00:00
Chair of conference Kristin Bergaust opens the 4th Renewable Futures Conference

00:27
Opening speech by Per Martin Norheim Martinsen, Vice-Rector for Research and Development, OsloMet-Oslo Metropolitan University

02:35
Introduction of FeLT and GREEN Introducing RF conference founder Rasa Smite and artistic director Jens Hauser

04:24
Introducing the track Making with: multispecies communication and co-creation with moderators Kristin Bergaust and Maria Castellanos

07:46
Introducing the track Living technologies: living environments, humans, machines, intelligence, life and emotions with moderators Hege Tapio and Stefano Nichele

12:12
Introducing the track Sensorium: how we experience, interpret and develop applied aesthetics today with moderators Boel Christensen-Scheel and Mikkel Wettre

19:32
Introducing the track GREEN: Ecologies beyond Green: reconfiguring complex relationships to the environment with moderators Jens Hauser and Rasa Smite

GREEN: Ecologies beyond Green: reconfiguring complex relationships to the environment

Against the grain of the metaphorical overall ‘greening’ of activities, be it in commerce, the arts or academia, the notion of ‘prismatic ecology’ has emerged to rebuke the colour green and its cultural construction. How can new discourses overcome binary ideas of the other-than-human world as an idealized nature? While greenness as a superficial metaphor needs to be disentangled from terms— both putatively non-technological—such as ‘life’ and ‘nature’, how do artists and designers use and question technologies beyond anthropocentrism within a larger biosemiotic web ? How can media help to interact with ecologies understood as a shared ‘oikos’ (household) beyond anthropocentric ethics interested in ‘our’ environment only as a beneficial milieu for humans?

00:00:00
Moderators Rasa Smite and Jens Hauser introduce the track GREEN

00:02:10
Alizee Armet
Between ecological realities, scientific realities and technological realities: Water as an alive “source” for Imagination

00:20:34
Erich Berger
Spectral Landscapes

00:38:28
Jane Alexander, Nadanai Laohakunakorn and Jane McKie
Biopolis: visions of city living through the lenses of biological research

00:56:40
Jan Hendrik Brueggemeier
Towards a bioregional media framework

01:14:42
GREEN questions and discussion

Making with: multispecies communication and co-creation

Practices of communication and co-creation with living organisms – such as microorganisms, plants or animals – might involve working with technologically complex systems as well as agriculture or indigenous knowledges and traditions. To rethink interspecies relations in the framework of a climate emergency moment can be a way to form entangled multispecies alliances


00:00:00
Moderators Kristin Bergaust and María Castellanos introduce the track Making with

00:00:35
Elin Tanding Sørensen and Cecilie Sachs Olsen
Multispecies negotiations

00:14:29
Nigel Helyer
Co-Composition and De-Composition

00:36:28
Nazlıcan Kaymak, Seher Naz Ayhan and Çiğdem Kaya
Sustainability in Self-Organized Hybrid Communities in an Online Platform: A Case of Kurtuluş Neighborhood Network

00:52:24
Elly S. Vadseth and Boris Kourtoukov
The Lure of Slowness, Hydrological Rhythms

01:06:40
Emilia Tikka
Speculative Storytelling in the Finnish Arctic: Posthuman adaptions in reindeer worlds

01:21:38
Making with questions and discussion

Living technologies: living environments, humans, machines, intelligence, life and emotions

By the term living technology we think of the complex structures and functions of living organisms which have entered the hybrid and synthetic technologies. By including critical perspectives on the merging of technology and areas involving emotions, sensing and empathy, we question possible and speculative convergences of machine technology, artificial life, artificial intelligence and human bodies. We invite perspectives on the implications of future integration and communication between the machine and the living as well as speculative or applied.

00:00:00
Moderators Stefano Nichele and Hege Tapio introduce the track Living technologies

00:01:17
Eva Sjuve and Tomas Valentinaitis
Fungi Orchestra: Communication and Living Material

00:19:24
Nobuhiro Masuda
Transductive Media for Multispecies Aesthetics

00:35:20
Rachel Armstrong
Living Architecture: Companion and more-than-human habitat

00:50:57
Nathan Cohen, Saya Onai and Takamichi Nakamoto
The Aromatic Garden – Exploring a new way to interactively engage with narrative environments combining olfaction and vision

01:05:39
Living technologies questions and discussion

Research for Renewable Futures
4 presentations

00:00:00
Moderator Kristin Bergaust introduces Research for Renewable Futures

00:01:05
Nikita Mathias
Beyond the Museum Visitor. Why MUNCH Develops Immersive Experiences

00:23:00
Rasa Smite
Atmospheric Forest. Visualizing Forest Ecosystem

00:45:25
Susanne Winterling
Some aspects of www.planetary-sensing.com with a focus on bio sensing / sensing as multiplicity and living technologies in nature

01:05:21
Lucy HG Solomon
A Multidisciplinary Conversation between Art and Microbiology: Climate Histories and Futures

Keynote speaker Jeffrey J Cohen
Rainbow: The Promise of Prismatic Ecologies Beyond Green

00:00:00
Moderator Jens Hauser introduces keynote speaker Jeffrey J Cohen

00:13:20
Keynote speaker Jeffrey J. Cohen
Rainbow: The Promise of Prismatic Ecologies Beyond Green

00:58:50
Questions and discussion

GREEN: Ecologies beyond Green: reconfiguring complex relationships to the environment

Against the grain of the metaphorical overall ‘greening’ of activities, be it in commerce, the arts or academia, the notion of ‘prismatic ecology’ has emerged to rebuke the colour green and its cultural construction. How can new discourses overcome binary ideas of the other-than-human world as an idealized nature? While greenness as a superficial metaphor needs to be disentangled from terms— both putatively non-technological—such as ‘life’ and ‘nature’, how do artists and designers use and question technologies beyond anthropocentrism within a larger biosemiotic web ? How can media help to interact with ecologies understood as a shared ‘oikos’ (household) beyond anthropocentric ethics interested in ‘our’ environment only as a beneficial milieu for humans?

00:00:00
Moderators Rasa Smite and Jens Hauser introduce the track GREEN

00:00:29
Stephanie Rothenberg
Aquadisia: The Science of Sentience 2.0

00:18:22
Karla Brunet
The experienced sea: aesthetical perceptions of the Mediterranean Sea

00:34:55
Byron Rich, Kai’Lani Woodard and Kylie Rimes
The Suburbs of Accra: e-Waste as Neocolonialism

00:47:30 
GREEN questions and discussion