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An extended brief overviewing a bread swath of responses from higher educational institutions worldwide, to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Covid 19 pandemic brought a moment of reflection on the many seemingly unsolvable contemporary crises, including the climate crisis, gender and social inequality, racism, colonialism, as well as social and economic harms inflicted by the platform capitalism. The experience of the hyperobject of the pandemic crisis allowed us to relate to other major crises, thus opening up the space for empathy and a hope for change. This reflective moment was dimmed in 2022, with the war in Ukraine urgently requiring a swift response. However, the new crises did not extinguish the old ones. We believe there is a need to revisitthe reflections inspired by the pandemic lockdown to prompt the potential of change, even if filled with loss. Pandemic Reflection Machine is a generative, combinatory video installation that allows for revisiting reflections on relations between art making and everyday reality during Covid lockdown, as expressed by 16 international digital artists. Th artists commented on their artworks, the use of platforms, the collaborative nature of digital art, the pandemic situation and all the social issues tied with it in thirteen Zoom interviews. The artists were chosen based on their contribution to the online exhibition Covid E-lit at ELO 21 (https://eliterature.org/elo2021/covid/) with a focus on diversity. From the interviews we have produced the 45-minute documentary COVID E-LIT: Digital Art During the Pandemic, which we hope to present at the conference. However, the documentary used only a small part of the rich material gathered in the interviews, and much reflection on howthe pandemic applies to current social crises and other hyperobjects had to be left out.Pandemic Reflection Machine will allow audiences to dive deeper into the interviews through a recombinatory process collecting sentences from all interviews via interactively selected tags. Our project is designed as a Zoom-like reflection machine prompting the audience to virtually ‘meet’, revisit and reflect on their own pandemic experiences, networks of relations and collaborations and the platforms they experienced it through as well as the future imaginaries that were generated in the process.

This episode of EPICAST includes discussions with social scientists working with Sonar-Global on vulnerability assessments and community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight the method of ‘vulnerability assessments’ and how they improve our understanding of vulnerability and social exclusion in the context of infectious disease threats. We also discuss work around community engagement and the importance of dialogue with people in need to identify adaptive public health models that improve lives before, during, and after, an epidemic. We include findings from Malta, Slovenia, and Denmark. This episode of EPICAST includes discussions with social scientists working with Sonar-Global on vulnerability assessments and community engagement during the COVID-19 pandemic. We highlight the method of ‘vulnerability assessments’ and how they improve our understanding of vulnerability and social exclusion in the context of infectious disease threats. We also discuss work around community engagement and the importance of dialogue with people in need to identify adaptive public health models that improve lives before, during, and after, an epidemic. We include findings from Malta, Slovenia, and Denmark.