Tag: Art

  • Technological Mediations for Interspecies Communication 

    Technological Mediations for Interspecies Communication 

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    Alizée Armet

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    Alizée Armet asks what happens when we stop trying to interpret plants and fungi as if they were speaking our language. Through a series of living art installations, she explores how humans, plants, fungi, and technology can form new kinds of relationships that challenge human ideas of communication.

  • Recrafting the Brazilian Arboreal Archive

    Recrafting the Brazilian Arboreal Archive

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    Bárbara Lissa Campos

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    Maria Vaz

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    Records of Tree Day ceremonies in Brazil’s public archives belie a mass felling of native trees over the twentieth century. Combining archival photographs with poetic text, the duo Paisagens Móveis re-craft the archive’s narrative through artwork: Cidade-Jardem, or Garden City.

  • Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette

    Dark Fiction, Sinister Reality: A Conversation with Brenda Becette

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    Bri Meyer

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    In this bilingual podcast, Brenda Becette talks with Bri Meyer about the role of fiction in our dystopic reality. Becette’s short stories avenge women, children, and environment.

  • Poetic Encounters Across Borders

    Poetic Encounters Across Borders

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    Ann Fisher-Wirth

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    Wilfried Raussert

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    Poet Ann Fisher-Wirth collaborates with photographer Wilfried Raussert and a team of translators to interpret street art across the Americas. Together, they illustrate the interconnectedness of people and nature in urban environments.

  • Humanizing Migrants and Miners of Southern Africa

    Humanizing Migrants and Miners of Southern Africa

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    Christopher Conz

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    Christina Balch

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    In this exhibit, Christopher Conz and Christina Balch use archival materials and art to humanize the stories of migrant mining workers of southern Africa and reflect on the environments in which they live, work, die, and resist.

  • Faculty Favorites: Environmental Activism in Art & Fiction

    Faculty Favorites: Environmental Activism in Art & Fiction

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    The Editorial Board

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    Edge Effects asks scholars to recommend creative works that explore aesthetic resistance to environmental precarity, or celebrate cultural traditions uplifting alternative ecological narratives and knowledge centered in care, kinship, and storytelling.

  • 六款环境主题桌游

    六款环境主题桌游

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    Nate Carlin

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    生态主题桌游架 游或是充满自然之美、富于艺术性，或是寓教于乐，引发对于气候变化、水污染、食物主权等议题的探讨。这里介绍并分析了六款环境主题桌游，希望可以引领你进入一个崭新的桌游世界。

  • Memorializing Wildfire at the Playground

    Memorializing Wildfire at the Playground

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    Jessica George

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    Jessica George interrogates the politics of seemingly apolitical wildfire memorials and examines how climate change-related art challenge the timelessness of conventional monuments.

  • The Deep Roots of Plant Time

    The Deep Roots of Plant Time

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    Yota Batsaki

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    Yota Batsaki explores the ways Kapwani Kiwanga’s sculpture “On Growth” converges the past and the present, challenging human temporalities through exploration of plant time. The sculpture is on display at the High Line in New York City.

  • How Indigenous Artist George Morrison Resists Ecological and Cultural Extraction

    How Indigenous Artist George Morrison Resists Ecological and Cultural Extraction

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    Matt Hooley

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    Indigenous modernist George Morrison’s works were once considered “not Indian enough” but were later curated as minoritized art. Matt Hooley explores how and why the radical meanings of Morrison’s art are obscured or misunderstood by cultural institutions.