Session 3: Landscapes 3.0
Thursday 26 February
15:45 - 17:00
Paradiso, Main Hall
Kurt Hentschläger & Lukas Marxt
This panel is about how we relate to and experience nature and landscape. It examines contemporary ways to visualise nature and landscape, and combines film screenings with artist talks moderated by Mirna Belina.
Session 4: How the Night Changed
Friday 27 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Paul Bogard & Noam M. Elcott & John Tresch
The night was once pitch dark. Nocturnal human activity was determined by darkness. The real darkness of the night informed our cultural conception of night and darkness. But the night changed during the nineteenth century
Session 5: Noise in the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Friday 27 February
14:00 - 15:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Martin Howse & Emptyset & Karl Lemieux
The Earth is constantly bombarded by cosmic rays, but is now also shrouded in all kinds of anthropogenic radiation. The electromagnetic footprint of human activity on Earth is enormous. All of this radiation is invisible and usually inaudible. More and more artists are beginning to explore various forms of radation in their work. The panel is moderated by Nik Gaffney.
Session 6: Journeys to the Unknown
Friday 27 February
16:00 - 18:00
Paradiso, Main Hall
Jana Winderen & Espen Sommer Eide & Liam Young
There are many aspects of our globalised civilisation that remain out of sight. Travelling to territories that are ignored by the media is a way of beginning to consider these aspects, and of bringing into view a reality on which we depend.
Session 7: Landscape Transformation
Saturday 28 February
10:30 - 12:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Jananne Al-Ani & Rob Holmes & Michael Welland
Humans have built cities, physical infrastructures, roads and railways and electricity grids. Through agriculture humans have changed the face of the Earth dramatically. Humans have also created artificial islands from sand, turned lakes into polders, valleys into lakes, diverted the courses of rivers, and through irrigation made lakes into deserts.
Session 8: Speculative Geophilosophy
Saturday 28 February
14:00 - 15:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Jeff VanderMeer & Benjamin H. Bratton & Ben Woodard
The geophilosophy of Ben Woodard directs the attention of philosophy to our globe, because it has ‘contoured every aspect of our material, cultural, and noetic existence’. But what is the Earth? Earth does not care for human thoughts and human civilisation. How can we truly imagine the force of the Earth, the nonhuman forces, things that defy human comprehension?
Session 9: The Nuclear Dimension
Saturday 28 February
16:00 - 17:30
Paradiso, Main Hall
Ele Carpenter & Elizabeth Ellsworth & Jamie Kruse
In this panel we look at artistic approaches and responses to the ‘nuclear dimension’, and the imaginings of a future on a geological scale. We have to imagine that the impact of our activities stretches far into a nonhuman future, and, if we take an ethical position, it implies potentially communicating with a future species that lives on Earth… The mounds that store nuclear waste are uncanny monuments to humanity that will outlast the human species as we know it.
Session 10: The Terrain of Infrasound
Sunday 1 March
12:00 - 14:00
Paradiso, Main Hall
Hillel Schwartz & Jonathan Hagstrum & Raviv Ganchrow
Infrasound is extremely long sound waves (up to 171 kilometres) below the threshold of human hearing. They literally connect the solid Earth to oceans and weather as well as to industrial practices. Infrasound-sensing stations all over the world record, for example, rocket launches, auroras, collapsing glaciers, mudslides, atomic tests and mine explosions.