The A4E UTC16 Meeting is a monthly, international 1h event taking place at 16:00 UTC. It is open to anybody interested in the topics of sustainability and astronomy. Reminders and access links are sent via the A4E Newsletter and in our slack workspace and recordings are available on the A4E Youtube channel.
This month, our meeting takes place on Tuesday 31st March at 16 UTC and it will feature Steve Rowell. He will be talking about his movie: Humans Lived Here Once (2017/2021). The movie will run for 20 minutes. It will be followed by brief remarks by Steve before an open discussion.
Don’t miss it!
Below are an abstract and a brief bio:
Abstract: Humans Lived Here Once (2017/2021) is a film rooted in experimental documentary, presented as a meditation on deep time, the geological, and the existential threats of climate change and technology. These forces act as specters which are deeply intertwined with our daily lives. We are forever entangled with our own destructive potential. Britain, home of the industrial revolution and the first computer, is the landscape featured. As a former empire, its misapplied inventions have spawned a global acceleration of doom. The work is structured around a journey that begins in melancholy and entropy, moving sequentially toward the hopeful perspective of the Overview Effect.
Bio: Steve Rowell is a human artist and educator who works with photography, moving image, sound, maps, and spatial relations. His research-based practice investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman intelligence, extinction, and technology, exploring the landscape as a site of political imagination. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist. He holds an MFA with Distinction from the University of Oxford and a BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas.
We’d like to record the meeting and post it on Youtube so we’ll be asking participants if this is ok, to save it to our records.
