News from the School of IAS

Category: Research and Creative Practice

Barbara Noah’s “Toss and Turn” featured in Seattle Times

IAS faculty member Barbara Noah created a significant body of work, "Toss and Turn,” exhibited at Davidson Galleries in Seattle, September 5-28. The work contemplates climate change, transcendence, joy, our place in the universe, and the hunt for home. It was featured in the Seattle Times in a September 18 online article ...

September 23, 2019

Lauren Berliner: “When it all Clicks: Writing about Participatory Media”

IAS faculty member Lauren Berliner published "When it all Clicks: Writing about Participatory Media" in the edited volume Writing About Screen Media. Berliner's contribution draws on her experience researching and writing Producing Queer Youth: The Paradox of Digital Media Empowerment, providing advice for ...

September 20, 2019

Melanie Malone publishes article on failed implementations of no-till agriculture techniques

IAS faculty member Melanie Malone published an article in Progress in Physical Geography. "A physical and social analysis of how variations in no-till conservation practices lead to inaccurate sediment runoff estimations in agricultural watersheds" examines the social and physical complexities behind failed implementations of no-till agriculture techniques. The article emphasizes the need to ...

September 19, 2019

“How We Respond” – climate change adaptation site goes live

IAS faculty member Margaret Redsteer is a Project Advisor for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) project on Climate Change Adaptation. In that role, she advised the AAAS project on developing objectives and acted as review editor of case studies that demonstrate how science informs communities on the effects of climate change, and how they can lessen the impacts now. Housed in the AAAS’s Center for Public Engagement with Science & Technology, the “How We Respond” project ...

September 16, 2019

Jennifer Atkinson: “How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet?”

IAS faculty member Jennifer Atkinson's course on eco-grief and climate anxiety was featured in a Washington Post story titled "How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet?" The article explores how language and emotion shape our response to the climate crisis, and how terminology has evolved from "global warming" to “climate change” to “climate emergency” and "extinction" over time.

September 5, 2019

Amaranth Borsuk’s work exhibited in Kassel, Germany

IAS faculty member Amaranth Borsuk is represented in the current exhibition at the KunstTempel in Kassel, Germany, curated by Friedrich Block. POESIS: Sparchekunst/Language Art (August 29–October 6, 2019) is "snapshot of international language art," featuring 63 artists from 17 countries. The show celebrates the 20th anniversary of the gallery and Block's p0es1s project. Borsuk's text generator Book of Dust will be one of the digital artworks shown. Book of Dust pays homage to Alison Knowles and James Tenney’s A House of Dust (1967), one of the earliest examples of computationally-generated poetry. The original program generated imaginative art installations as venues for happenings and community building using the following structure:

September 5, 2019

Dan Berger on criminal justice reform plans proposed by Sanders and Warren

IAS faculty member Dan Berger coauthored an op-ed for In These Times on the criminal justice reform plans proposed by Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Berger and his coauthor, independent scholar and abolitionist Kay Whitlock, described the plans as "exciting steps forward" but also limited--particularly since most incarceration happens at the state rather than federal level. "Discussing their strengths and weaknesses ...

September 5, 2019

Minda Martin screens Ramps to Nowhere

IAS faculty member Minda Martin screened her film Ramps to Nowhere (2019) on August 17th as part of the 2019 Seattle Design Festival on top of the I-5 in freeway park. The screening was joined by 40 community members and was sponsored by Freeway Park Association and the I-5 Lid Team. ...

September 4, 2019