What is the gaze of a drone?

shared space

Irene Sabine Rainer

4’ 29’’ HD video loop with drone sound, showing a man sharing a defined space with a drone. The view of the drone is documented in a book “homo ad circulum” (16,5 cm x 22 cm x 4cm) in over 2000 images.

The control of a drone as a remote – controlled electronic flying eye, orbiting the human being and representing today’s technology and its dynamics. New Technology becomes a constitutive part of human and part of his being and therefore a question to wonder where the position of humanity can be found.
A white chalk circle, a human being and a drone are part of the experimental set-up of the project – shared space. Circling around the human object, the drone produced over two thousand photographs within the space of four minutes and twentynine seconds, before its power supply failed.

<p>installation view</p>

installation view

A project made in the course

Violent Images

Studio IMAGE | BA Major in Art Violent images surround us. They may directly represent violence, or their violent potential may be revealed in connection with their production, dissemination or use. Images both reflect and exert violence: snapshots from the Abu Ghraib create a meme shared round the world; surveillance expands with facial recognition and drone monitoring; sexist images permeate advertising and the entertainment sector. Social platforms like Facebook and Google possess sweeping influence over what we view.
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