[ecrea] Call for Practice: Screenworks special issue — Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene

Please find below a 'call for practice' for the new edition of 
/Screenworks/, in what will hopefully be a very exciting and 
interdisciplinary edition.


*Call for Practice – /Screenworks/ special issue:*

*Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene*

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This special issue of /Screenworks/, the online publication of 
practice-research in film and screen media, invites all practice 
researchers with an interest in Digital Ecologies and the Anthropocene 
to submit works that explore the multiple interpretations and 
intersections of these themes.

Contemporary technologies are crucial in enabling human life and culture 
to function as well as realising the production and distribution 
processes of capital. They provide us with useful tools for visualising 
processes such as climate change and tracking the earth’s own movements 
or seismic activity but also depend on material realities, consisting of 
complex meshes of human and non-human moving parts with their own 
environmental implications. Today 
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machines are heavily dependent on the extraction of raw materials, the 
use of fossil fuels and the production of material waste at sites such 
as Guiyu, China which has been called ‘the electronic graveyard of the 
world’.

Histories of the internet and current pervasive media technologies also 
closely relate to the study of the earth and ecological observations. 
Emerging from the development of military and nuclear technologies, the 
conception of cybernetics and the design of self-governing computer 
systems with inbuilt feedback loops - these machines and systems can be 
approached as actors within a complex mesh of networks, hyperobjects, 
production processes, waste disposal and notions of deep time.

Discussing possible responses to these conditions Christophe Bonneuil 
describes the ‘shock of the Anthropocene’ as a space for generating new 
political arguments, new modes of behaviour, new narratives, new 
languages or new creative forms and this special issue of Screenworks 
seeks to bring some of these emerging discourses to the surface through 
practice-research work.

This call for practice follows a symposium of the same name hosted by 
the Media Convergence Research Centre at Bath Spa University and will be 
edited by guest editors Charlie Tweed (Bath Spa University), Joshua 
McNamara (University of Melbourne) and Screenworks associate editor Alex 
Nevill.

The *deadline for submissions is* *30^th  September 2017* for 
publication in January 2018.

Submissions must comprise two parts: 1) the practical work/documentation 
itself, preferably as a Vimeo URL provided in the submission form; and 
2) a 2000-word Research Statement, using the 
https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/wxnKB8F39WZXSw?domain=screenworks.org.uk 
available on the Screenworks website. To contact the editorial team with 
any queries please email: (digitalecologiesscreenworks /at/ gmail.com) 
<mailto:(digitalecologiesscreenworks /at/ gmail.com)>.



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