Armstrong, David Scott2015-12-162015-12-162015-08-112015-12-16http://hdl.handle.net/10315/30701The 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.enAuthor owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Fine artsElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2015-12-16photographysculpturewarmilitaryviolencevisual artRobert SmithsonNon-sitesArte Poveraphotocopy printsPETGrebarphoto-basedbrickscivilian constructionwreckage artifactscarbonized materialscommunication methods of warabstractioninstallation artUV-printingflagssemaphoreLinguistics of form and of material