Cycles of Discussion, Circulation of Images

Abstract

Karolina Sobecka (karolinasobecka.com) and Jamie Allen (jamieallen.com) are collaborating researchers, part of a research group interested in environmental humanities, art, design and science at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW in Basel, and associated with the media arts production facilities at the Critical Media Lab Basel. We are artist-researchers who often manifest our work as artworks, events and through mediums other than text-based publications, while writing and publications focus on the relationships between aesthetics, knowledge and environment (Allen 2017). Methodologically this work and research often encounters interdisciplinary collectives as a means of evoking, reflecting and understanding communities of practice (Allen et. al 2011) and attempts to devise alternative representations of these. Our current project and focus is on exploring the ways that climate science and planetary magnitude technologies are represented, deliberated and thought about in science, engineering on through policy, governance, technology and popular media.