Author: ellenaskey

I would love to reflect a bit on the class’s final projects. All were so impressive! Here I will focus on the two projects that struck me as other-world-building -- Monday’s installation with the fish tank and the museum curation today.  Both built their worlds over the duration of the 20 minutes, creating an experiential … Continue reading Reflecting on two final projects…and then, separately, covid/climate change

I’d like to draw attention to Schafer’s logic of the positive study of soundscape. He writes: “We must seek a way to make environmental acoustics a positive study program. Which sounds do we want to preserve, encourage, multiply? When we know this, the boring or destructive sounds will be conspicuous enough, and we will know … Continue reading Idyllic/Critical in Schafer and “Become Ocean”

Both Snowpiercer and First Reformed play with characters’ contradictory perspectives, leaving the viewer to navigate climate-relevant debates and search for further alternatives. In First Reformed, for example, cinematography creates illustrates the Reverend as an antagonist through the use of camera distortion in his medium close-up shots; in his conversation with Mary, both are slightly distorted … Continue reading Vying Perspectives / Communism in ‘Closed Systems’

Here struck me in that it destabilized several abstract notions of time -- linear/progress, linear/degeneration, circular, stage-wise -- without leaving me in the bleakness of what could be seen as random. Instead, I emerged from the book with some positive sense, perhaps the peaceful joy of possibility. This arose in part from the book's stretching … Continue reading Here – transforming a sense of loss