Author: jaireidk

In the video spot on Eve Mosher's HighWaterLine (2007), Deborah Balk (Associate Director at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research) describes the how her approach makes climate education "nonthreatening" by engaging in education through art. One of HighWaterLine's strengths as a piece of educational performance art, for me, is how it manages to make something … Continue reading Art as nonthreatening and “New York 2007” as a medium

Chris Watson's "Vatnajökull" from his 2003 album Weather Report engages with climate change with field recordings, arranging found sounds into a finely-tuned soundscape. Listening to the work, it's hard not to begin to visualize where and how this sonic narrative is taking place. If it weren't for a few key framing words like the album … Continue reading Comparing sounds of the apocalypse

When reading speculative fiction novels like New York 2140, encountering invented vocabulary words is one the most enjoyable parts of the reading experience for me. A passage that especially piqued my interest was the scene in which Inspector Gen serves as a guest star referee at water sumo match at a private, "intertidal" bathhouse. Amphibiguity … Continue reading Amphibiguity in New York 2140