Szilvia Ruszev

Report during the symposium: WILDERNESS TRANSCENDED POETIC CAPACITY OF WILDLIFE WEBCAMS IN TIME OF ISOLATION Images produced by video surveillance have long been remediated by artists such as Harun Farocki and Walid Raad, conceptualizing them in the context of emerging media. As a networked medium, the live video feed has become the cinematic sensorium of the…

Marcel Bückner

ENTITY | AN ALGORITHMIC PERFORMANCE Algorithms are everywhere today. They shape everyday life by regulating an ever-growing area of human-centred activities, including access to information and the organisation of education, health and finance. During the last decades more and more decision-making is being passed on to general algorithms. As a 2018 ‘Ethics of Coding’ report…

Stacy Lo

Report during the symposium: MEME CULTURE My presentation is about a ‘meme culture’ that took place during Hong Kong’s 2019–2020 protest movement. Ignited by the city government’s attempt to pass a bill to allow extradition to mainland China, protesters mobilized in extraordinary ways. Inspired by a quote from the homegrown action hero Bruce Lee, ‘Water can…

Dani Landau

Report during the symposium: NOVELTY IN SPECIES OF RELATION In my talk, I will present some of my recent moving image events. I will draw on the speculative ‘philosophy of the organism’ devised by Alfred North Whitehead (1861–1957). Whitehead replaces being with becoming,through relational events he terms prehensions. I will make a case that moving image…

Suvam Das

Report during the symposium: THUS SPEAK OTHERS: NATURE, POST-HUMANISM AND BENGALI CINEMA The purpose of this paper is three-fold. First, I will examine the function of nature and the ‘pre-code’ utilization of animals in Bengali Cinema. My focus here will be primarily on specific children’s films produced during the second half of the 20th century. Second,…

Roksana Niewadzisz

Report during the symposium: FOLK TALES AS TERRITORIES FOR POST-HUMAN EXPLORATION Diverse folk tales, passed down across the generations in different languages, tell of seal women, selkies, mermaids, dove girls, she-wolfs, buffalo women, swan women: all zoomorphic or semi-zoomorphic beings, able to remove their animal coats or skins and take on human shape. They are liminal…

Paul Jones

Report during the symposium: RIVER DEE ESTUARY: VISUALISING THE ANTHROPOCENE This talk describes an artist led response to a project based at locations along the River Dee Estuary in North Wales, UK. As a site of special scientific research and a protected area, the estuary is also a material witness to anthropogenic impact. Historically a major…

Anouk Hoogendoorn

Report during the symposium: SINK CINEMA: NEURODIVERSITY & MATERIAL FABULATION This talk will explore material fabulation through neurodiverse experience. Collective storytelling constantly feels the many-at-work even while writing alone. Words get lost and found in a movement of relaying traces. Experience does not start and end with finding the right names and narratives. Therefore, concepts and…

Asli Duru

TENTACULAR GEOGRAPHIES OF TRAUMA AND HEALING: THINKING THROUGH DE-OXYGENATION This project focuses on instances where a lack of oxygen resulted in severe trauma for existing and future-based conceptions of life, death and the co-existence of non-human agencies. From Eric Garner’s last words ‘I can’t breathe’ to Covid-19-related hypoxemia to the epic formations of mucilage due…

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