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While the military and surveillant uses drones can have a profoundly disempowering effect on those at ground level, a growing community of activists, artists and journalists has been using consumer-level drones to record government and corporate activities that would be too difficult or dangerous to unmask by other means. Join three artists and activists in a discussion of the empowering possibilities of these novel aerial instruments and their implications for the broader discourse on technology, power and surveillance. Drones are used by activists and citizen journalists to film protests and activities by governments and corporations that would otherwise be too dangerous or difficult to access. Join three artists and activists in a discussion of the stories and revelations that consumer-level drones make possible.
Featuring:
Monther Etaky, Aleppo-based activist;
Brooke Waukau, activist and Women's Indigenous Media director;
Alon Sicherman, filmmaker & artist;
moderated by Sean Vegezz, artist.
Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today
This event is part of the symposium Remote Control: Surveying Drones and Culture Today, organized by High Line Art and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School, in collaboration with writer and researcher Arthur Holland Michel. The symposium is convened by High Line Art in the context of artist Sam Durant‘s High Line Plinth commission Untitled (drone) and the Vera List Center's As for Protocols Focus Theme and was preceded by As for Protocols Seminar 7: Drones and the Bird’s-Eye View, September 20, 2021.Â
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The Vera List Center’s participation in Remote Control is made possible, in part, by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts, the Ford Foundation, and the Kettering Fund, as well as the members of the Vera List Center Board and The New School.
Lead support for High Line Art comes from Amanda and Don Mullen. Major support is provided by Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston, and Charina Endowment Fund. Additional support is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. High Line Art is supported in part, with a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the New York City Council, under the leadership of Speaker Corey Johnson.
Major support for the High Line Plinth is provided by members of the High Line Plinth Committee and contemporary art leaders committed to realizing major commissions and engaging in the public success of the Plinth: Shelley Fox Aarons and Philip E. Aarons, Jennifer and Jonathan Allan Soros, Elizabeth Belfer, Suzanne Deal Booth, Fairfax Dorn, Steve Ells, Kerianne Flynn, Andy and Christine Hall, Hermine Riegerl Heller and David B. Heller, J. Tomilson and Janine Hill, The Holly Peterson Foundation, Annie Hubbard and Harvey Schwartz, Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Amanda and Don Mullen, Douglas Oliver and Sherry Brous, Mario Palumbo and Stefan Gargiulo, Susan and Stephen Scherr, Susan and David Viniar, and Anonymous.
Presented by the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at the Schools of Public Engagement and High Line Art.
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Alon Sicherman is a New York based director, cinematographer, producer, and multimedia artist. His work has won multiple Emmy, Telly, and Sundance Special Juror Awards and contributed to the Academy Award nominated documentary film Time by Garrett Bradley. In 2013 he founded L-Vision, a full service creative agency that has served clients such as the New York Times, The United Nations, HBO, Apple, Nike, and more. He has a passion for projects in investigative journalism and social justice.
Brooke Johnson (Waukau) is a member of Stockbridge-Munsee Band of Mohicans and Menominee Nations of Wisconsin. She is the founder of Women’s Indigenous Media, an Indigenous-led non-profit media organization. Women’s Indigenous Media was founded in Standing Rock, North Dakota, in result to the mainstream media blackout on the human rights violations that were happening to the Indigenous people protecting the land. She went on to become the first female Native American drone pilot to be documented. The aerial footage her and other drone pilots were able to capture to document the human rights and due process violations that occurred on the Standing Rock Reservation. Brooke is now working as the WI DOJ Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Task Force Coordinator.
Sean Vegezzi (b. New York City, 1990) is an artist who has examined New York City’s topography through image-making, sculpture, writing, and performance art since the September 11th attacks of 2001.Vegezzi's practice examines the effect that both public and private spaces have on the individual, blending personal experience with narratives of autonomy, privacy, and security. Vegezzi’s work dreams of alternative models of living in cities, where undefined areas give a semblance of solitude, the limitations of the city-as-bureaucracy are exposed, the all-encompassing damage caused by over-development is reversed, and the mission-creep of security apparatuses into everyday life is undermined, reconfigured, or even inverted by its subjects.
Mohammad Monther Etaky is a Syrian activist from Aleppo city, based in Turkey. Etaky studied Visual Communications in the department of Fine Arts in Aleppo University till 2012. Etaky currently works in media and communication in a Syrian local NGO in addition to some freelancing. He participated in the Syrian uprising against the dictatorship that ruled the country in 2011, and mobilized his knowledge in Arts, Media, Journalism and Photography as a main part of his activism. While living in Aleppo city he focused on covering news, humanitarian stories, supporting people, and training local journalists.
