Exhibition Display

Human Error

Of all the affordances provided by technology, we use it to corrupt our world. As technology is misused, a glitch appears. We are exposed to the uncanny, eliciting discomfort. This body of work recreates these feelings with databent, appropriated photographs that document causes and effects of climate change. Thereby, our contributions to climate change are shown as glitches – the direct results of technological misuse. Emotions evoked from such distressing imagery cannot be met with complacency. Rather, they demand action for the sake of our world.

Monitor 1 Images

Waffle House is known for its propensity to remain open, even in the most extreme of weather conditions. FEMA now uses the “Waffle House Index,” a metric derived from Waffle House closures to influence evacuation orders.

Critical Infrastructure

Coal Combustion

A coal power station near crop fields in Tongling, China. Inefficiencies in power production has made China the world’s largest emitter of carbon dioxide.

Carcasses

Dead livestock outside of a temporary drought shelter in Gabi, Ethiopia. A prolonged drought in the Horn of Africa that began in 2020 has led to the deaths of tens of thousands in the region.

Monitor 2 Images

President Donald Trump announces the U.S.’ withdraw from the Paris Climate Accord, standing in the White House Rose Garden on the first of June 2017.

Profit Over People

The extinction of Bramble Cay Melomys is the first known mammalian extinction caused by anthropogenic climate change. Rising sea levels and increased tropical storms destroyed their habitat in Australia.

Irreversible Harm

Volunteers attempting to put out a wildfire in Athens, Greece, August 12, 2024. Located on the fastest warming continent on Earth, Greece has experienced an abundance of deadly fires in recent years.

Burn Out

Monitor 3 Images

Hurricane Milton making landfall in Florida, October 9, 2024, 8:57pm, captured via the NOAA 15 satellite. Climate change has produced stronger and more frequent storms, ravaging the U.S.’ southern coast.

Storm Surge

Rising Waters

The ice shelf Larsen B collapses in the Antarctic Peninsula, March 2002. An area the size of Rhode Island, once stable for over 10,000 years, collapsed in only three months due to anthropogenic warming.

A logging operation within the Amazon Rainforest from an aerial view. Roads are constructed through densely forested lands to provide heavy machinery access to the ecosystem.

Deforestation