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Sea Ice in the Arctic: a secret world
The Arctic Ocean is the most extreme ocean in regard to the seasonality of light and its year-round existing ice cover. Arctic seas hold a multitude of unique life forms highly adapted in their life history, ecology and physiology to the extreme and seasonal conditions of this environment.
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Confluir ecosistemas acuáticos y futuros especulativos 2022
Del 9 de febrero al 9 de marzo de 2022
Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Sala de Exposiciones del Salon de Actos< -
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Present | Past | Future?
With warm temperatures rising, and the poles melting, humankind could be forced to evolve and adapt to marine life. In this case, the future shows two different scenarios.
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Visions of Algae
Images reveal the complex life of algae in the air, on the land, and in the water. Viewed from the portal of microscopes, cameras, telescopes, and satellites Visions of Algae range in size from microscopic micromonas species to giant kelps that reach 60 meters (200 feet) in length to algal blooms seen from space.
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100 Years of Seaweed & Kelp
Sourced from the Algae Collection at University of California Santa Barbara with support from UCSC Arts Research Institute and the OpenLab Collaborative Research Center.
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Cultivating Collaboration
Nutrient runoff from industrial-scale agriculture combined with rapidly changing climate patterns has increased the severity and devastation from algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Exploration Center
Explore algae through digital microscopes, hand held magnifying glasses and our lightboard of algal forms. Browse our library of algae themed books or spend some time playing PhytoHeroes or Back to Anemone, games developed by members of the Algae Society.
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Pacific Coast Seaweed in Wrack
Collected from beach wrack, cleaned, dried, pressed, dipped, & pinned. “Wrack” is the term for seaweed, surfgrass, driftwood, and other organic materials produced by coastal ecosystems that wash ashore on the beach.
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Wall Cells
A cellular cabinet structure, inspired by seaweed cells otherwise invisible to the naked eye offer voyeuristic spaces that play with our sense of scale and perception, inviting the viewer to peer into a world that’s bigger on the inside than what is perceived from the outside.
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Algae Digital Kaleidoscope & Tapestry
Scanned images of seaweed with diagrams of diatoms create a meditative tapestry and kaleidoscope fashioned for contemporary contemplation.
