Any technology that governments and corporations are using, artists should be using, too—if for no other reason than to draw attention to what those governments and corporations are doing. (Artists, also, often expand the capabilities of a given technology just by tinkering, hacking, and generally eschewing the owner's manual.)

So a Seattle artist needs to write a grant that will pay for a drone, and get to work. Here's an amateur photographer in Philadelphia who's bought his first DJI Phantom 2 Vision Quadcopter, and what he's made.