On Water Protectors In the spring of 2016, a group of young, Native activists began protesting the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline. Their decision to protect their local waters set off one of the most impactful protests in recent history. I don’t know where you were during that time, but for me, as a …
On Snow I’ll always remember the first time I heard George Duffy talk about snow. We were out for a beer with colleagues—back when George was still a Ph.D. student in Vanderbilt’s Earth and Environmental Science department—and I asked him about his research. George lit up while talking about his work. Not only is he …
On Ice While the seventh episode of Art of Interference on “Ice” (S1E7) focuses on the use of the medium of ice as an archive for storing materials for future generations, ice—and glaciers in particular—are also being engaged as sites for mourning loss as an ongoing feature of a warming planet. Since 2019, funerals have …
On “Oceans” We recorded our interviews for episode 6: “Oceans” across vast stretches of water (and land). Our conversation with Juliana Snapper and Andrew Infanti was literally all over the place. Juliana was in Izimir (Turkey), Andrew in Paris, my cohost Joy Calico in Nashville, and I was in Montevideo (Uruguay), looking down on the …
About “Rivers” (season 1, episode 5) I first encountered Carolina Caycedo’s work–which is at the center of episode 5–while doing some research for my Master’s thesis, which focused on the aesthetics of water reclamation in the western United States. Caycedo’s work struck and inspired me from the moment I saw it. At that point in …
On Waves Carsten Nicolai’s work as a sound artist, composer, musician, and installation artist has fascinated me for many years. I visited one of his quite experimental perfomances in his native city of Chemnitz, Germany, in fall 2016, and I have written a bit about his installation tele of 2018 in my book on Resonant …
For Art of Interference’s third episode, we take you on a tour through the floods that live in our memory, whether recent like the 2010 flood in Nashville or in Tori’s hometown of Ellicott City, or distant like the one that spared Noah and pairs of animals. Artist Eve Mosher shares her work High Water …
I am so excited announce the release of Art of Interference’s second episode, which focuses on the strange and enchanting phenomenon of fog. For this episode, I traveled to Munich, Germany to experience Fujiko Nakaya’s enchanting fog sculptures at the Haus der Kunst, which we study throughout the episode. Seeing Nakaya’s sculptures in person was truly …
We are happy to announce the inaugural episode of Art of Interference. This new podcast is produced at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. It has been made possible with the generous support of the Climate Studies Fund of the College of Arts & Science. We—Jen Gutman, Tori Hoover, Maren Loveland, Emma Reimers, and Lutz Koepnick—have …