Mating Snails, Police Birds and Air that Kills: The Misfires of Humans using Nature for Transmission

在人类寻求传输能力进行通信的漫长历史中，5G是最新的技术，同时也在移动数据、人员和物体。我的研究探索了人类如何利用自然传播力的历史。虽然媒体研究重新审视了曾经有用的死亡媒体，但很少有人研究过时之外留下的东西：失败的、失败的尝试。这些失败需要研究，因为它们预示着一些紧迫的问题，包括如何与非人类共存。我将研究三个这样的失败和预兆——蜗牛电报（互联网）、瘴气（5G）、鸟警（动物警察单位）。作为一名电影制作人/艺术家，我从事以实践为主导的研究，产生理论小说。理论小说不是仅仅由理论提供信息的电影，而是理论成为“情节”的内在组成部分，是由屏幕上的艺术家创造的宇宙中的推动者和震撼者。这使得研究可以找到新的表达方式，并逃避系统的知识参数，从而为非理性的传递打开了大门。

5G is the latest in a long history of humans seeking transmission power to communicate but also move data, people and objects. My research explores the histories of how humans have used nature's transmission forces. While media studies reexamine once useful dead media, there is little research into what is left outside of obsolescence: failed, misfired attempts. These misfires demand study as they foretell urgent issues including how to co-exist with the non-human. I will examine three such misfires and foreshadows- snail telegraph (internet), miasma (5G), bird police (animal police units).As a filmmaker/artist, I engage in practice-led research to generate theoretical fictions. Theoretical fictions are not films which are merely informed by theory but rather theory becomes an intrinsic part of the "plot," a mover and shaker in the universe created by the artist on screen. This allows the research to find new expressions and escape systematic knowledge parameters, opening up to irrational transmissions.