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06 January 2026

Alluvial: Biodiversity and Aesthetics is a new interdisciplinary research project based at Aarhus University and embedded in the Environmental Media and Aesthetics programme. The project is led by Aslak Aamot Helm and was funded in 2025 by the Novo Nordisk Foundation through a Mads Øvlisen Postdoctoral Fellowship in Art Theory and Natural Sciences.

Alluvial establishes a research framework across biodiversity science and contemporary art,…

02 October 2025 - Afd. for Digital Design og Informationsvidenskab

Jussi Parikka, professor of Digital Design and Information Science, together with his collaborator, artist Abelardo Gil-Fourniers, participates in the official exhibition of the Lisbon Architecture Triennale with their video essay "Lumi", which means snow in Finnish. The large video installation stems from the research project Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data, led by Jussi Parikka, and explores planetary light, climate change, and…

03 September 2025 - Environmental Media and Aesthetics

SHAPE Post-Doc and our research program member Renée Ridgway presented her paper ‘Information is not smokeless: search infrastructures as environmental media,’ which showcases online artworks, data visualisations and physical art installations at the NordMedia conference in Odense, on August 13, 2025.
The lecture was part of the ‘Digital technologies, materiality, and the environment’ stream organised by Technology Working Group (TWG) that…

10 June 2025 - Afd. for Digital Design og Informationsvidenskab

Co-director of the Environmental Media and Aesthetics program, professor Jussi Parikka was invited as a distinguished speaker and recipient of the Tamkang University (Taiwan) Clement and Carrie chair. Parikka’s visit in late May 2025 included the lecture on his current research topics on Humanities in the Anthropocene, drawing also on the AUFF funded Design and Aesthetics for Environmental Data project’s research. In addition to the talk as well…

04 June 2025

Over the Spring semester of 2025, our research program (as well as the Digital Aesthetics Research Centre) has again been happy to welcome some wonderful visiting PhD researchers. Sin-yi (Emilie) Choi and Erik Ljungberg joined the program and provided an insight into their work in presentations and conversations.

Sin-yi Choi’s dissertation examines ocean sensing and the digital environment across Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South China, focusing on…

02 June 2025

The short experimental documentary Saaret by our research program member Dr Paolo Patelli has been selected for the International Short Film Competition at the 2025 CinemAmbiente Environmental Film Festival in Turin, Europe’s foremost festival dedicated to cinema and the environment. Now in its 28th edition, the festival will take place from 5 to 10 June 2025, and is organised by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema and directed by Lia Furxhi.

Saaret…