[-empyre-] week one | mobile apps and environmental performance

[Dale Hudson]

Thanks, Babak, Jeff+Wendy, and Ismail, for sharing with us — and please feel free to continue these discussion threads throughout the month. We really appreciate everyone juggling so many different commitments in order to participate this past week.

Best,
Dale and Patty


On Nov 8, 2015, at 19:45, Patricia Zimmermann <patty at ithaca.edu> wrote:

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> Ismail, 
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> I am struck by the history implied in your post.  It's now ten years since your project SOWETO UPRISINGS, a radical reimagining of the multiple narrative routes of protest, a historiography that generates an archive as it also maps space differently.  The other part of your post describes the student uprisings in South Africa at the moment, a movement that has been virtually erased from news coverage in the US and Europe.  I only learned of it through a Facebook link and then through the  powerful talk on radical historiographic temporalities of Premesh Lalu at a recent closing lecture at the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University (mounted by Tim Murray of Empyre).  
> 
> You post is so powerful.
> 
> I wondered if you might share with our list what kinds of mapping, mobile, and organizing interfaces are being deployed in this new movement?  How do they intersect with the issues you outlined?  How do they move between the digital and the embodied?  And what kinds of mobilizations in both digital and embodied, on the ground demonstrations, are evolving? It strikes me that the current student movement in South Africa perhaps opens up our discussion of mobile apps and environmental performances towards a move transnational consideration.
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> Patty
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> Patricia R. Zimmermann, Ph.D.
> Professor of Screen Studies
> Roy H. Park School of Communication
> Codirector, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival
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> Ithaca College
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> ________________________________________
> From: empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au <empyre-bounces at lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au> on behalf of Dale Hudson <dale.hudson at nyu.edu>
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> Subject: Re: [-empyre-] week one | mobile apps and environmental performance
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> Thanks, Jeff.
> 
> Patty and I really loved the way that the PlantBots initiate discussions without the same potentially threatening affect of more direct approaches to documenting the health and environmental hazards of GMOs, which we imagined as a corollary of sorts to ways that corporations exercise intellectual property to discourage innovation with digital technologies and media content.
> 
> Could you tell us more about what you’re been doing int relation to pollinator decline? I would also be interested to know whether you and Wendy have been thinking of any of these issues in relation to indigenous rights?
> 
> Best,
> Dale
> 
> 
> On Nov 5, 2015, at 17:00, Jeff Schmuki <jschmuki at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hello Dale and All,
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>> PlantBot Genetics began as a street-based project where we would release PlantBots into public spaces.  These humorous PlantBot Invasions would easily draw attention, and once someone stops for a moment, they will ask a question. Humor is a vital ingredient as it creates a safe place for the discussion to occur.  Those visiting hopefully come away empowered through links, published information, and guidelines for better food and environmental practices at home. Today we often use an 18’ off-grid, trailer (ArtLab) converted into a mobile platform containing a library of information and hands-on activities. Most are surprised at the proliferation of GM products in the market and being unlabeled, we all are consuming them. Is it better to have a choice? When the project began in 2009, most were unaware of GMOs and wanted to learn more. Today many do know and while some just want to play with the PlantBots, complex discussions on supporting transparency in food labeling, supporting local farming, composting, pollinator decline and native plants, always transpire. Everyone seems to have a good time and PlantBot fun transcends language wherever we are. GM research is being done worldwide today, and is a complex issue yet, "what will it all become" is an interesting question. PlantBot Genetics believes conversations from these events is powerful and provides the opportunities for change, whether it be at the individual level or through community-wide discourse. Most recently we have been focusing on pollinator decline in the US and abroad.
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