We are pleased to announce the schedule for the upcoming Extractive Media conference that will take place on Dec 13–14 in Schermerhorn 807.
Please join us for a keynote by Martín Arboleda on Friday, December 13 at 5pm, followed by a day of programming on Saturday, December 14 from 10am–5pm with papers by Patrick Brodie, Nadine Chan, Janna Israel, Tamara Kneese, Rosalind Morris, and Rafico Ruiz.
RSVP required, please email [email protected]. Closer to the date of the event, registered guests not affiliated with Columbia University will receive instructions about how to receive guest passes to access campus.
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Extractive Media
Friday December 13—Keynote Address:
Schermerhorn 807
5:00 Zeynep Çelik Alexander, Brian Larkin, Debashree Mukherjee: Introduction & opening comments
5:30 Martin Arboleda (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago de Chile)
“International Technological Subordination: The Geopolitical Economy of Circuits of Extraction”
Saturday December 14—Workshop
Schermerhorn 807
10am Breakfast
Panel I
Chair: Reinhold Martin (Columbia U)
11:00 Introduction
11:10 Rosalind C. Morris, (Columbia U)
“Roads Paved and (Not) Taken: Infrastructures of Extraction and the Extraction of Infrastructure in South Africa”
11: 30 Rafico Ruiz (Canadian Center for Architecture)
“Ikiaqqijjut (‘travelling through layers’): The Angiqatigingniq Internet Network and the Promise of Extraction in Mary River, Nunavut”
11:50 Reinhold Martin comments, followed by discussion
12:30 Lunch
Stronach Lounge, Schermerhorn 8th Floor
Panel II
Chair: Irina Kalinka (Columbia U)
1:30 Janna Israel (Princeton University Art Museum)
“Imagining an Early Modern Empire of Minerals”
1:50 Tamara Kneese (Data & Society)
“Death by Algorithm: The Case for AI Abolition”
2:10 Irina Kalinka comments, followed by discussion
2:50 Coffee break
Panel III
Chair: Jennifer Wenzel (Columbia U)
3:30 Nadine Chan (University of Toronto)
“Cinematic Alchemy: Extraction, Logistics, and Process in the Colonial Industrial Film”
3:50 Patrick Brodie (University College Dublin)
“Environmental Datafication, Resource-Making, and the Frontiers of Green Capitalism”
4:10 Jennifer Wenzel comments, followed by discussion
5:00 Final Remarks
Followed by reception in Stronach Lounge, Schermerhorn 8th Floor
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