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Art of Interference

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Art of Interference explores creative responses to climate change. We feature artists whose images, sounds, and performances encourage us to retune the relations of nature and technology, the human and the nonhuman. We ask climate scientists about their research and how it chimes with the interventions of contemporary artists. Additionally, we speak to activists, cultural critics, and policymakers about the need to develop a new ethics appropriate to our twenty-first century of planetary crises. In each episode, we discuss timely and untimely perspectives on how we, amid our human-made emergen...

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Water 3: Floods 01.06.2023 54:15

This third episode of Art of Interference features artist Eve Mosher whose project High Water Line reflects on the ever-more common experience of living in flood-prone areas. In our conversation, we talk about: the importance of engaging communities in complex climate issues, understanding storm predictions, and the importance of the imagination in facing the perils of present and future. We also...

Water 2: Fog 16.05.2023 38:36

Join us for Art of Interference ’s second episode, which takes a closer look at the fascinating phenomenon of fog. In this episode, we delve into the work of Fujiko Nakaya, a Japanese artist whose unique fog sculptures have been exhibited around the world. In this episode, we talk about: The ephemeral and evocative nature of fog, Nakaya’s unique fog sculpture exhibit at the Haus der Kunst in Mu...

Water 1: Dew 03.05.2023 44:36

In this first episode of Art of Interference , we speak with Vietnamese visual artist Thao Nguyen Phan about her video installation Becoming Alluvium . The work centers on a parable on dew and the human follies of controlling nature. It first showed in 2021 and New York Times critic Holland Cotter called it “a beauty.” In this episode, we talk about: Phan’s career-long preoccupation with the Meko...