Remote visions, threatened ecologies, and the 'community drone'

空中无人机（无人驾驶汽车）或“无人机”的遥视和光谱分析能力越来越多地出现在受到土地剥夺或入侵威胁的社区中。该项目通过对技术能力的后殖民批判，探索了“社区无人机”干预在提取网络的地质创伤“地球物理学”中的出现，这些技术既可以主张也可以数字化存档物质文化和生态，在剥夺和工业侵占中无法进入。越来越多的负担能力以及对高大气干扰和时间敏感性条件的固有友好性，鼓励了土著社区特别是土著社区对该技术的利用，因为社区面临着大规模的土地剥夺和侵占。不幸的是，就像在这些网络边缘实施的物质剥夺一样，“社区无人机”的空中渲染图经常被传输到社区后期制作之外，通过传输网络向外传输，用于估值、环境监测或法律制图索赔。在这些数字产品的损失中出现了双重剥夺。当作为社区档案保存时，我希望探索它们如何提供，除了实际用途之外，土著土地和生态的未来可能会抵制“殖民想象”的完全消失，超越“观看”或“主张”，并走向新兴的地缘政治学和地缘政治，从上面的数字复制中激活。

The remote viewing and spectral analysis capabilities of aerial UAVs (Unmanned Autonomous Vehicles), or 'drones', are increasingly appearing re-articulated by communities threatened by land dispossession or incursion. This project explores the emergence of 'community drone' interventions within the geo-traumatic 'geophysics' of extraction networks, through a postcolonial critique of the technology's capacity to both claim and digitally archive material cultures and ecologies, made inaccessible in dispossession and industrial encroachment.The increasing affordability and inherent friendliness to conditions of high atmospheric interference and time-sensitivity have encouraged a rise in utilisations of the technology by indigenous communities in particular, as communities facing outsize cases of land dispossession and encroachment. Unfortunately, much like the material dispossession enacted at the edges of these networks, the aerial renderings of the 'community drone' are often transmitted beyond communities post-production, fed outwards across networks of transmission for valuations, environmental monitorings or legal-cartographic claims. A doubled dispossession then occurs in the loss of these digital productions. When held as community archive, I wish to explore how they may offer, beyond practical utility, a futurity to indigenous lands and ecologies that may resist total eclipses of the 'colonial imaginary', reaching past 'viewing' or 'claim' and towards an emergent geopoetics and geopolitics activated in digital reproduction from above.