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This issue of <i>Transformations</i> aims to establish a toolkit of conceptual resources that can provoke, incite and inform new practices and interventions in the environmental arts.<br>
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We define the environmental arts broadly for this purpose, with a particular emphasis on modes of thinking, feeling, sensing, designing, making, performing and composing that are attuned to environmental change and are inherently collective in nature.<br>
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In this respect, artists have often been years and even decades ahead of others in responding to the conceptual and practical challenges of environmental change. Since the 1960s, artists such as Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Robert Irwin, Helen and Newton
Harrison, Joseph Beuys and Suzanne Lacy have enacted visionary environmental practices, while also conceptualising these practices within the broader fields of social theory and philosophy.<br>
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Such critical reconceptualisations of the field are urgently called for in response to mounting evidence that we have entered the Anthropocene epoch, a time typified by climate change, catastrophic loss of biodiversity, ecological instability, resource depletion,
ubiquitous digitisation and rapid advances in biotechnology and computer science. In revealing the profound entanglement of human culture and natural phenomena in the contemporary world, the advent of the Anthropocene has had a destabilising effect on dualistic
philosophies and binary logics that have upheld rigid barriers between the human and the nonhuman, the organic and the inorganic, the natural and the artificial, the social and the material. New concepts are called for that can mobilise creative thinking and
action outside of such anthropocentric and humanistic frameworks, and mobilise new practices that are both attuned and responsive to the rapidly changing environmental conditions of everyday life.<br>
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Editors: Grayson Cooke, Warwick Mules, Erika Kerruish and David Rousell<br>
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Papers<br>
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<i>Maria Michails<br>
</i>Tactical Interventions: Environmental Sensing and Socially-Engaged Arts <br>
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<i>Grayson Cooke<br>
</i>The Vicissitudes of the Image: Materiality and the Environment in the <i>Old Growth</i> Project
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<i>Jessica Mulvogue<br>
</i>Catastrophe Aesthetics: the moving image and the mattering of the world<br>
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<i>Josh Wodak<br>
</i>Environmental Art as Remedial Action: From Meditating on to Mediating in Earth’s Energy Imbalance
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<i>Benjamin Abraham and Darshana Jayemanne<br>
</i>Where are all the climate change games? Locating digital games’ response to climate change
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<i>Warwick Mules<br>
</i>Annihilating Critique: Walter Benjamin’s World Politics as the Just-Sharing of Nature
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<i>Bogna Konior<br>
</i>Generic humanity: interspecies technologies, climate change & non-standard animism<br>
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<i>John Ryan<br>
</i>Poetry as Plant Script: Interspecies Dialogue and Poetic Collaboration in the Northern Tablelands Region of New South Wales
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<i>Moya Costello<br>
</i>On Writing [expressing a relation to] Dried Plant Specimens<br>
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<i>Rob Garbutt and Shauna McIntyre<br>
</i>The provocation of Gaïa: Learning to pay attention in Rotary Park <br>
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<i>Kaya Barry<br>
</i>Measuring movements in the field: Practices of surveying community walking areas in Finland and Australia
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<i>Emily Crawford<br>
</i>Plant/Human Borderland Jamming <br>
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<div>Grayson Cooke</div>
<div>Associate Professor of Media</div>
<div>Course Coordinator Bachelor of Digital Media and Communications</div>
<div>School of Arts and Social Sciences</div>
<div>Southern Cross University</div>
<div>P.O. Box 157</div>
<div>Lismore NSW 2480</div>
<div>Ph: +61 2 6620 3839</div>
<div><a href="http://scu.edu.au/digitalmedia">http://scu.edu.au/digitalmedia</a> </div>
<div><a href="http://www.graysoncooke.com">http://www.graysoncooke.com</a> </div>
<div>CRICOS Provider: 01241G</div>
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