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SUMMARY:Futurity Island: Amphibian Pedagogies and Submerged Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Sound Performance\, LP Launch\, and Discursive Event on the Amphibian Pedagogies and Submerged Perspectives \n\nThe MIT Program in Art\, Culture and Technology and the Blackwood Gallery\, University of Toronto Mississauga\, are co-presenting the Futurity Island\, an infrastructure for interspecies communication. A network of water/sewer pipes\, Futurity Island is assembled into an artificial skeleton that channels the sounds of “nature.” As an instrument used to drain swamps\, the pipe is a metaphor for human-centered ecology and environmental domination\, and a prime symbol of the Anthropocene. Futurity Island appropriates the pipe to bring humans and non-humans into a more symmetrical\, collaborative relationship\, aimed at listening to and hearing the silenced voices of our planet. \nIf basic and applied science can offer a general research framework addressing the water environment and climate change\, artistic research and practice can merge critical thinking with out-of-the box approaches to existing knowledge\, foster experimental learning environments\, and invent new strategies for engagement with the public. \nInspired by discussions on radical imagination\, Indigenous thought\, collective intelligence\, and plural ecology\, this event invites participants to discuss and develop new habits of thought for the era of environmental collapse. The Futurity Island will provide participants a space to speculate on interspecies ecologies and probe the usefulness of the concept “sympoiesis” toward imagining and working together in radical inter-disciplinarity toward desirable futures. \n  \nSchedule + Program Sessions:\nFRIDAY\, SEPTEMBER 6\n \n\n7 — 8pm\nPerformance\nWalker Memorial — West Lawn\n \nSadada Jackson (Nipmuc)\, Harvard Divinity School\, MTS ’19 — Opening land acknowledgement\nNicole L’Huillier (Chile)\, MIT Media Lab — Performance\, The Amphibian Song\nErin Genia (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate)\, MIT ACT’19 — Performance\, Earthling \n  \nSATURDAY\, SEPTEMBER 7\n \n\nNOON — 5:30pm\nDiscursive Event\nACT Cube\n20 Ames Street\,\nLower Level\, E15-001 \n12:00-12:30pm – Reception — Wiesner Building (E15)\, Lower Level \n\n12:30-2pm — Panel 1 — The Work of Wind: Air\, Land\, Sea\n \nNomeda & Gediminas Urbonas\, artists and researchers at MIT ACT\n Christine Shaw\, Director/Curator\, Blackwood Gallery and Assistant Professor\, Visual Studies\, University of Toronto Mississauga\nEtienne Turpin\, Philosopher based in Berlin (videotaped presentation)\nDiscussants: Nicole L’Huillier (MIT Media Lab)\, Indre Umbrasaite (Die Angewandte)\, Tobias Putrih (MIT ACT) \nPerformance by Nicole L’Huillier \n\n2:30-3:30pm — Panel 2 — Remote Sensing and Translating\n \nGlorianna Davenport\, Media maker\, technology innovator\, co-founder of MIT Media Lab and founder of Living Observatory; Brian Mayton\, Research Assistant\, Responsive Environments Lab\, MIT Media Lab\nCaroline A. Jones\, Art historian\, critic and Professor in the History\, Theory\, and Criticism section\, Department of Architecture\, MIT\, and Director\, Transmedia Storytelling Initiative \nPerformance by Erin Genia \n\n4-5:30pm — Panel 3 — Submerged Perspectives\, Extinction and Decolonial Futures\n \nMacarena Gómez-Barris\, Cultural critic and Chairperson of Social Science & Cultural Studies\, Pratt Institute\nEben Kirksey\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Faculty of Arts and Education\, Alfred Deakin Institute\, Melbourne\nRespondents: Brent D. Ryan\, Associate Professor of Urban Design and Planning Head\, City Design and Development Group\, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning; Lorena Bello Gomez\, Visiting Lecturer\, MIT Department of Architecture\nDiscussants:  Christine Shaw\, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas \n\nCLICK HERE TO RSVP\n  \nThis project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, the MIT Program in Art\, Culture and Technology\, the generous donors to the 2018 McDermott Award Gala\, hosted by the Council for the Arts at MIT\, the School of Architecture and Planning\, Blackwood Gallery\, University of Toronto Mississauga\, Musket Transport\, Canada Council for the Arts’ New Chapter program\, and IPEX.\nFuturity Island\, 2018 was commissioned by Blackwood Gallery for The Work of Wind: Air\, Land\, Sea\, curated by Christine Shaw.\nSPONSORS\n   \n 
URL:https://act.mit.edu/event/futurity-island-amphibian-pedagogies-and-submerged-perspectives/
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