fluxArt is blending art and science to empower society to feel ecosystem dynamics and environmental change. For a period of one year, artists and scientists engage in collaborative inquiry and curiosity-driven exploration about FLUXNET.
Julia Oldham (Eugene, OR) is creating a multi-channel video installation that explores ecological cycles through color data using a range of lens-based technologies in collaboration with Chris Still (Oregon State University). By transforming scientific imagery and field data into immersive experiences, Julia’s artwork offers a dynamic and expansive visual examination of changing landscapes in the Pacific Northwest USA. (see more ...)
Mallery Quetawki (Pueblo of Zuni, NM) is creating paintings and ceramic works using natural pigments and materials collected traditionally from flux tower sites in the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in collaboration with Marcy Litvak (University of New Mexico). By integrating scientific data patterns and Indigenous knowledge, Mallery's art conveys ecological and cultural stories of dryland ecosystems. (see more ...)
David Glowacki (Santiago de Compostela, Spain) is creating an immersive installation combining laser-cut sculpture, generative physics simulations, and a gentle soundscape that offers a meditation on the breath of the biosphere in collaboration with Maoya Bassiouni (University of California, Berkeley). David's artwork offers us a space to breathe, to rest, and to contemplate Tara, who appears in a green body that represents nature’s infinitely varied forms of life, awareness, and beauty. (see more ...)
Sara Bouchard (Richmond, VA) is creating an electroacoustic composition for 12-voice choir and percussion which explores the role of community and networks in locating one’s own voice within a shifting landscape in collaboration with Chris Gough (Virginia Commonwealth University). Using the carbon cycle as a framework, Sara’s artwork bridges ecosystem science with personal and collective experiences of climate change, interweaving musical performance, field recordings, crowd-sourced text, and flux data. (see more ...)
Rosa Lewis (Amsterdam, NL) is creating imaginal meditations and a video mandala that invite people to dissolve their boundaries with nature by feeling ecosystem fluxes in collaboration with Maoya Bassiouni (University of California, Berkeley). Using the metaphors of the biosphere’s breath as imaginal doorways into the depths of experience, Rosa’s artwork helps people connect to a sense of interdependence and fundamental goodness.
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