A CLOCKWORK GREEN: ECOMEDIA IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: AN
ASLE-SPONSORED, NEARLY CARBON-NEUTRAL SYMPOSIUM
A. OPENING TALKS
Alexa Weik von Mossner is Associate Professor of American
Studies at the University of Klagenfurt in Austria. She worked for several
years in the German film and television industry as production manager,
assistant producer, and later scriptwriter before earning her PhD in Literature
at the University of California, San Diego in 2008. Her current research
explores the theoretical intersections of cognitive cultural studies and
ecocriticism with a special focus on affect and emotion. She is the author of
Cosmopolitan Minds: Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination (U
of Texas P, 2014), the editor of Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology,
and Film (Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2014), and the co-editor of The Anticipation of
Catastrophe: Environmental Risk in North American Literature and Culture (with
Sylvia Mayer, Winter 2014). Her most recent book, Affective Ecologies: Empathy,
Emotion, and Environmental Narrative, was published by the Ohio State
University Press in 2017.
Sean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at
Goldsmiths, University of London and Honorary Professorial Fellow of the
University of Melbourne. His publications include Timeshift: On Video Culture
(Routledge, 1991), Videography: Video Media as Art and Culture (Palgrave,
1993), Digital Aesthetics (Sage, 1998), Simulation and Social Theory (SAGE,
2001), The Cinema Effect (MIT Press, 2004), EcoMedia (Rodopi, 2005), The
Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technology from Prints to Pixels (MIT
Press, 2014) and Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital
Technologies (Duke University Press, 2017). Series editor for Leonardo Books at
MIT Press, his research focuses on the history and philosophy of media,
political aesthetics, media art history and ecocriticism.
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B. PANELS
(To view talks and Q&A sessions, click on the panel
title. Select the speaker’s name for abstract.)
1. Ecohorror on and off the Screen
H(it)ler came from the Swamp: Bayou ‘Hicks,’ Ecohorror, and
the Rise of Facism in America, Sara Crosby
Raw (2016): Ecohorror and Appetite in the Anthropocene,
Kristen Angierski
A Monstrosity of Scales: The Shifting Spatiotemporalities
and Anthropocentric Realities of Godzilla and Kong: Skull Island, Jeffrey
Marchand
Spiraling Inward and Outward: Junji Ito’s Uzumaki and the
Scope of Ecohorror, Christy Tidwell
2. Film and Location
The Urban Ecology of Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Caren Irr
Shooting Location, Cine-Hydrology, and The Revenant, Mario
Trono
Wilderness and “Wilderpeople”: Ecotourist Adventures and the
Marketing of Survival in Post-Colonial Film, Amelia Chaney
3. Global Politics & Narratives
Multi-Species in an Emergency: Reshaping rural communities
after the Argentinean 2001 Crisis in Albertina Carri’s film La Rabia, Valeria
Meiller
Still the Water: Tension Between Cinematic Animism and
Post-Anthropocentrism in Global Eco Art Cinema, Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn
Nature as Mystical Refuge in Reha Erdem Films, Ekin Gündüz
Özdemirci
4. Disaster, Catastrophe, & Crisis in SF
Beyond Dystopia, Apocalypse, and Techno-fantasy: Imagining
Sustainability Transitions in Science Fiction Futures, Jeffrey Barber
Climatic Catastrophe and Ecocritical Awakening in Ship
Breaker and The Water Wars, Saba Pirzadeh
Hollywood’s Lifeboat Ethics, Graig Uhlin
5. Speculation & Science
The Extinction-haunted Setting of The Monster that
Challenged the World (1957), Bridgitte Barclay
Silent Running and the Metaphor of Spaceship Earth, Matthew
Thompson
Chistianity, Climate Change, and Cinema, Everett Hamner
The Future is Wild: Speculative Evolution and the
Post-Anthropocene, Anne Schmalstig
6. Race in Film and Fiction
Naturalizing White Supremacy in Low-Budget Shark Attack
Movies, Carter Soles
White Flight from Planet Earth: Inverted Quarantine in
Interstellar, Michelle Yates
Performative Deferral and Climate Justice in Parable of the
Sower: The Opera, Michael Horka
7. Animal Studies
Dogs and Eco-Trauma: The Making of a Monster in White God,
Robin Murray and Joe Heumann
“Neigh Way, Jose”: BoJack Horseman’s Rejection of Cute
Animality, James Cochran
‘We Were Being Changed and Made Part of Their World’:
Complicating the Human and Animal with Phase IV, Isaac Rooks
Wilderness and Cat Protagonists in Turkish, American,
British, and Italian Movies of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries, Fazila
Derya Agis
8. Small Screen Ecomedia
Black Lodge Anthropocene: Twin Peaks Ecomedia, Andy Hageman
Give It Time: Reframing Place Through Slow TV, Amanda Hagood
9. Energy Politics
Green Hearts, Gray Hands: Rethinking Hydrocarbons in
Contemporary Film and Ecocriticism, Bart Welling
Dynasty and #NoDAPL: The Messy Environmental Politics of
2010s Oil Soaps, Michaela Rife
Petro-modernity and Petro-temporality in Werner Herzog’s
Lessons of Darkness, Kyle Sittig
Environmental Degradation and Re-greening: Ecomusicology
study of the Niger Delta Region of Nigera, Olusegon Titus
10. Plants and the Nonhuman
To Instill a Love for Them: Plant Cinematography and
Botanical Ethics, John Ryan
The Nonhuman Gazes Back: Ecological Potentials in
Pixarvolts, Mother!, The Ornithology, and iAnimal, Inez Zhou
11. Ecomedia Pedagogy
Miyazaki, Seriously: What Would It Mean to Put Anime into
the Teaching Canon of Ecomedia?, Anthony Lioi
Open Educational Resources and Ecomedia Pedagogy: Surveying
the Landscape, Dan Platt
The Ecology of Media Objects: Teaching Ecomedia with the
Ecomedia/sphere Heuristic, Antonio Lopez
12. Art Ecomedia
New Critical Realities: Indigenous Filmmaking in the Time of
Climate Change, Lisa Bloom
Onscreen Pleasure and Off-screen Guilt, Erin Espelie
Coding Climate Change: Digital Aesthetics and the Legacy of
Lucas Gusher, Lisa FitzGerald
13. Visualizing Ecomedia
World-Building: The Unnatural Geologies of Joyce Hinterding
and David Haines, Susan Ballard
Ecodata — Ecomedia — Ecoaesthetics, or: Technologies of the
Ecological After the Anthropocene, Yvonne Volkart, Rasa Smite, Aline Veillat
Performing Precariousness on Thin Ice: Ecomedia and the
Arctic Climate Crisis, Senta Sanders
14. Social Media / New Media
Fly Fishing in the Digital Age: From “Eastern Rises” to
#KeepEmWet, Cory Willard
Going Rogue: A Material Feminist Reading of
AltUsNatParkService as Environmental Rhetoric and Ecomedia’s New Resistance
Movement, Amy Propen
15. Ecomedia Concept and Theory
Inscriptive Energetics: Climate Change, Energy, Inscription,
Nathaniel Otjen
Eco-sexual Imaginations of the Earth, Miriam Tola
16. Indigenous Lands and Visual Rhetoric in Ecomedia I
(pre-formed by the Indigenous Ecocriticism SIG)
Black Bodies, White Earth: Mapping a Modern Aeta
Consciousness Toward an Ecocinema of the Philippines, Rogelio Garcia
Living/Dying with Water: Indigenous Histories and
Bioregionalism in The Pearl Button, Matthew Holtmeier
Decolonizing Drones: Aerial Media in the #NoDAPL Struggle,
Emily Roehl
17. Indigenous Lands and Visual Rhetoric in Ecomedia II
(pre-formed by the Indigenous Ecocriticism SIG)
Decolonially Queer: Indigenous Ecocriticism, Queer
Ecologies, and Multispecies Relationships in Recent Latin American Film and
Art, Vera Coleman
Eco-Testimonies and Eco-Memories in Olosho: Placing
Indigenous Ecomedia within the De-/Coloniality of Nature, Felix Mantz
Inal Mama: Subjugated Indigenous Knowledges and the
Sacredness of the Coca Leaf, Abigail Perez Aguilera
Praise Your Capacity: Oceania, the Anthropocene, and Craig
Santos Perez’s Videopoems, Rebecca Hogue
18. Gender and Environment
Cinematic Imaginaries of Gender and the Environment: An
Examination of the Work of Hayao Miyazaki, Ramya Tella
The Wild Bunch: Women’s Survival Narratives, Virginia
Luzon-Aguado
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