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The talk «Elemental Traces» discusses the molecular materials unfolding around and within us in a time of growing climate disasters. With case studies as wildfires, ocean health and female reproduction disruptors, we see a rise in invisible chemicals and particles that infiltrate our air, water, and soil—often in ways that escape direct human perception—tiny matter that flow within every living cell, humans, plants, animals, and surface, every interaction becomes a molecular affliction. Through advances in sensor technology, AI, and material science, we are developing new tools that inform our understanding by measuring and visualization invisible matter that may be toxic. From sensing nanoscale pollutants to synthetic molecules, we are forced to face the politics and poetics of sensing in a very different lens, tracing the migrations of invisible harms. Yet across scales and species these systematic and prevalent problems are viscerally felt and evoke a type of elemental intimacy, reframing our relationship to our bodies and matter itself. Like fossils, debris impresses in our skin, hair, and bodies. The discussion will weave science, technology, critical and creative inquiry to foreground new relationships to environmental matter and toxicity — not as abstract data, but as something intimate, relational and embodied. The climate collapse is a molecular affair, not only landscapes and weather are shifting —it is the chemistry of our everyday lives that’s shifting.
Yasaman Sheri is a Designer, Writer, and Researcher investigating the critical and creative inquiry in ecology, technology and society with focus on sensing, perception and human gaze on living systems. Sheri is also an educator, crafting contemporary curricula at Art Center College of Design, and previously CIID and RISD. She is research affiliate at NYU Tandon School of Engineering, working in Biotechnology & Design Publication. Over the last 15 years she has consistently worked on advanced machine sensing technologies specializing in novel inputs and interactions designing Operating Systems with technology companies. She is currently the Principal Investigator of Synthetic Ecologies Lab at Serpentine Galleries R&D Platform.
Presented by Swissnex in Boston and New York & Department of Design ZHdK
Die öffentliche, interdisziplinäre Vorlesungsreihe «Kein Kino – Design Realities – Future Technologies» richtet sich an ein interdisziplinäres Publikum. Im Fokus der Reihe steht die Auseinandersetzung mit Projekten, die sich an der Schnittstelle von Design – Kunst – Technologie bewegen. Die vortragenden Expert:innen legen projektbezogen ihren Ideenfindung, ihre Designprozesse und ihre theoretische Fundierung offen und laden ein zur kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit dem präsentierten Material.
Die Vorlesungsreihe führt drängende Themen aus den Bereichen Game Design, Videokunst, Social Media, Tanz, Theater und Komposition für Film und neue Medien mit der Absicht zusammen, ausgewählte Trends in Kunst, Kultur und Design aufzuzeigen, deren gesellschaftstransformierende Kraft zu diskutieren und Schnittstellen zwischen den einzelnen Teilbereichen sichtbar zu machen.
Die Reihe versteht sich als Einladung zum Wissensaustausch und soll Impulsgeber für disziplinübergreifende Projekte sein.
Host & Kuration:
Maike Thies (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin Departement Design)
Partner:
Immersive Arts Space ZHdK
Swissnex in Boston und New York