Project Daedalus explores the creative potential of drones. Funded by Nesta, Arts Council England, and the Arts & Humanities Research Council within their £7m Digital R&D for the Arts programme, the project brings together arts, technology, and research, to investigate something new in the rapidly moving world of drone innovation.
Our project aims to provide some key insights that can inform the arts industries. It's a really exciting project and is working with the incredibly talented people at Marshmallow Laser Feast and Abandon Normal Devices. Together, we have built a programme of research and development, taking quadcopters out to new communities and accessing some of the most creative users around.
We've been working with Abandon Normal Devices (AND), Marshmallow Laser Feast and the University of Salford to produce a trailer and a docu-film about their Nesta funded research project Daedalus. This research looks at flight as cinematic tool and is an exciting opportunity to re-purpose drones (quadrotors) for creative control, creating multi-user experiences and new audience environments.
Music: composed in-house at Mind the Film.
Interviewees: Andy Miah, Gabrielle Jenks, Ruth McCullough, Robin McNicholas, Anna Frew, Martin Livesey, Jorge Lopes Ramos, Sebastian Hagemeister and Devin Matthews.