(Fantabiography) Flyover 16, 2014

by Jim Jeffers

When thinking about a drone (UAV) as a stealthy killing machine, surveilling, targeting, and assaulting ground targets, I pondered the inverse, a peace drone—a fantasy drone surveilling and protecting locations on the earth. I picked 16 locations important to me to ‘protect’, either because I’ve been there or because I fantasize about going there. Mapping the locations with web-based applications, gathering the longitudinal and latitudinal coordinates, I starting creating relational timeline flowchart drawings digitally; connecting geographical locations time, action and thought. The pre-visual output from this project is manifest literally as Art to Drone; these are (mostly) navigable points. Formally, this project is this website displaying the coordinates, and the images created from my personal unpacking of these 16 flyover points.