Jill Didur is a Project Partner for the Milieux Institute of Art, Culture and Technology in connection with the New Nature event sponsored by the Goethe-Institut of Montreal.
New Nature is an an Immersive Media and Climate Science Exchange between Canada – Germany – Mexico – US
Between May and December 2020 the Goethe-Institut Montreal is inviting leading climate scientists, artists, and technologists from Canada, Germany, Mexico and the United States working on the forefront of immersive technologies to connect and share their explorations on climate change and reflect on desirable futures.
This exchange aims to foster international exchange of knowledge by creating the ideal setting for networking, collaboration and co-production, while also addressing the necessity to reimagine our relationship to Nature and rethinking the language and modes by which we communicate about scientific climate research. Focusing on the shared, yet invisible element of air, the participants shape/discuss new approaches to future-oriented science storytelling that draw from the thrilling developments of immersive media – such as public and virtual installations, projections, and virtual, augmented and mixed reality.
The Theme for the Montreal edition of the New Nature project is: AIR – DESIRABLE & SHARED FUTURES
The New Nature project focuses on the shared and yet invisible element of air to address the imminent necessity to reimagine our relationship to Nature. New Nature focuses on visions of desirable futures and collective imaginaries of how we might reroute disaster and reinvent our relationship to the natural world. New Nature seeks also to collectively and creatively reflect about the current situation facing the global outbreak of Covid-19: such concepts as global pandemics, airborne pathogens, interspecies infections, correlations of disease and environmental destruction/climate change, exposure and vulnerable populations, as well as the emotional and social fallout of the COVID-19 crisis.
Other partners include: the National Film Board of Canada, Retune – Creative Technology Platform, Milieux Institute at Concordia University, Centre Phi, XR HUB Bavaria, Museum of the Moving Image, Massive Science, and UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art.
New Nature is a project by the Goethe-Institut, realized with the support of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, and curated by Canadian documentary filmmaker and independent programmer Samara Chadwick.
To see a full list of upcoming New Nature events, see the schedule here or visit the Facebook page.
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