THE INTENTION Clark notes that Anthropocene Disorder “names a feeling of a break-down in the senses of proportion and of propriety when making judgements” (2015, p.145). This was essentially the key point I wanted to address in my media artefact and urge audiences to recognise – our inability to link our devices/actions to their vast impacts. I think that I […]
WK 12 – FINAL CRITICAL REFLECTION
A4 i(e)Phones from Media Factory on Vimeo. The Changes From pitching my idea in week 9 to now, my media artefact has gone through considerable changes. Initially, I had planned for a much broader scope of investigation, in terms of what I wanted my video to explore about iPhones as hyper objects. As shown in my previous brainstorm, […]
WK 11 – A4 CHECK IN/PROGRESS
The progress I have made with my final media artefact over this past week has been somewhat slow, but ultimately more productive. After our last class, I checked in with Elaine to clarify what materials constituted as news footage. This was a particularly useful process as Elaine noted that conventional news footage which follows the visual, narrative and political biases […]
WK 10 – REFLECTING ON FEEDBACK
The studio presentations was an insightful experience as I had never completed on before was not sure to expect. The feedback that I received from both the panellists and Sonja was really interesting and relevant. Panellist feedback One of the elements of iPhones that Amy suggested I explore was the social behaviour around iPhones, and how we have essentially silenced […]
WK 9 – STUDIO PRESENTATION FEEDBACK (SONJA)
Seeing everyone’s studio presentations was really engaging, and I was interested in hearing all their insights on a range of different hyperobjects. I really enjoyed Sonja’s presentation on the hyperobject of food consumption, and found her media ideas to be highly relevant and unique. Sonja had a great explanation on not only hyperobjects as a whole, but how food consumption […]
WK 8 – STUDIO PRESENTATION PROGRESS
Preparing for my studio presentation has been an interesting process. I chose iPhones as my hyperobject mainly because I was interested in the greater impacts of the technology that is such an ingrained part of our everyday lives. Considering that we have ‘local manifestations’ of this hyperobject, we may not consider iPhones as a hyperobject because their non-locality is seemingly […]
WK 7 – CRITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE RESPONSE
This week’s reading on ‘critical climate change’ by (Johns-Putra, 2013) was highly insightful in providing an interrogation of how we analyse climate change. As Johns-Putra notes, we generally understand climate change as a “discursive phenomenon and never purely material one” (2013, p.1). Therefore, to what degree is our academic grasp on climate change relevant? Are we to apply the same […]
WK 5 – POLITICAL AND POETIC CLIMATE MEDIA
Political and poetic media response from Media Factory on Vimeo. REFLECTION This making media task was really interesting given the current context. Although an assignment for university, I found that it was a good exercise to reflect on my emotions surrounding the implications of Covid-19, as well as how it relates to my ecological grief. I aimed to take an […]
WK 6 – MEDIATING CLIMATE CHANGES
Clark T, 2015, ‘Chapter One: The Anthropocene – Questions of Definition’, Ecocriticism on the Edge: The Anthropocene as a Threshold Concept, Bloomsbury Publishing, pp. 1-28. In Clark’s text, he discusses definitions of the term ‘the Anthropocene’ and its political implications. Clark firstly consolidates the general meaning of the term, that is, being used to describe humanity’s “decisive…largely incalculable role in […]
WK 4 – CLIMATE MEDIA AS ECOLOGICAL GRIEF WORK
Our current situation is unnerving. It’s a strange experience of surrealism and uncertainty every time I look outside and see the grass along my calm street, knowing that our physical, social and economic worlds are trembling. Not only due to the unprecedented pandemic, but also the state of our planet. These past weeks have heightened my reflection on how I […]