How might scholars account for the force of the elemental- it's substances, its material concepts, its methods, its violences- in the collective making of our many worlds across atomic, universal, and particulate scales? What does media-specific thinking have to contribute to ecological studies at the intersection of the arts and sciences? How does media studies in extended perspective intersect with current de-colonial projects and methodologies in the arts and humanities? How does media studies contribute to questions about cultural techniques and their polluted structures?
Department of Modern Culture and Media
Elemental Media Lab
The Elemental Media Lab is a collaborative initiative hosted by the Department of Modern Culture and Media to bring questions of ecological and deep temporal inquiry to the study of media in line with turns in the field at large, such as media archaeology, media ecologies, bio-mediatics, the study of non and inhuman forms, and of technologies and the techniques of power.
Elemental Media Lab
The Elemental Media Lab is a collaborative initiative hosted by the Department of Modern Culture and Media to bring questions of ecological and deep temporal inquiry to the study of media in line with turns in the field at large, such as media archaeology, media ecologies, bio-mediatics, the study of non and inhuman forms, and of technologies and the techniques of power.
Elemental Media Lab Study Group
The Elemental Media Lab hosts the EML Study Group throughout the semester. The study group facilitates conversation between scholars and practitioners thinking about lightning as a media, the ocean as method, a shoal as gestural, unlearning imperial plunder through jewelry, the search for bones in deserts, and glitter as elemental work.
Elemental Media Conference
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We are excited to announce that MCM's Elemental Media Lab, in collaboration with the Brown Arts Institute, will host the Elemental Media Conference on October 17-18, 2024.
More details coming soon...
