Re-Thinking Forests
“Re-Thinking Forests: Artistic Practices, Digital Media, and the Role of Experience. Workshop with Eva-Maria Lopez
The Environmental Humanities
The Artist Workshop focuses on art, sustainability, and forests in urban spaces. Centering on artistic practices, aesthetic perception, and the potential impact of digital visual media on people’s relationship to “nature,” it brings together various dimensions of the forest in times of human-made climate change, declining biodiversity, and limited resources. The workshop includes the Green Hour talk with Eva-Maria Lopez followed by a discussion and exercise. Lopez will introduce an augmented reality app “paper-trees” that she has developed, thereby providing us with a starting point to discuss the potential of digital media in the larger context of eco-societal transformation processes.
Panel with:
Eva-Maria Lopez (artist), Caspar Möller (NGO Miya-forest), Stefan Lindl (Augsburg historian) and Pia Wimmer (photographer)
Project of the Elite Network of Bavaria (ENB) at Universtiy Augsburg, Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich (LMU) and Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC)