{"id":37,"date":"2015-09-09T11:20:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T15:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/st197\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2015-09-14T11:22:17","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T15:22:17","slug":"artificial-cryospherelandscape-futures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/humanslashnature\/events\/artificial-cryospherelandscape-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Cryosphere\/Landscape Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Artificial Cryosphere and Public Appreciation of ‘Aeroir,'” with Nicola Twilley, Edible Geography and Gastropod<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept. 29 at 7:00 in Lovejoy 100<\/p>\n

\"ice<\/a>Nicola Twilley will be exploring two atmospheric conditions that exemplify Human\/Nature by presenting two ongoing projects: an exhibition and book exploring the artificial cryosphere and an artist project to develop new experiences that enhance the public appreciation of \u201caeroir.\u201d For the past four years, Twilley has been exploring the largely invisible thermal infrastructure of refrigeration\u2014a vast, distributed winter that has reconfigured both the contents of our plates and the shapes of our cities. In addition to sharing some of her research in this area, Twilley will also discuss her more recent, ongoing collaboration with the Center for Genomic Gastronomy to develop a multi-sensory array of devices, installations, and experiences that aim to make the aesthetics and politics of urban air pollution sense-able as an artifact. From smog meringues to street food-air quality pairings, the project aims to create a series of poetic intermediaries between humans and our collective atmospheric emissions.<\/p>\n

Nicola Twilley is author of the blog Edible Geography<\/em>, co-host of the Gastropod<\/em> podcast, and a contributing writer for The New Yorker<\/em>. She is deeply obsessed with refrigeration, and is currently writing a book on the topic. Her writing has been published in The New York Times Magazine<\/em>, Cabinet<\/em>, Aeon<\/em>, Popular Science<\/em>, Modern Farmer<\/em>, Dwell<\/em>, and the Harvard Design Magazine<\/em>, among others.\u00a0 In summer 2013, Twilley curated an exhibition exploring North America\u2019s spaces of artificial refrigeration with the Center for Land Use Interpretation; in 2010, with Geoff Manaugh, she co-curated the exhibition Landscapes of Quarantine<\/em>, an ARTFORUM<\/em> Editor\u2019s Pick, at Storefront for Art and Architecture. In May 2015, she partnered with the Center for Genomic Gastronomy to present a smog-tasting installation at the WHO\u2019s 67th World Health Assembly in Geneva, as well as at the New Museum’s second annual Ideas City Festival in NYC. From 2011 to 2013, Twilley was a Research Fellow at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art, as part of which she collaborated with Geoff Manaugh on \u201cVenue,\u201d a pop-up interview studio and mobile media rig that traveled around North America documenting abandoned NASA training sites, underground health mines, the world\u2019s largest collection of wild yeasts, and more.<\/p>\n

\u201cLandscape Futures,\u201d with a discussion of artificial replacements for natural phenomena, with Geoff Manaugh, BLDGBLOG<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sept. 29 at 8:00 in Lovejoy 100<\/p>\n

\"interface\"<\/a>Geoff Manaugh will explain the curatorial vision behind Landscape Futures<\/em>, a 2012 exhibition at the Nevada Museum of Art that foregrounded the instruments and devices through which the planetary sciences and landscape design are performed. By centralizing these mechanisms, the exhibition\u2019s goal was to reveal how humans have become deeply dependent upon machines and other technical intermediaries for interpreting the landscapes around them. Manaugh will also present his ongoing research into the world of artificial replacements for natural phenomena, including legal patents registered for new forms of artificial snow, artificial trees, and even new forms of artificial geology. Discussing these in the context of several site visits performed by Manaugh and Twilley as part of their \u201cVenue\u201d project\u2014including a landscape tour of the nation\u2019s largest active landfill and a trip to the AstroTurf\u00ae factory northwest of Atlanta\u2014will show the often-unexpected side-effects of replicating nature.<\/p>\n

Geoff Manaugh is a freelance writer and curator. His work has appeared in The New York Times<\/em>, New Scientist<\/em>, Popular Science<\/em>, Domus<\/em>, newyorker.com, and many other publications, including multiple books, exhibition catalogs, and artist monographs. He lectures regularly on topics related to architecture and landscape at venues around the world, including the Australian National Architecture Conference, Harvard\u2019s Graduate School of Design, and the Bauhaus Universit\u00e4t in Weimar.\u00a0 He is also the author of BLDGBLOG (http:\/\/bldgblog.blogspot.com), a long-running online catalog of spatial ideas and innovations at various scales and in many genres.\u00a0 In 2010, in collaboration with Nicola Twilley, Manaugh curated an exhibition exploring the spatial implications of quarantine for New York\u2019s Storefront for Art and Architecture. In 2012, he curated Landscape Futures<\/em>, a 2,000-square foot exhibition exploring the intersection of digital technology and landscape design, for the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno. Manaugh is former director of Studio-X NYC at Columbia University\u2019s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. His newest book, investigating the relationship between burglary and architecture, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2015.<\/p>\n

Student Discussions<\/strong><\/p>\n