Keyword: Sedimentation
- projectChristoph Rosol, Giulia Rispoli, Katrin Klingan, Anna Echterhölter, Nigel Clark, Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Desiree Foerster, Myriel Milićević, Karolina Sobecka, Alexandra Toland, Clemens Winkler, Kat Austen, Kristine L. DeLong, Jens Zinke, Victor Galaz, Simon Turner, Susan Schuppli, Liz Thomas, Niklas Hoffmann-Walbeck
Evidence Ensembles Publication
Conversation, Archiving, Sensing, Intervention, Consensus, Critical materials, Deep time, Knowledge infrastructure, Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Complexity
- contributionAnthropocene Working Group
The Geology and Culture of the Anthropocene
In this audio episode, we hear from various participants of the Unearthing the Present event and discuss the science and sociopolitical implications of the Anthropocene.
Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Knowledge production, Human-environment relations, Anthropos
- contributionJamie Allen, Catherine Russell
It All Begins on the Surface
A conversation between Dr. Catherine Russell, Anthropocene sedimentologist and Dr. Jamie Allen, an artist and media researcher.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Water
- contributionAnthony D. Barnosky, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Allison Stegner
How to Read a Changing Earth?
A live annotation of a sediment core from the Searsville Lake uncovered the anthropogenic markers inscribed into this stratigraphic material.
Archiving, Conversation, Field Work, Deep time, Stratigraphy, Data, Holocene, Sedimentation, Water
- contributionKat Austen, Juliana A. Ivar do Sul, Jérôme Kaiser, Joana MacLean, Georg N. Schäfer
What’s So Micro About Plastics?
What does the Baltic Sea drill core reveal about microplastics and the difficulty of defining their sources? Part of Unearthing the Present in May 2022.
Teaching, Biosphere, Commodities, Critical materials, Degradation, Education, Future, Human-environment relations, Ocean, Pollution, Sedimentation
- contributionAnthropocene Working Group
Anthropocene Working Group Public Forum
As part of the Unearthing the Present events in May 2022, the public were given the opportunity to ask questions members of the AWG questions about their work.
Anthropos, Human-environment relations, Stratigraphy, Knowledge production, Sedimentation
- projectArmin Linke, Giulia Bruno, Linda van Deursen
Earth Indices
A project by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Intervention, Field Work, Conversation, Data, Holocene, Media, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Landscape
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Unearthing the Present
What is the new geological epoch made of? Unearthing the Present connected the geological analysis of the present with a discussion of the changing scope for social and political agency.
Conversation, Case Study, Field Work, Experiment, Monitoring, Agency, Anthropos, Biosphere, Carbon, Climate change, Data, Deep time, Extraction, Ocean, Radioactivity, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy
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Core Readings
For the opening night of Unearthing the Present, scientists, researchers and artists undertake a series of close readings in the stratigraphic archives of the Anthropocene.
Conversation, Engagement, Field Work, Stratigraphy, Sedimentation, Holocene, Deep time
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Anthropocene Working Group. A Scientific Forum
During Unearthing the Present, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) will present the conclusive stratigraphic findings from twelve sites that hold the potential to become a GSSP for the formal demarcation of the Anthropocene.
Case Study, Consensus Building, Conversation, Stratigraphy, Holocene, Deep time, Landscape, Ocean, Data, Sedimentation
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Earth Indices
An exhibition by artists Giulia Bruno and Armin Linke explores the scientific and social conditions producing the new geological epoch, the Anthropocene.
Archiving, Intervention, Field Work, Data, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Holocene, Sedimentation
- contributionNina Canell and Robin Watkins
Silurian Harvest
Artists Nina Canell and Robin Watkins recover the deep-time aquatic past of the limestone environment that formed the island of Gotland and delineate the temporal entanglements between ancient life creation and modern-day living.
Sensing, Field Work, Aesthetics, Critical materials, Deep time, Degradation, Future, Economy, History, Human-environment relations, Sedimentation
- contributionChristoph Rosol
When the Signal Disappears in the Noise
Christoph Rosol reflects on the disturbing schism between geoscientific insights and the info-capitalist modus operandi diluting these insights to mere noise. Are we ready to comprehend what the Earth has already recorded?
Reflection, Capitalism, Consensus, Epistemology, Future, Sedimentation, Stratigraphy, Technoscience, System
- Field Notesimon.turner
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London, United Kingdom
Storytelling, Field Study, Field Work, Experiment, Deep time, Erosion, Flood, History, Human-environment relations, Imaginary, Landscape, Sedimentation
- contributionAndrew Gustin, Temporary continent.
Enter Anthropocene: Searching for signal in New Orleans
Despite this quest to identify a formally recognized boundary, perhaps uncertainty is the most effective means of furthering societal recognition of the complexities of human impact.
Conversation, Reflection, Field Work, Stratigraphy, Deep time, Complexity, Human-environment relations, Sedimentation
- contributionSadie Luetmer
Seminar Film: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
This short film offers insights into the perspectives and methods of the seminar on “Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability,” which took place within the framework of the Anthropocene River Campus, 2019.
Field Work, Engineering, Technosphere, Infrastructure, Sedimentation
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Louisiana, USA
Autonomy, Energy, Evolution, Ocean, Sedimentation
- Field Notemira.witte_admin
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Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana, USA
Field Study, Deep time, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Sand, Mud, Clay
- Field NoteAmalia
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Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
Engineering, Infrastructure, Scale, Sedimentation, Risk
- Field Notebsteininger
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Donaldsonville, Louisiana, USA
Storytelling, Field Study, Agriculture, Biosphere, Capitalism, Commodities, Erosion, Landscape, Sedimentation, Industrialization, Geochemistry, River journey, Catalysis, Time
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Carbon, Climate change, Deep time, Energy, Erosion, Mining, Sedimentation, Seismic, Glaciation, Extraction
- Field Noteemily.sekine
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Sensing, Storytelling, Field Work, Engagement, Conversation, Landscape, Perception, Sedimentation, River journey, Confluence
- contributionTemporary continent., Louise Carver
Mater and Mattering the Mississippi: Mother River and Mother Tongues
Honing in on the “sentiment” that acts as one of the focuses of Field Station 1, in this text, Louise Carver for Temporary continent. considers how the Mississippi River can be read as an embodiment of matrilineal flow.
Film, Storytelling, Reflection, Biodiversity, Ecology, Sedimentation, Care
- Field Notetemporarycontinent
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St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Commodities, Ecology, Energy, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Transport, Barge
- contributionSteve Gough, Anna Durrett
Little River Research & Design
The models produced by Little River Research & Design convey an acutely material consciousness of the relentless processes of change that shape the Mississippi River.
Modeling, Mapping, Engagement, Model, Education, Sedimentation, Water
- contributionAgnieszka Gałuszka
Environmental Geochemistry of River Sediments
What do the layers of river sedimentation reveal about the human impact on the Mississippi river system?
Case Study, Field Work, Sedimentation, Water, Human-environment relations, Stratigraphy, Geochemistry
- contributionJan Zalasiewicz, Colin Waters, Mark Williams, Catherine Russell
The Four-Dimensional Mississippi
How did the Mississippi River become both cause and register of anthropocenic changes and what do these changes reveal about the Mississippi’s future?
Reflection, Deep time, Time, History, Topology, Sedimentation, Water, Climate change
- projectSally Donovan
Suspended Solids
A chromatic record of the intimate relationship between the Mississippi River and its surrounding soils.
Field Study, Sensing, Monitoring, Aesthetics, Pollution, Toxicity, Sedimentation, Water
- projectImani Jacqueline Brown
Before I Know You
A project on the ephemeral art of carving water.
Field Study, Storytelling, Ecology, History, Imaginary, Speculative, Water, Sedimentation, Energy, Pollution, Agriculture
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Field Station 1 | Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment: The Machinic River
Boat and walking tours, sound installations, workshops, panel discussions and film screenings around the Twin Cities region explore the Mississippi River as a space of intervention and experimentation.
Case Study, Storytelling, Reflection, Sound, Film, Infrastructure, Sedimentation, Water, History, Energy, Engineering, Aesthetics, Mechanosphere, Settler Colonialism, Inequality, Technosphere, Environmental Justice
- projectDerek Hoeferlin, Jorg Sieweke, Jelagat Cheruiyot, Aron Chang, Nikiwe Solomon, Tanya James, Cyndhia Ramatchandirane, Greta Gladney, Richard Hindle
Seminar: Un/bounded Engineering and Evolutionary Stability
The role of engineering river systems toward human aims and the consequences this has on multiple scales is the key concern of this seminar.
Case Study, Teaching, Engineering, Evolution, Human-environment relations, Infrastructure, Complexity, Ecology, Disaster, Technoscience, Technosphere, Risk, Sedimentation
- projectAmy Lesen, Catherine Russell, Bruce Sunpie Barnes, Scott Wing
Seminar: Clashing Temporalities
This seminar brings concepts of time, layers, and sediment into close contact with the human sciences, the arts, and Pierre Part, a community who live according to the movements of the River.
Case Study, Teaching, Time, Deep time, Adaptation, Agriculture, Biosphere, Evolution, Metabolism, Human-environment relations, Water, Waste, History, Sedimentation, Erosion
- projectJeremy Bolen, Brian Kirkbride, Brian Holmes
Born Secret
A mythologized Uranium enrichment facility in Honeywell sets the scene for radioisotopes that are key markers for determining the Anthropocene.
Storytelling, Radioactivity, Speculative, Imaginary, Energy, Sedimentation
- projectMorgan Adamson, Mark Borrello, Bruce Braun, Andrea Carlson, Jen Caruso, Jodi Enos-Berlage, Tia-Simone Gardner, Monica Moses Haller, Jane Hawley, Simi Kang, Anya Kaplan-Seem, John Kim, Boris Oicherman, Roopali Phadke, Max Ritts, Daniela Sandler, Jenny Schmid, Joe Underhill, Michael Winikoff, Simona Zappas
Field Station 1: Sediment, Settlement, Sentiment
The stretch of the Mississippi between Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa is marked both by its “natural” and “anthropogenic” origin.
Case Study, Field Work, Field Study, Storytelling, Sensing, Sedimentation, Local knowledge, Capitalism, Water, Engineering, Infrastructure, Aesthetics, Governance, Settler Colonialism, Violence, Environmental Justice
