The Cybernetisation of Infrastructures. Artists' Moving Image in East Asia and the Sensorium

Talk at The “Planetary Thinking and Infrastructures” arts and research symposium, a two-day public gathering part of the EcoFutures project co-convened by David Cross and Jessica Wan with the support of University of the Arts London (UAL) and TrAIN Research Centre. It is led by questions such as: How can we rethink infrastructures to support care, resilience, and planetary wellbeing? In what ways do environmental, technological, and urban systems co-shape the worlds we inhabit? What does it mean to consider “home” as part of the wider environment we share with humans and nonhumans? Bringing together artists, scholars, and practitioners working in Hong Kong, UK and internationally, the symposium approaches ecology and planetary thinking as intersecting lenses: ecology invites us to consider the relationships between living organisms and their environments, rethinking “home” beyond buildings to include our reciprocal ties with the world around us, while planetary thinking situates these questions within a critical, interdisciplinary framework, attending to Earth as an interconnected system and highlighting the entanglements of local and transnational, past and present, human and nonhuman. The programme – through a series of panels, performances, and workshops – will explore how artistic research can reveal, intervene in, and reimagine an equitable planetary futures.