Imaging and Imagining Environmental Change in the Twenty-First Century
Abstract
Over the past twenty years, we have
witnessed massive increases in environmental awareness, which has coincided with a proliferation in
the use of digital screen technology. While screen media help us to see, to analyze, and to
understand the natural world, they also promote our detachment from it, allow us to control and to
frame it, and are part of a new material global system of resource extraction, energy use, and waste
disposal. "Imaging and Imagining Environmental Change" will address how screen media cultivate
and shape our sensory perception and mental models of climate change, the environmental justice
ramifications of these practices and processes, and how we are coming to visualize ecology in new
ways.