<div dir="ltr"><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><font color="#274e13">Dear Colleagues,</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><font color="#274e13">A reminder that this exciting event is happening today, Monday Jan 13, in INTS 1111. Please do send along to your networks.</font></b></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit"><br></b></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"><b>Best wishes,</b></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"><b>Gloria</b></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"><b><br></b></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"><b style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">What can a history of plant imaging tell us about the aesthetics and infrastructures of the Anthropocene?</b><br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Prof. Jussi Parikka (Professor of Digital Aesthetics and Culture at Aarhaus University, Denmark) will be in conversation with Prof. Gloria Chan Sook Kim (Media and Cultural Studies, UCR) about his most recent book, <i style="box-sizing:inherit;line-height:inherit">Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media</i> (co-authored with Abelardo Gil-Fournier).<br style="box-sizing:inherit"><br style="box-sizing:inherit">Living Surfaces examines a range of case studies from eighteenth-century experiments with and observations of vegetal matter, photosynthesis, and plant physiology to twenty-first-century machine vision and AI techniques of calculating agricultural and other landscape surfaces.</p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-size:16px;line-height:1.75;color:rgb(69,90,100);font-family:"Trade Gothic Next W01","Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;letter-spacing:0.44px"> </p></div><div><br></div><a href="https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/">https://ideasandsociety.ucr.edu/</a><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Gloria Chan-Sook Kim (she/her)</span><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000">Assistant Professor of Media and Culture</font></div><div><font color="#000000">Department of Media and Culture</font></div><div><font color="#000000">CHASS </font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">South Building, INTS 3137</span></div><div><font color="#000000">University of California-Riverside</font></div><div><font color="#000000">900 University Avenue</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Riverside, CA 92521</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>  <b>Author of</b></div><div><a href="https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517911706/microbial-resolution/" target="_blank"><img width="420" height="132" src="https://ci3.googleusercontent.com/mail-sig/AIorK4z_JwJrnQvmMdhnjeHcA00BSA4nyaWWVRNUDgo-1OGEVQwO2Ttbv2_ySvbOCFzvRO2cQyKyYse6WUaS"></a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>