RMeS Summer School 2024
“Environmental Media”

From 19-21 June 2024, the RMeS Summer School “Environmental Media: Imagination, Infrastructure, and Intervention” is held at Utrecht University, organized by Adele Bardazzi, Ani Encheva, Eggo Müller, Luka Hattuma, Margherita Passoni, Philipp D. Keidl, Sorcha Brennan, Laura op de Beke and Karin van Es.
Confirmed Keynote speakers include Susanne Knittel (Utrecht University), Rachel W. Jenkanowski (Memorial University of Newfoundland), and Sebastian Scholz (VU University).

Workshops and Seminars by:

• Sophie Allerding & Jana Romanova (artists based in Rotterdam/Hamburg)
• Judith Keilbach (Utrecht University)
• Jo van Caneghem (KU Leuven)
• Jeff Diamanti (University of Amsterdam)
• Patrick Brodie (UC Dublin)
• Benedetta Brevini (New York University)
• Laura op de Beke & Stefan Werning (Utrecht University)

The interdisciplinary field of Environmental Media Studies engages with diverse approaches addressing the role of media, among other things, in shaping our perception and understanding of environmental issues, transforming the relationship between humans and nonhuman animals, creating extractive infrastructures and processes that overconsume elemental resources, providing avenues for imaginative artistic and activist interventions, and generating data through sensory infrastructures in unprecedented ways and volumes.

The summer school explores this transformative sub-field within media studies and address a broade range of topics and approaches to Environmental Media. It feature keynote lectures by leading international scholars addressing themes like extraction, ecocide, and sensory media, alongside a variety of workshops focusing on topics including impact documentaries and eco-games, the sustainability of film industries and data centers, media activism, and excursions involving performative artistic interventions in the built environment.