Drones for art: Video: Cirque du Soleil Does Its Thing… With Drones http://techcrunch.com/2014/09/23/video-cirque-du-soleil-does-its-thing-with-... On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 2:41 AM, Elizabeth Anne Watkins < writetowatkins@gmail.com> wrote:
If anyone is interested, the MIT Art, Culture and Technology program is having a public lecture on drones tomorrow, Monday the 22nd:
Dronological: The Art and Science of Unmanned Systems
*Marko Peljhan*: Artist, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at UC Santa Barbara, and Director of Systemics Lab, MAT/ART, UC Santa Barbara
Unmanned aircraft systems have recently been rediscovered due to their use in the so-called “war on terror,” but are an invention more than 100 years old. The lecture will explore the histories and interconnectedness of these systems with geopolitical, scientific, techno-social, tactical media and conceptual contexts. It will also present cases of their real and imagined appearances, uses, and disappearances in order to track the potential future vectors of utilization and concurrent reflection.
http://act.mit.edu/projects-and-events/lectures-series/2014-fall/sept-22-mar...
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:53 PM, Kyle Kontour <kkontour@gmail.com> wrote:
Two things that occur to me that are alternative explanations, which also require more field work:
1. A unique aspect of the aesthetics of the drone camera is how it mimics how we imagine personal flight to be (i.e. if humans had wings): it's much more immanent and intimate than airplane flight given the combination of slow speed and low level altitude in most of these videos.
2. There is the obvious political aspect of "populist" drone use that is a direct challenge to its use by police, military, and other government organizations, which the author mentions. But I wonder if there is also the old politics of the scamp coming through, by which I mean, drones are used to unnerve people or disrupt things, which may or may not be overtly political per se, and are instead done for the drone user's happy mayhem. The mere presence of a drone controlled by "just anyone" inherently calls into question the use of drones in general.
On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Daniel Kunzelmann < kunzelmann.daniel@yahoo.de> wrote:
Used for surveillance, drones hunt or kill. But could their air power also be understood as cultural capital? http://transformations-blog. com/would-you-mind-my-drone-taking-a-picture-of-us-2/ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/ listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
_______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
-- Elisenda Ardevol Professora Agregada Estudis d'Arts i Humanitats Universitat Oberta de Catalunya UOC Associate Professor IN3 Researcher mediaccions digital culture reserach group http://mediaccions.net Aquest missatge s'adreça exclusivament al seu destinatari. Este mensaje es para uso exclusivo del destinatario. This email is only for the receiver's eyes. Abans d'imprimir, penseu en el medi ambient. Antes de imprimir, piensa en el medio ambiente. Before printing, consider the environment.