Analysis of Ocean Memory Project Methodologies to Produce a Written Report and Toolkit
Members: Heather SpenceRay SantistebanSteve FioreDaniel Kohn Date: July, 2023 The Ocean Memory Project (OMP) has brought together a diverse group of thinkers and doers to explore the idea of Ocean Memory. This has been achieved by borrowing, inventing, implementing, and iterating on methodologies to help gather a diverse community and support its productivity. These practices […]
Archival Oyster: Reclaiming Coastal Legacies through Oral History and Printmaking
Members: Adrian CatoSara InácioJoanna Booth Date: July, 2023 The Archival Oyster Project will seek to unearth narratives of multispecies kinship that emerge from within the ‘Forgotten Coast’ on the Florida Panhandle. Oysters represent both an old and well-known industry and a supposed new ‘frontier’ for coastal livelihoods and living shorelines. Archival Oyster: Reclaiming Coastal Legacies […]
Expression, Loss, and Potential for Recovery of Ocean Memory in Coral Colonies Affected by SCTLD and the Interconnected Human Community of Puerto Morelos, Mexico
Members: Raymundo SantistebanAysha PeñaArelly BlassMarcela EviaGino CaballeroHector AlafitaManuel SantistebanHeather Spence Date: July, 2023 This project aims to document the Memory within a reef that has experienced an 80% decline in coral colonies over the past 40 years (McField et al., 2020). We selected Puerto Morelos Reef National Park in Quintana Roo, Mexico, a significant site […]
Losing Architectural Memory in Sea Ice
Team Members: Jody DemingRebecca Rutstein Christine Lee Andrew Atkinson Date: July, 2023 A startling manifestation of climate change is the loss of sea ice over the Arctic Ocean from an area one-third the size of the US. Sea ice keeps the sun’s radiation from overheating the planet, but the ice is now caught in a feedback loop […]
Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces: Performative Research, Ritual and Publication
Members: Anya YermakovaKendall ValentineMónica PedroFrancisca SizaJody DemingDavid NegrãoNóra BarnaIvo Teixeira Date: July, 2023 This project is a performance-ritual that aims to provide illustrative and embodied material about the role of oceanic interfaces as sites for recovering memories that have been forgotten or lost. The preparatory research and the event itself will take place on the […]
Multisensorial Traces of Lost and Recovered Memories of Sapelo Island: Scents and Sonics of the Ocean
Members: Malte LanderYosh HanJulie Kubanek Date: July, 2023 For several thousand years people have lived on Sapelo Island, modifying its terrestrial and marine ecosystems in deliberate as well as unexpected ways. The natural environment of Sapelo is defined first by its extensive saltmarshes whose rate of photosynthesis rivals the most productive kelp and rainforests. These […]
Oysters as an Agent of Ocean Memory
Members: Kendall ValentineMaurice BaileyAdrian CatoVictor Thompson Date: July, 2023 The Eastern Oyster has existed on the coast of Sapelo Island for thousands of years, recording environmental conditions in its shell. As conditions change, the oysters move but leave the legacy of their shell reefs which slows coastline change. This Ocean Memory of the Oyster has […]
Pollution and Violence: A Mississippi Delta Case Study and Prototypes for Action
Members: Brandon BallengéePeter BradleyAysha Carolina PeñaEben GeringSharon Linezo HongMandy JoyeDaniel KohnAngie MackKennan SalineroHeather SpenceMonique VerdanBrad Waller Date: July, 2023 Pollution and violence are connected in profound and multifarious ways that are complex and often hidden, yet tethered via underlying dynamics that we wish to explore. We will leverage the approaches developed in the ocean memory […]
The Immersion Project
Members: Rebecca RutsteinChris LeeMalte LeanderAusten CamilleErik CordesMandy Joye Date: July, 2023 Driven by a desire to connect the public to the deep ocean in the face of our climate crisis, the Immersion Project is a vision for a large-scale, immersive and interactive art installation inspired by deep-sea coral forms which will have a second life […]
A Multisensorial Collaboratorium for Transcoding and Interacting with theOcean Memory Datascape
Members: Tim Weaver Nathan Truelove Date: April, 2022 A Multisensorial Collaboratorium for Transcoding and Interacting with the Ocean Memory Datascape” is an art-science investigation whose objectives and activities will be focused to develop/implement an ocean memory multisensory collaboratorium (OMMCoLab) prototype among investigators from University of Denver’s Emergent Digital Practices (EDP) program and the Monterey Bay Aquarium […]
Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound
Members: Melody JueAnya YermakovaJacob CramEli Stein Date: April, 2022 Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound is an 8-channel sonic composition that explores the possibility that sound is an ideal medium for translating senses of smell, or chemosensation underwater. It invites the listener to smell the kelp forest with their ears, a mode of synaesthesia. […]
Senses Submerged
Members: Raymundo SantistebanRebecca RutsteinDana HemesChris LeeAndrew AtkinsonDaniel KohnGino CaballeroBrandon GonzalesPatricio MusiArelly BlasMarcela EviaDaniela Fuentes Date: April, 2022 The Senses and Sensing workshop asked the OM community to think about senses in the context of ocean memory, but for many of us in the community, our own underwater embodied experience is limited. In our conversations, divers […]