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SUMMARY:The Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies
DESCRIPTION:Overview\n\n\n\n\n\nTwo-day\, in-person conference to collectively explore visual metaphors prevalent in the digital mediation of more-than-human worlds.\n\n\n\nAs environmental degradation accelerates globally\, Nature is becoming increasingly mediated through screens\, sensors\, and simulations: datafied\, downloaded\, and deciphered; saved\, stored\, and shared. Emerging technologies create novel visual regimes through which humans encounter\, imagine\, and interpret the other-than-human world. These visual regimes are not only technical; they also refashion ecological aesthetics\, shaping how environments are perceived\, valued\, and cared for. Wildlife webcams promise unmediated intimacy with living beings\, while artificial intelligence (AI) fabricates hallucinatory ecologies untethered from the web of life. “Digital twins” offer ecosystems from an impossible nowhere-everywhere vantage (a rearticulated ‘god trick’)\, while Virtual and Augmented Reality technologies layer and curate space\, and attention at the whim of their designers. From TikTok feeds to satellite imagery\, these proliferating techniques of visualisation not only mediate ecological knowledge but also stage new aesthetic and political relations between humans and their environments. \nVisualisation practices—often employed uncritically or devoid of social\, cultural\, and historical context—form a key part of emergent forms of modelling\, prediction\, and analysis in science\, engineering\, and architecture. Emergent visualisation practices are not neutral; they carry material\, affective\, and political implications for increasingly precarious ecologies. The implications of these practices\, therefore\, fundamentally alter the politics of environmental governance and knowledge. From the advertising boards of property developers to contemporary documentary film\, this emerging visual regime is characterised by\, among other things\, curation\, artificiality\, and abundance. What is at stake\, then\, in this evolving visual politics of ecologies? How might we characterise this emerging visual regime? How is nature visually presented? \nThe Visual Politics of Digital Ecologies will collectively explore visual metaphors\, practices\, spaces\, and scales prevalent in the mediation of more-than-human worlds to interrogate how digital technologies are refashioning ecological aesthetics. The two-day conference will showcase contributions from academics\, artists\, and practitioners. Papers will speak to a particular action of visualisation\, including: capturing\, compositing\, rendering\, mining\, mirroring\, and more. \nWe are delighted to welcome Joanna Zylinska (Professor of Media Philosophy + Critical Digital Practice\, Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London) and Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg (Recent recipient of the S+T+ARTS Grand Prize and internationally renowned multimedia artist) as our keynotes. A full schedule will be shared with ticket holders in advance. \nThis event is part of the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub Programme with support from: the School of Geography and the Environment; Jesus College\, Oxford; St John’s College\, Oxford; and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). \nThe conference fee includes refreshments\, lunch\, and a drinks reception. Catering will include vegetarian\, vegan\, and gluten-free options\, and allergens will be clearly labelled. If you have any additional dietary requirements or allergies\, please do contact digitalhub@jesus.ox.ac.uk and we are happy to help. \nFIND US \nThis event will take place in the Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub at Jesus College\, Oxford. The Hub entrance is on Market Street (opposite Wagamama). The Hub is accessible\, with automatic double doors at the entrance and lifts to and from the main lower ground floor event space. \nIf you have any accessibility requirements\, please do contact digitalhub@jesus.ox.ac.uk and we are happy to help. \n*Filming and photography will be taking place during the event. If you do not wish to be photographed or filmed\, please notify a member of the Hub team on arrival. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere?\n\nJesus College Cheng Kar Shun Digital Hub\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://oxfordtouristinformation.com/event/the-visual-politics-of-digital-ecologies-2/
LOCATION:Jesus College Oxford\, Jesus College\, Oxford\, OX1 3EQ\, United Kingdom
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