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1 - Flying UN mine seeker. 2 - Detention of unlawful combattants, Guantanamo Bay, 2003. 3 - Advertising blimp in US sports-stadium. 4 - Observation blimp at the Westbank, Palestine, 2004. 5 - Robocontest, EPFL/Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, November 2005. Goal of the contest was to destroy the balloons as quick as possible. The robots on the ground accomplished their manoeuvres in time. The flying robots failed. 6 - Performance "Passion5" during the "late shift" project series in Zurich at November 3, 2005. Right: Yannick Fourier; Left: "laboratory technician Olsen". Blimp re-construction by Yannick Fourier (Autonomous Systems Laboratory), based on the research of Prof. Dario Floreano and Jean-Christophe Zufferey (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland). 7 - Merhan Karimi Nasseri lived 18 years at Paris Airport, Terminal 1, waiting for his visa to England. In the background the poster of the film "The Terminal", the film version of Nasseri's story, directed by Steven Spielberg. 8, 9 - Installation of "naked_bandit / here, not here / white_sovereign" at Archilab Biennale Orleans, "Naked City", 2004. Autonomous flying robot targeting black balloons and visitors. 10,11 - Installation of "naked_bandit / here, not here / white_sovereign" at the "Tracer" exhibition, Witte the With, Rotterdam, September 2004. Curated by Andreas Broeckmann and Stefan Riekeles. 12 - Installation of "naked_bandit / here, not here / white_sovereign" at ICC Tokyo, 2005. Two computers are running scripts which have the potential to escape the inclusive exclusion dilemma on a formal language level.