“Mapuguaquén”: Acoustic sculpture paired with wireless technology amplifies the earth. http://inhabitat.com/handmade-wireless-clay-speakers-amplify-the-sound-of-the-earth/mapu-guaquen-the-sound-of-the-earth-speakers-2/?extend=1
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“From Cabinet to Internet”
From Cabinet to Internet: Digitising Natural History and Medical Manuscripts. This looks like a fantastic conference. I hope they post the proceedings.
Starry Messengers
“Starry Messengers: Signs and Science from the Skies” Monday, January 12, 2015 to Saturday, May 2, 2015 Location: Edison and Newman Room, Houghton Library, Harvard University
Animal and Natural Worlds
Animal and Natural Worlds: Medieval and Early Modern Interdisciplinary Ecologies This sounds like a very interesting, interdisciplinary event at Durham College this summer.
Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize
“Animal, Vegetable, Digital” has won the Elizabeth Agee Manuscript Prize from the University of Alabama Press! “Awarded annually to the manuscript chosen as representing outstanding scholarship in the field of American literary studies, the Elizabeth Agee Prize was established in honor of a longtime Birmingham bookseller who described herself as “a reader and lover of […]
Digital Animals
The Digital Animals conference at NYU looks like a great event.
Singing Trees
This semester I’m teaching a class on Literature and the Environment, and when I was reading John Muir’s descriptions of the pines in “A Wind-Storm in the Forests,” I noted the following passage: “The waving of a forest of the giant Sequoias is indescribably impressive and sublime, but the pines seem to me the best […]
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Ordering
Animal Vegetable Digital: Experiments in New Media Aesthetics and Environmental Poetics will be available in January 2016 from the University of Alabama Press.