Drones are considered as an indispensable war technology. In art you have so far played a subordinate role. The Zeppelin Museum in Friedrichshafen shows drones as artistic objects.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Raphaela Vogel: Prophecy (Video/2016)
A distant figure on the horizon, white transparent fabric panels refreshes your body. The Wind puffs up the fabric again and again to create different shapes. Only after a few minutes, you realized in this video work the artist Raphaela Vogel, two flying drones cause this Wind with your rotors. And the Performance from different perspectives of the films.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
James Bridle, Drone Shadow (2012)
To make the mostly invisible missiles visible, drones main intention of this first art exhibition in Germany. “A technology that combines absolute opposites, and therefore, from an artistic point of view, numerous ways of approach,” says curator Ina Neddermeyer. James Bridle draws the outline of the shadow of the various drones in the outdoor area of the Museum.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Omer Fast, 5000 Feet is the Best (video/2011)
How brutal is the abstraction of people to “target objects” of military drone attacks, is showing the video work of the artist Omer Fast. He has done Interviews with former drone pilot for the U.S. Air Force suffering from post-traumatic Stressyndrom. The voices of the pilots, the reports of their military operations, Almost with documentary material of the Army under.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Ahnohni, Drone bomb me (video/2016)
The artist Ahnoni connects in your short music video of my personal experiences with the abstraction of a drone war. The Model Naomi Campbell embodies the Song of a nine-year-old Afghan girl who has lost a drone attack on his family. On the head she wears a crown reminiscent of the rays of the crown of the U.S. statue of liberty.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Adam Harvey, Stealth Wear (C-Print/2013)
A different angle: Under the title “Anti-Drone Fashion shows” Adam Harvey series of Models: a couple of mannequins are dressed in hooded models (see image) in the exhibition. No jewelry, no fashion features. In addition, the explanation of how they must be worn in case of emergency to defend against drone strikes.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Cardoso & Pater, A Study into the 21th Century Drone Acoustics (2015)
Gonçalo F. Cardoso & Ruben Pater is the name of the two artists, from which this work originates. A kind of Sound Library of different drones, sounds that can hear visitors to the Museum with headphones. Depending on the size and type of blade drones are completely different. The mostly invisible in the air flying objects, be collected as an art object in the reality.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Ignacio Acosta, ladies and gentlemen, Yes Goabddá (Two-Channel Video Installation/2017)
The indigenous people of the Sami people of North Scandinavia uses drones as a protest instrument against the threat of a controversial mining project. In Gállak (Sweden) stores one of the largest iron Ore deposits of Europe. A removal permit would endanger the fragile Ecosystem in the Region. The artist Ignacio Acosta shows in its Installation, such as the political activists to use drones.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Lawrence Lek, Geomancer (Video/2017)
The main actor of the video installation “Geomancer” by Lawrence Tek is an AI satellite who is trying to be the first AI artist in the world. A work at the interface of human, current drone technology and artificial intelligence (AI). The dream sequences in the Video with artificial vocals.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Between technology and art
The current exhibition in the Zeppelin Museum is the first that focuses on an interdisciplinary way with drones: a show of military flight and monitoring objects as well as drones as objects of an artistic Installation or video work. To see the exhibition in Friedrichshafen/lake Constance is to the 3. In November 2019.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Raphaela Vogel: Prophecy (Video/2016)
A distant figure on the horizon, white transparent fabric panels refreshes your body. The Wind puffs up the fabric again and again to create different shapes. Only after a few minutes, you realized in this video work the artist Raphaela Vogel, two flying drones cause this Wind with your rotors. And the Performance from different perspectives of the films.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
James Bridle, Drone Shadow (2012)
To make the mostly invisible missiles visible, drones main intention of this first art exhibition in Germany. “A technology that combines absolute opposites, and therefore, from an artistic point of view, numerous ways of approach,” says curator Ina Neddermeyer. James Bridle draws the outline of the shadow of the various drones in the outdoor area of the Museum.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Omer Fast, 5000 Feet is the Best (video/2011)
How brutal is the abstraction of people to “target objects” of military drone attacks, is showing the video work of the artist Omer Fast. He has done Interviews with former drone pilot for the U.S. Air Force suffering from post-traumatic Stressyndrom. The voices of the pilots, the reports of their military operations, Almost with documentary material of the Army under.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Ahnohni, Drone bomb me (video/2016)
The artist Ahnoni connects in your short music video of my personal experiences with the abstraction of a drone war. The Model Naomi Campbell embodies the Song of a nine-year-old Afghan girl who has lost a drone attack on his family. On the head she wears a crown reminiscent of the rays of the crown of the U.S. statue of liberty.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Adam Harvey, Stealth Wear (C-Print/2013)
A different angle: Under the title “Anti-Drone Fashion shows” Adam Harvey series of Models: a couple of mannequins are dressed in hooded models (see image) in the exhibition. No jewelry, no fashion features. In addition, the explanation of how they must be worn in case of emergency to defend against drone strikes.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Cardoso & Pater, A Study into the 21th Century Drone Acoustics (2015)
Gonçalo F. Cardoso & Ruben Pater is the name of the two artists, from which this work originates. A kind of Sound Library of different drones, sounds that can hear visitors to the Museum with headphones. Depending on the size and type of blade drones are completely different. The mostly invisible in the air flying objects, be collected as an art object in the reality.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Ignacio Acosta, ladies and gentlemen, Yes Goabddá (Two-Channel Video Installation/2017)
The indigenous people of the Sami people of North Scandinavia uses drones as a protest instrument against the threat of a controversial mining project. In Gállak (Sweden) stores one of the largest iron Ore deposits of Europe. A removal permit would endanger the fragile Ecosystem in the Region. The artist Ignacio Acosta shows in its Installation, such as the political activists to use drones.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Lawrence Lek, Geomancer (Video/2017)
The main actor of the video installation “Geomancer” by Lawrence Tek is an AI satellite who is trying to be the first AI artist in the world. A work at the interface of human, current drone technology and artificial intelligence (AI). The dream sequences in the Video with artificial vocals.
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“Game of Drones”: How technology and art form an exhibition
Between technology and art
The current exhibition in the Zeppelin Museum is the first that focuses on an interdisciplinary way with drones: a show of military flight and monitoring objects as well as drones as objects of an artistic Installation or video work. To see the exhibition in Friedrichshafen/lake Constance is to the 3. In November 2019.
The Zeppelin Museum, lake Constance has long been concerned with the history of flying objects: from the first human flight versions try to the modern Zeppelin.
In the current exhibition “Games of Drones. Of unmanned flying objects” (07.06. – 03.11.2019), there is a lot of technology and military surveillance drones to see historical flying objects.
The Montgolfier brothers launched their first hot air balloon 1783 unmanned. The “Montgolfière” but it was not to be for the purposes of Surveillance, such as modern drones are today.
Balloons as a weapon of war
Soon after, unmanned balloons played in the military strategies of the war lords is a role. In 1849, the Austrian Lieutenant Franz von Uchatius “balloon bombs used”, with hot air, filled with ammunition and explosives is provided with the paper balloons, specifically in the siege of Venice. It’s first air attack of world history. The hit rate was low, the technology was quickly out of fashion.
In the Second world war, those balloon bombs were used again. The Japanese army launched an air offensive with 9000 balloons to carry bombs across the Pacific in the area of the war opponent the United States. However, only 300 reached their destination. One killed six people, the other missed its purpose. The British army tested in the 2. World war, should not prevent the “Operation Outward” from 1942 to 1944 extremely small balloons that could fly underneath the radar systems, and the German war leadership.
Precursors of modern drones
The U. S. Army came later in the Cold war reinforced unmanned balloons with spy cameras. Technical developments and modern drones have replaced this technique soon. The satellite surveillance from space, made this error-prone technology is superfluous. In their place tech were high-engineered drones as a new war device, the remote control in war areas could be used.
Combat drone MQ 9 Reaper in use by the U. S. Air Force
In the exhibition in the Zeppelin-Museum-of-the-art objects of the Original copies of these military combat drones, to illustrate to the visitors of the dimensions.
From a distance they look like small aircraft without a window. “It is a technology that combines absolute opposites,” emphasizes curator Ina Neddermeyer. “The artists of the exhibition on show this inconsistency in all its facets.”
Female views on war technology
The drones exhibition in Friedrichshafen, weighs the risks, and civilian potential of these flying objects. In the meantime, there are already smaller drone models for the leisure sector and for private use. The Museum has its own drone, which bears the name of Claire, and for the in-house Marketing aerial photography can deliver.
Often, drones are referred to as “male-dominated technology” and Gimmick. What is interesting about the exhibition is, what is the view of artists on these flying objects and how they use them as objects for their art. This variety of approaches and Work on our photo gallery shows.