Technoscientific Moving Landscapes
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This session explores how moving image practices engage with industrial and technoscientific landscapes through artistic research and investigative approaches. Focusing on questions of visibility and access, it considers how large-scale systems -such as metal supply chains and land transformations shaped by imaging technologies- can be examined and rearticulated through film, installation, and other visual forms.
The session brings together Ruby Reding and Miguel Teodoro, whose practices intersect in their use of film as an investigative and critical tool, through the sharing of artistic processes and research questions alongside collective exercises in listening-doing proposed by the Lab.
Miguel Teodoro will share an ongoing body of work that engages film as an investigative medium to examine technoscientific transformations of land. He will trace the process behind moving image works, including Chemical Affinities (2023), Columba Livia (2025), and Peripheral Deserts (2026), with a focus on the evolving film installation Ground Truth (2025). Drawing on videos and images from his fieldwork, Miguel will invite participants to engage with his current mapping of places and voices within these territories —collectively troubleshooting the methods and fieldwork tactics by which artists can document, intervene in, and represent landscapes undergoing rapid industrial and ecological change.
Ruby Reding will bring soft/shadow metallurgies, an ongoing film, sculpture, and field guide project that maps thermal photographs and field notes from sites of the aluminium industry. Drawing on diagrams of industrial aluminium and copper production, scenes from stockbrokers at the London Metal Exchange, and hand gestures from archival photographs of World War II metal labourers, Ruby will present provisional footage and digital renders that experiment with scaling, intimacy, and poetics. Her presentation asks how art objects might render visible the corporate and carceral architectures that typically keep metal supply chains out of sight and invites participants to brainstorm methodological hybrids for navigating the access barriers of securitised industrial zones.
Participants from all backgrounds are warmly invited to join and take part in collective hands-on exercises.
Miguel Teodoro. Chemical Affinities (2023)
Filipa César. Mined Soil (2014)
⇥ Participants are welcome to attend individual sessions or the entire series.
- Kathryn Yusoff. “Introduction. Coordinates (0°0′ Longitude, 51° N Latitude).” Geologic Life. Inhuman Intimacies and the Geophysics of Race (Duke University Press, 2024): 1-26.