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Re-Mining Media Ecologies Symposium Presentations by @luciarebolino , @deborahlopezlobato & @hadincharbel and icallender Online, June 2nd Brussels 16h00 – 18h00, London 15h00-17h00, New York 10h00 – 12h00 Register via link in bio! KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture | UCL Bartlett School of Architecture | Columbia University GSAPP Advanced Architectural Design Hosted by Prof. Corneel Cannaerts and Prof. Lidia Gasperoni In the context of the prevailing ecological and political crises, there is an increasing demand for the reappropriation of data mining as a critical and creative method. The agency of data mining techniques—such as scraping, aggregating, processing, and visualizing data—enables architects, designers, and artists to unveil the latent layers of technological infrastructure, to critically trace the entanglements between media and environments, and to construct speculative counter-narratives. This symposium invites academics and practitioners working across architecture and urban design, media theory, visual culture, and environmental design to reflect on the reciprocal entanglements between media and environments. It explores the potential for reappropriating and experimenting with extractivist technologies, such as data mining from tools of capture into media for critique, imagination, and resistance. Register via link in bio!

Virtuality: Abstraction, Immersivity, and Interactivity in Media Ecology An Architectural Investigation of Xiqu and Live Action Role Play (LARP) by @provides.ism 🔥 Online lecture 01/07/2014 3 PM Brussels 9 PM Hong Kong 9 AM New York Register here: /event/2a7f7aa9-c9b6-40fe-b139-99c82f86228c@3973589b -9e40-4eb5-800e-b0b6383d1621 🙏 Final lecture in the Media Ecologies lecture series for @fieldstations_ev

Glad to present the next lecture in our media ecology lecture series for @fieldstations_ev ! SUBAK SYNTAX - JAMES MELSOM @melsjames @landskiplab James Melsom’s talk “Subak Syntax” introduces the ongoing research case of the platform LANDSKIP and academic investigation into the logics of the hydraulic infrastructures of Bali, Indonesia. LANDSKIP Lab’s projects often emerge from combining a complex landscape analysis or design task with collecting and generating site data in data-poor environments. The subak system threads hydrology management through agricultural and village typologies, merging drainage with ecologies and belief systems. Within this local 80-hectare subak neighbouring the village of Abiansemal, the agro-tourism organization Astungkara Way is also testing alternative methods of agriculture that reduce dependence on water, fertilizer and pesticides, yet work with lack of critical landscape and environmental data. Through machine learning analysis of these complex systems, LANDSKIP developed hydrological models based on highly detailed point cloud scans and systems analysis. When combined with local insights into the area’s ecology and culture, facilitated through exchanges with local users and through the university, the resulting system models are a means of extrapolating the territorial scale of the subak systems. The talk shall introduce the various mechanisms - digital and analogue - through which knowledge and spatial transformation exchanges may be transferred, from the local scale to the territorial. The research will be published in part in an upcoming book by Routledge. #mediaecology #landscape

About a Brain in a Cable Third lecture in our Media Ecologies Lecture Series! Mira Sanders and Cédric Noël’s “Conducturis” is a film installation project that delves into the fascinating realm of artificial intelligence through the lens of cinematic storytelling. The work navigates the intricacies of constructing an artificial brain and its accompanying infrastructure within the Swiss landscape. In this lecture, we will explore the conceptual and speculative journey of a “brain in a cable” across Switzerland. The film’s narrative unfolds along the trajectory of a super fiber cable hidden within the Swiss terrain, linking a laboratory in Geneva with a data center in Lugano. Through a time-remapping technique, the project captures a dynamic exploration of this hidden network, intertwining the physical and metaphorical dimensions of connectivity. “Conducturis” serves as a visual travelogue, offering insights into the historical and contemporary roles of Geneva in brain research and the development of artificial intelligence. We will also delve into the creative process behind the project, including the musical composition and voice work by Dienne Bogaerts, which further enhances the immersive experience and prompts questions about the intersection of human and machine sounds. Subscribe via link in bio. @deviations_on_limits @dienne.be @corneelcannaerts @michielhelbig Lecture for @fieldstations_ev #fieldstationstudio #mediaecology #mediaecologies

CLEMENT VALLA – SCANNERS Clement Valla’s talk “Scanners” explores the entanglement between humans and computers in image creation and interpretation. Focusing on the unexpected gaps and seams of digital systems, Valla uncovers surprising imagery and highlights skuomorphic boundaries resulting from interactions between the physical and digital realms. Through technology, particularly 3D scanning, he defamiliarizes nature, attending to non-humans and creating images for machines. The discussion will delve into the unique relationship 3D scanning has with dimensional space and temporal representation, intersecting with the histories of photography and cinema. Clement Valla is a New York based artist whose work considers how humans and computers are increasingly entangled in making, seeing and reading pictures. Subscribe via link in bio. @corneelcannaerts @fieldstations_ev @clmntvalla @michielhelbig #fieldstationstudio #mediaecology #mediaecologies #3dscanning

In a series of 5 lectures, Media Ecology will be discussed and approached from different perspectives and practices. Coming Thursday 22.02 the first online lecture will be given by Sy Taffel at 21h00 (CET). You can register via the link in bio. @fieldstations_ev @corneelcannaerts @arch_kuleuven @gsapp_aad #sytaffel #fieldstationstudio #mediaecology #media #ecology #architecture

For Fieldstations EV we organize a series of online lectures about Media Ecologies, reflecting on the increasing role of digital media in designing and shaping our environments, but also on how technology allows us to experience and understand environments differently. @fieldstations_ev @corneelcannaerts @michielhelbig @deviations_on_limits @provides.ism @melsjames @clmntvalla @arch_kuleuven @gsapp_aad #sytaffel #fieldstationstudio #mediaecology #media #ecology #architecture

great to see an image from our students @fieldstationstudio & RC19 appear on the announcement of the B-Pro Show : 48 hours to go until the launch of the #BartlettBProShow 2021! Join our live launch on YouTube on Friday at 13:00, then explore sophisticated and innovative postgraduate projects from more than 350 students in the online exhibition at bartlettarchucl.com. Images: Resolution: ‘Beyond the Grid: Territories of Resolution’ by Jiahua Dong, Yandong Liu, Kun Luo and Carolina Safieddine Tutors: @corneelcannaerts , @michielhelbig , @jorisputteneers , @provides.ism , @melsjames , @samlavigne Urban Design March, RC19 @bartlett_b_pro This project looks at the territorial impact of emerging digital technologies across several scales through the lens of resolution. The media ecology enabled through these digital technologies does not manifest itself globally with the same density, both in terms of accessibility of infrastructure and degree of mediation. Resolution is an important measure of understanding our contemporary environment as it manifests itself in the interface between the physical and the digital, the material and the mediated. In addition to being a technical notion, it can be understood as a spatial and temporal measure of the density of information, with substantial political, economic, social and environmental implications. The project explores the extremes of the connected and unconnected, mediated and unmediated, and is interested in the territories where friction and confrontation manifest themselves and resolution can act as a means to describe the territories in-between. #thebartlett #thebartlettschoolofarchitecture #architecture #bsa #architectureschool #ucl #architecturepostgraduate #postgraduatecourses #bartlettautumnshow2021 #bartlettbproshow2021 #postgraduateshow #postgraduateexhibition #eventsatthebartlett #fieldstation #fieldstationstudio