Peer-reviewed publications
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Artnodes 2024
Breathe for Ella: artivism, intersectionality, and sensing air pollution
This contribution to the "media artivism" issue applies ethnography and media / interfaces theory to a political discussion of sensing air pollution in London, with the case study of Ella Kissi-Debrah and artist Dryden Goodwin's Breathe:2022. Key topics include the Clean Air (Human Rights) Bill (aka 'Ella's Law'), intersectionality, and the right to breathe.
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Cultural Geographies 2024
Exhibiting toxicity: sprayed strawberries and geographies of hope
Exposición was a 2022 art exhibition that explored seasonal farm labourers’ exposure to strawberry herbicides in Andalusia. Drawing upon a collaboration of art, social geography and soil science, this article reflects on the role of exhibition design in communicating the lived experiences of heavily polluted places in multisensory and political ways.
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Sentio Journal, 2024
Imag(in)ing Saharan dust
This contribution to a postgraduate journal investigates weather stories and power relations, focusing on "Saharan" dust episodes in Western Europe. Drawing on media studies, the text is supplemented with visual research processes that disturb the familiar composition and materiality of satellite images, inviting the perceiver to "drift" with dust.
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EPD: Society and Space 2023
Weathering Saharan dust beyond the Spanish Mediterranean Basin: an interdisciplinary dialogue
Saharan dust is a biogenic form of transcontinental air pollution steeped in cultural attitudes towards weather and mobilities. This paper approaches the topic via a culture-climate dialogue with Jorge Olcina Cantos and creative engagement with satellite images. The dialogue explores the societal implications of defining and measuring dust in specific ways and speculates about what alternatives might look like.
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Routledge Handbook of Digital Environmental Humanities 2022
Chemo creatures in a digital ocean! The making of a speculative ecosystem
boredomresearch designed the fictitious Chemozoa and their underwater world through interactions with scientists from the Arizona Cancer Evolution Center (ACE). This chapter explores how the interdisciplinary project uses digital technologies and media conventions to simulate paradigms for life capable of producing emergent ecological relations.
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Venti 2021
Breathing worlds
Lucy and Derek McCormack describe an artistic research project with Modern Art Oxford in 2020. They put forward the idea of 'breathing worlds' as a process and noun that gestures both to the conditions in which breathing takes place and to the labor that goes into making and modifying these conditions: 'Breathing worlds as both noun and verb. As worlds that breathe. Worlds that were breathed into being by others...'.
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