DRONE.2000
A DYSTOPIAN PERFORMANCE FOR AUTONOMOUS DRONES
DRONE.2000 is a critical performance echoing the western taste for the drone technology, seemingly ludicrous and born of modelling and military research. The use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) has spread for ten years through hacking, cinema, video games and art spheres. It is highly promoted by the same societies producing them, militaro-industrial congglomerates, entertainment industry investments, as well as 20th century science-fiction fantasy.
DRONE.2000 is a performance where autonomous objects moved by simple algorithms are patrolling over the audience. Their latent and dysfunctional presence is a concrete threat. Drone.2000 takes us into a dystopian situation, thus illustrating the military origins of these entertaining objects. Here, trusting the autonomy of the machine is not only a discursive concept but a true experience shared with the audience, triggering off their reactions, tensions and commitment of their bodies in situation of symbolic and real danger.
Nicolas Maigret is an artist active in digital arts, he explores the internal characteristics of the media through their errors, dysfunctions, borderlines or failure threshold. He initiated the Disnovation curatorial project "a critical exploration of the mechanisms and rhetoric of innovation". After studying Intermedia arts, he joined the Locus-Sonus Lab in Nice dedicated to networked sound art research. He taught at the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux and co-founded the Art of Failure collective in 2006. His work has been presented in internationnal exhibition and festivals: Sonar (Barcelone) - File (Sao Paulo) - Museum of Art and Design (New York) - SETI (San Francisco) - Chaos Communication Congress (Hamburg) - The Pirate Bay TPB10 (Stockholm) - National Art Museum (Beijing) - V-art Center (Shanghai) - Upgrade!/SAIC (Chicago) - Parsons (Paris) - Abandon Normal Devices (Liverpool) - Eastern Bloc (Montreal) - Gli.tc/h (Birmingham) - Leeds Film Festival - Mapping Festival (Geneva) - Cimatics (Brussels) - Sonica (Ljubljana) - National Gallery (Kosice) - Gaite Lyrique (Paris)…
Conception: Nicolas Maigret - 2014 | Prototype development: Grégoire Lauvin | Production: M2F Créations