EML [archive]
The EML emerged in 2019, initiated by Dr. Mél Hogan and supported for 5 years by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary, and with CMF funding part of our online journal Heliotrope. In addition, SSHRC provides support for projects that constitute the central streams of the lab. Because of the ongoing pandemic, the EML - the lab itself - is mostly virtual.
Dr. Mél Hogan is the Director of the Environmental Media Lab (EML) and Associate Professor, Communication, Media and Film (CMF) at the University of Calgary. Since 2012, her work has focused on data infrastructure, server farms, and data centers. Now, she’s looking at Extractive “AI” and future data storage imaginaries — always with planetary anxieties in mind.
Tessa Brown is a Researcher in the EML and Heliotrope’s manager and lead co-editor. She is also a PhD candidate in the Department of Communication, Media and Film at the University of Calgary, supervised by Dr. Mél Hogan.
THE EML’S ADVISORY BOARD
Gwendolyn Blue (Geography, University of Calgary)
Jeff Diamanti (Literary and Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam)
Lori Emerson (Media Archaeology Lab, University of Colorado Boulder)
Yuri Furuhata (Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University)
Anne Pasek (School of the Environment, Trent University)
Sarah Roberts (Information Studies, UCLA)
Sarah Sharma (McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology, University of Toronto)
Ayesha Vemuri (Art History & Communication Studies, McGill University)
Andrea Zeffiro (Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre, McMaster University)
Past Residents
March 2024: Kailey Walker (Queen’s)
March 2024: Helen Alexandra Hayes (McGill)
March 2024: Tinghao Zhou (UCSB)
March 2024: Natalia Orrego (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
October 2022: Robyn Lee (Simon Fraser University)
October 2022: Tony Cho (UCSD)
March 2022: Andrew Bateman (X University, Toronto)
October 2021: Felix Loftus (Goldsmiths)
January 2021: Madeleine Mendell (NYU)
Past Mentors
March 2024: Théo Lepage-Richer and Susan Cahill
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The EML supports emergent scholars. During the month-long virtual residence, students will benefit from intensive mentorship, networking, publishing their work in Heliotrope, and giving a public talk.
What to expect
This is a group residency. The residency is organised by Mél Hogan, the Director of the EML. There will be two scholar-mentors providing you additional support and guidance. During the residency, you will also be in conversation with 3 other grad student-residents.
Under this mentorship, you will be supported in an intensive, online, month-long residency. You will be expected to:
Meet 4 times over Zoom
Provide feedback to your fellow residents
Give a public talk (for both host and home institutions, recorded on Zoom and made public on YouTube)
Publish a piece of writing in Heliotrope (with the help of Tessa J. Brown, editor)
For all of this, you will be supported by a team and able to network with a wider scholarly community. The stipend for this residency is $250 CAD. We realize this amount is honorary, but you will be heavily rewarded with the time, energy, ideas of your peers and mentors.
