Recorded on 2015-08-10
Artist Tara DePorte is in residency in Marseille, France at the IMERA Institute for Advanced Study. She discusses her work with Joel Guyot and local environmental scientists to develop public art projects to create social action around the COP21 Climate Change Conference in Paris in December 2015. She discusses with Roger Malina the ideas of […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2019-02-14
Anne Nigten elaborates on the importance of having people from many disciplines when discussing sustainability issues and climate change. According to her, having transdisciplinary perspectives on the subject open doors to new knowledge fields. Doing so is important when having to tackle complex problems like climate change. We then discuss the various subjects that were […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2017-11-03
Part two of Janeil Engelstad’s conversation with eco-art pioneer Newton Harrison includes conversation about his current watershed project in Scotland, the impact of climate change on the region, both now and in the future, and how art and science can address it. Today’s episode features music by Austin-based musician Lungfulls. To hear more of his […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2016-07-27
Brian Burnham just received his PhD in Geology from the University of Manchester. He discusses the field of sequence stratigraphy, a field crucial for understanding the changes of sea level in the past and interpreting current climate change sea level change. With Roger Malina he discusses transdisciplinary collaboration between the geosciences, computer sciences and art […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2015-11-30
Helen and Newton Harrison are pioneers in the art and the environment movement since the 1970s. Over the last twenty years they have been doing projects and installations around art and climate change. Past projects have focused on watershed restoration, urban renewal, agriculture and forestry issues. see http://theharrisonstudio.net/?page_id=806 for the Force Majeure ebook. They are […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2015-11-18
Kim Fraczek protests fracking, a controversial technique to recover gas and oil from shale rock, using… puppets. She’s been involved in the anti-fracking movement for many years. But it all started when she was a kid, and, as she tells it, got into punk music…
Listen ->Recorded on 2015-08-03
Tara DePorte talks with Roger Malina about her work as an artist activist working for social and environmental movements. She founded the NGO Human Impacts Institute. She is currently in residence in IMERA in Marseille working with environmental scientists at Aix Marseille University. She discusses her approaches to public engagement with very diverse audiences from […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2014-07-31
Our contributors discuss their work in the arts and sciences as showcased in the new article collection, “Water Is in the Air: Physics, Politics, and Poetics of Water in the Arts”. “Water Is in the Air” explores the ways that artists, from all over the world, working at the cutting edge of science and engineering, […]
Listen ->Nicht nur die Überfischung, Mikroplastik und die Versauerung der Meere stressen Fische in ihrem Lebensbereich. Der Mensch bedroht das gesamte Ökosystem Meer auch durch den dramatisch zunehmenden Verlust des Sauerstoffs. Dass die Wechselwirkung zwischen der Erderwärmung und den Ozeanen auch bei der Aufnahme des Sauerstoffs große Wirkung zeigt, ist erst jetzt durch die Analyse alter […]
Listen ->Recorded on 2015-10-28
Annie Willis is from the outskirts of New York City—the Rockaways, a neighborhood on the Atlantic Ocean. When this interview was recorded, she was a senior in high school, and for the last two years had been a part of Global Kids, a NYC and DC-based nonprofit helping underserved youth achieve leadership in their communities […]
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