Leeds-based creative studio Newsubstance orchestrated the autonomously flown, swarm drone performance which featured one hundred drones made by Singaporean company Skymagic.
Monday, July 02, 2018
Swarm of drones perform at the opening of the Great Exhibition of the North
Leeds-based creative studio Newsubstance orchestrated the autonomously flown, swarm drone performance which featured one hundred drones made by Singaporean company Skymagic.
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This article was very interesting to me because I think that drone art is a curious thing. On one hand, it seems like an entirely new and exciting frontier for creativity. With these drones, we are able to make displays and shows in the sky on a larger scale than ever before for all of the general public to see. It’s also very promising because of how it turns our gaze to the future of technology’s relationship with the arts and what that allows us to achieve in terms of size and tools. On the other hand, there could also be many drawbacks. First of all, there are always issues with drones and airspace. However more specifically, the more and more that we have robots involved in making our art, the less human our art becomes. Even though the drone show may still be designed by humans, there is a machine standing between our idea and their execution. This removes a layer of humanity from the work that handmade art and human performances carry. Another reason for this is that the art created by drones is perfect, but art by its very nature should have imperfections all over it because of its connection to humans. If in fact drone shows are our future, there must be a way for us to make a stronger human connection with the work produced or else we risk having art for the sake of art and not for the sake of exploring humanity.
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