At the crossroads of installation, workshop, engineering and a DIY aesthetic, No Bird integrates a ball-trap mechanism, a propeller of trays made of papier-mâché, all connected to a computer system listing and analyzing in real time RSS feeds whose subjects relate to geopolitical conflicts in order to observe and show the conflicts most represented in the media.
Do media focuses on certain conflicts shape public opinion, its ideals and a certain understanding of the world?

No Bird is divided into two spaces:
-a DIY production workshop including all the equipment necessary to modify ball trap boards from your newspapers.
– a shooting zone containing a controlled trap ball launcher:
– or by press reports extracted from the yahoo news RSS feed.
– or by visitors via a control box. (alpha version)

No Bird explodes information, defeats the automation of data and the abstraction of territories through a reappropriation of the tools of power.
No Bird becomes a geopolitical, strategic, poetic tool and reveals through the space in which it is activated the need for critical thinking about the media and the urgency of a deconstruction of informational mechanics, themselves vectors of a power.

DIY workshop for the production of modified trap shooting boards:
Document shredder, scales, mixers, templates, rags, sieves, water jerrycan, basins, boards, rollers, flour, paper glue, neon lights, trestles, newspapers.
Oven, sink and DIY hydraulic press.

The workshop is largely made up of objects created using techniques taken from the web, in a DIY logic and offers visitors the opportunity to make paper pulp from newspapers they have brought.
The workshop is located opposite the planisphere targeted by the ball-trap thrower. It is arranged in a friendly and practical way to allow several people to create at the same time, by exchanging with their neighbor, or by following the tutorials at their disposal.
Each participant shreds the newspaper brought using the document shredder.
Then he mixes the pieces of newspaper with water to have a homogeneous consistency.
Finally, he drains everything in a cloth in order to extract as much water as possible until he obtains a paper paste which he will use to modify the ball trap boards.
The tools necessary for this achievement are freely accessible and can be used for self-management: from using the tool to cleaning it.
By offering this deliberately low-tech interaction time, I invite participants to question the production of information and the perception of the world induced by this continuous media flow.

Documentation area: No Bird computer program learning workbook (Supervised machine learning program applied to text, so that the algorithm learns to classify new data based on what it knows: a set of data classified manually), table, bench.

Each week the computer program gives us the 100 most representative/characteristic words from dispatches concerning a conflict. These « most informative features » are classified according to the news and made available to the public during the exhibition