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Following the previous installment (Earthly Surfacing), Antennae: Earthly Mattering continues our journey deeper into the strata of knowledge and matter that define our existence as earthlings. Among all the extremely valuable contributions to this issue, those by playwright Manuela Infante and artist Jenny Kendler perfectly bookend the content. From altering scales and leading inquiries into deep time as an embodied dimension, they both pose radical questions about our relationships with memory and meaning. Oftentimes, gaining any insights into this petrified universe entails destruction. Geology, petrology, mineralogy-we have devised different ways to crack open their mysteries and read the codes. Stony mineral essence is key to form and colors. What we can see is down to scale, the myopia of our anthropocentric gaze, and our willingness. How far, how close, and through which lenses should we look? How close is too close is only dictated by the episteme and what it allows us to see and say.

'Earthly Surfacing' focuses on questions of epistemology and representation of the land. Seen by who? Seen how-through which institutional or other lenses? Represented with what materials? Rejecting or embracing the aesthetics of whose ideological traditions and cultures? In this context, the term surfacing reflects the notion of representing or teasing out externality; the act of surfacing as a process of giving an outward finish to something as well as the idea of emergence, in this case of ideas and ideologies that the act of surfacing always entails. Surfacing thus works as an umbrella term for a range of practices and approaches to the representation of the land as conceived from multiple cultural standpoints. To emerge, to bring to the surface, to make something previously hidden appear in plain sight. The earth's surfaces are essentially interfaces, and negotiating our engagement with them might at times entail a level of implied and inescapable superficiality and fictitiousness. At others, reaching deeper into these surfacing processes might reveal entanglements and ecologies that have often been side-lined and overlooked by the institutional gaze.

'Microbial Ecologies' presents a timely range of multidisciplinary practices, approaches, methodologies, and conceptions to help us see and value the microbial worlds that until recently have remained invisible. This issue is co-edited with Ken Rinaldo-an artist internationally recognized for interactive art installations developing hybrid ecologies with animals, algorithms, plants, and bacterial cultures. It is only by recognizing and engaging with microbial agencies that fuller networks of interconnectedness will enable us to tell the stories we truly need for our time and for the future.Featuring contributions by:Heather Barnett | Samuel Bianchini | Marie-Pier Boucher | Kaitlin Bryson | Roberta Buiani | Marcos Cruz | Jose Carlos EspinelChris Dymond | Daria Fedorova | Gene Felice | Leslie Garcia | Ian Gibbins | David Harris | Juniper Harrower | Nigel Helyer | Ce¿sar E. Giraldo Herrera | Martin Howse | Luis Guzmän | Alice Jarry | Brice Ammar-Khodja | Emmanuel Lefrant | Paloma Lopez | Mick Lorusso| Mycelium Network Society | Vanessa Mardirossian | Joel Ong Brenda Parker | Jennifer Parker | Anna Pomyalova | Anastasiia Raina | Jennifer Reeves | Ken Rinaldo | Axel Cuevas Santamari¿a Ram Shergill | Jason C. Slot | Sas¿a Spac¿al | Charissa N. Terranova Elaine Whittaker | lee wilkins | Jennifer Willet

This issue of 'Antennae' explores the rise of interest in art and science collaborations. Partly because of the resonance of the posthuman cyborg in the ontological turn; because of the rise of Bio Art; because of the prominence that multidisciplinarity has acquired in academia; and surely in light of our fraught relationship with our environment and climate change, the intersections between art and science have recently become more complexly de ned by new ethical, political, aesthetic, and poetic registers.This project is co-edited in collaboration with American artist and philosopher Jonathon Keats whose bold experiments have raise serious questions and put into practice his conviction that the world needs more "curious amateurs," willing to explore publicly whatever intrigues them in de ance of a culture that increasingly forecloses on wonder and silos knowledge into narrowly defined areas of expertise.