In the provided context, media ecology refers to a way of understanding the world as a site where ethical, ecological, social, and political processes are continuously regenerated, transformed, and transmitted. In NEORT++’s exhibition "Patterns of Entanglement," the concept is used as a framework for reading relationships that extend beyond human-centered thinking, where humans, non-humans, nature, and digital technologies are interconnected and mutually influential.
Within this framing, media is not treated simply as a tool for communication. Instead, it is understood as an environment in which messages circulate between artificial processes and living organisms, and between humans and non-humans. The exhibition links this perspective to the contemporary condition in which organic and digital systems overlap, and in which humans are described as becoming carbon-silicon hybrids. Media ecology here helps articulate the layered entanglements of multiple ecosystems and the shifting patterns of connection, interaction, and symbiosis across different scales.
The exhibition also suggests that such entanglements can be read without idealizing either technology or nature. Rather than celebrating them, the concept is used to explore paths toward another ecology, one that can rework neoliberal reality through new relations among beings, systems, and environments.
The supplied sources do not provide a broader academic history or a complete theoretical definition of media ecology. This entry is therefore limited to the meaning established in the NEORT++ exhibition context.