A Clockwork Green Conference

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