iEAR Salon presented Timothy Morton, curated by Allie Wist, on 2022. MORE ABOUT iEAR Salon: The Arts Department at RPI presented the 2022 “iEAR Salon” virtual series exploring sense-abilities and environmental bodies, curated by the Arts Graduate Colloquium of Rensselaer. Mutli-disciplinary artists and thinkers Ursula Biemann, Timothy Morton, Jenn E Norton, Jaguar Mary X, and Špela Petrič addressed topics of deep ecology, alternative ways of knowing and new figurations of being-in-place.

This series is sponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer, in collaboration with The Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab initiative, and is made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature. iEAR Salon is curated by the Ph.D students of Arts Graduate Colloquium, Fall 2022: Nina Isabelle, John Santomieri, Hanae Utamura, Allie ES Wist, Arma Yari with Arts Graduate Colloquium Professor Branda Miller; iEAR Presents! curated by Kathy High and Branda Miller.

MORE ABOUT TIMOTHY MORTON:
Morton is a prolific philosopher and writer who speaks to the ways in which art is, inherently, ecological, and how we can reconcile our experience of the environment at scales of the climate crisis. They are the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University and Director of the Cool America Foundation. They have collaborated with Laurie Anderson, Björk, Jennifer Walshe, Hrafnhildur Arnadottir, Sabrina Scott, Adam McKay, Jeff Bridges, Olafur Eliasson, Pharrell Williams and Justin Guariglia, and they co-wrote and appears in Living in the Future’s Past, a 2018 film about global warming with Jeff Bridges.

They are the author of the libretto for the opera Time Time Time by Jennifer Walshe. Morton has written All Art Is Ecological (Penguin, 2021), Spacecraft (Bloomsbury, 2021), Hyposubjects: On Becoming Human (Open Humanities, 2021), Being Ecological (Penguin, 2018), Humankind: Solidarity with Nonhuman People (Verso, 2017), Dark Ecology: For a Logic of Future Coexistence (Columbia, 2016), Nothing: Three Inquiries in Buddhism (Chicago, 2015), Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World (Minnesota, 2013), Realist Magic: Objects, Ontology, Causality (Open Humanities, 2013), The Ecological Thought (Harvard, 2010), Ecology without Nature (Harvard, 2007), 8 other books and 270 essays on philosophy, ecology, literature, music, art, architecture, design and food. Morton’s work has been translated into 15 languages. In 2014 they gave the Wellek Lectures in Theory. http://ecologywithoutnature.blogspot....

MORE ABOUT THE CURATOR:

Allie Wist is a PhD student in the Arts Department of Rensselaer.