Co-sponsored by the Global Humanities Initiative; Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Center for Comparative Media; Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian & African Studies; Program in Chinese Literature and Culture; Department of Art History
612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
THURSDAY 10/24
6:00p-8:00p 612 Schermerhorn Hall
6:00p
WELCOME Opening address by Sarah Cole, Dean of Humanities
6:15p- 6:30p
INTRODUCTION Conference introduction by Brian Larkin, Ying Qian, and Debashree Mukherjee
PANEL 1: ECOLOGY AS METHOD Thomas Lamarre, “Attention Ecology and Economy” Debashree Mukherjee, “Film History as an Ecology of Energy Relations” Brian Jacobson, “The Media Architecture of Three (or Four) Ecologies” Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Chair
11:00a
COFFEE BREAK
11:15a- 1:00p
PANEL 2: AESTHETICS AND MATERIAL ENTANGLEMENT Ying Qian, “Building Reservoirs with Film: Productive Cinema, Experimental Technology, Sleepless Labor” Ben Mendelsohn, “As If Sand Were Stone: A Documentary Experiment in Urban Media Ecology ” Inga Pollmann, “Neoliberal Ecologies: Aesthetics of Resistance, Resilience and Resonance in Contemporary Cinema.” Stefan Andriopoulos, Chair
1:00p
LUNCH
2:00p- 3:45p
PANEL 3: AMBIENT INFRASTRUCTURES Brian Larkin, “The Ambient Infrastructure of Generators” Rahul Mukherjee, “Wireless Saturation” Jie Li, “An Ecology of Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Socialist China” Reinhold Martin, Chair
3:45p
COFFEE BREAK
4:00p- 5:45p
PANEL 4: ELEMENTAL MEDIA Jennifer Gabrys, “A Media Ecology of Particulate Matter” Nadine Chan, “Seeing Friction in the Extractive Zone: Media, Meteorology, and the Myth of Total Knowledge.” Thomas Pringle, “The Whole Earth and the Earth System in South African Apartheid” Lydia Liu, Chair