Art of interference
ROLE
WRITER
INTERVIEWER
AUDIO EDITOR
RESEARCHER
TEAM
DR. LUTZ KOEPNICK
DR. EMMA VENDETTA
TORI HOOVER
DR. JENNIFER GUTMAN
MAREN LOVELAND
TIMELINE
5 YEARS
YEAR
SPRING 2022 - present
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 non-human. 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 emergencies, may act in the world and allow this changing world to act on us.
Problem Space
Climate change is the ultimate wicked problem. Adapting to our changing world and creating impact that will reverse the negative course we’re already on will require all of us. Our human-centered design is great! …Unless we forget that humanity is only a small part of ecology. Our goal with this project is to flip the concept of interference on its head—we view interference as a positive, productive thing—and to interfere with our existing conceptions of climate change, science, and art so that we might mend our relationship with the world around and within us.
Research Question
How can we blur the line between science and art in to express the complex issues facing us related to climate change? What can the paradigm of the four elements—water, air, earth, fire—help us understand about the world today?
COLLABORATORS
is the Max Kade Foundation Professor of German Studies and a Professor of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University. His primary research is on contemporary art, film, and sound culture.
Tori is a dual Ph.D. candidate in English and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice at Vanderbilt University. Her work explores how racialized and gendered histories of sonic media surface in today’s podcasting landscape. Tori produces for NPR’s “This is Nashville.”
Jennifer holds a dual Ph.D.English and Comparative Media Analysis & Practice. Her research and teaching interests include 20th- and 21st-century Anglophone literatures, history and theory of the novel, media studies, and environmental humanities.
Maren is a dual Ph.D. student in English and Comparative Media Analysis and Practice at Vanderbilt University. Her research focuses on the relationship between media, infrastructure, and the environment, using documentary and critical race theory.
Design Process
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