Events
Queens Museum: A Call for Climate Change
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October 29, 2018
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Queens Museum
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Please join us as we celebrate UN Day with a special program with UNA-USA and Climate Museum calling for climate action and paths to achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the Paris Agreement. This event will include a visit to the public art installation Climate Signals at the Unisphere in Flushing Meadows Corona Park with the artist Justin Brice Guariglia, followed by a panel discussion with sustainability agents from the city, state and UN level and the director of Climate Museum on how to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement.
The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 2015 call upon all nations to work toward a better future for all people. A habitable earth underlies all the goals. The United Nations called world leaders together to address global warming starting at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. After a series of meetings held around the world, the Paris Agreement to limit the increase in global temperature by reducing greenhouse gas emissions was signed by 195 countries in December 2015.
Shortlist
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December 8-11 2019
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Location
COP25, French Pavillion
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American artist Justin Brice Guariglia repurposes luminous highway panels to flash texts that engage displacement associated with disasters and climate change in his project REDUCE SPEED NOW! x Climate Refugee Crisis.
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The 2019 COAL Prize will be awarded at the heart of COP25, in Santiago de Chile this December, in association with the Platform on Disaster Displacement and the cultural program DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys.
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The COAL Prize is supported by the French Ministry of Ecology. It is sponsored by the European Union and the ACT network, the French Ministry of Culture, the Museum of Hunting and Nature, the François Sommer Foundation, the Platform on Disaster Displacement and DISPLACEMENT: Uncertain Journeys.
Justin Brice Guariglia, Timothy Morton & Ariane Harrison
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November 14, 2019
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Location
Pratt Institute, Higgins Hall
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The Pratt Sessions are a new format of lecture—organized by the GAUD Chair and the Dean as part of the School of Architecture’s lecture series—aiming to encourage student participation in a discussion-oriented format. Seen as a "distributed symposium," each session brings together two participants; one regionally based and one non-regionally based. Participants will frame their work (or a portion of it) around a disciplinary subject or provocation in short, non-standard lecture presentations.
Pratt Sessions explores and examines how "mediums" can be defined, re-defined, and understood within the realm of architectural design (subject one: Architectural Mediums) or how "contexts" can be defined, re-defined, and understood within the realm of architectural design (subject two: Architectural Contexts).
Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture
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November 13, 2019​
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University of Northern Iowa, Lang Hall Auditorium
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The Aldo Leopold Distinguished Lecture Series will engage the University of Northern Iowa community, providing opportunities throughout the academic year to interact with a dynamic set of visiting speakers focusing on our relationship with the natural world.
Top of the Pods: climate crisis with Olafur Eliasson, Justin Brice Guariglia and Anna Somers Cocks
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July 9, 2019
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Text from Art Newspaper:
In the second episode of our summer season of curated podcasts, we look back on three interviews, from 2018 and earlier this year, focusing on climate change and the anthropocene. Olafur Eliasson, whose retrospective at Tate Modern has just opened, talks about his project Ice Watch and his climate activism, and another artist, Justin Brice Guariglia, argues that responding to the climate crisis is the moral imperative of our age. Finally, Anna Somers Cocks, the founder of The Art Newspaper, discusses the grave threat posed by rising sea levels to heritage in Europe and particularly around the Mediterranean.
The Role of Art in the Environmental Crisis
Justin Brice Guariglia, Speaker
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June 11, 2019
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Location
Christie's New York
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Christie’s Education presents a symposium on artists’ response to the environmental crisis. Organized by Dr. Julie Reiss, Program Director, M.A. Modern and Contemporary Art and the Market, Christie’s Education, New York and editor of Art, Theory and Practice in the Anthropocene (Vernon Press, 2018), the symposium will appeal to anyone who wishes to know more about specific ways artists are responding to global climate change and its consequences.
Reckoning with Climate Crisis: A Pathway Through Art
Justin Brice Guariglia, Panelist
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February 28, 2019
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Location
The New York Review of Books
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The New York Review of Books is pleased to present a public conversation about the climate crisis and how we come to terms with it. The discussion is prompted by an NYR Daily essay, ‘Climate Signs,’ by American Book Award winner and City College teacher Emily Raboteau, who toured the ten sites of the citywide public art exhibition Climate Signals with a new friend, fellow City College teacher and writer Mikael Awake.
Climate Signals was a five-borough installation by artist Justin Brice Guariglia. It consisted of highway signs flashing text to draw passers-by into engaging with climate change. Climate Signals was presented by the Climate Museum in partnership with the Mayor’s Office — Climate Policy and Programs in Fall 2018.
Join us for a special panel discussion with Emily, Mik, Justin, and our director Miranda Massie, moderated by NYRB Associate Editor Lucy McKeon.
Justin Brice Guariglia, Keynote Speaker
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Date
November 10, 2018
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Location
Black Mountain College Museum
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photo+sphere, November 7–11, 2018, in Asheville, North Carolina, explores the environment through photography and photo-media. This art and science event includes nationally known speakers and panelists, exhibitions, films, and performances at venues throughout Asheville.
A groundbreaking interdisciplinary event, photo+sphere brings attention to how we see the environment and the role humans play in determining the future of our planet.
The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations - Climate Change and Activism
Justin Brice Guariglia, Panelist
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October 29, 2018
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Location
Deutsches Haus at NYU
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Deutsches Haus at NYU presents a conversation on "Climate Change and Activism" between Miranda Massie, the founder of the U.S.'s first museum on climate change; the artists Peggy Weil and Justin Brice Guariglia; and Elke Weber, Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs at Princeton University.
About the panel:
After decades of inaction, the effects of climate change and extreme weather surround us regardless of where we live. There is the distinct sensation confirmed by recent studies that the time to act on climate change is running out. This panel discussion will focus not only on the intersection of climate change and activism, but also on that of science and art. What role does and can the museum play as a location of cultural, political, and social change? Can a museum with its intellectual but also emotional appeal, convince visitors to be better advocates for the climate? How can one move visitors of such a museum to take the lessons learned and apply them to the reality at hand?
This discussion is part of "The State(s) We're In: A New Age of Transatlantic Relations," a series of six talks presented by Deutsches Haus at NYU that address an array of important topics that are currently intensely debated in both Germany and the United States, and are of political and sociopolitical relevance in both countries: threats to democracy; economic inequality and populism; migration and art; civil society and political engagement; climate change and activism; and educational policy and academic freedom.
Ask a Scientist Day x Climate Signals
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October 6, 2018
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10 Locations across the 5 boroughs of New York City
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Climate Signals sites across the city were staffed by climate scientists from NASA, the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, and more. New Yorkers and visitors stopped by to discuss their questions about climate change––from the most basic to the most advanced––with world-renowned climate experts!
The Climate Museum is especially grateful for our partnerships with the Center for Climate Systems Research and the Urban Climate Change Research Network at the Columbia University Earth Institute for helping make this event possible.
Climate Change: Politics, Arts, and Innovation
Justin Brice Guariglia, Speaker
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September 25, 2018
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Location
The Explorer's Club & Storm King Art Center
Climate Week NYC
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Justin Brice Guariglia (b. 1974) was the first artist to fly on earth science missions with NASA. His work is currently on display in Storm King’s climate-focused show Indicators. His solo show, Earth Works: Mapping the Anthropocene, will open in September.
Miranda Massie is the Director of the Climate Museum.
Nora Lawrence is the Curator of Storm King Art Center.
Climate Signals Launch, Museum HUB Opening
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September 21, 2018
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Climate Museum Hub at Governors Island
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We celebrated the opening of the Climate Museum's first temporary space on the beautiful Governors Island, located at the heart of New York Harbor. Visitors had the opportunity to visit the Climate Signals installations on Governors Island, create their own climate signal, and check out the exhibition Climate Changers of New York, which features large-scale portraits of New Yorkers who are making a difference on climate, presented in partnership with the NYC Climate Action Alliance.
This event was presented in partnership with the Trust for Governors Island. Visit the Climate Museum at Governors Island’s Admiral’s House through October 31st.
Polar Opposites​: Creative Interventions in the Arctic and Antarctica
Justin Brice Guariglia, Speaker
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April 5-6, 2018
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A Brown Arts Initiative Symposium on Arts & Environment
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The Brown Arts Initiative (BAI) is pleased to host its second public symposium bringing together thought leaders from a diversity of disciplines to address contemporary challenges through creative problem solving, collaborative experimentation and scholarship.
Polar Opposites: Creative Interventions in the Arctic and Antarctica convenes an exceptional group of artists, scientists, musicians, activists, researchers and scholars to address issues impacting the polar regions. Part of the BAI’s three-year theme on Arts & Environment, Polar Opposites explores topics that raise awareness of and imaginatively address the impact of climate change on our world.
Dartmouth University Russo Gallery: Field Notes Omega Block I
Justin Brice Guariglia, Speaker
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March 7, 2017
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Dartmouth University
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The Institute of Arctic Studies welcomed artist Justin Brice Guariglia to campus for a public talk and an exhibit of his remarkable images from the Arctic which were on display in the Russo Gallery of the Haldeman Center from February 6 - March 15, 2017. In these photos he is speaking with the Center's Great Issues Scholars about his work with NASA; flying a series of missions to make images of the rapidly changing glacial land and sea ice on and around Greenland to use as source material in his work, along with working with the scientists to develop a greater understanding of human impact on the ice.
Photo by Lars Blackmore
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Norton Museum of Art: Earth Works Symposium
Timothy Morton, Keynote Speaker
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January 6, 2018
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Location
Norton Museum of Art
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"Stop Yelling"
Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English Rice University.