Abstract:

This article examines how performance represents, reflects on, and reimagines the function of technology in drone culture. From a pharmaco-phenomenological angle, I analyze drone art practices, focusing on how drone performances invite audiences to feel/make their way through a networked reality. I highlight human tension, vulnerability, and precarity in their digital thrownness in conditions perceived as alien or alienating, yet not completely foreign or nonhuman. Featuring Ars Electronica Futurelab’s 100 Drones, Julian Hetzel’s The Automated Sniper, Laura Poitras’s Bed Down Location, and Random International’s Zoological, I investigate drones as pharmaka in practices where these technologies potentially antagonize, elevate, or even outperform their human counterparts. It is through this pharmacological functionality of drones that this article seeks to understand how to be human in drone culture.

 抽象的：

本文探讨了性能如何代表、反思和重新想象技术在无人机文化中的功能。我从药物现象学的角度分析无人机艺术实践，重点关注无人机表演如何邀请观众感受/穿越网络现实。我强调了人类在被视为陌生或疏远但并非完全陌生或非人类的条件下被数字抛弃的紧张、脆弱和不稳定。我以 Ars Electronica Futurelab 的 100 Drones、Julian Hetzel 的 The Automated Sniper、Laura Poitras 的 Bed Down Location 和 Random International 的 Zoological 为特色，研究了无人机在实践中的作用，这些技术可能会对抗、提升甚至超越人类同行。本文旨在通过无人机的药理学功能来了解如何在无人机文化中成为人类。