Zooetics

A 5 year long cross-disciplinary exploration of future environmental fictions and models.

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The Midden, Frontiers in Retreat project publication, co-edited by Jenni Nurmenniemi and Zooetics writer in residence Tracey Warr is presented Wednesday, October 17 at Publics in Helsinki! https://t.co/SDZL6OMIDU

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Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis rocked the boat and started a scientific revolution is a new documentary created by award-winning filmmaker John Feldman. It weaves a complex story about how the radical ideas of scientist Lynn... https://t.co/0bxqzrp0aS

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Spiders Can Fly Hundreds of Miles Using Electricity
Scientists are finally starting to understand the centuries-old mystery of “ballooning.” https://t.co/RD1OeizisG

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Spinning Data Into Sound: read more about Resynthesizer, an installation by Prof. Joe Paradiso and collaboration between the department of Nuclear Science & Engineering, the Program in Art, Culture and Technology... https://t.co/BOu7xOlKZ1

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A few impressions from the first day of Zooetics+ Symposium! Thank you all contributors, respondents, moderators and the audience! https://t.co/xIYTurYTzH

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Joseph A. Paradiso's Synthesizer streamed from the ALCATOR experimental hall at MIT's PSFC buildings as part of the CAVS 50th anniversary. The patch uses data from one of the last test shots run on Alcator C-Mod - the shot where they broke the... https://t.co/Z9GhFGB3Kp

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Rikke Luther’s The Sand Bank - tap dancing on sand. #zooetics

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Joseph A. Paradiso's Synthesizer streamed from the ALCATOR experimental hall at MIT's PSFC buildings as part of the CAVS 50th anniversary. The patch uses data from one of the last test shots run on Alcator C-Mod - the shot where they broke the world’s record for plasma pressure. https://t.co/JSQpuQPA6W

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The synth rig is up again and streaming @ https://t.co/U6cOecbFLd - it is installed in MIT's plasma fusion experimental hall & this patch uses data from the ALCATOR reactor.

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Kim TallBear’s longer-standing work on the ethics and politics of indigenous DNA research, commercial genetic ancestry testing + the use of DNA testing in tribal citizenship practices in the US has segued into work on Indigenous materialism and decolonial sexualities. #zooetics

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I look at the Indigenous as always determined by its etymology. -Jackson Polys #zooetics

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Kite, a classically trained violinist, works with sonification - when you take data or data sets and turn it into sound. We hear a variation of 80 tones and then it becomes noise. #zooetics

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From L-R: Courtney M. Leonard (Shinnecock), @eringenia (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate), Jackson Polys (Tlingit), Kite (Oglala Lakota) and Mario Caro on Creating Indigenous Futures at #zooetics+

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In the English language - you can be bound for a journey, and also bound to a place, notes Courtney M. Leonard. #zooetics

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Can a culture sustain itself when it no longer has access to the material that fashions that culture? Asks Courtney M. Leonard, a member of the Shinnecock people. #zooetics

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Science, art and the humanities were used to systemically belittle our ways of thinking and being. Today we now find ourselves in the position of having to defend our ways of thinking and being. - @eringenia

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.@MITarchitecture’s Sheila Kennedy presents on the East River. #zooetics

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We can think of climate change as the continued and deliberate extension of colonization. - Heather Davis #zooetics

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“Visual art is a mode of communication that, unlike the novel, can speak pluralistically.” Heather Davis #zooetics

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Heather Davis uses artistic practices as a moment of theorizarion from the vantage point of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies. #zooetics

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Day 2 of the Zooetics+ Symposium has begun with an opening protocol by Suzanne Kite. #zooetics