Orientation strategies for a anthro-decentered terraformation

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7642271

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Orientation, terraforming, techno diversity, artistic practice, planetary thinking, fictions of the future

Abstract

This article discusses the need to move beyond the context of the Anthropocene and de-center the human as an orienting strategy that situates us in the future of ecological thinking and aesthetic and technopolitical action. Specifically, it explores the potential of fictions of techno diversity shown from contemporary artistic practice, understood as a stimulating space for staging alternative futures of terraforming, which heterogeneously and inclusively imagine our coexistence with the non-human otherness.

Author Biography

Santiago Morilla Chinchilla, Complutense University of Madrid

He is a multidisciplinary artist, doctor "cum laude" in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, specialized in New Media Art at the MEDIA Lab of the University of Art and Design Helsinki (UIAH, Finland), and researcher and teacher at the Faculty of UCM Fine Arts. He currently belongs to the research group "Artistic practices and new forms of knowledge" (UCM id: 588); he is a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Accesos. Artistic Research Magazine”; and part of the research team "Energy Humanities: Energy and sociocultural imaginaries between the industrial revolution and the ecosocial crisis" (PID2020-113272RA-I00, HUMENERGE) based at the CSIC. In his artistic projects and investigations, Morilla investigates the contemporary relationships between aesthetics, politics, and cultural ecology, raising questions about the processes of environmental decline and multispecies coexistence. Its situated approach pursues the critical production of a common space of coexistence, where it is possible to establish alternative and imaginative dynamics of collaboration with alterity from listening, respect and balance between agents and systems in the face of the ecosystem collapse of the Anthropocene/Capitalocene era. .

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2022-07-31

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Morilla Chinchilla, S. (2022). Orientation strategies for a anthro-decentered terraformation. ASRI. Art and Society. Journal for Research in Arts and Digital Humanities, (21), 4–22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7642271

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No. 21 (2022): The image enters the scene. Digital creations in the scenic field, urban space and natural space

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