Tactics for Quotidian Anthropocenes: A Field Campus Documentary
How can the Anthropocene be analyzed in its site-specific manifestations? And how can such knowledge be produced collaboratively? A documentary on the knowledge strategies of the first Anthropocene Field Campus. (...)
Sounding the Mississippi
Listening to the stories and sounds that resonate around the Mississippi can show how ecosystems exist within multiple crisscrossing interrelations. (...)
Tactics for Quotidian Anthropocenes: A Field Campus Report
The St. Louis Field Campus aimed at creating situated, place-based perspectives of the Anthropocene, while building new modes of collective knowledge-production and action. (...)
Temporary continent.
Temporary continent. maps the unstable tributaries of contributions and reflections arising from the research procession down the river. (...)
Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta
The Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta synthesized the downstream Mississippi within a week-long field research and educational event at Tulane University, as well as sites in and around New Orleans. (...)
Territories—Watersheds—Infrastructures
A multi-scale map of the Mississippi watershed around St. Louis for the “river rats” of the Anthropocene. (...)
AWG Mississippi Essays
Essays from members of the AWG and other researchers discussing some of the crucial aspects that make the Mississippi River an icon of global Anthropocene transformations. (...)
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River 2018–19
Mississippi. An Anthropocene River aims to make the Mississippi River Basin legible as a zone of ecological, historical, and social interaction between humans and the environment using novel forms of exchange, research, collaboration, and pedagogy. (...)
1935
What do machines hear that humans cannot? Artist Florian Hecker explores the formal, perceptual, and aesthetic possibilities afforded by custom machine-listening software. (...)
Anti-Worlds
Sound artist Yoneda Lemma discusses her composition Calm can only make it false (Noise Floor), and the techno-political underpinnings of her compositional practice. (...)
Heteroglossic Riot
In Ben Vida’s composition Heteroglossic Riot, software reads text scores, creating an interplay that points to the idiosyncratic possibilities offered by computationally assisted translation. (...)
Mei-Jia & Ting-Ting
Musician C. Spencer Yeh pushes speech synthesizers trained to represent Chinese dialects to the threshold of intelligibility and recognition. (...)
Supreme Connections Meets Video City in Maryanne Amacher’s Intelligent Life
Musicologist Amy Cimini discusses Maryanne Amacher’s (1938–2009) unrealized media opera Intelligent Life (1980–), which draws influence from cutting-edge scientific knowledge and popular culture in the 1970s and 1980s. (...)
ULTRACHUNK
What are the implications of using one’s voice to improvise with a neural network? Composer Jennifer Walshe and artist Memo Akten create an artificially intelligent duet partner. (...)
Strange-ing: Between Wonder and the Uncanny
Alternative projections of terrain and its technonatural reality are a powerful tool in fictionalizing the existent. Artist Rohini Devasher envisions the space between landscape, recording technology, and their relationship to our planet. (...)
A Recipe for Crafting Color: The Revival of Natural Dyeing in South India
How did nineteenth century recipes describing practices of natural dyeing in India come to constitute technologies for green production for the future? (...)
Phenomenal Machines
In this compositional experiment, a robotic arm, mineral crystals and an interactive landscape co-evolve, producing an ecological space away from human incursion. (...)
Solid/Solipsism Remedy
Using the slime mold Physarum polycephalum as a many-headed case in point, artist Jenna Sutela delves into the petri dish that is cognition. (...)