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Unmanned Aerial Ecologies: proto-drones, airspace and canaries in the mine

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Honor Harger <[log in to unmask]>

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Dear friends at CRUMB,

I've posted up the notes from a recent talk I gave about the use of
drones, or unmanned aerial vehicles, in tactical media art:
http://is.gd/aerialecologies

It is absolutely not intended as an exhaustive survey (that might
come later), but does include some details about some canonical
pieces from the late 1990s, that some of you might find interesting.

The intention with the talk, and the write-up, was to place the work
Lighthouse is presenting at this year's Brighton Festival - 'Under
the Shadow of the Drone' by James Bridle, and 'The Air Itself is one
Vast Library' by Mariele Neudecker (http://is.gd/BF2013) in a
slightly wider art historical context.

Of course, today many other artists - Jordan Crandall, Alex Rivera,
Matthew Battles, Ricardo Dominguez, Adam Harvey, to name but a few -
are making work about the impact of drones on our lives. But I feel
it's useful and interesting to look back at some of the 'prior art',
so to speak.

It's a talk, not an essay, so forgive the conversational language.

Let me know what you think.

Best,

Honor Harger
Artistic Director, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK

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Unmanned Aerial Ecologies: proto-drones, airspace and canaries in the mine
Notes from a talk by Honor Harger, 16 April, 2013
http://is.gd/aerialecologies

This write-up aims to show how media artists have, for the past 15
years, created projects which presciently framed and contextualsied
the issues and technologies which have collided to enable today's
drone-wars. During this period, the work of a selected group of
media artists expressed an understanding, and an unease, with the
expanding technological capacity of commercial and military
organisations. As their ability to carry out acts of pervasive
surveillance and aggression, using technologies such as UAVs, grew,
so did the concern of a generation of artists using the tools and
strategies of tactical media. Artists such as Marko Peljhan, Bureau
of Inverse Technology and Trevor Paglen created canonical works
between 1998 and 2008 that both revealed the growing capabilities of
drone technologies, but also used these very capabilities to turn our
attention towards the manufacturers and users of these devices.
These were classic acts of tactical media, a form of activist art
practice, that goes beyond mere revelation, and actively intervenes
within a system deemed to be morally, politically or ethically
problematic.

Today, a new generation of practitioners his emerged who are
monitoring and critiquing the use of drones not only for military
purposes, but also for civilian activities. Their hallmark is a
playful curiosity, about how these technologies may be integrated
into our daily lives. Working in parallel to the growing movement of
UAVers, the ham radio operators of the drone world, these artists and
makers, are hacking freely available UAV technology to create unusual
aerial antics. But whilst these blithe, inquiring actions are needed
and valid, in the meantime, the drone-war continues, with hundreds of
civilians killed each year, its remit ever expanding. It would seem
that now more than ever, robust, critical, tactical media
interventions, are urgently required.

The illustrated notes are here: http://is.gd/aerialecologies

I must acknowledge the generous help of Marko Peljhan, Kate Rich,
Natalie Jeremijenko, and Usman Haque who helped situate this
research. And thank you to all the artists and technologists cited,
including Trevor Paglen, Timo Arnall, James Bridle, Mariele Neudecker
and Liam Young. There's full credits and references here:
http://is.gd/uavtalk




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Honor Harger
Email: [log in to unmask]
Phone: +44 7765834272
http://about.me/honor

Work
Director, Lighthouse, Brighton, UK
http://www.lighthouse.org.uk

Talks
TED Talk: http://is.gd/harger
Lift: http://is.gd/lifttalk
Shift Happens: http://is.gd/shifttalk

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