A NIEA Symposium
Saturday, 25 August 2012, 9:30–6:30pm
National Institute for Experimental Arts
University of New South Wales, College of Fine Arts
Combined theatres T1 &2
Level 4, UNSW CBD Campus
1 O’ Connell Street
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Registration now open
www.niea.unsw.edu.au
The acceleration of climate change, species extinction, and other ecological crises enjoins us to find ways of grasping historical and evolving circumstances at earth magnitude. The Sense of Planet symposium concentrates together an international array of artists, eco-theorists, and scholars to address the issues and activities of representing the earth in its entirety, and of representing and self-representing regions or localities amid the complex global systems in which they are enmeshed. The symposium follows the lead taken by Ursula Heise in her book Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global to investigate the possibilities and difficulties of sensing the planet, in all senses of sense.
Invited speakers
Ursula Heise, Professor of English and Director of the Program in Modern Thought & Literature,
Stanford University
The Database and the Ecological Imagination of the Planet
Marko Peljhan, Professor in Art and Media Arts & Technology, University of California at Santa Barbara, Co-director of Arctic Perspective Initiative
One Degree At A Time – Creating Systems of Systems for Interpolar Constructiv(ist)e Engagement
Jennifer Gabrys, Convener of the MA Design and Environment at Goldsmiths, University of London
Environmental Sensor Technologies and the Arts
Nicholas Mirzoeff, Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University
Anthropocene Aesthetics
Timothy Morton, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University
Of Planet-Sense
Panel discussion
Terry Smith (Professor at Pittsburgh and NIEA, UNSW), Douglas Kahn (Professor of Media & Innovation, NIEA, UNSW), Jill Bennett (Professor and Director, NIEA, UNSW), and others.
Convened by Douglas Kahn and Jill Bennett.
