This three-day symposium brings together academics, artists and researchers to explore drone cultures from multiple perspectives and practices with the aim of generating dialogue across disciplinary boundaries to better understand the diversity of drones and drone cultures. How has drone vision influenced contemporary visual culture? How do practices, aesthetics, techniques and technologies move back and forth between military and non-military contexts? How have artists, writers and filmmakers critiqued, adopted and innovated drone technologies? How have drones changed how power is exercised and experienced? What cultures have sprung up around drones in conservation, activism, amateur photography and other contexts? How are drones and other remote sensing systems shaping and shaped by our desires and imaginaries? What does the proliferation of drones mean for the future of the human?
KEYNOTE: Caren Kaplan, UC Davis
PLENARY: Alex Edney-Browne, Melbourne
ARTISTS & ACADEMICS: Christine Agius (Swinburne), Michele Barker (UNSW), David Beesley (RMIT), Olga Boichak (USyd), Kathryn Brimblecombe-Fox (Curtin), David Chesworth (RMIT), Sarah Eleazar (UT Austin), Adam Fish (UNSW), Jack Faber (Uniarts Helsinki), Edgar Gómez Cruz (UNSW), Jennifer Smith-Mayo (Maine), Mitch Goodwin (Melbourne), Kathrin Maurer (Southern Denmark), Anna Munster (UNSW), Tom Sear (UNSW Canberra), Kate Richards (WSU), James Rogers (Southern Denmark), Simon M. Taylor (UNSW), Yanai Toister (Tel Aviv), Madelene Veber (UNSW), Vaughan Wozniak-O'Connor (UNSW), Anne Wilson (Deakin), Andrew Yip (Coventry)
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