[csaa-forum] Tomorrow: Drone Futures Seminar Series: Mahwish Chishty, 26 November, a Media Futures Hub Event

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A virtual public seminar with
Mahwish Chishty
Chaired by Michael Richardson (UNSW)
Cultural Aesthetics + Borders
Mahwish Chishty’s artistic research combines her interest in Pakistani traditional folk art/culture and contemporary politics as it relates to US/Pakistan relations. This talk will cover the inspiration and motivation behind the projects that Chishy has been working on since 2011, including: Drone Art series, Wagah Border, Basant: Let’s Go Fly a Kite and Danyore. Chishty will share paintings, installations and collaborative projects as part of this discussion.

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Mahwish Chishty is a multimedia artist who initially trained as a miniature painter in Pakistan. Her work combines traditional artistic practice with her interest in contemporary politics, particularly the relationship between the US and Pakistan. In 2017, Chishty was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and in the same year she held a solo exhibition of her drone art at the Imperial War Museum, London. Her 2018 installation, Naming the Dead, was shortlisted for the ArtPrize. She is currently Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
NOVEMBER
Thursday 26

Time: 10am – 11:30am AEDT

Location: Drone Futures seminars will be streamed live to YouTube, where participants can converse and post questions. If you can’t attend live, you can register to receive a link to a recording of the seminar.

REGISTER VIA EVENTBRITE NOW<https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/drone-futures-seminar-6-mahwish-chishty-tickets-119845343649>



Drone Futures brings together leading artists, humanities and social science scholars whose research intersects with the emerging field of drone studies. From the neo-colonial violence of contemporary wars in the Middle East and Africa to the strange histories of unmanned aerial vehicles to activist uses in struggles for justice, this seminar series looks to the past and present to think into the future. By showcasing inter-disciplinary scholarship, it aims to spark new connections and inspire debate about how to build more just drone futures.

August 12: Ronak K. Kapadia (University of Illinois at Chicago), recording available here.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcEcfCXKZ_4>
September 2: Antoine Bousquet (Birkbeck, University of London, author of The Eye of War: Perception from the Telescope of the Drone) and Jairus Grove (University of Hawaii, author of A Savage Ecology: War and Geopolitics at the End of the World, recording available here.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVDEQTao9CA>

September 23: Katherine Chandler (Georgetown University, artist and author of Unmanning: How Humans, Machines and Media Perform Drone Warfare), recording available here.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIpMj0iVYBA>

October 14: J.D. Schnepf (University of Groningen, researcher on drones, domesticity and militarism), recording available here.<https://youtu.be/urOx7DXcEOo>

November 13: Thomas Stubblefield (UMass Dartmouth, author of Drone Art: The Everywhere War as Medium), recording available here.<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ltpMKpa9pA>

November 26: Mahwish Chishty (UMass Amherst, artist<https://www.mahachishty.com/>) 10AM – 11.30AM (AEDT)
Register for upcoming seminars via the UNSW Media Futures Hub Eventbrite Page<http://unswmediafutureshub.eventbrite.com.au/?s=123375358>.
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The Drone Futures Seminar Series will culminate in the Drone Cultures Symposium<https://www.dronewitnessing.com/>, hosted virtually on the 8-10 of December by the UNSW Media Futures Hub<https://mediafutureshub.org/>.

Stay tuned! Drone Futures will be available as a limited series of the Media Futures Podcast<https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/media-futures-podcast/id1506530595>.

Drone Futures and the Drone Cultures Symposium are funded by an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award.

We acknowledge and pay respect to the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live, particularly the Bedegal, Bidjigal and Gadigal Peoples, and their elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded, and the struggle for justice continues.











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