It started as a fun idea: Invite some artists to make sculpture that can be used in a drone obstacle course. Because, secretly, who doesn’t want to navigate a buzzy, remote-controlled flying craft around an art installation set in a beautiful restored factory space?
But the more organizers at the Knockdown Center, a three-year-old arts space on the border of Brooklyn and Queens, thought about it, an intriguing question arose: How do these increasingly popular “eyes in the sky” change our perception of art?