The remote territories of the Australian Never Never are anything but
empty. The history of these landscapes is one of nuclear testing,
rocket launches and black military technologies. The skies over this
red earth are scarred with the contrails of experimental weapons
flights and charged with the militarised electromagnetic waves that
reach out to US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Forgotten, somewhere in
this landscape, is an abandoned missile tracking station. From here
something else is being launched, a choreographed flock of autonomous
gliders, to drift through the air in silent protest. Floating on
engineered thermal currents their wingspan antennas broadcast white
noise through the electromagnetic landscapes over Australia’s Pine Gap
military base, momentarily jamming their telecommunications signals.

The remote territories of the Australian Never Never are anything but
empty. The history of these landscapes is one of nuclear testing,
rocket launches and black military technologies. The skies over this
red earth are scarred with the contrails of experimental weapons
flights and charged with the militarised electromagnetic waves that
reach out to US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Forgotten, somewhere in
this landscape, is an abandoned missile tracking station. From here
something else is being launched, a choreographed flock of autonomous
gliders, to drift through the air in silent protest. Floating on
engineered thermal currents their wingspan antennas broadcast white
noise through the electromagnetic landscapes over Australia’s Pine Gap
military base, momentarily jamming their telecommunications signals.

The remote territories of the Australian Never Never are anything but
empty. The history of these landscapes is one of nuclear testing,
rocket launches and black military technologies. The skies over this
red earth are scarred with the contrails of experimental weapons
flights and charged with the militarised electromagnetic waves that
reach out to US troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. Forgotten, somewhere in
this landscape, is an abandoned missile tracking station. From here
something else is being launched, a choreographed flock of autonomous
gliders, to drift through the air in silent protest. Floating on
engineered thermal currents their wingspan antennas broadcast white
noise through the electromagnetic landscapes over Australia’s Pine Gap
military base, momentarily jamming their telecommunications signals.