Sights | Sounds: exploring a century of change
How can we understand the extent of environmental change when changes began before we were born? Can we deeply feel these changes or is our current reality so different that it limits understanding?
Photographer Mary Whalen and I bring together art and science to understand and visualize environmental change. Our work merges photographs of museum specimens and landscapes with soundscape recordings and data visualization to experience changes in grassland bird communities over the last century.
Project funded by an Interdisciplinary Research Grant from the College of Arts and Sciences and a Faculty Research and Creative Arts Award from Western Michigan University.
Selected exhibitions
2018
Division of Birds, Kalamazoo Nature Center (Education for the Arts (EFA) program offered by KRESA.)
2017
Division of Birds, Western Michigan University