Medialne reprezentacje podwodnego świata a projekt cyfrowego Archiwum Błękitnej Humanistyki
Media representations of the underwater world and the project of the digital Archives of Blue Humanities

Summary/Abstract: The article is a proposal to apply the elements of Melody Jue’s wild blue media theory toanalyze documentary movie My Octopus Teacher (2020), as well as in the conceptual workon the artistic-research project of the digital Blue Humanities Archive, which I develop incooperation with the interdisciplinary artist, Justyna Górowska. In the first part of the text,the theory of media specific to aquatic environments helps to show the changing conventions of documentaries about the underwater world of nature. In the second part, I presenta project of a database based on this theory. The aim of the archive is to collect, conceptuallyand artistically develop various materials related to the representation of the disappearingbiodiversity of the underwater world. The theory of wild blue media is also situated in thelandscape of the non-anthropocentric humanities and the blue humanities.

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