Symposium Sea Mediations: Hydro-criticism and Tidal Thinking
30-31 May 2024 | University of Amsterdam
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Over the past decade, as part of a larger tendency in humanities, media studies has become ‘elemental’, i.e. the field has become attuned to its constituent parts, especially to the substances and substrates that compose media (Starosielski 2019). Media technologies, their materiality, hardware, and energy are connected with geophysical nature: nature affords and bears the weight of media culture.
RMeS Summer School 2024: Environmental Media: Imagination, Infrastructure, and Intervention
/in RMeS News /by Chantal19-21 June 2024 | Utrecht University
The upcoming Summer School 2024 will explore this raising, transformative sub-field in Media Studies and address a range of diverse topics and approaches to Environmental Media. It will feature keynote lectures by leading international scholars addressing themes such as extraction, ecocide, and sensory media, alongside a variety of workshops focusing on topics including impact documentaries and eco-games, the sustainability of film industries and data centers, media activism, and excursions involving performative artistic interventions in the built environment.