Media and the Environment

Traditionally, when we hear “media”, we think of radio and television. With the emergence of “new” media such as the mobile phone, the internet, etc., new artistic practices have also adapted and moved towards the digital: coding, DAW music production, etc.. Modern forms of medias have intrigued several scholars to expand the definition of media itself, resulting in a revisit of our world’s initial forms of media. Referring to Paul Feigelfeld’s interview with Jussi Parikka, Parikka insists that if we consider the affordances and affects of various minerals, energy, metallic arrangements that enables “communication, transmission, conduction, [and] projection”, media materiality started long before the current discourse of what we understand as media. Taking this approach, then stones, trees, and water can be investigated as forms of media objects. 

Project in progress.