Solar Power Studio: three events June 24 - 26

[Arts Communications]

Join us June 24, 25, and 26 as the Critical Media Lab (CML) presents a trio of community-building events to mark the lightest days of the year. Help inaugurate the CML’s new location in ECH 1205, and learn about its pivot toward “ecomedia”: critical issues in technology and the environment.
These events are open to students, faculty, and staff in all disciplines. (Please register.)
Critical Tech Talk Pop-Up: An Energy History and Future of Big/Little Tech <https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/critical-tech-talk-pop-energy-history-and-future-biglittle> - June 24
Join this Critical Tech Talk Pop-Up event to hear Anne Pasek, CRC in Media, Culture and the Environment at Trent University.
This talk will survey two trajectories for computing in North America. The first, grounded in an energy history of major players in the tech sector, explores how energy efficiency has been both a driving economic force of our digital present and an insufficient means to mitigate its rapidly growing environmental impacts. The second, drawn from artists and hackers experimenting in degrowth computing, 'small tech,' and solar-powered networks, explores how energy constraints are producing an alternative and dissonant path. Thinking these trajectories together, the talk will outline a politics and practice of digital energetics.
Solar Futures Hands-On Workshop <https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/solar-futures-hands-workshop> - June 25
In this workshop co-directed by Anne Pasek, Marcel O’Gorman, and Adan Jarrett-Poole, participants will work in groups to build a small solar power station and write/design a future worldbuilding scenario for its deployment.
Visualizing the EV3 Solar Panels <https://uwaterloo.ca/arts/events/visualizing-ev3-solar-panels> - June 26
Professor Ian Rowlands will give a talk about the deployment of solar panels on the top of Waterloo’s EV3 building, placing this within the context of solar energy policy and use in Ontario more broadly.
If you'd like to help promote the talk to your students or colleagues, we've attached a digital slide with a QR to a landing page.
Thanks, everyone!
The Arts Comm Team
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