Digital Media Aesthetics in the time of Climate Crisis

In this podcast of the 4th dialogue in the Arts Research Africa series, Christo Doherty and Thomas Pringle explore the question of how computer models, and forms of digital visualisation, have evolved a new digital media aesthetics that has a complex relationship with the understanding of climate crisis in the 21st century.

Thomas Pringle is a Brown Presidential fellow and PhD candidate with the department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. He is a graduate affiliate with the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and has held fellowships with the SenseLab Montréal and the Digital Cultures Research Lab at Leuphana University. Thomas has published work on the entangled history of photography and radiation in NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies and on new documentary politics in The Journal of Film and Video. He has recently finished a book with Gertrud Koch and Bernard Stiegler titled Machine, to be published this fall on the University of Minnesota Press. Thomas has come to Wits as part of the Watershed Conference on Art, Science, and Elemental Politics in Southern Africa. www.wits.ac.za/watershed