2023 Sammler K. Sensing, mediation and automation in seabed mining. University of Cambridge Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH). Remote Sensing: Exploring practices between the arts, sciences, and humanities. Cambridge UK, 20 Apr.

Panel 1: Sensing Ocean Ecologies

How does remote sensing imagine, construct, and configure oceanic ecologies? The ocean is often imagined, particularly by Western sciences, variously as an unfathomable abyss, a frontier, a counterpart to outer space, and a watery landscape inhospitable to (human) life, yet it is home to a wide array of multispecies communities and ecologies, with which human communities are inextricably entwined. The ocean challenges anthropogenic observation; remote sensing can be a tool for fathoming unfathomable seas. Remote sensing brings with it, though, complexities and tensions, including those related to scales of observation. This panel seeks to examine how different forms of remote sensing engage with scale, biological communities, environmental change, and multispecies relations in oceanic ecologies.

TITLE: Sensing, mediation and automation in seabed mining

OUTPUT: 2023 Sammler & House-Peters. Unblackboxing mediation in the digital mine. Geoforum. 141:103745. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2023.103745.