The Age of Drones. Detail from ESSAM, Drone Campaign Poster (2012).
If the epoch of a technology is signaled by the simultaneous appearance of new potential uses and looming ethical questions, then without a doubt we've entered the age of the drone. In mid-October, individuals from the drone industry, aviation policymakers, lawyers, engineers, makers, activists, and artists gathered at the first Drone and Aerial Robotics Conference (DARC) in New York City to draw together the swarm of questions and possibilities that this technology engenders. Defining "drone" is no small part of the problem.
Those who work in the industry shy away from the "d-word for many reasons, not least of which is the image of the "drone strike. " The US government is using the more innocuous acronyms of UAV (unmanned/unpiloted aerial vehicle) or RPA (remotely piloted aircraft) to simply evoke the technology's long-accepted use as surveillance tools—with which to guide other weapon strikes. SAGE - Semi Automatic Ground Environment - Part 1/2. Sketchpad, by Dr. Ivan Sutherland with comments by Alan Kay. Day the Earth Stood Still Trailer. Innovation. British Army's Black Hornet Nano UAV. Dr. Strangelove - Final Scene. The Last Pictures: Interview with Trevor Paglen. Nato Thompson In 1963 NASA launched the first communications satellite, Syncom 2, into a geosynchronous orbit over the Atlantic Ocean.
Since then, humans have slowly and methodically added to this space-based communications infrastructure. Currently, more than 800 spacecraft in geosynchronous orbit form a man-made ring of satellites around Earth at an altitude of 36,000 kilometers. Most of these spacecraft powered down long ago, yet continue to float aimlessly around the planet. Geostationary satellites are so far from earth that their orbits never decay. Commissioned and presented by public art organization Creative Time, The Last Pictures is a project to mark one of these spacecraft with a record of our historical moment. Trevor Paglen. Symbology Military culture is filled with a totemic visual language consisting of symbols and insignia that signify everything from various unit and command affiliations to significant events, and noteworthy programs.
A typical uniform will sport patches identifying its wearer’s job, program affiliation, achievements and place within the military hierarchy. Complimentary Cubes, 1973 Digital art pioneer...) Brown-And-Son Purveyors of Fine Digital Images since 1968.
Complimentary Cubes, 1973 Digital art pioneer Manfred Mohr has put his early 16mm works online. V4N2:Humanizing the Machine: Women Artists and the Shifting Praxis and Criticism in Computer Art - International Digital Media and Arts Association. A new kind of renaissance is beginning.
All those now working visually with the computer are Giottos announcing the coming of a new visual age. Collette Bangert, 1976. Flightradar24.com - Live flight tracker! In order to save data consumption Flightradar24 web page times out after 30 minutes.
Please reload the web page to get another 30 minutes. Mapping CCTV around Whitehall. Two-part exercise to map CCTV cameras around Whitehall, London.
Mapping CCTV in Whitehall (2008, 3 min) Alien captured on CCTV. Thermal Imaging and Infrared Camera Overview - FLIR. AmbientTV.NET. lo-res.org/%7Emanu/MappingCCTV_subtitled.mp4. ‘Nothing Real’ PTSD PSA Music Video by CoMMoVe. Camp La Jolla Military Park. Camp La Jolla Military Park: Park Tour : Training Operation Drawings by Steve Bosan. SAGE - Semi Automatic Ground Environment - Part 1/2. Darpa Has Seen the Future of Computing ... And It's Analog. By definition, a computer is a machine that processes and stores data as ones and zeroes.
But the U.S. Dead-in-iraq. Dead-in-iraq, 2006 - ongoing Watch: CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) TV Interview 1/4/07 on the show The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos.
Understanding Drones. Drones are quickly becoming one of the U.S. military's primary weapons.
Here is what you need to know about them. Predator Drone Copyright © U.S. Air Force What are drones? Unmanned Arial Vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as “drones” are aerial systems that can be remotely controlled for short and long range military and civilian purposes. How are they being used by the United States? The use of drones by the United States Government is constantly evolving. Hundreds of anti-drone protesters march against UK flight-control centre. Hundreds of peace campaigners gathered outside an RAF base today to protest against armed drones being operated from Britain to conduct missions in Afghanistan. Around 400 demonstrators took part in a march from Lincoln to a rally at nearby RAF Waddington, which assumed control of British drone missions in Afghanistan earlier this week. The Guardian revealed on Thursday that the RAF had begun remotely operating its Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles from the Lincolnshire airbase. The drones were previously operated from a United States Air Force base in Nevada.
Chris Cole, a coordinator of the Drone Campaign Network, said the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to wage war raised numerous legal, ethical and moral issues. Movable Borders: Here Come the Drones! Date: Saturday 11 - Sunday 26 May 2013 Opening Saturday 11 May 2013, 2-5pmOpen Friday to Sunday 11-5pm. Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes. It seemed like a simple enough idea for an iPhone app: Send users a pop-up notice whenever a flying robots kills someone in one of America’s many undeclared wars.
But Apple keeps blocking the Drones+ program from its App Store — and therefore, from iPhones everywhere. The Cupertino company says the content is “objectionable and crude,” according to Apple’s latest rejection letter.