Posts tagged ecology and environmental activism
Gilles Aubry
Gilles Aubry

Gilles Aubry is active at the intersection between sound and visual arts, experimental music and academic research. As an artist, he creates installations, films, performances and radio pieces exploring sonic materiality and listening processes in relation to affect, coloniality and power. His works have been presented at numerous international art exhibitions, film festivals, music venues, and radio shows, earning him two Swiss Art Awards (2012 and 2015) and a European Sound Art Prize in 2016.

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ALL 1 (a-b), TT 1 (a-b)Guest Userecology and environmental activism, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, new materialism, object-oriented ontology, post-nationalism, post-colonialism, sound, music, field recordings, composing, space and temporary architecture, artistic research methodology
Tracey Benson
Tracey Benson

Dr Tracey M Benson is an Australian based artist, academic and researcher. Her work focuses on issues related to belonging, place, wellbeing and pro environmental behaviour change. Specialising in online and screen based art, user experience design, locative media and site specific installation, her work has been extensively presented internationally in media arts festivals and exhibitions.

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ALL 1 (a-b), TT 1 (a-b)Guest Userart and social technologies, curatorial practices, ecology and environmental activism, home, nostalgia and the uncanny, liminal states, interstices, and spacetime, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, post-nationalism, post-colonialism, sound, music, field recordings, composing, walking as an art practice, writing, curating, installation, video, augmented reality, virtual reality and performance, photography, print making
Sophia Wright Emigh
Sophia Wright Emigh

Sophia Wright Emigh (she/they) is an interdisciplinary, queer mother artist and movement filmmaker working in the emerging field of somatic ecology via performance, installation, film, photography, mark-making, social practice, writing, and action. Through camera, body, sound, and embodied ritual, she traverses and transmits the dance of life around the ineffable.

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ALL 8 (u-z), Student MFA 2022, Alumni, AlumsGuest Usermovement, stillness, dance, somatics, film, photography, performance, installation, somatic ecology, lacuna, ancestral metabolisis, imaginal states, ritual, sensation, memory, sound, song, ecology and environmental activism, trauma and the archive, belonging, co-regulation, earth body
Lucy Finchett-Maddock
Lucy Finchett-Maddock

Lucy Finchett-Maddock is an artist and academic at Sussex Law School, writing, researching and teaching in the fields of critical legal theory and speculative philosophy. She is one of the founders of the Art/Law Network and writes broadly on the themes of resistance, aesthetics, property, artificial divisions of art and law, and entropy.

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ALL 3 (f-h), TT 3 (e-n)Guest Userart and social technologies, ecology and environmental activism, experimental pedagogies, foreignness, otherness, home, nostalgia and the uncanny
Michael Hirschbichler
Michael Hirschbichler

Michael Hirschbichler studied architecture at ETH Zurich and philosophy at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin and completed his doctoral dissertation on “Mythical Constructions” at Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). He lived and worked in various countries, such as the United States, Switzerland, Papua New Guinea, Italy, Azerbaijan and France and is currently based in Zurich and Munich.

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ALL 3 (f-h), TT 3 (e-n)Guest Userart and social technologies, ecology and environmental activism, expanded studio practices, foreignness, otherness, home, nostalgia and the uncanny, liminal states, interstices, spacetime, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, space and temporary architecture
Paula Kramer
Paula Kramer

Paula Kramer is an artist-researcher and movement artist based in Berlin. She holds a practice-as-research PhD in Dance (Coventry University) and was a post-doctoral researcher at Uniarts Helsinki between 2016 and 2019. She is currently active as an independent artist-researcher and until the end of 2020 as a visiting researcher at the Centre for Artistic Research of Uniarts Helsinki.

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ALL 4 (I-L), TT 3 (e-n)Guest Userdocufiction and creative writing, ecology and environmental activism, expanded studio practices, experimental pedagogies, movement, dance, choreography, new materialism, object-oriented ontology, publishing as an art practice, space and temporary architecture, walking as an art practice, intersectionality/feminist art-life practice
Thomas Mical
Thomas Mical

Prof. Dr. Thomas Mical is Professor of Architectural Theory. Previously a tenured faculty in the US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and he has taught and lectured internationally. His research crosses architectural theory, media-philosophy, design research methods. He edits the book series Architectural Intelligences (Brill).

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ALL 5 (m-p), TT 3 (e-n)Guest Userdocufiction and creative writing, ecology and environmental activism, expanded studio practices, experimental pedagogies, foreignness, otherness, home, nostalgia and the uncanny, liminal states, interstices, spacetime, space and temporary architecture
Steven Rowell
Steven Rowell

Steve Rowell is an artist who works with photography, moving image, sound, installation, maps, and spatial concepts to produce complex multicomponent projects. His practice investigates terrains of perception, nonhuman intelligence, ecologies, and technology, exploring the landscape as a site of political imagination. Steve contextualizes the morphology of the built environment with the surrounding medium of Nature, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer and archaeologist.

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ALL 6 (q-r), TT 4 (o-z)Guest Userart and social technologies, curatorial practices, ecology and environmental activism, expanded studio practices, experimental pedagogies, liminal states, interstices, spacetime, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, sound, music, field recordings, composing, space and temporary architecture, deep time, the uncanny valley, nonhuman sentience and agency
Valerie Walkerdine
Valerie Walkerdine

Valerie Walkerdine (PhD) is an artist and academic. As an academic she has taught, written and researched in the fields of critical psychology, affect studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, artistic practice and theory, social theory, class, gender and feminism, community and de-industruialisation and neoliberalism.

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ALL 8 (u-z), TT 4 (o-z), Alumni--ecology and environmental activism, experimental pedagogies, foreignness, otherness, home, nostalgia and the uncanny, language and image, liminal states, interstices, and spacetime, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, movement, dance, choreography, co-created community based art practice, performance, feminist art practice, installation, film and video, photography, drawing, social practice/community engagement
Beth Weinstein
Beth Weinstein

Beth M. Weinstein (BFA Syracuse, MArch Columbia GSAPP, PhD UTasmania) is an architect, artist, educator and researcher. Recent solo and two-person exhibitions of her work include Performing Spatial Labour (2019, Plimsoll Gallery, Hobart), Palimpsest (2019, Un Lieu pour Réspirer, Les Lilas-Paris), States of Exception (2018, Cité Internationale des Arts/Jeu de Paume, 2018) and the 2015 and 2018 Arizona Biennials. She received the NY Architectural League’s Young Architect’s Award and has been awarded artist residencies through the Académie d'Architecture, the Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), Bundanon Trust (New South Wales), and the Casa de Velazquez (Madrid).

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ALL 8 (u-z), TT 4 (o-z)Guest Userecology and environmental activism, foreignness, otherness, media and design, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, movement, dance, choreography, peace, mediation and performative activism, post-nationalism, post-colonialism, space and temporary architecture, critical spatial practice
Marwan Zouein
Marwan Zouein

Architect and Teacher, Marwan Zouein comes from a multicultural background from which he received an international and open minded education. He holds a DPLG from the school of Paris Belleville and a DEA in Architecture from the ETSAM (UPM, Madrid). As founding partner of the award winning spanish architecture office [casaleganitos], he has 15 years of experience in a wide range of projects either with [casaleganitos] or as a consultant for other firms and institutions in Europe and in the Middle East.

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TT 4 (o-z), ALL 8 (u-z)Guest Userecology and environmental activism, experimental pedagogies, home, nostalgia and the uncanny, liminal states, interstices, spacetime, memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive, space and temporary architecture, walking as an art practice