[spectre] Drones: Eyes From A Distance. An interview with Dave Young

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Drones: Eyes From A Distance. An interview with Dave Young. By Marc Garrett.
http://www.furtherfield.org/features/interviews/drones-eyes-distance-interview-dave-young

These days, drones are everywhere: conducting military strikes across
Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Afghanistan; as the underpinning technology
for public health infrastructure; for sale to delighted kids in Hamleys
toyshop; or as D.I.Y kits and readymades from the Internet. Amazon has
proposed to sell fleets of drones, offering super-fast deliveries to its
customers. In Haiti, Bhutan, Papua New Guinea and the Philippines, drones
have helped rescue natural disaster victims – and transport medical samples
and supplies and the Aerial Robotics Laboratory at Imperial College London
is  developing networks of drones to deliver blood supplies to rural health
clinics in Africa. The new ubiquity of drones in these contexts means that
we need to think carefully about the personal and political impacts of the
emerging drone culture?

Drones: Eyes From A Distance (http://www.disruptionlab.org/drones) will be
the first gathering in Berlin- April 17-18 2015 - of the Disruption Network
Lab. This two day symposium presents keynote presentations, panels, round
tables, and a film screening held in cooperation with Kunstraum Kreuzberg
/Bethanien, with the support of the Free Chelsea Manning Initiative. The
event is being held at the Sudio 1 of Kunstquartier Bethanien. And this
conference would not be happening if it wasn't for the tireless dedication
of Tatiana Bazzichelli (http://networkingart.eu/tatiana_bazzichelli/),
founder of the Disruption Lab (http://www.disruptionlab.org).

As part of Furtherfield's partnership with the Disruption Network Lab Marc
Garrett will chair a panel with Tonje Hessen Schei (filmmaker, NO), Jack
Serle (investigative journalist, UK), Dave Young (artist, musician and
researcher, IE).

This interview with Dave Young is the first of three, in the lead up to the
Berlin event.

Dave Young is an artist and researcher based in Edinburgh. His practice
follows critical research into digital culture, manifested through
workshops, website development, and talks on subjects varying from
cybernetics and the Cold War history of network technologies, to issues
around copyright and open source/free culture. He is founder of Localhost,
a forum for discussing, dismantling and disrupting network technologies.
Past events have focused on Google's entry into media art curation, and the
role of analogue radio as a potential commons in the digital age.
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