This is a loosely organized repository of projects, resources, media, articles, events, etc.
Readings, required
— 18 Green Artists Who Are Making Climate Change a Priority , Huffington Post, 2014 (for Sep 11)
— What is Dark Ecology by Timothy Morton (for Sep 25)
— The New Climate – Bruno Latour (for Sep 25)
Readings, Recommended
— Bruno Latour & Simon Schaffer, What’s the Body in The Body Politic? Sovereignty, Identity, Ecology, Sep 2017
— Excerpts from The Return of the Virtual (for Nov 07), Chapter 1 from Rob Shields’ book The Virtual – Really good concise explanation of virtuality as a historical and philosophical concept.
— Ken Wark, critique of Bruno Latour’s Lectures on Gaia in Verso, Oct 17.
Excellent overview of ideas of Nature as a cultural, historical construct. Great references.
— Timothy Morton, “Ecology Without Nature,” pp 65 -72 from Depletion Design, A Glossary of Network Ecologies, 2012. Also great essays by Jussi Parikka (Dust Matter, p 53), Zack Blas (Queer Darkness p 127), Hito Steyerl (The Spam of the Earth p 151)
See also: Slavoj Zizek lecture on “Ecology without Nature”
— Jussi Parikka – Zombie Media (essay) – Obsolescence into artwork. Media archaeology as a creative endeavor. Recycling. Latour is quoted
— Handbook of Virtuality (book) – Good source of essays considering links between myth / fiction / virtual experiences
VR + Mixed Reality experiences
— OccultUs: VR “on rails” experience with physical sound effects / foleys
— In the Eyes of the Animal: Simulating a forest from the sensory of animals. Uses LIDAR & photogrammetry scanning, and stereo audio samples from forrest
— Giant: VR experience that uses haptic vibration to simulate explosions
— Tree: by Milica Zec & Winslow Porter, same ppl as Giant. VR experience that also incorporates smell, air movement, temperature
— Door Into the Dark, by Anagram. Blindfolded labyrinth walk, binaural soundscape
— Neurospeculative Afrofeminism – Hyphen Labs – podcast interview and project website.
— Technological Nature – film , installation , webVR experience
— The Outlands – Haines & Hinterding
Interactive VR landscapes
— Keiichi Matsuda – Augmented (hyper)Reality
— TEM – The Beacons Room-sized zoetrope with projected VR environment
— Interactive Architecture Lab – Palimpsest
— convivial studio, Kinedioscope
— Radiohead / Universal Everything – Polyfauna virtual av environment app
— Mária Júdová and Andrej Boleslavský, DUST VR 3D dance
Projection Mapping
— Box
— Robotically controlled projection screens and camera
— Illusionism meets Op-art meets Tech-bro trade-show performativity
— Lightform Automatic projection mapping commercial device. Developed by team behind Box project
— Komorebi: Studio and Platform for Generative Sunlight: Device to project simulated sunlight & shadows around a room
Light and Space movement
— PSAD Synthetic Desert III – Doug Wheeler
— We Must Become Idealists or Die – Gustav Metzger
— Remember Nature – Gustav Metzger: call to action for artists dealing with climate catastrophe in 2015
— United Visual Artists – Our Time
— The Light Barrier Third Edition
— The Lab at Panorama Music Festival NYC
Locative Media
— EDT – Transborder Immigrant Tool
Environmental Scanning
— Ecosynth – environmental photogrammetry
– large scale landscape scanning with octocopter
Sound-based Media
— Janet Cardiff – FOREST (for a thousand years) – 2012 Site-specific forest sound installation
— Zimoun, kinetic sound installations
Immersive Cinema & Installation Art
— Factory of the Sun – Hito Steyerl
“Factory of the Sun uses the motifs of light and acceleration to explore what possibilities are still available for collective resistance when surveillance has become a mundane part of an increasingly virtual world. Factory of the Sun tells the surreal story of workers whose forced moves in a motion capture studio are turned into artificial sunshine.”
— Hito Steyerl – ‘Being Invisible Can Be Deadly‘ – Tate Modern interview
— Mona Hatoum – “Nothing Is a Finished Project” – Tate Modern Interview
— Mat Collishaw – Sordid Earth
— The Weather Project – Olafur Eliasson , Tate, Turbine Hall, simulated sun
— Inigo Manglano Ovalle – “Climate” – Art21 interview
— Janet Biggs – cinema-essay installations about extreme environments
Janet Biggs – Can’t Find My Way Home
Janet Biggs – Stepping on the Sun
— Jim Cambpell – LED light videos: Creator’s Project
— Florence To : Creative Applications interview
Experimental & Immersive Theater
— Augusto Boal – Theater of the Oppressed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_the_Oppressed
Climate Change
— The New Climate – Bruno Latour
“The complete indifference to facts that marked the campaign is simply a consequence of claiming you can live without being grounded in reality.”
— Climate Science as Sensory Infrastructure – McKenzie Wark
— Brian Onishi – Terror and Terroir
— Ecology and Design – CHRIS REED & NINA-MARIE LISTER
Activist Art
Virtuality theory
— The Virtual (2003), book by Rob Shields book
“In an opening chapter, Shields focuses on the historical continuity of the virtual, corralling ritual, miracles, Baroque architecture and transubstantiation together to depict an age-old virtualism intertwined with major aspects of human life”
Media theory
— Zombie Media: Circuit Bending Media Archaeology into an Art Method – Jussi Parikka and Garnet Hertz
— The Place of Phenomena – Symbolism of Place
Narratives
— Broken Earth 3 book series – N.K. Jemisin : Earth is a being, and it’s pissed
Other
Barbican accused of showing antisemitic film in science fiction season
Schwartzman’s “Reframers,” artists & designers working w alt perception