1. Ktisis Cyprus University of Technology

Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest

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Project title
Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest
Status
Completed
Start date
01-01-2017
Expected Completion
31-12-2019
 
Co-Investigator(s)
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Description

Abstract
NiMAC [The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Associated with the Pierides Foundation] in Cyprus, Valand Academy of the Gothenburg University, Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg, Sweden and the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan organise the project Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest.

Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest is a two-year research project exploring the affective meanings of drone technologies on photography and human rights. The partnership between the three cities –Gothenburg, Nicosia and Lahore– will result in simultaneous exhibitions that will be held in each of the three participating institutions (Hasselblad Center, NiMAC and Zahour Ul Akhlaq Gallery of the National College of Arts) in Spring 2018, curated by Sarah Tuck and Louise Wolthers, Yiannis Toumazis and Imran Ahmad respectively. The exhibitions will present commissioned photo-based artworks that explore drones as motile cameras and as a new camera consciousness that alters the material assemblages through which protest and warfare take place.

Conceived as a mode of relational experience between the curators, commissioned artists and gallery audiences and as a shared sense of responsibility toward distant others,Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest is an effort to produce a geography of thinking about drones shaped in part by the proximity and physical distance to drone warfare, the political and ethical implications of the asymmetry of seeing without being seen, and the legal restrictions on civilian drone use within each city and region.

In addition to the commissioned artworks, the view from above the cities of Gothenburg, Nicosia and Lahore will be screened in the galleries Hasselblad Center, NiMAC and Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery as part of the shared inquiry on the geopolitics of vertical space. Moreover, audio material from interdisciplinary talks whichtook place in Gothenburg in 2017, which explored the impact of drone technology on the way we see, will be presented in the three exhibition venues.

The three exhibitions will also be brought together as a stand-alone “pop-up” that will be hosted as a permanent learning resource in each of the three galleries, with all artworks captioned in Swedish, English, Greek and Urdu.
 
Keyword(s)
Drone technologies
Photography
Human rights