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Tracking Our Atomic Legacy
‘Now we are all sons of bitches.’ – Test director Kenneth Bainbridge to J. Robert Oppenheimer, while watching the first atomic bomb test ‘It is dark disaster that brings the light.’ – Maurice Blanchot, The Writing of the Disaster I. ARCHIVE THROUGH TRACKING THE INVISIBLE TRACES left behind by the nuclear weapons complex and its […]
Nuked Notes: Free Radical Journey
PROLOGUE SHOPPING IN MY LOCAL CO-OP MARKET, contemplating the purchase of some wild salmon, I ask the friendly counterman if he knows the fish’s origin. ‘Alaska,’ he replies. ‘Are there tests being done on the fish?’ I continue. ‘For what?’ he asks innocently. ‘To see if it’s radioactive,’ I reply. ‘No,’ he shakes his head, […]
Infinity City: An Atomic Pilgrimage
INTRODUCTION ONE OF MY EARLIEST MEMORIES IS driving with my parents through Los Angeles and spotting a bomb shelter on a front lawn. I remember duck and cover exercises in junior high school, and checking where bomb shelter signs were posted in my neighborhood. The specter of the bomb hung over our lives and lurked […]
Feb 12: Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer
Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer Sunday, February 12, 2012 3:00 pm The Noguchi Museum How can individuals and communities make sense of fragmented, confusing and often overwhelming news and data about climate change? The nervous system that interweaves artists, researchers, and the concerned public is largely disconnected. How can we make a […]
Colorado: The Flood Marker Project
INTRODUCTION GILBERT FOWLER WHITE, CALLED “THE MOST renowned geographer internationally of the twentieth century,’ was my father. The Flood Level Marker public art project described here is a tribute to Gilbert’s conviction that controlling and bending nature to human will is not a workable path towards global sustainability. As early as 1942, he […]