Worrying Times: New Image Ecologies

How might digital screens—and the relational dynamics that they enable—help us to attend more closely to more-than-human worlds riven by loss? How, in the face of devastation, might images be used to hold space for something more complex and generative than sheer sorrow? How, indeed, might images help us to cultivate the now never-more-urgent art of not turning away?

In this seminar, the Sydney Environment Institute's 2021-22 Environmental Humanities Visiting Fellow Jennifer Deger will introduce two digital collaborations that attempt to answer these questions, using digital media to orchestrate and mobilise new, affectively-charged constellations of connection: Feral Atlas: The More-Than-Human Anthropocene (Stanford University Press, 2020) and Phone & Spear: a Yuta Anthropology (Miyarrka Media, Goldsmiths Press 2019).

Speakers

Professor Jennifer Deger, Charles Darwin University and Miyarrka Media

Associate Professor Thom van Dooren (Chair), University of Sydney