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Oct 15, 2020 7 tweets 5 min read
Booting up for Day 3 at #ISEA2020 💽

Stick around for our coverage of today's keynote on planetarity with Jennifer Gabrys of @citizen_sense #MilieuxXISEA Gabrys reflecting on the importance of Forest media for understanding our planetary horizon:

"Forest media differently signals the configuration of the planetary and the human, illustrating the narrative of forest to development"

#MilieuxISEA2020
Oct 14, 2020 12 tweets 11 min read
Looking forward to sharing some of @KimTallBear's #ISEA2020 keynote "A Sharpening of the Already Present: Five Analytical Vignettes on Apocalypse, Hope, Death, and Life" 🌱 🌅

The talk gets underway in five minutes! 🕕

#MilieuXISEA #mtlconnecte @concordiaunews @concordia @KimTallBear is Assoc. Prof @UANativeStudies and is the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience & Environment.

She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science (@UMinnPress 2013): upress.umn.edu/book-division/…
Oct 13, 2020 22 tweets 17 min read
The Sensory Cosmologies group—@kite_kite_, @jonathansterne, Navid Navab , Nina Czegledy (@OCAD @kmdi) and @LinaRoseDib—is presenting a panel at #ISEA2020!

We'll be live-tweeting as panel discusses sensory problem-solving and attempts to "breathe chaos into order" #MilieuXISEA Image Navab offers an initial provocation to the panel:

"How can our transformations—material, social or otherwise—best preserve the life of things? And what is life to you, what feels lively?" #MilieuXISEA