Visualizing the Digital Environmental Humanities
Digital EnvHum Seminar
20.09.2024 10:00 – 14:30
Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC
Presenter: Alison Pouliot
This four-hour workshop delves into the digital environmental humanities from a visual (photographic) perspective. Through interactive discussion, image critique, and a field trip, it explores the “digital turn” in photography, and then move beyond this binary to discuss more pressing themes such as:
- How the tools and techniques of the Digital Environmental Humanities affect the way we observe, visualize, record, interpret, and “know” the natural world.
- Whether digitally mediated visualizations can help us conceive novel interpretations of environmental issues.
- How the digital age disrupts notions of time, space, and scale, and affects our perceptions of the environment.
- The intersections of the environment with AI and non-human photography.
- How we might best critique the environmental and social justice impacts of digital technologies.
About the Presenter
Alison Pouliot is an ecologist and professional environmental photographer who has been documenting biodiversity and environmental change for three decades. Alison is a Volkswagen Foundation Visiting Professor at the Rachel Carson Center until the end of 2024.
This is a seminar within the series “Digital Environmental Humanities,” organized by Dr. des. Jonatan Palmblad.