“View from Above: Drone art and hacktivism for landscape transformation awareness” presented by Resende, Mendes and Ângelo
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- View from Above: Drone art and hacktivism for landscape transformation awareness
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Aerial images have become commonplace on the media landscape around us, in places like TV news, films, and digital maps. However, do we consider what these images represent, both in the artistic field and in society?
The aim of this project is to raise these and other questions in order to reflect on how drones are getting inserted into the normality of everyday life and to question their vigilant scope. We ask how we as artists can act as hackers, disruptors and creators of new possibilities.
Our use of aerial images is not intended as surveillance, but rather as research on what is happening in certain areas where nature and worlds inhabited by humans coexist, most of them unknown to the majority of the local population.
