Here are some (fuzzy) images from last nights drone performance by Studio Drift.
From their website:
Franchise Freedom premiered at Faena hotel during Art Basel Miami Beach 2017. Franchise Freedom is a performative artwork at the interface between technology, science, and art.
An autonomous flying swarm of 300 Intel® Shooting Star™drones, Franchise Freedom exposes the tension between individual freedom and safety in numbers. The sacrifice made by the individual subjecting to the group gives of the illusion of freedom, creating a never-ending cycle. It is the first time that a natural phenomenon will be imitated by machines working with decentralized algorithms at this scale. Franchise Freedom is inspired by the spectacle of starlings clustering together in massive swarms flying through the sky in thousands. They create breathtaking aerial displays that are seemingly rehearsed, but are in fact natural cohesions of movement and flight. Each maneuver is completely integrated, and no bird works alone. When swarming they are powerful and dominate the sky.
The parameters in the algorithm used in Franchise Freedom are choreographed by the artists Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta in order to channel the emotional impact of the performance, but they can never exactly predict or determine how the drones will behave. Their technology is based on ongoing university research on flocking behavior, as the principles of self-organization have become more and more relevant in our ever changing world.
Professional images and videos of the piece (performed in Miami) are at http://www.studiodrift.com/franchise-freedom/
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