[spectre] "Earth Gazes Back, Oulu, Finland, 24-25 September 2024

[Annick2]

Dear Friends and Colleagues,


What can one do in the middle of the Summer? (or Winter for 
the other half): Prepare a trip to Oulu, north of Finland to 
attend the seminar "Earth Gazes Back" organised by Photo 
North as part of the More-than-Planet project.


All info here:

https://www.photonorth.fi/en/nayttelyt/more-than-planet-environmental-literacy-seminar/ 
<https://www.photonorth.fi/en/nayttelyt/more-than-planet-environmental-literacy-seminar/>


Registration before September 20th:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPILUxHP5G7ayfd8Ty3YoYOTaxRuYC6iXZd0UI2f8jcMdHNA/viewform 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScPILUxHP5G7ayfd8Ty3YoYOTaxRuYC6iXZd0UI2f8jcMdHNA/viewform>


And for a first idea, the press release below from Photo North

All the Best

Annick Bureaud



Photo North’s Earth Gazes Back seminar, publication, and 
accompanying exhibition invite us to - dive into the urgent 
situation in our environment, explore where we are now, and 
consider the possibilities for navigating the unknown 
futures through the observations of artists, local people, 
and researchers. Developing environmental literacy—our 
capability to understand the environment and our part in 
it—happens through creating new planetary imaginaries for 
our processes and environments, bioregions, and biomes, from 
microbes to humans and at the planetary level here on Earth 
and on other planets and celestial objects.

The first day of the Earth Gazes Back seminar takes us into 
space to view planets and explore how we observe Earth and 
its changes through art and science. Starting with Project 
Manager Antti Tenetz introducing the project and activities. 
This is followed  by Associate Professor Jaan Praks  from 
Aalto University’s Department of Electronics and 
Nanoengineering with a talk on how Planetary processes are 
interlinked with the developing biosphere, natural 
catastrophes, and lucky coincidences that have shaped the 
environment we know today. Philosopher Lukaš Likavčan talks 
about Philosophy of planetary habitability and director of 
the Finnish Museum of Photography Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger  
will bring the role of contemporary photographic art in the 
observation and documentation of environmental change. 
Artists Marko Peljhan and Minna Långström are presenting 
their works using documentary film and Unmanned Aerial 
Vehicles in their art. In the afternoon seminar topics 
returns back to ground level and researcher of Mushroom 
Archaeology Anatolijs Venovcevs talks about Fungal Heritage 
Ecologies in an Anthropogenic World and Artist collective 
Cesar & Lois present their work produced during the Photo 
Norths More-than-Planet residency in Oulanka Research 
Station. Day ends with an Environmental literacy panel 
discussion with artists, scientists and local politicians.

Seminar day two focuses on new views of the planet and how 
the planet might sense us, multi-species and 
other-than-human interactions, and system changes. It starts 
with a presentation by artist Mari Keski-Korsu about the 
human relationship with landscapes and microbes through art. 
Keynote speaker Tero Toivanen will discuss systemic change 
and the development of new perspectives and practices.  
Activist Riikka Karppinen brings up activities to develop 
environmental literacy. Seminar ends on Waag Futurelab 
workshop focusing on innovative methods for earth 
observation, space research, and understanding planetary 
changes as a path for new questions  by Miha Turšič, while 
project manager Antti Tenetz will present best practices and 
examples of using satellite data in art and everyday life.

The More-than-Planet EU project builds capacity for a richer 
planetary image and aims to develop environmental literacy 
for everyone—artists, researchers, and citizens. Earth Gazes 
Back exhibition opens on Tuesday 24th September at 7pm and 
publication will be published during the Autumn 2024.

Combining satellite data, artistic research, citizen science 
and photography, the More-than-Planet project develops 
environmental literacy through artistic work and 
collaborations linking space, climate and environmental 
research from 2022 to 2025. Project partners include the 
Waag Society in the Netherlands, the Ars Electronica Centre 
in Austria, Leonardo/Olats and Makery in France and Project 
Atol in Slovenia. Photo North’s local partners include the 
University of Oulu’s Oulanka Research Station, the Pyhäsalmi 
Mine’s Callio Lab research and testing organization, and the 
University of Oulu’s Kerttu Saalasti Institute.

The international research project More-than-Planet 
<https://waag.org/en/project/more-planet/> develops 
environmental literacy through space exploration, artistic 
work and collaboration between 2022 and 2025. This project 
receives funding from the European Union’s Creative Europe 
programme under grant agreement No 101056238 and national 
match funding from the City of Oulu and the Finnish National 
Agency for Education.
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