Dear Friends and Colleagues,
What can one do in the middle of the Summer? (or Winter for
the other half): Prepare a trip to Oulu, north of Finland to
attend the seminar "Earth Gazes Back" organised by Photo
North as part of the More-than-Planet project.
All info here:
https://www.photonorth.fi/en/nayttelyt/more-than-planet-environmental-literacy-seminar/
<https://www.photonorth.fi/en/nayttelyt/more-than-planet-environmental-literacy-seminar/>
Registration before September 20th:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPILUxHP5G7ayfd8Ty3YoYOTaxRuYC6iXZd0UI2f8jcMdHNA/viewform
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And for a first idea, the press release below from Photo North
All the Best
Annick Bureaud
Photo North’s Earth Gazes Back seminar, publication, and
accompanying exhibition invite us to - dive into the urgent
situation in our environment, explore where we are now, and
consider the possibilities for navigating the unknown
futures through the observations of artists, local people,
and researchers. Developing environmental literacy—our
capability to understand the environment and our part in
it—happens through creating new planetary imaginaries for
our processes and environments, bioregions, and biomes, from
microbes to humans and at the planetary level here on Earth
and on other planets and celestial objects.
The first day of the Earth Gazes Back seminar takes us into
space to view planets and explore how we observe Earth and
its changes through art and science. Starting with Project
Manager Antti Tenetz introducing the project and activities.
This is followed by Associate Professor Jaan Praks from
Aalto University’s Department of Electronics and
Nanoengineering with a talk on how Planetary processes are
interlinked with the developing biosphere, natural
catastrophes, and lucky coincidences that have shaped the
environment we know today. Philosopher Lukaš Likavčan talks
about Philosophy of planetary habitability and director of
the Finnish Museum of Photography Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger
will bring the role of contemporary photographic art in the
observation and documentation of environmental change.
Artists Marko Peljhan and Minna Långström are presenting
their works using documentary film and Unmanned Aerial
Vehicles in their art. In the afternoon seminar topics
returns back to ground level and researcher of Mushroom
Archaeology Anatolijs Venovcevs talks about Fungal Heritage
Ecologies in an Anthropogenic World and Artist collective
Cesar & Lois present their work produced during the Photo
Norths More-than-Planet residency in Oulanka Research
Station. Day ends with an Environmental literacy panel
discussion with artists, scientists and local politicians.
Seminar day two focuses on new views of the planet and how
the planet might sense us, multi-species and
other-than-human interactions, and system changes. It starts
with a presentation by artist Mari Keski-Korsu about the
human relationship with landscapes and microbes through art.
Keynote speaker Tero Toivanen will discuss systemic change
and the development of new perspectives and practices.
Activist Riikka Karppinen brings up activities to develop
environmental literacy. Seminar ends on Waag Futurelab
workshop focusing on innovative methods for earth
observation, space research, and understanding planetary
changes as a path for new questions by Miha Turšič, while
project manager Antti Tenetz will present best practices and
examples of using satellite data in art and everyday life.
The More-than-Planet EU project builds capacity for a richer
planetary image and aims to develop environmental literacy
for everyone—artists, researchers, and citizens. Earth Gazes
Back exhibition opens on Tuesday 24th September at 7pm and
publication will be published during the Autumn 2024.
Combining satellite data, artistic research, citizen science
and photography, the More-than-Planet project develops
environmental literacy through artistic work and
collaborations linking space, climate and environmental
research from 2022 to 2025. Project partners include the
Waag Society in the Netherlands, the Ars Electronica Centre
in Austria, Leonardo/Olats and Makery in France and Project
Atol in Slovenia. Photo North’s local partners include the
University of Oulu’s Oulanka Research Station, the Pyhäsalmi
Mine’s Callio Lab research and testing organization, and the
University of Oulu’s Kerttu Saalasti Institute.
The international research project More-than-Planet
<https://waag.org/en/project/more-planet/> develops
environmental literacy through space exploration, artistic
work and collaboration between 2022 and 2025. This project
receives funding from the European Union’s Creative Europe
programme under grant agreement No 101056238 and national
match funding from the City of Oulu and the Finnish National
Agency for Education.
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