Here Today – Moving Images of Climate Change
Here Today – Moving Images of Climate Change is a Leverhulme Trust funded artist in residence project through which Media Studies scholar Julie Doyle and artist David Harradine are exploring how a creative dialogue between art and media studies can lead to new visualisations of climate change.
A cross-disciplinary project, the residency will explore some of the different ways of seeing and ways of making meaning that occur in media and the arts, and examines how art and media representations differently deal with levels of abstraction, how they are affected by context, and how they address the relationships between the visual, the poetic and the political.
Most existing images of climate change deal with and document its impacts in ways that can lead to disempowerment and disengagement. This project aims to find new images for communicating climate change, images which seek to provoke different kinds of engagements and different kinds of action.
Looking specifically at current visualisations of climate change, the project is built around three key themes:
- Embodiment
- Time
- Place, space, and landscape
Through these themes, the residency will develop a conceptual and creative framework within which a number of new image-based artworks will be created.
The residency lasts until summer 2010.
During this period, there will be a series of research seminars as well as a number of online opportunities for following the development of the collaboration.
