Deep Time Chicago 2016–
Cultural Change in the Anthropocene
Deep Time Chicago is an art/research/activism initiative formed in the wake of the Anthropocene Campus held at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin, in 2016. The specific goal of the initiative is to explore the idea of humanity as a geological agency, capable of disrupting the Earth system and inscribing present modes of existence into deep time. Knitting together group readings, guided walks, lectures, panels, screenings, performances, publications, and exhibitions, a public research trajectory is being developed within the framework of Deep Time Chicago, offering a variety of formats where inhabitants of the Chicago area can grapple with the crucial questions of global ecological change.
- projectJeremy Bolen, Lorraine Daston, Evan Graham, Ryan Griffis, Brian Holmes, Jenny Magnus, Caroline Picard, Oliver Sann, Julia Sharpe, Shawn Michelle Smith, Ellie Tse, Guanyu Xu, Andrew Yang, Viviana de la Rosa
Deep Time Chicago Pamphlet Series
Deep Time Chicago’ pamphlets delve into the problems, paradoxes and potentials of human and non-human life in a rapidly destabilizing ecosystem.
Case Study, Conversation, Field Work, Deep time, Education, Knowledge production, Stratigraphy, History, Agriculture, Human-animal relations, Human-environment relations
- contributionAndrew Yang
a n t h r o p o z i n e # 0
“Are we in the Anthropocene?” This publication documents a series of interviews with participants from the Anthropocene Campus in 2014 at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW).
Reflection, Deep time, History
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes, Andrew Yang
Walk About It
This event series by Deep Time Chicago aims for a scientific and artistic approach to nature which is based on lived experiece.
Field Work, Deep time, Spatial, Landscape, Human-environment relations, Urban
- contributionRohini Devasher, Caroline Picard
The Video is Basket Is a Telescope
Caroline Picard and Rohini Devasher in conversation about patterns, noise, chaos, and the contemporary conditions of wonder.
Conversation, Perception, Pollution, Life
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Caroline Picard, Emily Eliza Scott, Andrew Yang
The Aesthetic Origins of the Anthropocene
Given the importance of the “start” for the entire Anthropocene narrative, we should consider an aesthetic approach to the question.
Conversation, Reflection, Aesthetics, Affect, Deep time
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Andrew Yang
Potency and Partial Knowledge. An Exercise
While the vast macro and micro scales of the technosphere can be difficult to grapple with, so too is the complexity of its many interactions. The artists Andrew Yang and Jeremy Bolen propose a modest attunement exercise to counter this inaccessibility.
Experiment, Sensing, Sound, Technosphere, Complexity, Scale, Knowledge infrastructure, Perception
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Jenny Kendler
Lounging Through the Flood
Intervention, Experiment, Water, Flood, Aesthetics, Imaginary
- contributionBeate Geissler, Ryan Griffis, Brian Holmes, Karin Knorr-Cetina, Claire Pentecost, Oliver Sann
Meet the Technosphere
How can we grasp the immense physical and temporal dimensions of the technosphere and why should we isolate the human agency within it? An argument for taking a metropolitan perspective.
Engagement, Reflection, Storytelling, Governance, Economy, Urbanism, Technosphere, System, Scale, Great Acceleration
- contributionJeremy Bolen, Temporary continent.
Time Out Of Mind
Jeremy Bolen traces the various human interventions that have shaped Cache River Valley in Southern Illinois, asking what can be learned from this landscape.
Conversation, Engagement, Sound, Ecology, Human-environment relations, Engineering, Adaptation
