Blue Dreams – Exhibition
Blue Dreams Blue Dreams is an immersive video installation which integrates abstract imagery, deep sea video footage, and computer modeling to portray the resilience of our planet’s smallest yet most vital living systems. Microbial networks thrive in these extreme environments and are essential to the functioning of our planet: they produce the air we breathe, regulate […]
Ocean Being[s]
Ocean Being[s] This triptych, ocean being[s], is an Ocean Memory reflection co-created by Anya Yermakova and Daniel Kohn, stemming from their experience in the Salish Sea in fall 2019, and weaving through those seeds’ development within the Ocean Memory Project through 2020 and 2021. Substrate began with a watercolor video seeking to evoke the movement […]
Out of the Darkness
Out of the Darkness Out of the Darkness, a year-long exhibition at the Georgia Museum of Art, was part of Rutstein’s tenure as the 2018-19 Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding at the University of Georgia, an annual award given to leading global scholars and creative thinkers who conceive and produce ground breaking collaborative works with University […]
Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules
Unlocking Ocean Memory from Marine Vertebrate Fossil Time Capsules What if ocean memory from long extinct organisms were still accessible by the traces they left behind? What if we can access ancient ocean memory by experiencing it through the senses of marine animals who no longer swim the seas? What did these individual marine animals […]
Sensing the Abyss: Immersive Scores for Interdisciplinary Improvisation
Sensing the Abyss: Immersive Scores for Interdisciplinary Improvisation This project is a multi-stage experimentation with ocean memory, featuring an interdisciplinary residency and performance as the primary creative research space and point of departure. Rajna Swaminathan’s Mangal ensemble gathers improvising musicians alongside visual and movement artists to experiment with the concept of a “score”– whether it […]
To become an ocean
To Become an Ocean To Become the Ocean is an ambitious project on ideas relating to critical sustainability across platforms for significant opportunities with a team of collaborators of exceptional proficiency in their respective fields. It presents a potentially career-defining chance for my practice to communicate the importance of sensing the ocean as a source […]
OIOM: Non-anthropocentric Storytelling
OIOM: Non-anthropocentric Storytelling Memories are made up of information fragments– residue collected through experience. These fragments gain meaning through context, strung together to build stories. Storytelling is a method of preserving and shaping collective memory. Who/ what are the ocean storytellers? How can humans share these ocean memories? OIOC:C/H 1 is an exploratory first chapter. […]
The Ocean Carries ‘Memories’ of SARS-COV-2
The Ocean Carries ‘Memories’ of SARS-COV-2 A weekly meeting to discuss the connections between the pandemic and ocean memory leads to a collaboratively authored piece exploring what ocean memory can tell us about SARS CoV-2, published August 15, 2020, in Scientific American
Journeys Through Water – Exhibition
Journeys Through Water – Exhibition Nov 17, 2021, to June 21, 2022 Onboard the RV Rachel Carson, members of the Ocean Memory Project engaged in research at the interface of art and science to begin to understand how the effects of environmental changes are recorded and expressed in ocean memories. The four artists on the […]