Comments on: Drone crash on college campus in San Diego is art-hoax

By: Off White

Off White — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 17:02:00 +0000

What shocks me most is that they’ve logged the eucalyptus forest that the library used to float above.

By: chaopoiesis

chaopoiesis — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 08:18:00 +0000

It gets better… prominent drone-maker General Atomics is right next door.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 22:11:00 +0000

Maybe you just didn’t understand it.

By: Dale Crighton

Dale Crighton — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 18:00:00 +0000

Using silly pretentious academic jargon was how I passed all my art classes. Now matter how bad something looked, if you could BS your way through an explanation of your “concept”….. instant A.

By: kmoser

kmoser — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:07:00 +0000

Couldn’t every hoax be considered “art-hoax”?

By: heckblazer

heckblazer — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 05:07:00 +0000

I suspect it’s not coincidental MCAS Miramar (former home of Top Gun) is just down the road from UCSD. When I was there having to stop the class until the noise from a passing fighter ended was not uncommon.
I’d add that a crashed drone is better and more interesting than many pieces of the official campus outdoor art collection.

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:39:00 +0000

Heh. Amongst.

By: allenmcbride

allenmcbride — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:37:00 +0000

I dunno, maybe I could change my thinking with practice… I googled “new media art” “minor simulation” just now, and apparently Dominguez is the only person who uses the term. So his use of a silly pretentious-academic synonym for “hoax” is *itself* a hoax. That’s kind of cool. If intended.

By: jenjen

jenjen — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:35:00 +0000

Just when the FBI thought they could delete him from their speed dial after his last project with the transborder cell phone water mapping thing.

By: Carl Witthoft

Carl Witthoft — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:29:00 +0000

Waiting for The Onion to chime in on this one. How dare some college art majors try to take over their niche?

By: Ian Wood

Ian Wood — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:21:00 +0000

That sort of thinking won’t win you grants.

By: allenmcbride

allenmcbride — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 23:16:00 +0000

I’m sure some of [the students] probably did think it was real,” Dominguez said of the drone crash, “but that’s one of the practices of new media art – what we call minor simulation. It creates an event that is difficult to understand as either real or not real.

I guess I’m too modernist for this kind of art. It seems pretty straightforward to me to understand that this hoax — excuse me, minor simulation — was not real.

By: Michael Smith

Michael Smith — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:57:00 +0000

My son would say “thats how dad always lands his radio controlled models”.

By: That Special Something

That Special Something — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:50:00 +0000

Wouldn’t ‘drone safety’ be ‘duck and cover’?
Or, head between your knees and kiss your arse goodbye.