Panel Statement

New media is a way to connect diverse communities seeking solutions to the global collapse we are experiencing. The unsustainability of our current environmental, economic, social and cultural practices reveals the extent to which our siloed approaches have failed. Each affected ecosystem represents an entangled web in which many different types of knowledge have a specific role to play. We will address the need to create bridges for the different communities directly affected by the emergence of new problems but lacking a productive communication interface. We will present novel design methodologies for participatory, problem oriented research projects, and ways in which digital communication technologies can articulate and modify dialogues.

• Denis Roio (Jaromil) is a software developer, artist and activist of the Dyne.org network, Ph.D. researcher of the Planetary Collegium M-Node at NABA in Milan.
• Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, Eugenio Tisselli & Juanita Schlaepfer, Institute of Integrative Biology, CHZurich, Switzerland
• Aviva Rahmani, ecological artist. Graduated from California Institute of the Arts (USA) and received a PhD from Plymouth University, UK. Founder and director of the American Ritual Theatre (1968-1971)   ghostnets.com/bio.html