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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear all, <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You are all warmly welcome to an upcoming joint seminar by IKOS, the Eco- and Bioart Lab and the DATA LAB:
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<p class="elementtoproof"><i><span lang="EN-GB">“</span></i><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Machinic landscapes: Art practices at the intersection of machinic logic and natural forms”</span></i></b><span lang="EN-GB">
</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">with
<b>Dr. Lila Lee-Morrison</b></span><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="elementtoproof"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">The seminar is on
<b>15<sup>th</sup> April kl 13.15-15, Tvärsnittet, Campus Norrköping </b>and can also be joined via
<b>zoom here: </b></span><b><a href="https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/69856604991?fbclid=IwAR2syeC9EylxKlWbiwFbwI_jNXnr1M762CVuGvX4TsuZmC5KIYEyDBFOAQ0_aem_AZQRJG10QHmDhgqns2-wTyJSqqiM8NxyI3DmMAp8SPfJvtVe5bGMNf1rm_U2NEjxBH5FmsufKJ6kg3_JySPz-TJh" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Historic",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;background:white">https://liu-se.zoom.us/j/69856604991</span></a></b><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Abstract<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">This talk sketches an aesthetics of the Anthropocene by analyzing artistic engagements with advanced tools of visual calculation used in the context of the environment. It explores what I term, machinic landscapes which
are landscape works made by contemporary artists that involve a confrontation between two mediums, that of the logic and the representational mechanisms of machine vision technology and that of the infinite representational forms and processes found in nature
and the environment and the multiple layers of representation that emerge and further generate through it. The merging of two theoretical directions of the “machinic” and “landscape” are operationalized in this analysis to counter binaries between nature
and technology and foregrounds ways in which environmental forms are integrated into the functioning of a technical, aesthetic gesture by machine. I focus on the work of contemporary artists Mishka Henner, Daniel Lefcourt, and Davide Quayola, each of whom
works with various digital visualizing programs often utilized in the fields of landscape architecture and in the geosciences such as heightmapping, LiDAR, 3D scanning, and satellite imaging systems and recontextualize their aesthetic output. These artists
experiment with the parameters of these technologies and address some of the aesthetic challenges of the Anthropocene—specifically, issues of latency, entanglement, and scale. Drawing on landscape theory and philosophy of technology to frame this study, this
talk revisits the art historical genre of landscape as a vehicle to explore contemporary aesthetic and political dimensions of our relationship to and within the environment.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">About the speaker<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Lila Lee-Morrison is a writer, scholar and art historian. Her research interests focus on the visual culture of machine vision, intersections of art and technology and socio-political agencies of the image. She has written
about the visual politics of drone warfare systems, representations of the body through biometric technologies, media representations of the immigration crisis, ethics of the image and on contemporary art practices as sources of theoretical engagement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">She graduated a PhD from Lund University in Sweden in Art History and Visual Culture studies with a published dissertation titled, Portraits of Automated Facial Recognition: On Machinic Ways of Seeing the Face (Transcript
Verlag, 2019) that was recognized as providing a novel perspective at the intersection of visual culture studies, philosophy, computer sciences and art history. She has been invited to give public talks internationally on subjects ranging from the intersection
of art and AI and the instrumentality of contemporary art production in relation to technology.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">She has written for Artforum, Theory, Culture and Society and been published by published by MIT Press, Liverpool University Press and Brill Publishing and recently co-edited two special theme issues with Media+Environment
(2023) and the Journal of Media Art Study and Theory (2022). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">She presently holds a position as a postdoctoral fellow at Lund University in the Dept of Sociology under the ERC funded project, “Show and Tell: Scientific representation, algorithmically generated visualizations, and
evidence across epistemic cultures.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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