special Issue:
MEDIA, MATERIALITY AND EMERGENCY
Edited by Timothy Barker
Vol. 1 | No. 2 | 2020
ISSN 2691-1566
INTRODUCTION
Between Emergence and Emergencies: An Introduction to the Special Issue ‘Media, Materiality, and Emergency’
Timothy Barker
INTERVIEW
Contagions, Sleepwalkers, and the Nonconscious of Social Media: An Interview with Tony D. Sampson
Jernej Markelj
PRACTICE-BASED STUDIES
The Unreal: Imaginaries of Techno-colonialism
Gloria López-Cleries and Sive Hamilton Helle
Autoimmune: Media, Computation, and the AIDS Crisis
Marcos Serafim
Descending Parnassus: The State of Material Is in Play
Jason E. Geistweidt
ARTICLES
Echoes in the Desert: Digging Out the Disappeared in the Digital Age
Irina R. Troconis
Mourning Absence: Place, Augmented Reality (AR), and Materiality in Border Memorial
Alyssa Quintanilla
Searching for a Remnant in Pixels and Static: The Fleeting Materiality of Plane Crashes
Kathleen Williams
Alpine Topographies of Loss: On the Media Temporality of Glaciers
Dominik Schrey
Catastrophe in a Bottle: Ellie Ga’s Medial Detritus of Drift
Christian Whitworth
Living in Emergency: The Response of New German Documentary Theater
David Barry
COVID-19 and the UK Live Music Industry: A Crisis of Spatial Materiality
Iain A. Taylor, Sarah Raine, Craig Hamilton
teamLab Borderless: Bridging Borders in Simulated Ecologies
Wendy Haslem
BOOK REVIEW
Lac Bugs, Petrocapitalism, and Data: ‘Mediatic Musicology Without Music’
Ryan Nolan
Cover design: Mani Mehrvarz
Proofreader: Callie IngramAcknowledgment: MAST wishes to thank all the anonymous reviewers for their careful reading of the manuscripts and their many insightful comments and suggestions.