talk
14/03/2025
HU Berlin
This panel explores diverse artistic-scientific projects that critically investigate the materiality and politics of environmental data. Through interdisciplinary approaches, these contributions examine the layered histories, ecological interactions, and sensory experiences embedded in datafied environments ranging from cityscapes, weather and air to lichens and soil. Central to the projects is an inquiry into the ways in which digital tools, sensing technologies, and data infrastructures reconfigure our perceptions and interactions with environmental phenomena and urban infrastructures (Turnbull et al. 2024). Collectively, they ask: How do different forms of environmental data shape our understanding and perception of cities and landscapes. In their artistic-scientific approaches, the contributions offer innovative frameworks for understanding how environmental data — and the infrastructures that produce such data — mediate or even govern our engagement with different spaces, but also might help reveal the multi-layered, contested nature of these spaces and their digitally entangled futures.