On March 8 Fine Brendtner will be part of a panel “ Thinking with Water, Critters and Landscapes: Multimodal Engagements” at the RAI film festival, Bristol & online. Read more about it here https://raifilm.org.uk

She is also giving a presentation titled: “Aligning Visions: more-than-human approaches to marine scientific imaging”.

Abstract:

How can researchers begin to understand more-than-human life worlds submerged under water? How do marine scientists image and imagine vulnerable habitats at the bottom of the sea, though hundreds of meters of dark water? This talk is based on shipboard fieldwork with the Icelandic Marine and Freshwater Institute. During their visual survey these marine scientists use underwater filming in order to map Vulnerable Marine Ecosystem (VMEs), with a view to protecting them from anthropogenic impacts. Using a multi-disciplinary approach that combines insights from visual anthropology, marine science, and recent scholarship on the more-than-human, this talk repositions the role of enskilled vision under the sea and asks how scientific image practices can be purposeful multispecies tools for grappling with ocean crisis.