Losing Architectural Memory in Sea Ice
Losing Architectural Memory in Sea Ice 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 exacerbating its demise. Marine […]
The Immersion Project
The Immersion Project 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 as an artificial reef in the deep sea. […]
Expression, loss, and potential for recovery of Ocean Memory in coral colonies affected by Stony Coral Tissue Disease (SCTLD) and the interconnected human community of Puerto Morelos, Mexico
Expression of Ocean Memory in coral colonies affected by Stony Coral Tissue Disease (SCTLD) Expression, loss, and potential for recovery of Ocean Memory in coral colonies affected by Stony Coral Tissue Disease (SCTLD) and the interconnected human community of Puerto Morelos, Mexico This project aims to document the Memory within a reef that has experienced […]
Multisensorial traces of lost and recovered memories of Sapelo Island: scents and sonics of the ocean
Multisensorial traces of lost and recovered memories of Sapelo Island: scents and sonics of the ocean 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 […]
Archival Oyster: Reclaiming Coastal Legacies through Oral History and Printmaking
Archival Oyster: Reclaiming Coastal Legacies through Oral History and Printmaking 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 […]
Pollution and Violence: A Mississippi Delta case study and prototypes for action
Pollution and Violence: A Mississippi Delta case study and prototypes for action 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 project for case studies of the Mississippi […]
Analysis of Ocean Memory Project Methodologies to Produce a Written Report and Toolkit
Analysis of Ocean Memory Project Methodologies to Produce a Written Report and Toolkit 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 […]
Oysters as an Agent of Ocean Memory
Oysters as an Agent of Ocean Memory 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 repeatedly appeared […]
Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces
Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces Making, Losing, and Recovering Forgotten Memories at Oceanic Interfaces: Performance-Ritual in coastal Portugal (Portuguese below; link to film here) This project is a performance-ritual on the Portuguese coast that aims to provide illustrative and embodied material about the role of oceanic interfaces as sites for recovering […]
Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound
Invisible Kelp Forest: From Smell to Sound 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. We explore the […]
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 […]
Senses Submerged
Senses Submerged 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 in the community could speak more concretely about their personal understanding of being in the […]