What is planetary media? Bridging space, time, and discipline, this symposium assembles scholars, artists, designers, and thinkers to examine the significant possibilities of representation in the climate crisis and the crisis of technological imagination. Rather than regard the planetary as an object to be grasped in its totality, the planetary is rather a condition and a partial, mediated perspective.
What new graphical, informational, and aesthetic potentials might arise from cross-contaminating medial techniques writ large across architecture, art, film, games, photography, and visual culture? What does it mean to ground acts of imaging, modeling, and rendering “the environment” as fundamentally material relations that bridge scales of perception, experience, and action? Adopting situated perspectives on technologies of representation, and asking many questions along the way, Planetary Media weaves critical relations between image and material, graphical and elemental, media and matter toward a renewed technological imagination of/in crisis, against the grain of extraction.
10:00am - 12:30pm Morning Session: Media Infrastructures
Alenda Y. Chang (UC Santa Barbara) Tega Brain (New York University) Daniel Jacobs (University of Houston, HOME-OFFICE) Gökçe Günel (Rice University)
12:30PM-1:30PM Lunch, Avery 100
1:30pm - 4:00pm Afternoon Session: Planetary Sensibilities Macarena Gomez-Barris (Brown University) Ainslee Alem Robson (media artist) John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog (Territorial Agency, AA)
4:00PM-5:00PM Public Reception, Avery 100
Respondents include Anthony Vanky, Ateya Khorakiwala, Catherine Griffiths, Mireia Luzzaraga (Columbia GSAPP), Debbie Chen (RISD), Stephanie Choi (RISD), and student respondents
Organized by Amelyn Ng (Columbia GSAPP)