Amelie Buchinger | Digital Decarbonization Otherwise, or, Towards a Post-Fossil Internet
28. Jan
6:00 pm, C40.704
What would a post-fossil internet look like? From solar-powered websites and networks to ‘smaller’ data files for streaming media, in recent years artists and critical media practitioners have begun to experiment with the possibilities of an internet no longer powered primarily by coal, oil, and gas. Situating these media artistic experiments within a longer media cultural history of digital (de)carbonization, my talk discusses these projects as minor media practices. They pose an invitation to consider the transition to a post-fossil internet not as a mere question of substituting energy sources but as a moment to critically question current digital cultures as deeply entangled with fossil fuel energy systems and platform capitalist logics and to envision digital media as embedded in alternative and more sustainable techno-socio-ecological relations that may open up the possibility of networked media practices, politics, and aesthetics otherwise.
Amelie Buchinger is a research assistant at the Research Centre for Techno Aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich and a PhD candidate at Leuphana University Lüneburg. She holds a MA in Global Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London and a BA in Szenische Künste from Hildesheim University. In her doctoral thesis, she works towards a media cultural history of digital (de)carbonization, examining i.a. how the matter of CO2 is mediated and made meaningful culturally and how genealogies and cultural logics of digitality intersect with techno-economic notions of decarbonization. Her main research interests include environmental media studies, energy humanities, as well as digital and visual cultures.
Language: English
An event organized by the Research Initiative The Disruptive Condition
Contact: Anne Gräfe (anne.graefe@leuphana.de)