https://www.ronbroglio.com/making daily 0.75 2022-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514732872929-PIE528SM51UYUAI27LY0/Santino-gift_low.res.jpg Making The project began with Santino the chimpanzee who likes to throw rocks at visitors to the Furuvik Zoo in Sweden. What is strikingly uncommon about Santino is his forethought in collecting the rocks before visitors arrive. The preeminent philosopher Martin Heidegger uses forethought as the scaffolding for explaining human uniqueness in his work Being and Time. In response to the chimp’s rupturing human preeminence, scientists studied and reported on the his ability while the zoo keepers castrated Santino as a mode of control over his behavior and future plans. Santino’s Gift is an art project designed to give Santino a present of Heidegger's Being and Time which he can make use of while in confinement and down on his luck. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514745956004-H0TUJ6Y6L9TI09EQDEKU/IMG_6403-sm.jpg Making The project investigates tensions and cooperation among scientific, public, and corporate stakeholders in how we have managed the wilds and the public lands. As the artists capture the complexity of groups each vying for their ideas about the future of endangered species their work becomes a figure for the larger difficulty of realizing any sustainable future. Who is included in the future and at what cost? The exhibition explores how we perceive and communicate ideas of sustainability and how effectively we can engender collective responsibility regarding the environment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514733264587-98KFUMJGE1VV5ACEI8LW/attention_please.lg.jpg Making The cows are now able to literally milk themselves at all times, day and night, and the farmer is now primarily an information manager. As an intervention into this process, O'Gorman and Broglio sought to develop a mobile application in the Critical Media Lab that would allow the farmer to regain intimacy with his cows, and allow anyone at all to learn more about where their milk comes from. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514731158622-TUTMO7NKP492DH4UR0RJ/DARE-radio.JPG Making - Effort: Crystal Radio The antenna reminds us that we are immersed in a plenum. Seeing the antenna we realize the air is thick, replete with vibrations. The antenna is a visible sign of our invisible involution in the medium of air with all its sensation calling out, signaling, tugging at the world. The frail wire has a nonhuman sensitivity that responds to the imperative of the waves, to a cosmic tug in the air. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514744042581-VS5YF1MF744W7K4SA0YG/34302188493_41c67d80c7_o.jpg Making https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1646332150510-MPLWWFU5S7NOUZBYDH5H/wave.jpg Making https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1646332953111-G4FL1BZ0YPHK3P1Z8A6A/IMG_5137.jpg Making The first issued book is the iconic Saguaro. Saguaro includes internationally known artists Mark Klett and Andy Brown, the scientists who sequenced the DNA of the Saguaro—Martin Wojciechowski and Alberto Burquez, Arizona Poet Laureate Alberto Rios, cultural scholar of the Akimel O’odham nation David Martinez, among other beautiful contributors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1646331505374-YUWR0BFWTWHD894WVRIC/Unknown.jpeg Making Documentary film maker Krista Davis with Jenny Zander created an animation and live-shot documentary which travels with the Salt River Water Walkers, describing this Indigenous-led ceremony as it creates community and builds relationships with the earth through the shared goal to care for the water. https://www.ronbroglio.com/writing daily 1.0 2022-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514743757521-IX5KSIOHYEG26YMNKOB3/Cover-Edinburgh-Companion.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514735562718-7WZF9HT3FUO99XNXTZPU/Cover-tech-of-picturesque+copy.jpg Writing https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514736877994-5PEUHN0FUVXOH3MBUXXK/Cover-You-Must-Carry.jpg Writing "Derrida explores the many resonances of Celan’s line 'The world is gone, I must carry you,' in the mode of carrying a child to term or bearing a dead body: that is to say, a form of responsibility to spectrality itself, to the 'not yet here' or the 'already gone,' the trace of which is materialized, as it were, in the bodies of these dead birds. In the absence of 'world,' and in the radically ethical act of being responsible in the absence of any such foundation art, versus philosophy, has a special role to play in constructing the 'as if' of a world of 'stabilizing apparatuses.'” --Cary Wolfe in You Must Carry Me Now https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514734232013-N2CES8U1CEX9RWT9BKWZ/Cover-Surface.Encounters.jpg Writing At stake is the ability to think about the Other, those agents and beings radically different from ourselves. How are we to understand that which differs from our capacity to comprehend? The conjecture of this book is that such thinking is possible within particular parameters. Foremost, it is a thinking that arises from the event, action, and encounters with the animal others. This is a corporeal thinking that risks itself, mind and body, in the acts of encounters that differ with each animal. Additionally, thinking the Other in this case is possible only if we consider thinking as an activity in the wake of philosophy as a series of experiments and paths toward producing tentative, sometimes fragile, and hybrid meaning. In particular, and as I’ll take up in later chapters, pidgin language—as a makeshift and cobbled-together language of words and gestures between two different groups—has been particularly helpful for me as a figure for thinking alongside animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514733855930-T5KNDT1FFG07NDDLN91Y/Cover-Beasts-of-Bruden.jpg Writing The book begins with figures often overlooked in literary studies but responsible for shaping the nation and its agricultural productivity—including Burke, Malthus, Sir John Sinclair, and the Duke of Bedford. Beasts of Burden then weaves into this narrative of national progress a number of known and lesser known labor class literary authors and advocates for the rural poor who give voice to those for whom “improved agriculture” means a loss of livelihood including Robert Bloomfield, Thomas Batchlor, Robert Burns, James Hogg, and William Cobbett. The role of animal life unfolds over the course book and is addressed prominently in the final chapters on Thomas Bewick, George Stubbs, and Edwin Landseer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1514778117099-UVPFV1BDW0N07YNZOL3F/Cover-Being-human.jpeg Writing Take these essays’ experiments, productions, and queries as ways of thinking a “wealth of openness with which the human world may have nothing to compare.” Uexküll believed such experiments would lead to “worlds strange to us but know to other creatures, manifold and varied as the animals themselves.” The essays here expand what it means to be human in multiple ecologies. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/1646316439491-0ZK9TA8U0ZALJYTSG1G9/image-asset.jpeg Writing Animals of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your chains! Animal Revolution excerpted introduction & manifesto I have tried handing animals weapons, tools for their revolution. Lord knows they need a revolution and have suffered enough abuse from the hand of man. With bare look and still, corporeal thickness, these animals make no motion towards arming themselves. What do I know about their revolution? Perhaps they already come armed. https://www.ronbroglio.com/about daily 0.75 2023-12-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5a48f475f09ca4c0b66f3997/fa80542b-bf70-47a3-832e-c7fba8be12c2/20220302+Ron+Broglio+629-sm.jpg About https://www.ronbroglio.com/contact daily 0.75 2017-12-31