Meander, Erode, Flow: Sharing new research on digital rivers in art from Latin America

Which practices probe critically rivers’ datafication by digital tools and question the enclosure of its processes and outputs? Looking forward to this fantastic event, convened by Amanda Smith (UC Santa Cruz) and Javier Uriarte (Stony Brook) in early April. The event is part of an in-progress edited book that Amanda and Javier have been developing …

Hydrocommoning, Cultural Studies Colloquium, UC Santa Cruz

In this talk, I presented ‘hydrocommoning’ as a concept to think with emergent water cultures by asking what work a theory and praxis of hydrocommoning might do to support transitions to alternative hydrosocial relations beyond modern urban and extractive paradigms. I laid out a methodological route for interdisciplinary water research that takes seriously situated embodied …