What are the planetary burdens of media technology? What cultural and aesthetic frameworks s hape how nature is depicted on screen?
The international sympo sium media/envi ronment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis confronts the question of how media both represent and ma terially transform the natural environment in a warming world.
Prominent speakers from three continents will present the latest rese arch on topics ranging from the materiality of film and the finitude of resources to images of extraction, film a rchives, the colonial and environmental history of photochemical cine ma, media’s role in the environmental transformations of the Great Acceleration, and the ecological footprint of digital screen cul ture and artificial intelligence.
A roundtable brings together perspectives from the media industry, cultural institutions, and arch ives on how these sectors are responding to the concrete environmenta l challenges of media tech.
In collaboration with Rialto VU Gri ffioen, the symposium also features a short film program exploring th e extractive history of celluloid, food production, and oceanic dead zones.
Are you interested in media studies, environmental human ities, science, technology, history, or the arts? Whether you are a s cholar, student, practitioner or simply curious, this symposium invit es you to join us in rethinking media’s planetary footprint from th e archive to the algorithm, from screen to stream.
Roundtable Discussion: Environmental Impacts of Media Tech in Practic e
Jasper Snoeren (Netherlands Institute for S ound and Vision)
Alex de Vries-Gao (Digiconomist / Vri je Universiteit Amsterdam)
Tobias Wilbrink (GreenScree n Netherlands)
Film Screening
S tories of Celluloid: Phantom Gaze / Terra Nullius Data (Wu Chi-Y u, 2025)
Dead Zones (Suzette Bousema, 2025)
Agrilogistics / Bliss Point (Gerard Ortin, 2021 / 2023)
For more information and to register for the symposium, vi sit med iaenv.ehc-amsterdam.nl.
Organised by: VU Chair for Media and Culture, Environmental Humanities Center Amsterdam & CINEAGRI
Time: 09:30 - 17:00
DESCRIPTION: The international symposium media/environment: Screens and Streams in the Age of Climate Crisis confronts the question of how media both represent and materially transform the natural env ironment in a warming world. Prominent speakers from three continents will present the latest research on topics ranging from the mat eriality of film and the finitude of resources to ;images of extraction, film archives, the colonial and environmental history of photochemical cinema, media’s role in the environmental transformations of the Great Acceleration, and the ecological fo otprint of digital screen culture and artificial intelligence. A roun dtable brings together perspectives from the media industry, cultural institutions, and archives on how these sectors are responding to th e concrete environmental challenges of media tech. In collaboration w ith Rialto VU Griffioen, the symposium also features a short film pro gram exploring the extractive history of celluloid, food production, and oceanic dead zones. Are you interested in media studies, environm ental humanities, science, technology, history, or the arts? Whether you are a scholar, student, practitioner or simply curious, this symp osium invites you to join us in rethinking media’s planetary footpr int from the archive to the algorithm, from screen to stream.