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2016-06-14
My current research is focused on the history of camping and wilderness survival. Specifically, I am exploring how our ideas about the landscape are constructed, and what it means when we interact with the wild by engaging in activities like camping. My recent mixed-media prints combine my own...
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Fall 2024
This thesis takes the form of a hypertext, interactive game designed to be a thought experiment on cultural memory in the Anthropocene. It is a game, a form of research-creation, and a question. The question posed is simply: what cultural memories and memory objects do we make, forget, and...
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Spring 2018
The Death Positivity Movement is a relatively new group of advocates who argue for greater death acceptance in Western society. This thesis explores how the Death Positivity Movement might help humans respond justly to mass death in the Anthropocene, when gross ecological change threatens human...
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2019-01-01
Vadim Bulitko, Sean Caulfield, Astrid Ensslin, Daniel Evans, Gillian Harvey, Scott Smallwood, Daniel Laforest, Brad Necyk, Marilène Oliver, Aidan Rowe, Isabelle Van Grimde, Jonathan Garfinkel, Tess Heinricks, Marilene Oliver, Blaine Campbell
DYSCORPIA: Future Intersections of the Body and Technology was a two-year interdisciplinary research project that brought together scholars from art and design, music, digital and medical humanities, radiology, computer science and contemporary dance in order to question what it means not to know...
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2021-02-01
SSHRC IDG awarded 2021: As the world faces the consequences of resource depletion, global climate change and the ensuing threat of mass extinction – a sense of which the COVID19 pandemic has only further exacerbated – literature has much to say and teach us about our environmental emergency....
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2016-02-23
From the Surface is an exhibition haunted by the presence of the global ecological crisis. As I implicate the viewer in a web of associations between word, image, and thing, I invite contemplation of our place in a changing world. I seek to unsettle the comfortable illusion that humanity is...
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2018-02-01
SSHRC IDG Awarded 2018: This research-creation project asks “What is a contemporary landscape?” Building on cultural geographers' insights that the natural environment provides a setting for cultural processes and belief systems, we will explore the history of ideas and images in traditional...
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Spring 2022
This study of Pedagogy at the End of the World investigates the “end of the world” scenarios that now characterize education and its reasons in Anthropocene times. Emerging through an interrogation of the apocalypse habits and anthropo-scenic views through which educational futurity is most often...
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2016-01-19
Pilgrimage: being in the End Times “The gap between phenomenon and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of presence of being in the world” –Timothy Morton In 1784 a fine layer of carbon was deposited onto the Earth’s crust as a result of human coal-fired industries. Timothy Morton attributes...