Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Painting

Suzanne Treister, 2012
DIY Drone/Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV): 'ArduCopter 3DR Hexa' 
Udrones Robotics Creations S de RL de CV 
Libramiento Oriente 14299-9
Parque Industrial Pacifico 
Tijuana, Baja California, 22643 México
Watercolour on cartridge paper
21 x 15 cm
Commission for Locus + Christmas card 2012

 

Painting with UAS

• Richard Jackson,  "Accidents in Abstract Painting", Jan .22, 2012; flew a paint-filled UAS into a wall
  • Two views: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAonIaBZtNc (fixed spectator view) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38RqjWhq6Lo (drone view with air traffic control audio)

• Addie Wagenknecht
  • “Black Hawk Painting Power”, 2007
    • https://vimeo.com/111941915
    • http://dronecenter.bard.edu/art-of-drone-painting/
  • Pussy Drones, edition prints and screen based gifs, 2013
    • http://placesiveneverbeen.com/index.php/body/pussy-drones/
  • “Shellshock” first US solo exhibition, Bitforms Gallery, NYC, Nov 2 – Dec 7, 2014. Includes drone paintings.
    • http://www.bitforms.com/exhibitions/wagenknecht-shellshock
  • Black Hawk Paint, 2015: Permission to Fail: A Drone Painting Experiment
    • https://youtu.be/mbh77M7rG80
  • Live Drone Performance with Deep Lab, New Museum, NYC
    • http://www.newinc.org/blog-post/2015/6/22/permission-to-fail

• KATSU: Graffiti drone artist
  • http://dronegraffiti.tumblr.com/
  • http://www.wired.com/2015/04/age-drone-vandalism-begins-epic-nyc-tag/
  • http://theholenyc.com/2014/04/01/katsu-drone-paintings/
  • http://hyperallergic.com/219140/an-open-source-guide-to-help-you-build-your-own-graffiti-drone/

• Cameron MacLeod, Graffiti Drone/Techniques for Crafting the Remote Control Commune, 2013, Drone Armed with Remote Spray Paint Can
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkpB7j0LlYM (00:33)
  • http://cameronmacleod.org/techniques-for-crafting-the-remote-control-commune/

Paintings of UAS

• Suzanne Treister, DIY Drone/Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV): 'ArduCopter 3DR Hexa', watercolour on cartridge paper, 21 x 15 cm
  • http://www.suzannetreister.net/IndWks/Drone1.html
• Daniel Rich
  • Drone, 2011, acrylic and enamel on dibond, 47 x 50 inches
  • http://www.danielrich.net/new-page/
• Dirk Skreber
  • Two works of UAS shown in installation views from “pain(t)ology and other trials” on view February 21-March 30, 2013, Petzel Gellery, NYC; no information available about date, medium, or dimensions
    • http://www.petzel.com/exhibitions/2013-02-21_dirk-skreber/
• Sir James L. Thornhill, United States Air Force Art Program
  • Reaper (Aviation Painting), oil on canvas, 5.5’ x 4.5’
    • http://sjtgai.com/product/reaper/ (Prints; original is owned by and displayed at the Pentagon)

UAS as Painters

• NYC, Drone Conference, 2013: Earliest documented use of drone for painting: http://dronegraffiti.tumblr.com/post/75626397706/doing-it-from-040
• McGill University Aerospace Student Society teach drone to paint: http://qz.com/730048/this-little-drone-could-be-the-next-michelangelo/
  • “Robot as Artist”, July 16, 2016 (1:02): http://qz.com/730048
• Creating a painting drone: “Prototyping a Spray Painting Quadcopter at NEWINC” by Becky Stern, part of Permission to Fail
  • https://youtu.be/aJPCvV_xGFc
• Andres Wanner, Signature Strokes, 2014-15, International Symposium for Electronic Arts (ISEA) 2015, Vancouver:.
  • https://vimeo.com/138636822 (02:45)
  • http://dronegraffiti.tumblr.com/post/126540821101/signature-strokes-drone-painting-premiering-at
  • A drip-painting UAS; title is a pun on military use of ‘signature strikes’; UAS characterized as being used as “Political Art”