Keyword: Life
- contributionMatthew C. Wilson
A Drift
Matthew C. Wilson traverses ancient prehistory to speculative futures, meditating on the chancy throughlines that make up the world as we know it.
Storytelling, Reflection, Engagement, Mapping, Evolution, History, Future, Speculative, Life, Species
- contributionKatrin Klingan, Soren Brothers, Francine M.G. McCarthy, Michelle Murphy, Catherine Tammaro, Mark Williams
Core Readings: Crawford Lake
How do different forms of societal organization and land use over the centuries affect the environment on local and planetary levels?
Consensus Building, Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Life, History, Human-environment relations, Landscape, Scale, Settler Colonialism, Knowledge production
- contributionTreasure Shields Redmond
The Casino Queen with Marvin Wright
A conversation on the Mississippi and working at a riverboat casino with Marvin Wright and Treasure Shields Redmond.
Conversation, History, Life
- contributionSarah Kanouse, Nicholas Brown
Chi-Nations Youth Council
In this short film, Adrian Pochel, one of the lead organizers of the Chi-Nations Youth Council talks through the group’s work promoting Indigenous rights in the city of Chicago.
Film, Case Study, Reflection, Indigenous Rights, Agency, Care, Engagement, Equality, History, Inequality, Life, Network
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Storytelling, Field Work, Monitoring, Biodiversity, Ecology, Life, River journey, Geo-ecologies
- Field Notes.kanouse
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Garyville, Louisiana, USA
Sensing, Field Study, Case Study, Capitalism, History, Life, Inequality, Risk, Slavery, Plantation, Oil, Embodied research, refinery, Whiteness
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Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA
Field Study, Mapping, Degradation, Erosion, History, Landscape, Life
- Field Notesimon.turner
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Carlisle, Louisiana, USA
History, Life, Memory, Monica Haller, Walking
- Field Notesimon.turner
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New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Infrastructure, Landscape, Life, Transport, Urban, Confluence
- Field Notes.kanouse
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Conversation, Agency, Care, Deep time, Evolution, Life, Resilience, Race, Environmental Justice, Cosmologies, Women, Maternal deep time
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New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Intervention, Film, Agriculture, Autonomy, Embodiment, Equality, History, Landscape, Life, Scenario, Race, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Extraction
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Field Work, Aesthetics, Agency, Architecture, Care, Habits, Imaginary, Life, Local knowledge
- Field Noteslewison
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Adaptation, Biodiversity, Climate change, Complexity, Contingency, Degradation, Ecology, Evolution, Landscape, Life, Resilience, Adventitious, Geo-ecologies
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, Aesthetics, History, Life, Scale, Slavery, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, Aesthetics, Commodities, History, Life, Slavery, Plantation
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Sound, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Inequality, Slavery, Plantation, Fieldstation, Colonial, Colonialism
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Glen Allan, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Reflection, Field Work, Aesthetics, Habits, Life, Local knowledge, Race, Slavery, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, History, Life, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Degradation, History, Life, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Field Work, History, Life, Plantation
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Natchez, Mississippi, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Case Study, Reflection, Field Work, Aesthetics, Affect, Life
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Rock Island, Illinois, USA
Conversation, Complexity, Life, Representation, Urban, Indian
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Moline, Illinois, USA
Flood, Life, River journey, Wilderness inquiry, Fieldstation, Temporary Continent
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Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Field Work, Life, Local knowledge, Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Rights, License, Law, Transport, Mobility
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Trempealeau, Wisconsin, USA
Reflection, Film, Aesthetics, Life, River journey
- contributionHuiying Ng
Soil’s Metabolic Rift: Metabolizing Hope, Interrupting the Medium
What can we learn about care and processing emotions from soil cultivation?
Modeling, Reflection, Technosphere, Metabolism, Geo-engineering, Life
- contributionBeate Geissler, Oliver Sann
The Chemist and the Breacher
More than a metaphor describing the technosphere, addiction in fact characterizes it. Artists Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann collage a series of interviews and research vignettes on methamphetamine in the US.
Conversation, Reflection, Life, Species, Toxicity
- contributionPietro Daniel Omodeo
The Origin of the Idea of Material and Life Cycles in the Ancient Cosmos of Concentric Spheres
Historian of science Pietro Daniel Omodeo unpacks spheres from their context in ancient and early modern cosmology and metaphysical doctrine.
Engagement, Mapping, Spatial, Technoscience, History, Cosmologies, Life
- contributionSabine Höhler
Ecospheres: Model and Laboratory for Earth's Environment
Historian of science Sabine Höhler explores the technoscientific motives and consequences of experimenting with self-contained ecospheres.
Mapping, Engagement, Ecology, Life, Technoscience, Biosphere
- contributionElaine Gan
To See a World in a Grain of Rice: Temporalities of a Flowering Grass and the Great Acceleration
Artist and environmental humanities scholar Elaine Gan tells the story of two different grains of rice. To engineer the ecology and growth cycles of these grains is to change river flows and the multiple rhythms of life and death.
Storytelling, Human-environment relations, Life, Ecology, Agriculture, Species
- contributionSophia Roosth
Latent Life
Is death actually the antagonist of life? In her talk about seeds that are stored in a permafrost environment at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, historian of science Sophia Roosth suggests that suspending living matter challenges our notions of life.
Teaching, Ecology, History, Life
- projectSophia Roosth, Arren Bar-Even, Luis Campos, Helena Shomar, knowbotiq, Fred Hystère, Angi Nend, Claudia de Serpa Soares, Nicolas Buzzi, Pablo Alarcón
Seeds
The technological dissolution between internal and external conditions for life is manifest in the way seeds are handled. A series of conversations explores the practices and ideologies behind the collapse of modification and mutation. A subsequent performance of micro-processions will conjure historical and current moments of the agro-industrial technosphere.
Conversation, Engagement, Intervention, Sensing, Storytelling, Teaching, Agriculture, Biosphere, Degradation, Calculation, Ecology, Environmental Justice, Extraction, Human-environment relations, Embodiment, Landscape, Life, Plantation, Water, Waste, Toxicity, Pollution
- contributionNasrin Tabatabai, Babak Afrassiabi
Kish, an Island Indecisive by Design
The Iranian island of Kish exemplifies how territorial separation can lead to political and economic hubris in the form of a globalized free-trade zone.
Storytelling, Technosphere, Biodiversity, History, Life
- contributionNik Kosmas
On Anthropotechnics and Physical Practice
How does the human body fit into technospheric conceptualizations of performance, efficiency, and optimization?
Conversation, Sensing, Technosphere, Life, Technoscience, Anthropos
- contributionPinar Yoldas, Maya Kóvskaya, Kayla Anderson, Sria Chatterjee, Rohini Devasher, Eiko Honda, Jia-Hui Lee, Angela Rawlings
Shadow Speculakon
How can we envision future life-forms? With the help of an overhead projector and paper cutouts we enter the anthropocenic version of Plato’s cave.
Reflection, Experiment, Speculative, Life, Future
- contributionCaroline Picard, Rohini Devasher
The Video is Basket Is a Telescope
Caroline Picard and Rohini Devasher in conversation about patterns, noise, chaos, and the contemporary conditions of wonder.
Conversation, Perception, Pollution, Life
