Not only is everything in the universe changing, the universe itself is changing, too, and there ... more Not only is everything in the universe changing, the universe itself is changing, too, and there is much more to the universe than is visible to human observation. Alongside the emergence of ecology and evolutionary biology, this evolutionary perspective in cosmology changes everything, compelling humans to reexamine their understanding of their place in the universe.-S. Mickey, "Cosmology and Ecology" 1 Interconnection implies separateness and difference. There would be no mesh if there were no strange strangers. The mesh isn't a background against which the strange stranger appears. It is the entanglement of all strangers.-Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought 2
Over the past couple of years, we have been working on a suite of video installation projects bas... more Over the past couple of years, we have been working on a suite of video installation projects based on different landscapes. The one we’ll focus on here, Mountain Pine Beetle, is set in the radically altered mountain forests of Colorado after the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation that began about twenty years ago, reaching devastating proportions in the mid to late 2000s; another is set in the Central Flyway Migration Corridor of the southeast Texas coast on the Gulf of Mexico, near Houston, where we live (which, in turn, sits right in the middle of one of the largest and most concentrated oil and petrochemical refining and shipping complexes in the world); a third is set in and around Big Bend National Park in west Texas, on the Mexican border—a UNESCO Biosphere reserve that is the size of the state of Rhode Island and the most remote place in the lower forty-eight states, sitting at the “big bend” of the Rio Grande. Big Bend is a dramatic landscape of animal and human migration, as it is not only home to four hundred and thirty species of birds and over fifty endangered, threatened, and otherwise listed species, but is also a hot zone for human movement across the US/Mexico border—a perennially explosive political issue in the United States, particularly in states such as Texas and Arizona.
Not only is everything in the universe changing, the universe itself is changing, too, and there ... more Not only is everything in the universe changing, the universe itself is changing, too, and there is much more to the universe than is visible to human observation. Alongside the emergence of ecology and evolutionary biology, this evolutionary perspective in cosmology changes everything, compelling humans to reexamine their understanding of their place in the universe.-S. Mickey, "Cosmology and Ecology" 1 Interconnection implies separateness and difference. There would be no mesh if there were no strange strangers. The mesh isn't a background against which the strange stranger appears. It is the entanglement of all strangers.-Timothy Morton, The Ecological Thought 2
Over the past couple of years, we have been working on a suite of video installation projects bas... more Over the past couple of years, we have been working on a suite of video installation projects based on different landscapes. The one we’ll focus on here, Mountain Pine Beetle, is set in the radically altered mountain forests of Colorado after the Mountain Pine Beetle infestation that began about twenty years ago, reaching devastating proportions in the mid to late 2000s; another is set in the Central Flyway Migration Corridor of the southeast Texas coast on the Gulf of Mexico, near Houston, where we live (which, in turn, sits right in the middle of one of the largest and most concentrated oil and petrochemical refining and shipping complexes in the world); a third is set in and around Big Bend National Park in west Texas, on the Mexican border—a UNESCO Biosphere reserve that is the size of the state of Rhode Island and the most remote place in the lower forty-eight states, sitting at the “big bend” of the Rio Grande. Big Bend is a dramatic landscape of animal and human migration, as it is not only home to four hundred and thirty species of birds and over fifty endangered, threatened, and otherwise listed species, but is also a hot zone for human movement across the US/Mexico border—a perennially explosive political issue in the United States, particularly in states such as Texas and Arizona.
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