How Do You Surrender to a Drone?

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dc.contributor.advisorArmstrong, David Scott
dc.creatorCollyer, Miles
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-16T19:24:09Z
dc.date.available2015-12-16T19:24:09Z
dc.date.copyright2015-08-11
dc.date.issued2015-12-16
dc.date.updated2015-12-16T19:24:09Z
dc.degree.disciplineVisual Arts
dc.degree.levelMaster's
dc.degree.nameMFA - Master of Fine Arts
dc.description.abstractThe exhibition, how do you surrender to a drone?, is a cohesive installation of interrelated artworks. It includes three-dimensional metal objects, experimental photographic–based forms, and large photocopies adhered directly to the gallery walls. The challenge is one of presenting a complex political subject through abstract representation. The use of specific materials and the conjoining of photographic components and sculptural armatures guides the works aim to invoke and question content that is violent and distressing. Understood as a non-site in the sense of Smithson’s Sites and Non-sites, the installation employs abstraction to articulate the complexities of a newly emerging subjecthood present in our modern world. Through the manipulation of materials and the creation of forms, that come into being as key figures operating within the installation, a dialogue of charged energies is created and the installation is able to communicate and extend a discussion that would normally supersede effective description.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10315/30701
dc.language.isoen
dc.rightsAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.
dc.subjectFine arts
dc.subject.keywordsphotography
dc.subject.keywordssculpture
dc.subject.keywordswar
dc.subject.keywordsmilitary
dc.subject.keywordsviolence
dc.subject.keywordsvisual art
dc.subject.keywordsRobert Smithson
dc.subject.keywordsNon-sites
dc.subject.keywordsArte Povera
dc.subject.keywordsphotocopy prints
dc.subject.keywordsPETG
dc.subject.keywordsrebar
dc.subject.keywordsphoto-based
dc.subject.keywordsbricks
dc.subject.keywordscivilian construction
dc.subject.keywordswreckage artifacts
dc.subject.keywordscarbonized materials
dc.subject.keywordscommunication methods of war
dc.subject.keywordsabstraction
dc.subject.keywordsinstallation art
dc.subject.keywordsUV-printing
dc.subject.keywordsflags
dc.subject.keywordssemaphore
dc.subject.keywordsLinguistics of form and of material
dc.titleHow Do You Surrender to a Drone?
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertation

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