Simon Denny Drone AR vs POINT.A

In 2019, Amazon filed a patent for a, „Unmanned Aerial Vehicle with Inflatable Membrane“ The human delivery worker replacement drone includes a balloon component, which inflates during the last part of the vehicle’s journey to consumers – cutting down potentially disturbing noise from its propellors. Lifted directly from an advertisement about the role of data in mineral mining, this animation of a globe could be seen as a short hand for Rio Tinto’s view of the planet; as a resource to be mined. Rio Tinto is one of the oldest and largest mining companies on the planet and responsible for vast mineral extraction used in many industries. Rio Tinto relies on Amazon’s cloud hosting service AWS for its data management infrastructure – a core part of worker-less mine automation efforts. AWS is the largest cloud services provider in the world.

POINT.A leads you on a bespoke outdoor audio journey highlighting the magic already surrounding you. All you have to do is be in the right place at the right time. Currently available in select cities only, our app is a tailor-made art intervention for each location offered. From transforming your own body into a radio tuner as you walk, to secret performances hidden in plain sight, POINT.A guides you through a hidden world - in a city you grew up in or are visiting for the first time. Choose the work for the city that you are in, show up at the right place at the right time, put on your headphones and let lush binaural soundscapes and narration reveal a world you might have taken for granted.