“To Save a World: Geoengineering, Conflictual Futurisms, and the Unthinkable”
T.J. Demos, Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz
Director, Center for Creative Ecologies
Futures Uncertain: A Symposium on Contemporary Art in the Anthropocene
November 8 & 9, 2018
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
This multidisciplinary symposium explores questions relating to landscape, the environment, extractive economies, and science stories in contemporary art. Participants include internationally recognized artists, scholars in anthropology, art history, earth sciences, environmental studies, Native American studies, and Middle Eastern studies.
Organized by the Department of Art History and the Hood Museum of Art, and made possible through support from the Associate Dean for the Faculty of the Arts and Humanities, the Andrew W. Mellon Endowment at the Hood Museum of Art, the Leslie Center for the Humanities, the Arthur L. Irving Institute for Energy and Society, and the Dartmouth Centers Forum. This program is part of the Forum’s 2018-19 theme: Envisioning the World We Want.
