem since 2021—I investigate how space and life are not only reshaped by the destructive potential and lethality of targeting systems, but also reorganised to sustain and enforce their functioning. This research begins in Palestine, taking it as a lens to interrogate computational systems as spatial arrangements.
FA Open Verification Fellowship
Julia Nueno Guitart’s website
Website