What can a history of plant imaging tell us about the aesthetics and infrastructures of the Anthropocene?

Prof. Jussi Parikka (Professor of Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhaus University, Denmark) will be in conversation with Prof. Gloria Chan Sook Kim (Media and Cultural Studies, UCR) about his most recent book, Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media (co-authored with Abelardo Gil-Fournier).

Living Surfaces examines a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces.

Book Signing

Copies of the book will be available for sale and signing at the event.

Sponsored by the Being Human Initiative at the Center for Ideas and Society and the UCR English Department.