Seminar: Slow Media
The Imaginary Museum of Listening to the Anthropocene
Grasping the Anthropocene demands a sense of deceleration—we need “slow media” that by analogy with the slow food movement, engages with the complexities of a rapidly changing world by slowing down to the pace of a museum visit or engaging with physical or visual objects. One such way is to focus on the development of an imaginary museum, whose galleries open up vistas for everyone seeking alternate ways to educate students and think about global change.
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Prologue
How can we attend to violence that is too slow to see? And to events that are too slow to become instant media? How can we arrive at a longer historical perspective, a longer now? Libby Robin and Helmuth Trischler discuss the museum as a dialogical space for developing critical listening skills for the Anthropocene.
Résumé
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Seminar Report: Slow Media
Report on the activities and contributions of the seminar on Slow Media.
Reflection, Media, Representation
- contributionOlivier Hamant, Gregor Lax, Dariya Manova, Anna Lillie Svensson, Masahiro Terada
A Slobjects Exercise: What’s in Our Pockets?
An exercise designed to facilitate a more direct, personalized understanding of the ways in which individual humans, nonhumans, and their attendant objects are connected to the large, often abstract concept of the Anthropocene.
Teaching, Knowledge transformation, Agency, Time
- contributionAlly Bisshop
Mapping: An Exercise in Cartography
A cartographic exercise that broaches a conceptual framework for thinking about possibilities of inclusion under the umbrella of Slow Media.
Reflection, Teaching, Knowledge transformation, Epistemology
- contributionHugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida, Anna Åberg
Comics and Graphic Novels
This reflection addresses the realities and politics of “slow media,” using comics to explore how ideals of “slowness” interface with class privilege, consumerism, forms of attention, and counter-culture.
Reflection, Representation, Time
- contributionGregor Lax
On Consuming Slow Media
A diary as an example of how to work with slow media
Reflection, Media
- contributionStella Veciana
Alternatives to Global Challenges
A reflection on the Anthropocene thesis as a concept for curatorial ways to address nature–culture relations.
Reflection, Representation, Naturecultures, Media
- contributionHelmuth Trischler
Inside the Museum
How to exhibit the Anthropocene? The Deutsches Museum Munich takes part in the global debate on this issue with a show presented here by the curator.
Reflection, Media, Representation
- contributionJohn Moran
Museum Library
Reflections on using establishing an Anthropocene library using slow media
Experiment, Media, Representation, Knowledge transformation
Participants
Anna Åberg
Hugo Ricardo Noronha de Almeida
Artur van Balen
Stephan Barthel
Ally Bisshop
Zachary Caple
Søren Dahlgaard
Judith Marlen Dobler
Fran Gallardo
Florian Goldmann
Paz Guevara
Olivier Hamant
Ellen Irons
Michael Jakob
Jens Kirstein
Maya Kóvskaya
Gregor Lax
Dariya Manova
John Moran
Marta Niepytalska
Andrea Pavoni
Susanne Quehenberger
Maria Isabel Pérez Ramos
Hugo Reinert
Walmeri Kellen Ribeiro
Julian Schubert
Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir
Anna Lillie Svensson
Masahiro Terada
Yesenia Thibault-Picazo
Alexandra Toland
Anne-Kathrin Winkler-Hanns
Josh Wodak
