Browsing by Subject "Anthropocene"

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    The Anthropocene and Transdisciplinarity
    (2014) Kelly, Jason M.
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    Artifacts from the Anthropocene
    (2018) Spicuzza, Shelley; Hudnall, Katie
    My current body of work captures and displays a humanity manipulated geological history. I use and rework the discarded to build records of time, memory, and progress seen from the perspective of an uncertain future. By combining organic and synthetic materials I create moments fabricated in a modern dystopia. We enter the Anthropocene, the age of humans. Earth is ever-changing and, for the first time, one species is capable of leaving a worldwide impact.
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    A Cataclysmorphic Prophecy
    (2021-05) Moore, Alex; Potter, William; Riede, Danielle; Winship, Andrew
    Our bodies and minds are incessantly morphing, driven by environmental stimuli. You could reduce the entire experience of being alive to simply being fluid and responsive. In considering the significance of this morphability, we should also consider the significance of “place”. This relationship with place is rooted in ecology, the branch of biology which deals with living things and their relationships with their physical surroundings. In my body of work I examine my own relationship with place, its effects on my identity, and my ability to morph.
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    "Clean Clothes vs. Clean Water": Consumer Activism, Gender, and the Fight to Clean Up the Great Lakes, 1965-1974
    (2018-08) Scherber, Annette Mary; Scarpino, Philip V.; Shrum, Rebecca K.; Robertson, Nancy Marie
    During the late 1960s and early 1970s, the polluted Great Lakes became a central focus of the North American environmental movement. A majority of this pollution stemmed from phosphate-based laundry detergent use, which had become the primary product households used to wash fabrics after World War II. The large volume of phosphorus in these detergents discharged into the lakes caused excess growths of algae to form in waterways, which turned green and smelly. As the algae died off, it reduced the oxygen in the water, making it less habitable for fish and other aquatic life, a process known as eutrophication. As primary consumers of laundry detergents during the time period, women, particularly white, middle-class housewives in the United States and Canada, became involved in state/provincial, national, and international discussions involving ecology, water pollution, and sewage treatment alongside scientists, politicians, and government officials. Their work as volunteers, activists, and lobbyists influencing the debate and ensuing policies on how best to abate this type of pollution, known as eutrophication, has often been ignored. This thesis recognizes the work women completed encouraging the enactment of key water quality regulations and popularizing the basic tenets of environmentally-conscious consumption practices during the environmental movement in the early 1970s.
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    Common Ground
    (2018) Vidger, Natasha; Potter, William
    Through large-scale oil paintings my research engulfs the viewer in an environment consisting of only animals. Absent of romanticized landscapes, my paintings render the animal form in a balance between the refined and unrefined. This represents the fracturing of animal populations and the surreal and sometimes isolated environments animals are forced to navigate during the Anthropocene, or the geological age dominated by human activity. The Anthropocene is continually moving towards human-centric ideologies. These ideologies manifest in Speciesist perceptions. Speciesism and anthropocentrism represent a bias that certain species, particularly humans, are superior to other life forms. They represent humankind's ignorance to recognize any likeness we share with animals. I believe by exploring the common themes of all life such as, reproduction, migration, and survival, and shared environment we can start to question and ultimately dissolve the human focused hierarchy and coexist with all living creatures in symbiosis.
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    Cosmic Indifference in the Anthropocene
    (2018) Panfil, Matt; Petranek, Stefan
    My multimedia thesis work depicts confrontations between humanity and both natural and supernatural entities and forces, as well as examines the implications of cosmic indifference: a philosophical and literary ideology wherein humankind exists at the mercy of ambivalent, and often cruel, machinations of nature. I synthesize disparate media to create immersive installations, cut-paper collages, experimental films, and sculptural assemblages designed to unsettle and transfix my audience, in order to transcend faculties of normative human reason.
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    The Fall Creek: A Localized Understanding of the Anthropocene Era
    (2019) Faris, Tim; Petranek, Stefan
    My creative work surrounding the Fall Creek is a photographic take on the junction of nature and the human made, as well as a personal account of the environment. It is my hope that through my work, I will begin to understand a more globalized quality of nature in the Anthropocene Era we are living in. My work seeks to examine why humans place hierarchies on the natural environment and how this affects our perception of the natural world.
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    A Multimodal Approach to the Anthropocene
    (American Anthropologist, 2018) Kelly, Jason M.; McDonald, Fiona P.
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    Reimagining the River: An Outdoor Vision of the Anthropocene and the White River through the Lens of Place
    (Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research, 2016-04-08) Boyle, Elliot; Catt, Braden; Goss, Sarah; Harrah, Peter; Smith, Rebekah; Walker, Whitney
    In 2016, the International Union of Geological Sciences will decide whether or not human impact on the Earth constitutes a new geologic epoch – the Anthropocene. If agreed upon, this epoch will acknowledge the effects human agency has upon the stratigraphic record, and the implications of a human-driven world. Reimagining the River takes the global Anthropocene to the City of Indianapolis by creating an outdoor museum of the White River. This museum exhibit will display the past, present, and future of the White River, showcasing the historical narrative of the human-river relationship. Exploring the Anthropocene through the story of the White River will engage the citizens of Indianapolis to develop a sense of ownership for the intertwined state of the River and Indianapolis. The intention of this engagement is to build a community that reimagines what the river was, is, and can become. Reimagining the River will be located on the White River State Park Bridge, and will feature audiovisual elements that relate current scenes surrounding the River to the past. Historical photographs complemented with a brief historical narrative will be juxtaposed with the areas surrounding the installation, framing Indianapolis’ urban environment as the exhibit. The installation will be accessible to all demographics, including children and individuals with disability. The exhibit will also include resources to encourage further audience participation, including podcasts, geocaching, and a website. Ongoing research pathways will be created to encourage the tracking and measurement of audience engagement and understanding of how human agency has affected the White River, its tributaries, and the City of Indianapolis.
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    Rivers of the Anthropocene
    (University of California Press, 2017-11-17) Kelly, Jason M.; Scarpino, Philip; Berry, Helen; Syvitski, James; Meybeck, Michel; History, School of Liberal Arts
    This exciting volume presents the work and research of the Rivers of the Anthropocene Network, an international collaborative group of scientists, social scientists, humanists, artists, policymakers, and community organizers working to produce innovative transdisciplinary research on global freshwater systems. In an attempt to bridge disciplinary divides, the essays in this volume address the challenge in studying the intersection of biophysical and human sociocultural systems in the age of the Anthropocene, a new geological epoch of humans’ own making. Featuring contributions from authors in a rich diversity of disciplines—from toxicology to archaeology to philosophy— this book is an excellent resource for students and scholars studying both freshwater systems and the Anthropocene.