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Watch a replay of our Art + Research Center Summer 2025 Symposium lecture by Stephanie Wakefield: Art Against Man: A Postmortem on Climate Art and Design
While climate change art is at the epicenter of the ‘painted protest,’ the past decade’s reduction of culture to a medium of social activism in the service of ‘the resistance,’ the roots of this aesthetic phenomenon are much deeper. In fact, since the 1960s art, design, and nature have been welded into an ideological tool —martial, didactic, and imaginal— to overturn Western frameworks and enforce alignment with anti-humanism, including through design of physical environments. Considering this operationalization philosophically and technically, the lecture explores the role nature-related art and design played in constructing the global imaginary of climate crisis and vulnerable cities. Declaring that sequence finished and the 21st century begun, the lecture outlines another relationship between art and design, nature and technology, one more appropriate for our accelerating, networked present of spiritual rebirth and Martian cities and AI hallucinations.
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Watch a replay of our Art + Research Center Summer 2025 Symposium lecture by Stephanie Wakefield: Art Against Man: A Postmortem on Climate Art and Design
While climate change art is at the epicenter of the ‘painted protest,’ the past decade’s reduction of culture to a medium of social activism in the service of ‘the resistance,’ the roots of this aesthetic phenomenon are much deeper. In fact, since the 1960s art, design, and nature have been welded into an ideological tool —martial, didactic, and imaginal— to overturn Western frameworks and enforce alignment with anti-humanism, including through design of physical environments. Considering this operationalization philosophically and technically, the lecture explores the role nature-related art and design played in constructing the global imaginary of climate crisis and vulnerable cities. Declaring that sequence finished and the 21st century begun, the lecture outlines another relationship between art and design, nature and technology, one more appropriate for our accelerating, networked present of spiritual rebirth and Martian cities and AI hallucinations.
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