Description
Environmental Issues, Sustainability, Climate Change
Moderated by: Pat Badani and Bonnie Mitchell
Climate change is not just a long-term environmental issue; it is happening now, and it entails major challenges for those trying to shape a sustainable future. The complex and interconnected web that makes life on earth possible continues to be under deep threat. While some of the decades-long damage is irreversible, in order to reduce further destruction and sustainably manage the planet’s future, coordinated scientific research, observation, knowledge-sharing, and policy making are needed immediately. These unfolding developments in sciences and technologies provide opportunities for insightful collaborative, experimental, and artistic approaches that might offer daring solutions.
SPARKS participants will present independent as well as collaborative and transdisciplinary artworks and research at the interface of artistic and scientific practices, with a focus on ecologies, new materialism, agency, methods & practices.
Presenters and Speakers:
• How Human Laws Must Accommodate the Laws of Nature – Aviva Rahmani
• Engaged Media: Lalbagh TreeStory – Mechthild Schmidt Feist
• Hybris* – Carmen Gil Vrolijk
• Hox Zodiac: Reimagining Our Relations to Animals as Food, Pets, and Science Partners – Victoria Vesna & Siddharth Ramakrishnan
• Art + Agriculture – Leanne Elias
• Data Agency in the Science, Art, and Trash Project – Julieta Aguilera
• Sustained Signage – Don Ritter
https://dac.siggraph.org/sparks/2021-03-environmental-issues-sustainability-climate-change/