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This paper draws from art, activism, and other critical practices to examine the question of whether one can speak of an aesthetics of drones, or indeed what sensory registers even make knowledge of drones possible. Given that drones themselves are typically sensing devices that depend for their functionality on remaining obscured, a variety of practices are required for understanding how drones operate as instruments of political and social life.

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Artistic practices of data collection frequently reconfigure the ways in which we imagine ecosystems to operate. The interventions the author discusses here explore atmospheric conditions through visualization and sonification of data collected about phenomena indirectly experienced by the viewer. Each of the projects examined in this paper specifically address the unbalancing effects on the land and atmosphere of the byproducts of human technologies. Additionally, these artworks demonstrate how human subjectivity cannot simply encapsulate experience of the world as if from an outside perspective, but must be incorporated into the greater environmental systems of which it is a part.