[rohrpost] new publication: Plastic Ocean: Art and Science Responses to, Marine Pollution, De Gruyter, 2021

[Ingeborg Reichle]

NEW PUBLICATION

Plastic Ocean: Art and Science Responses to Marine Pollution, Berlin,
Boston: De Gruyter, 2021

Edited by Ingeborg Reichle

Our oceans are in an ecological crisis due to their contamination with
millions of tons of toxic microplastic particles. In just a few years,
the volume of microplastic particles will exceed that of plankton in
our oceans and turn them into a huge sea of plastic. This publication
brings together numerous international art projects related to
environmental activities, DIY biotechnology, and science, and draws
attention to the irreversible destruction of our marine ecosystems –
the current threat posed by the loss of marine animal biodiversity,
for example, or the decline in oxygen production due to massive
plankton loss, to raise awareness about the impact of mass consumerism
and environmental injustice, from which countries of the Global South
are suffering disproportionately. It also presents current scientific
findings on sustainable alternatives to plastic.

With contributions by Dianna Cohen, Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor, Regine
Rapp, Christian de Lutz, Mary Maggic, Robertina Šebjanič, Brandon
Ballengée, Victoria Vesna, Martina R. Fröschl, Alfred Vendl, Reiner
Maria Matysik, Ingeborg Reichle, Thomas Schwaha, Stephan Handschuh,
María Antonia González Valerio, Rosaura Martínez Ruiz, Pinar Yoldas,
and Michael Sauer.

Table of contents

07 | Acknowledgments

08 | Introduction: Who Lives in the Plastisphere? Art and Science
Responses to Plastic Pollution, Ingeborg Reichle

20 | Downhill from Everywhere: Plastic Pollution Coalition and the
Force of Art, Dianna Cohen and Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor

40 | Artistic Research and Ecology: Pollution, Plastic, Water, Regine
Rapp and Christian de Lutz

62 | Toxic Plastic Politics: Rethinking Plastic Pollution through Art
and Activism, Ingeborg Reichle

79 | From An Ecosystem of Excess to Hollow Ocean: Affective Learning
in the Service of EcoActivism, Pinar Yoldas

98 | All Washed Over by Hormones of Loving Grace, Mary Maggic

112 | Some Working Notes on Searching for the Ghosts of the Gulf,
Brandon Ballengée

134 | Aquatocene: A Subaquatic Quest for Serenity, Robertina Šebjanič

156 | NOISE AQUARIUM: Iterations, Variations, and Responsive
Ecotistical Work, Victoria Vesna

178 | Computer-Animated Fluidity for Stiff Datasets and the
Visualization of Underwater Noise, Martina R. Fröschl and Alfred Vendl

196 | From Live Imaging to 3D Modeling: A Guide to Documentation and
Processing of Planktonic Organisms, Thomas Schwaha and Stephan Handschuh

212 | I AM A RADIOLARIAN, Reiner Maria Matysik

228 | Meta Instructions to Instructions to Build a Species: Performing
Philosophy through Arts, María Antonia González Valerio and Rosaura
Martínez Ruiz

248 | About »Bio-« to Alleviate the Detrimental Impacts of Plastics on
the Sea, Michael Sauer

265 | Notes on Contributors


Electronic
ISBN: 9783110744774

Hardcover
ISBN: 9783110744729

Date: June 21, 2021
Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021
Pages: 272, 160 colored illustrations
Format: 20 x 25 cm
Keywords: Anthropocene; contemporary art; marine research; ecological
crisis; visualization

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