Catastrophe Aesthetics: Immersive Screen Media, Environmental Crisis, and Aesthetic Experience

Jessica Mulvogue will be presenting work in progress related to her current book project Catastrophe Aesthetics at the Film Studies Association of Canada's annual conference (May 27-29).

Her talk, "Catastrophe Aesthetics: Immersive Screen Media, Environmental Crisis, and Aesthetic Experience" explores the specificities of aesthetic experience in environmental immersive media. Exemplified through one case study, Graeme Ferguson's 1971 IMAX short North of Superior, Mulvogue proposes that the aesthetic experience of immersion - as an embodied experience of proximity - marks a broader shift in and orientation to 'nature' provoked by anthropogenic environmental catastrophe.