The Art of Drone Warfare: Artistic Representations of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Alex Colley Hart Dr. Nicole Kousaleous (instructor) Dr. Margaret Graves (mentor) Spring 2015
General Atomic MQ-9 Reaper Drone
Reported Deaths and Injuries from Drone Strikes (The Bureau of Investigative Journalism) Total strikes Pakistan (20042015) 415 Somalia (20072015) 9 to 13 Yemen (20022015) 90 to 109 Total killed 2, 449 to 3, 949 23 to 105 431 to 639 Civilians killed 421 to 960 0 to 5 65 to 96 Children killed 172 to 207 0 8 Injured 1, 144 to 1, 722 2 to 7 86 to 215
Black Hawk Paint by Addie Wagenknecht. September 2008. 80 x 100 cm, acrylic on canvas. bitforms gallery, New York City
dronescape 3 (day) by KATSU. 2014. 48 x 60 in, enamel on canvas. The Hole, New York City
MQ-9/1 by Mahwish Chishty. 2011. 8 x 28. 5 in, gouache, tea stain, and gold leaf on paper.
Why did you kill my family? by Murad Subay. 2013. Sana’a, Yemen.
Reaper in the Sun by Trevor Paglen. 2013. 68 x 81. 5 in, C-print. Metro Pictures, New York City.
#Not. ABug. Splat. 2014. Pakistan.
Domestic Tension by Wafaa Bilal. May 2007. Installation. Flat. File Galleries, Chicago.
Metadata+ by Josh Begley. i. Phone Application.
Dronestagram by James Bridle. Instagram Account.
Visual Representation of Relationships in Art and Drone Warfare Viewer Art Drone Warfare Artist Drone Operator Subject Government Official Victim