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Students learn technological and analog art practices alongside conservation biology in Tambopata, Peru. Collaborating professors include conservation biologists Letty Salinas Sánchez and Samia Carrillo-Percastegui.

Lucy HG Solomon introduces student artists to interdisciplinary practices that orient their designs to ecosystemic thinking. She teaches art in tandem with scientific researchers and emphasizes technological innovation that is grounded in environmental ethics. At California State University San Marcos, she teaches a range of art and design courses centered around sustainability and the environment, including: Data Visualization; Art and Science; Art, Technology, and the Environment; Design and Invention; Materials and Processes; and Digital and Media Arts.

Funded by a Campus as a Living Lab grant, the Data Stacks is a modular exhibition space in CSUSM’s Kellogg Library for the display of data visualization surrounding sustainability. Pictured projects include a study comparing water quality to a neighborhood’s demographics, groundwater flow from campus to the ocean, and commuter patterns of members of the university community.a modular exhibition space in CSUSM’s Kellogg Library for the display of data visualization surrounding sustainability, with above image including studies comparing water quality to a neighborhood’s demographics, groundwater flow from campus to the ocean, and commuter patterns of members of the university community
Funded by a Campus as a Living Lab grant, the Data Stacks is a modular exhibition space in CSUSM’s Kellogg Library for the display of data visualization surrounding sustainability. Pictured projects include a study comparing water quality to a neighborhood’s demographics, groundwater flow from campus to the ocean, and commuter patterns of members of the university community.a modular exhibition space in CSUSM’s Kellogg Library for the display of data visualization surrounding sustainability, with above image including studies comparing water quality to a neighborhood’s demographics, groundwater flow from campus to the ocean, and commuter patterns of members of the university communityDaTA Lab: Data Stacks with art by (Left) Mei-ling Mirrow; Jake Northington; Jorge Avilez, Christopher Boyd; Darh’Ra Williams-Toney; Kaitlen Boe, Ashley Hollis, Devni Samaranayake; Summer Blahnik; Elmer Blaikie
Course: Data Visualization — three-dimensional graphing of the danger to the world’s cities from rising sea levels, with the length of iron corresponding to the level of threat from rising seas; inspired by traditional Chinese iron art
Course: Data Visualization — three-dimensional graphing of the danger to the world’s cities from rising sea levels, with the length of iron corresponding to the level of threat from rising seas; inspired by traditional Chinese iron artZhiwei Li: Sustainable Cities
Jonathan Collins: Amplexus Reproduction
Course: Art and Science — an examination of the leucistic gene in mating Spanish ribbed newts, with a focus on behavioral and physical traitsJonathan Collins: Amplexus Reproduction
Katherine French: Site-specific Water Study
Course: Art and Science — water samples from different lagoons, of varying quality and salinity, used in watercolor paintings of the sites of the sourcesKatherine French: Site-specific Water Study
Monica Muro: Myth-making and Future-telling
Course: Art, the Environment, and Technology — tale of an island set in a world dominated by consumerism, which has displaced the island’s flora and faunaMonica Muro: Myth-making and Future-telling
Victoria Rios: Macro and Micro Perspectives of a Plant
Course: Art, the Environment, and Technology — photographic documentation of the growth of a Calathea plant and the time-based study of how individual elements make up the wholeVictoria Rios: Macro and Micro Perspectives of a Plant
Course: Design and Invention — designs for wind instruments with sounds generated by the wind
Course: Design and Invention — designs for wind instruments with sounds generated by the windXinyi Xu: Windy Forest (left) and Chenkun Xu: Windmill Instrument
Smog Printing: Workshop with artist Kim Abeles in course, Data Visualization — participatory smog printing
Smog Printing: Workshop with artist Kim Abeles in course, Data Visualization — participatory smog printingSmog Printing with Kim Abeles
Course: Data Visualization — Charting sustainability with self-studies mined from personal research and conveyed through digital media or an installation
Course: Data Visualization — Charting sustainability with self-studies mined from personal research and conveyed through digital media or an installationClarissa Fortis: Carbon Footprint Offset with Pixels (left); Caleb Rabadan: Sketch for installation, Graphing Waste Data (middle); Alanna Tse (right): Charting Personal Energy Use
Course: Independent Studies - Hands-on STEAM kit for K-12 schoolchildren, who learn about gear ratios and umbrella species as they create a kinetic sculpture for the classroom; funded by a grant from the Office for Community Engagement and developed in collaboration with conservation biologists in order to teach global schoolchildren the value of umbrella species like the jaguar.
Course: Independent Studies - Hands-on STEAM kit for K-12 schoolchildren, who learn about gear ratios and umbrella species as they create a kinetic sculpture for the classroom; funded by a grant from the Office for Community Engagement and developed in collaboration with conservation biologists in order to teach global schoolchildren the value of umbrella species like the jaguar.DaTA Lab: Jaguar Umbrella
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