FIBER – Medium

Nov 29

Hypernatural alchemy: Hedwich Rooks makes “elixirs of slow activism” out of matter

The contemporary alchemist talks to FIBER about her RE:SOURCE residency, working with matter, and the alternative imaginaries of energy. — In the spring of 2023, FIBER announced two European residencies to conduct research on landscapes of extraction, transformation, and regeneration. During the first part of the RE:SOURCE Residency, titled “The Mine”, and in collaboration with NEW NOW Festival, artist Hedwich Rooks used Zeche Zollverein in Essen, once the largest coal…

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Hypernatural alchemy: Hedwich Rooks makes “elixirs of slow activism” out of matter

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Nov 23

Can Satellites See Through Clouds? Collaborative Socio-Material Practices for New Infrastructural Imaginaries and Planetary Perspectives

Bilyana Palankasova — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and computer technology, and…

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Nov 23

A Story About Data and Data Comprehension: From Notched Bones to the Digital Age

Kasper de Vries — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and computer technology, and…

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A Story About Data and Data Comprehension: From Notched Bones to the Digital Age

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Nov 23

Towards a Forensics of Climate Knowledge: On Meteorological Infrastructures, Historical Sensibilities, and Invisible Weather Balloons

Robert-Jan Wille — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. …

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Towards a Forensics of Climate Knowledge: On Meteorological Infrastructures, Historical…

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Nov 23

Mammal Meteorology: On Fauna as Forecasting Infrastructure

Maya Livio — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and computer technology, and…

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Mammal Meteorology: On Fauna as Forecasting Infrastructure

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Nov 23

Can I Turn into a Slug, Please? In Conversation with Ekaterina Volkova and Julien Thomas

Ekaterina Volkova & Julien Thomas — Credit: Ekaterina Volkova From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and…

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Can I Turn into a Slug, Please? In Conversation with Ekaterina Volkova and Julien Thomas

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Nov 23

Sensorial Weather-Journeying: On Feelings and Senses of Techno-Organic-Bodies

Laura Papke & Jan Christian Schulz — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and computer technology, and…

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Sensorial Weather-Journeying: On Feelings and Senses of Techno-Organic-Bodies

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Nov 23

Pluvial Biopolitics: Rainmaking Songs and Gender Roles

Chiara Pitrola — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and computer technology, and…

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Pluvial Biopolitics: Rainmaking Songs and Gender Roles

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Nov 23

Weathering Computing: The Links Between Computing and Weather Go in Both Directions

Kevin Walker — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and computer technology, and…

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Weathering Computing: The Links Between Computing and Weather Go in Both Directions

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Nov 23

Heat Environments: Uses and Abuses of Artificial Climates

Karolina Sobecka — From January 19 to 22, FIBER hosted Part 4 of its Reassemble Lab: The Weathercapes Lab. The Lab broadly explored how the weather works; from the relationship between weather and climate as well as the relationships between weather measurements and the development of contemporary forecasting models and computer technology, and…

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Heat Environments: Uses and Abuses of Artificial Climates

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