My Art Practice: From Climate Change Impacts on Glaciers To Coral Reefs.
Abstract
For over a decade my practice has embraced issues of climate change, specifically glacial melt. As an artist, I believe the only way I can contribute to the public dialogue is to learn from researchers in the field and then bear witness. I see myself as a "subversive" artist", creating compelling images which in turn inform the public of the dire threats to our planet. My presentation will briefly review recent exhibitions on glacial melt, up to the present current exhibition now at the National Academy of Sciences, as well as my public engagement activity. My attention is now focused on how issues of climate change are threatening the health of our oceans and coral reef ecosystems in particular. This redirection began in March 2017 exploring the Great Barrier Reef, then seeing the compelling film Chasing Coral that summer, and then joining a project called "Kai-Apapa" which took me to the Pacific for a month long investigation this year. Visits to labs at the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Temple University's Center for Biodiversity all provided the valuable knowledge needed to create the current exhibition: Endangered: From Glacier to Reefs
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2018
- Bibcode:
- 2018AGUFMPA41E1360B
- Keywords:
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- 0815 Informal education;
- EDUCATIONDE: 1630 Impacts of global change;
- GLOBAL CHANGEDE: 4815 Ecosystems;
- structure;
- dynamics;
- and modeling;
- OCEANOGRAPHY: BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICALDE: 4220 Coral reef systems;
- OCEANOGRAPHY: GENERAL