Visualizing Oceanography
Pacific Collaborations in Art and Science Research
Visualizing Oceanography
Pacific Collaborations in Art and Science Research
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Description
In an era of climate crisis, the ocean has become a key site and symbol of our planetary future. How can we document its fragility while continuing to explore the life and hope it holds?
70% of Earth's surface is covered by oceans, and yet they are the least visualized and visualizable planetary medium. Responding to this quandary, these agenda-setting essays explore the ways in which the graphic and digital arts have been integral to shaping the history of oceanography and our ocean planet future, presenting an array of sensory research done in and around the Pacific Ocean.
Visualizing Oceanography presents collaborations among scientists, artists, and writers that demonstrate the value of adopting the methods and perspectives of visual studies for the understanding and analysis of oceans and their social, political, economic and cultural relevance. The case studies presented here all advance the recognition of oceanography as a visual science deeply engaged in sensory media practice and aesthetic research, spanning early plankton cameras to unmanned remote data sensors; sonification works engaging with data from coral reefs to soundscapes of the Marshall Island legacy of nuclear displacement and decimation; AI cephalopods with emotional capabilities; and Indigenous design and production of ocean vessels as knowledge platforms. The case studies presented here all advance the recognition of oceanography as a visual science deeply engaged in sensory media practice and aesthetic research responding to some of our most pressing planetary crises.
Foregrounding socially engaged practice, and heavily illustrated, the book presents new ways of thinking about ocean and planetary sciences more broadly – offering comparative modelling useful for considering the rest of the world's oceans through research that is both interdisciplinary, across the arts and sciences, and intercultural. It is inclusive of feminist, queer, and Indigenous practices, and recognises, finally, oceanography as a visual, graphic field alive with sensory experience and embodied knowledge.
Table of Contents
1. Mosaic Ocean: Artforms of Observation at Scripps Pier, Melody Jue (University of California, USA) with Judit Hersko (California State University San Marcos, USA) and Jules Jaffe (UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
2. Through a Porcelain Cast: Sound, Shadows, and Zooplankton, Claudine Arendt with Sven Gastauer (Thünen Institute, Germany) and Mark D. Ohman (UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
3. Vessel Haptics: Through a Porcelain Cast, Clarissa Chevalier (University of California San Diego, USA)
4. Between Tactile and Digital: Zooplankton, Visual Science Studies, and the Automation of Oceanographic Observation, Dante Capone (UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA) and Clarissa Chevalier (University of California San Diego, USA)
5. Drawing Down the Microscope: Women in the Field of Plankton Visuality, Stephania Torres-Londono, Lisa Cartwright (University of California, USA), and Jeffrey Stuker (Artist, USA)
6. Passengers of Change and the Ballast Bench, Joe Riley (California State University at San Marcos, USA), Audrey Snyder (Artist, USA), and Danielle McHaskell (UCSD Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA)
7. Pandemic Waves, Then and Now - Metaphorical, Mathematical, Modulated, David S. Jones (Harvard University, USA), Stefan Helmreich (MIT, USA), and Gabi Schaffzin (York University, Canada)
8. Ha kwaiyo, vessels for Kumeyaay ocean culture, Nan Renner in conversation with Stan Rodriguez, Ana Gloria (Martha) Rodriguez, Priscilla Ortiz-Sawah
9. North Star: Approaching Platform Holly, Louis Hock (Artist, USA)
10: Home, Illuminated by Sound: An Electronic Album, Lei Liang (UC San Diego, USA)
11. R/P FLIP R.I.P.: Research Platform, Artwork, Interview, Orientation, Rachel Mayeri with Deborah Forster and Lisa Cartwright (University of California, USA)
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Product details
| Published | 01 Apr 2027 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350526204 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Visual Arts |
| Illustrations | 114 colour illus |
| Dimensions | 234 x 156 mm |
| Series | Biotechne: Interthinking Art, Science and Design |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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