The Bionic Natures collaboratory at the Oslo School of Environmental
Humanities, and the Digital Ecologies research group, are delighted to
welcome you to join us online for the Bionic Natures workshop on April 21st.
Bionic natures - broadly, natures known, transformed, augmented and
replaced by emergent (digital) technologies - are proliferating, raising an
open-ended series of questions and practical and epistemological challenges
to environmental scholars and practitioners. Digital technologies offer novel
opportunities for generating knowledges concerning the nonhuman world,
enabling encounters with previously inaccessible forms of life and ecological
phenomena, and potentially contributing to more just, equitable forms of
environmental custodianship. However, digital technologies, and the datadriven approaches they enable, can also be prone to glitching and malfunction,
give rise to new avenues for exploitation and marginalisation, and can entrench
relations of power embedded in market-based and technocratic responses
to environmental issues.
The Bionic Natures workshop seeks to provide an interdisciplinary forum
for discussing these themes, bringing together researchers from the social
sciences and humanities, artists and creative practitioners, and private sector
actors driving digital transformations in environmental management.
Program
11:00 - 11:15 Welcome
11:15 - 12:45 Panel 1 - Towards Forensic Ecologies
11:15 - 12:15 Jasper Humpert, Lola Conte, Omar Ferwati
12:15 - 12:45 Discussion
11:15 - 12:45 Lunch break
13:30 - 15:00 Panel 2
13:30 - 13:50 Søren Enghoff
13:50 - 14:10 Adam Wickberg
14:10 - 14:30 Andra Pop-Jurj
14:30 - 15:00 Discussion
15:00 - 15:15 Break
15:15 - 16:45 Panel 3
15:15 - 15:35 Marianne Lien
15:35 - 15:55 Emil Henrik Flatø
15:55 - 16:15 David Ribes
16:15 - 16:45 Discussion
The event will be hybrid & a link to attend will be sent out on Digital Ecologies' mailing list on Friday. Register through the link below, all welcome: