Page 138 - AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2016

138The heavy music festival Resurrection Fest (in Viveiro, Galicia) has been using a drone to take aerial images since its 2013 edition.76 The purpose is to document the festival from a di erent angle – photos are usually shot from below the stage– and share them with attendees on its Facebook page as fond memories.As stated, these nascent technologies whose cost is falling have various potential uses – notably taking photographs with lightweight cameras and even high-quality low-cost cameras like GoPros, which are the type most commonly tted to these aerial vehicles.However, on the subject of drones and festivals, mention should undoubtedly be made of New York City Drone Film Festival, which is devoted to all audiovisual creations using drone technology in short- lm format (no longer than ve minutes) in various categories, including their most common use: for lming sport.To test another possible use for drones at festivals, at the past edition of the Wireless Festival the Pepsi Company ran a publicity campaign called The Friend Finder, which might well have been an integral part of the festival.77 It basically consisted of drones in the form of oating spheres (a design inspired by dirigibles) with interactive LED screens. If people got separated from their friends, they could get the app with the same name (not the festival app) to guide them to a meeting point controlled by a remote team who received requests through the app.This is a very striking example, but it could trigger new practical ideas for festivals that take place in very large open spaces. For example, the 2013 edition of the South African music festival Oppikoppi experimented with the Oppikoppi Beer Drone.78 As its name suggests, anyone inside the festival could use an app to order a beer, which would be brought to where they were by a drone using GPS. The beer was dropped from the air in a small parachute.Nevertheless, when putting drones to any use (recording and observing, taking photographs, putting lost friends in touch) it is necessary to study the legislation of the country and areain question on technology of this kind and air space. In Spain, the emergence of these devices and their increasingly widespread use owingto rising sales has led the state agency for air security (Agencia Estatal de Seguridad Aérea, AESA) to regulate their use and characteristics79 in order to protect security in various aspects (people’s physical integrity, privacy...).When considering their adoption, it is therefore advisable to examine current legislation and security criteria in order to protect the safety of festival goers and to ensure that there isno problem with using the airspace above the festival grounds.2. NT BEFORE AND DURING THE FESTIVALFocus: Use of New Digital Technologies at Cultural Festivals