Randomized trial investigates the role of emerging media arts in fostering engagement with environmental futures, indicating new pathways for sustainability science.
Key Points
Investigate how emerging media arts engage with environmental futures and address limitations in conventional sustainability practices.
Analyzed 78 emerging media art projects focusing on interactive and immersive technologies.
Examined discursive positioning and affordances of projects for environmental engagement.
Employs a performative approach to futuring practices.
Identified six key affordances: embodied perspective-shifting, perceptibility of invisible processes, situated augmentation of place, centering non-Western epistemologies, boundary objects for deliberation, and networked storytelling.
Demonstrated that artistic techniques mobilize narrative immersion and participatory design.
Discussed structural limitations within the field of emerging media art.