Drone Imaginaries and Society

Programme

DAY 1 (all events in Sky Room, Campus Kollegiet, 14th Floor, Campusvej 1, 5230 Odense)
Tuesday, June 5, 2018

9:00 Registration

9:30 Welcome and introduction: Drone Imaginaries and Society
Kathrin Maurer
Daniela Agostinho

10:00 –12:15 Session 1: Drone Art
Moderator: Pepita Hesselberth
Thomas Stubblefield, Signature Strikes: Drone Art and World-Making
Jan Mieszkowski, Drones and the Big Data Sublime

12:15 –13:00 Lunch

13:00 –15:15 Session 2: Seeing with Drones
Moderator: Andreas Immanuel Graae
Svea Braeunert, Forms of the Unseen: Hito Steyerl’s Documents of Drone Warfare
Rasmus Degnbol, Photographing Europe’s Border Change from Above

15:15–15:45 Coffee Break

15:45 –17:45 Session 3: Drones and Social Communities
Moderator: Kristin Veel and Karen Louise Grova Søilen
Jutta Weber, Social Radar: On Drones and Data Science
Dan Gettinger and Arthur Holland, Drone Art: What it Means, Why it Matters, and Where it’s Going

20:00 Dinner
Restaurant 61
Kongensgade 61
5000 Odense, Danmark


DAY 2 (Sky Room and U 133)
Wednesday, June 6, 2018

9:15–11:30 Session 4: Drone Art and Surveillance
(Sky Room, Campus Kollegiet)
Moderator: Steen Ledet Christiansen
Tomas van Houtryve, Blue Sky Days
Sarah Tuck, Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest

11:30–12:15 Lunch and transfer to SDU main Campus (5 min walk)

12:15–14:30 Session 5: Drones and Gender Politics
(U 133, Campusvej 55)
Moderator: Daniela Agostinho
Lauren Wilcox, Queering War: The Gender Politics of the Drone
Claudette Lauzon, The Objects of Drone Warfare: A Feminist Art History

14:30 –14:45 Coffee Break

14.45 –16:00 KEYNOTE
(U 133, Campusvej 55)
Moderator: Kathrin Maurer
Derek Gregory, Sweet Target...Sweet Child: Aerial Violence and the Imaginaries of Remote Warfare

16:00-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15 –16:45 Final Discussion
(U 133, Campusvej 55)


Organized by Kathrin Maurer, University of Southern Denmark (kamausdu.dk)

Conference is sponsored by Danish Research Council, Department for the Study of Culture at the University of Southern Denmark

Conference is free of charge, but you need to register for it via this link:
http://webpay.sdu.dk/system/droner/
Info: https://www.sdu.dk/en/researchondrones