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<nettime-ann> New exhibition on digital media and environmentalism |
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The Finger Lakes
Environment Film Festival (FLEFF) announces the Interface/Landscape exhibition of digital media, which asks us to
think about elastic and multidirectional relationships between interface and
landscape. The thirteen projects in the exhibition pose questions about the impact of our current imagination about
landscapes, machines, and ourselves, yet unresolved, and in urgent need of
re-imagining. The exhibition prize
was awarded to Lahore Landing, an interactive
documentary that allows users to investigate life in Lahore from a variety of
transcultural perspectives that cut through mischaracterizations of entire
societies, particularly Muslim ones, increasingly fueled by state
disinformation. It also reveals the legacies of multiple cultural presenses in
South Asia that affect Lahore’s urban environment. Lahore Landing was conceived and produced by Jeremy Ho, Andre He,
Jemimah Seow, and Taahira Booya, when they were undergraduate students at
Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. The exhibition also includes
projects by Craig Baldwin, Michelle Angelica “Mica” Cabildo, Azahara Cerezo, Derek
Curry and Jennifer Gradecki, Pablo de Soto, Babak Fakhamzadeh and Ian Barry, Ben
Grosser, Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga, Chiara Passa, Peter Bo Rappmund, Emilio
Vavarella, and Katya Yakubov. Celebrating its twentieth anniversary in 2017, FLEFF invites
audiences for its online as onsite events to consider “an ecological way of
thinking” that demands tracing complex intersections that extend beyond
conventional environmentalist concerns of humans and nature into overlapping
areas of public health, intellectual property, economic and trade policy, human
and nonhuman rights “in order to understand them—and then act on them,” explain
festival co-directors Patricia R.
Zimmermann and Thomas Shevory (Ithaca College). “Ecology means
understanding how things, people, and ideas are interconnected.” Interface/Landscape is curated by Dale Hudson (New York University Abu Dhabi) with the
assistance of Claudia Costa Pederson (University of Wichita). Projects from previous
FLEFF exhibitions appear in Hudson and Zimmermann’s Thinking through Digital Media:
Transnational Environments and Locative Places, which
examines digital media in relation to
participation/surveillance, outsourcing, climate change, involuntary migration,
GMOs, and war from Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy,
Kenya, Nigeria, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, United States, and
elsewhere. FLEFF: A Different
Environment Exhibition: http://www.ithaca.edu/fleff/fleff2016newmedia/ |
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