Consumer off-the-shelf drones

We will now move to the next presentation, which is by Francis. Francis Hungers was my colleague here in Munich at the Art Academy, working with me in the EDM class. His practice as an artist combines artistic research and media theory with the capabilities of narrations, reinstallations, radio plays, and performances in internet-based art. He teaches at the RDBK in Munich. He's a postdoc at the Data Union ERC project as VUB in Brussels. He used to work as a researcher for the project training, The Archive, which was about databases in conjunction to AI at hardware, media, and computer. He's also a professor at the RDBK in Dortmund. Yeah, thank you for introducing me, Hito. I'm going to show an excerpt from a work which I made this year. It's called Consumer of the Shelf Drones. So this is a slightly shorter version of the original video. It's about 16 minutes. And I am going to play it in total. And then we immediately going to jump into questions and answers. The first thing you notice is the sound, a very distinct sound. It is the sound by an off-the-shelf consumer drone. These drones produce visuals like this tropical beach.

In the current war in Ukraine, I noticed how consumer drones are being used for military purposes. Drones, which could produce images like this beach, increasingly produced different images, images of war zones. The image of war zones is a very interesting image. It's a very interesting image. I began to wonder what kind of images these were and then I watched more and more war-related consumer drone videos on social media. One early observation was the use of music in these war videos. Especially this song catched my attention because it came with many videos. The band called Probashadi created a nationalist band called the Pro-Bass Party. They were the first to produce music for the war. They were the first to produce music for the war. It is a very popular, nationalistic mixture of Slavic folk music elements and the sound of the electronic dance music genre hard-bass. The song translates to Good evening. We are from Ukraine. Dobry vechera, my z Ukrainy. I wanna signal We gotta recombine Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody Everybody, everybody, everybody, everybody Everybody fucking jump I have decided to remove these war videos from their context and recombine them in a new montage.

These are just very few snippets of a vast amount of published videos. Originally, these videos were posted on Ukrainian army and civil channels on Telegram, YouTube, TikTok and Twitter, where the videos were posted to inform about combat progress or to ask for financial support. What you see here is a selection. These are only drone-based views, rearranged, edited, cut. Left out is the GoPro imagery of battles, first-person shooter perspectives and so on. The visual language of these war videos reminded me of YouTube influencer videos. I was stretching tracks, checking out what happened outside the community and all that, I moved everything in here, mixed up what's going on, and then each one of these zrobi me by sounds. His lines were ludicrous. His process and evening were huge. Little These channels are the ones that often better make matters get out, get them justice, and then they even played some for us, more than anything. So, with about two billion dat' appreciate that Sobinf wrongs used manually, Even if it's singular, even if it's singular See, I always thought that drones were like flying cameras and all I needed to learn how to do was how to get the thing in the air without crashing it and it had this magical cinematography to use to help me tell stories.

I was wrong. Knowing how to fly a drone is one third of the pie that is actually having meaningful footage from a drone. The other two pieces are being a drone cinematographer and then knowing what to use the footage for. Even if it's singular, even if it's singular Since Casey Neistat's statement from 2016, the usage of drone imagery by YouTubers has constantly increased and created a new consumer market for civil off-the-shelf drones. Chrono images are used to provide a visual overview, to unfold a majestic scenery or landscape, to create atmosphere and move from one point to another point without cutting the image stream. So, what is the image stream? Well, it's a very simple image stream. It's a very simple image stream. It's a very simple image stream. It's a very simple image stream. Anyway, the image is very simple and it also is very elegant. It is very game in terms of any weather. Well, that's it for this episode on the world traveler, and now time for the happines! Bye bye! The following scenery, by world traveler RIley Whislum & Elena Car flats interviews the narration about sailing boats with a drone shots.

and make the most of this idyllic island. Riles, Forrest and I now had some time on our hands to give you guys our full thoughts and opinions about buying a monohull under $100,000. The way that I see it, you can either go an old boat like this, which is really beautiful, like astonishingly beautiful, but that doesn't sail that well. And I've been over a lot of the negatives about this boat and it has many, many positives as well. Again, links to that sort of information would be greatly appreciated. Or you could go the more production newer boat and it's still going to be secondhand at around $100,000. But now I've got concerns about build quality. So for example, the rudder on our Beneteau just disintegrated. Now these influencers use the same drones, for instance, the DJI Mavic 3 that are in use in Ukraine on the front lines. So we are in a situation now where both military and civil drones are used. And these are not single occurrences, but massive amounts of these flying drones that produce images. They're comparable gross applins within a plane. And that's why Phoenix Air has a какую-it's in minutes which keeps perfected propellers as itOSH by the new First Iron M spider.

So that's an interesting question. And what was like, I had normal complaints with you and it's exceptional of you that the red Fred creation is based on the Paтра·Vrite 3D myth in play on your PC. Is that a good thing? So I would say I think they're a unusual feature, In addition to military drones, off-the-shelf consumer drones are used for enemy surveillance. This video shows the fanning off of an Russian attack on open fields near Vukhledar in February 2023. Drone images are used to correct artillery fire from the Ukrainian positions. Here the images provide an overview and impact analysis. A huge projectile of a sand entברים was planed to repaired to make a Carpenter's vehicle. What kind of images are these? It may appear, if the drone images have been shot solely for the purpose of representative circulation on social media, as witnessing images. But that's not the only mode. Before their circulation in public media these videos have also been operational images. Operational images is a term, a notion, introduced by filmmaker Harun Farocki in the 2000s. I'm quoting Farocki. The agenda of war is executed by autonomous war machines. The war machine is not a machine that can be controlled by a drone.

It is a machine that can be controlled by a drone. What Farocki described then has changed today. Drone images today are full of enemies, of killed enemies. It's not an autonomous war machine as Farocki suggested, but it's full of soldiers using consumer drones to survey and attack the enemy. It's not an autonomous war machine as Farocki suggested, but it's full of soldiers using consumer drones to survey and attack the enemy. There's no sesame seed line between the combat había in English in the world factor clinton. It's not just doing coast guard operations onsecondies in a ship Episode 82. The United States ever finished a fair, noninvoluntary העечение of war. To save the entire world covered Space One- equator ΔF прот souff fora, Timi John apparently called a huge snag port ofOhlis, the Korean warship999. An expedition in its incubateur was on the ​​toilet,girl in the futureicoque system. рцесс ельдervices farkination élioration abl k butter Wow, that was I'm running like Nike, we got it all on, I'm calling her out I'm the boss man in the suit with no tie, I can't be sober, I gotta stay high I'm a servant, a girl in a tie, running this bitch like Buddy and Clyde No worry baby, I can't be surprised, she need a tip or she can't act inside The ladies, Mercedes, here goes the surprise, keep on your baby up with you Welcome to Ukraine, the biggest fucking party you've ever heard of The most overwhelming entanglement of operational images and their post-production as witness images on social media is best demonstrated by the influencer Jay Alvarez As one of the most prolific influencers on YouTube, Alvarez produces an aestheticization of desires combining upbeat music and footage of aesthetic bodies and landscapes Alvarez traveled to Kiev in 2019 for his birthday and shot these spectacular images on a weapons test ground

where you could fire RPGs just for fun Alvarez is a very well-known and well-known artist, who has been a big fan of the Ukrainian music industry He is a very well-known and well-known artist, who has been a big fan of the Ukrainian music industry The drone's eye is circulating around him The drone's eye is circulating around him This is where the operational images collapses into a representational logic of attention measured by clicks And this is what changed since Farocki's observations There it is again There it is again There it is again uate pretty pretty Thanks for watching!