{"id":64960,"date":"2022-04-21T20:18:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/?p=64960"},"modified":"2022-04-21T20:18:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-21T20:18:55","slug":"drones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artspainter.com\/blog\/drones\/","title":{"rendered":"Drones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_XneaFmOmU?autoplay=1&#038;mute=1\"><\/iframe>Artists have been exploring how drones could be used in their work for a long time, even before anyone had actually made a drone. Now that we can, what does it mean?<\/p>\n<p>To start with, let&#8217;s distinguish between an aerial camera drone and an aerial robot drone. The camera drone is just a flying camera with no intelligence or autonomy. The robot drone is an aerial platform that can be controlled from the ground.<\/p>\n<p>Artists have already used both kinds of drones in their work. Both kinds will become much more common in the future. They will change the way we make art and the way we experience art.<\/p>\n<p>We are at the very beginning of this shift right now, and I am curious to find out where it leads us. This blog is a collection of my thoughts on this subject and will be updated regularly as I continue to explore it myself.<\/p>\n<p>In the past few years, artists have been getting increasingly interested in drones. Drones are unmanned flying machines that can be controlled remotely, and their uses vary widely: from military applications to search and rescue operations, to aerial photography. But perhaps the most interesting application of drones is artistic use. Artists have started using them in their work, and this has caused some controversy. In this blog I&#8217;m going to explore different ways that drones are being used by artists, from an artist&#8217;s point of view. I&#8217;ll also discuss the controversy surrounding drones and their use in art; people who disapprove of using drones for artistic purposes often cite possible dangers \u2013 to people on the ground below and to people in the air.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Tasha Rube<\/p>\n<p>Artists And Drones: The Controversy<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, artists have begun using drones as instruments to create art. This has caused heated debate over whether or not it is acceptable for them to use these new technologies in their work. Opponents claim that drones represent a threat to life; they say that even if there is no pilot on board, these machines could cause damage by dropping or colliding with objects on the ground and killing innocent bystanders. Proponents believe that these concerns are unfounded and argue that these devices hold great potential for<\/p>\n<p>When I first started to think about drones, I was mostly interested in their ability to gather large amounts of data. We are used to the idea that cameras can help us make sense of the world, but drones can offer a new way of looking at things. Their range and their ability to stay in the air for long periods means that they can cover wide areas (and cityscapes) quickly and comprehensively, which could change the way we collect information about places and events.<\/p>\n<p>Eventual applications for drones include monitoring flood levels, tracking forest fires, surveying farmland and even delivering packages. But there are also more everyday uses for them. The idea of a drone as a kind of flying camera is already well established, but what else could they do?<\/p>\n<p>Right now it&#8217;s hard to say exactly what the most effective ways of using drones are going to be. It&#8217;s also hard to say what the aesthetic differences will be between drone footage and regular video or photography. There have already been some spectacular examples of aerial photography on display at recent festivals, but they don&#8217;t yet seem quite distinct enough from video and photography to be considered a new art form.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind the exhibition &#8211; a collaboration between Mira, an art space in Portugal, and Ars Electronica, an interactive technology center in Linz, Austria &#8211; was to merge art and drone technology. Six artists from around the world were selected to create installations using Mira&#8217;s fleet of custom-made drones, ranging from a piece that would hover over a model cityscape (an homage to the work of Yann Kersale, a French artist known for his large-scale dioramas), to another that would shoot images of fog through an overhead network of wires.<\/p>\n<p>Tahirih Motazedian, Ars Electronica&#8217;s director of arts who organized the exhibition, said she hoped that this show would be just the beginning of many collaborations between artists and engineers. &#8220;We have to be open-minded,&#8221; she said. &#8220;This is just such a rich field.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The idea of a flying machine was once the stuff of science fiction. Today, drones are poised to become the next big thing in both art and life.<\/p>\n<p>But what is a drone? The name comes from the military use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), popularly called &#8220;drones.&#8221; The word drone has also become associated with a type of music where musicians play instruments that repeat a single note or chord as background for vocals or other instruments.<\/p>\n<p>However, the term drone has been applied to more than just aircraft and music. In business, a &#8220;drone&#8221; is someone who follows orders without question. In law enforcement, it&#8217;s an unmanned police car used to patrol neighborhoods considered too dangerous for human officers. In Hollywood, it&#8217;s the name of a subgenre of films about the end of civilization featuring swarms of killer robots (think Terminator). And in art, it&#8217;s a way for artists to express their creativity without using traditional methods or materials.<\/p>\n<p>As with many other types of technology, drones have become cheaper to produce and easier to use, leading to an explosion in both commercial and artistic applications. Drones are now used in filmmaking, journalism, search-and-rescue operations\u2014even delivering pizza. But some of the most innovative work using<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;drone&#8221; is a broad term encompassing many different machines. The word, which was in use by the military decades before it became associated with music, describes any automated vehicle that is flown without direct human control. It comes from a verb of the same spelling, &#8220;to drone,&#8221; which means &#8220;to make a monotonous sound&#8221; and is derived from the name of the buzzing insect.<\/p>\n<p>Totally autonomous drones already exist, but they are mostly used for military purposes. (One well-known example is the Predator drone, which detects and fires on enemy combatants.) In the near future, however, it&#8217;s easy to imagine most drones will be built to respond to human input and will lack the ability to select targets on their own. In fact, most such vehicles are probably at least a decade away from deployment.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also easy to imagine that such vehicles will have a significant impact on our culture. In fact, some experts claim that the rise of drones could have an impact that rivals or even surpasses the advent of balloons or heavier-than-air flight. After all, drones are portable and can be equipped with cameras and microphones to provide live video and audio streams. 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