Unmanned Aircraft Systems and Photography

Drone Selfies (aka Selphies, Dronies)

• Drone Selfies, part of In Times of Peace, IOCOSE
  
  • http://www.iocose.org/works/in_times_of_peace#Drone-Selfies
• Taking ‘selfies’ with drones
  
  • “World’s Best Ever Dronies (Drone Selfies)”, 2016
  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZOgy5V9imI (02:36)
• John Vigg, Drone Selphies, 2011
  
  • UAS that capture images of their own shadows http://wheresvigg.com/drone-selphie
  • Photographs incorporating new spaces made possible with UAS: http://wheresvigg.com/aesthetics-in-drone-use; images that (intentionally) include bits of drone hardware visible
  • Documentation of his creation process when building a drone, which fuels his interest in questions about what it means to have a personal drone. From art studies perspective, the creative process is applicable here, though not a traditional medium?
    • http://wheresvigg.com/drone-assembly
• Zero Zero Robotics’ facial recognition drone developed in China
  
  • http://www.dezeen.com/2016/06/10/hover-camera-zero-zero-robotics-self-fl...

Photography with and about UAS: Socio-Political Commentary

• Noor Behram
  
  • Photographs drones and effects of their strikes in Waziristan
    • http://beaconsfield.ltd.uk/projects/gaming-in-waziristan/
  • Scholarly article including analysis of Noor’s images: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/503951/pdf
• Tivon Rice, June 2016 exhibition in Seattle
  
  • https://dxarts.washington.edu/events/2016-06-02/tivon-rice-facades-drone...
  • Also check other parts of DXARTS page
• Exhibition Drone, Montreal
  
  • http://photography-now.com/exhibition/93252
• Thomas Ruff: http://treacherousimage.com/blog/wordpress/made-in-the-machine-thomas-ruff/ (double check drone role here).
  
  • http://www.artnews.com/tag/thomas-ruff/
• John Vigg, Landscape photography of partially developed land in Pine Barrens, February 2013
  
  • http://wheresvigg.com/drone-vision
  • Commentary on development; using UAS to trace the impact of development on the physical environment and landscape
• Trevor Paglin, UC Berkeley (http://www.paglen.com/)
  
  • Untitled (Drones), 2010, C-prints
    • http://www.paglen.com/?l=work&s=drones
    • http://www.paglen.com/?l=work&s=drones&i=9
• Maxwell MacKenzie, Burning Man Airport, 2011, 34 × 50 in, 86.4 × 127 cm, Cross Mackenzie Gallery
  
  • https://www.artsy.net/artwork/maxwell-mackenzie-burning-man-airport

Photography with and about UAS: Travelogues and Landscapes

• Ryan Deboodt, flew a DJI Phantom 2 into Han Son Doong cave in Vietnam, 2015
  
  • https://vimeo.com/121736043 (06:19)
• Lila Baghzouz, “Norway” travelogue.
  
  • https://vimeo.com/172100279 (02:59)
  • (Side note from AM: This sub-genre is fascinating to me. UAS and editing technologies have enabled ‘regular’ tourists to create visually complex accounts of their experiences. To me, this raises questions about ‘othering’ cultures, the self-curating that goes into the process, and the ethics of using UAS in performative/cultural events.)