Invasive Links, Michael Schäfer

‘Invasive Links’ examines the fractured dynamics of modern conflict, where wars are increasingly mediated through digital screens in affluent enclaves, creating a stark divide between those on the frontlines and distant bystanders. Berlin-based artist Michael Schäfer interrogates this “digital spectatorship” through photographic provocations that blur the boundaries between witness and participant. Part of K. Verlag’s Processing Process series, this timely edition features critical texts in which Schäfer urges renewed moral courage to confront uncomfortable realities. By examining the hypermediated nature of warfare, ‘Invasive Links’ challenges us to grapple with our role in an emergent, unsettling form of global spectatorship.