Climate Art & Action Incubator - Visualizing The Climate Crisis in Film and 3D, Plus: A Tasting of Foraged Foods and Beverages
Take a break from the end-of-semester frenzy and join us for a screening of films and 3D projects addressing a variety of climate change issues by Tisch School of the Arts professors Prof. Zoya Baker (Dept. of Undergraduate Film & Television), Prof. Snow Yunxue Fu and 10 of her students (Institute of Emerging Media), and 2023-2024 Future Imagination Collaboratory (FIC) Researcher Candace Thompson.
After the screening, Candace Thompson will talk about adapting urban food systems to the climate crisis, present their “The Collaborative Urban Resistance Banquet” (aka The C.U.R.B.) project, and give us tasty insights into foraged foods and beverages from the NYC area.
Zoya Baker’s 17-minute documentary, Cranberry Lake is about undergraduate ecology students taking immersive field courses in the Adirondacks.
Zoya Baker is a filmmaker based in New York City. Her work explores relationships with the natural world through animation and hybrid storytelling. She has received grants from The New York Foundation for the Arts, The National Board of Review, and ASIFA Hollywood. Zoya has an MFA from Hunter College Integrated Media Arts program. She is an Associate Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
Snow Yunxue Fu’s virtual reality project, Trench is set in a digitally simulated space resembling an abstracted oceanic environment not unlike the Mariana Trench.
3D projects by Prof. Fu’s students: Dawson Batchelder, Austin Fenn, Andrés Lemus Acevedo, Elizabeth Speiser, Shentong Yu, Tonia Zhang, Yuanqing Xie, June Bee, Jerry Zhao, and Jessica Dai.
Snow Yunxue Fu is a New Media Artist, Curator, and Assistant Arts Professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Institute of Emerging Media. Working with imaging technologies, such as 3D simulation, AR, XR, and the Metaverse, she creates computer-rendered images, moving images, interactive projects, installations, etc. She merges sociological, anthropological, philosophical, and interdisciplinary explorations into the universal aesthetic and definitive nature of the techno sublime. Fu’s work has been exhibited globally in the Venice Architecture Biennale, Times Square ZAZ Billboard, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Pioneer Works, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago Game Space, Saatchi Art, Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Duende Art Museum, the NADA Art Fair, etc., and her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Pearl River Delta Art News.
Candace Thompson’s 11-minute short film dives into urban food systems and their NYC-based “Collaborative Urban Resistance Banquet” (C.U.R.B.). C.U.R.B. uses citizen science, non-human storytelling, and foraged community meals to unpack the complexities of edible urban ecosystems and imagine a future where the streets are clean enough to eat off.
Candace Thompson is a 2023-2024 Future Imagination Collaboratory (FIC) Researcher. Their work explores adapting urban food systems to the climate crisis, including the NYC-based “Collaborative Urban Resistance Banquet” (The C.U.R.B.) and “Let’s Talk about Food”. Thompson manages Stuyvesant Cove Park, a two-acre native food forest in lower Manhattan, where they design community education events and bring together artists, urban farmers, scientists, and activists to increase access to real-world solutions related to climate, social, and food justice.
This event is organized by the NYU Climate Art & Action Incubator, run by Prof. Eric Dickson (Dept. of Political Science, CAS) and Prof. Gesche Würfel (Dept. of Photography & Imaging, NYU Tisch). The Incubator seeks to create a platform for climate change-focused art and will enrich NYU students and cultural life through themed events, artist talks, workshops, and a student art show. The project also aims to influence students' mental health positively.