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Art in a Changing Climate

Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Alex Nathanson, Allison Parrish

Featuring Eric Lee

Panel/Discussion begins at 1pm (approx. 1 hour)

LOCATION: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

Part of “MY _____ IS AN ECOSYSTEM”, a LiveCode.NYC Exhibition/Residency


Join an interactive discussion with four artists/educators on the challenge of making art in the face of climate change, engaging with themes ranging from solarpunk to permacomputing. How can we make art in a sustainable way? How might sustainable practices open up new artistic possibilities rather than be seen as constraints? How can we make code / digital art that can be enjoyed a thousand years from now? In the face of climate change, how might we make a turn from environmental pessimism to the radical optimism of solarpunk and other movements?

This event features Tega Brain, Sam Lavigne, Alex Nathanson, and Allison Parrish, and will be moderated by Eric Lee.


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Suggested Donation: $5-25

Limited capacity. Ticket/RSVP/donation is not required but is encouraged and appreciated!

Tega Brain

Tega Brain is an Australian born artist and environmental engineer exploring issues of ecology, data, automation, and infrastructure. She is an Industry Associate Professor of Integrated Design and Media at New York University and her first book, Code as Creative Medium, is coauthored with Golan Levin and published with MIT Press. She lives and works in New York and Sydney.

Sam Lavigne

Sam Lavigne is an artist and educator whose work deals with data, surveillance, cops, natural language processing, and automation. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at UT Austin.

Alex Nathanson

Alex Nathanson is a designer, technologist, artist, and educator. His work is primarily focused on exploring both the experimental and practical applications of sustainable energy technologies. He is the founder and lead designer of the education and art platform Solar Power for Artists and its partner studio, Energy Transition Design LLC. The mission of both organizations is to make sustainable energy accessible, tactile, and understandable. As a solar power designer, he has created interactive and educational projects for the Climate Museum, Solar One, and the NYC Department of Education. In collaboration with Tega Brain and Bennedetta Piantella, he co-created the Solar Protocol project. His book A History of Solar Power Art and Design was published by Routledge in 2021.

Allison Parrish

Allison Parrish is a computer programmer, poet, and game designer whose teaching and practice address the unusual phenomena that blossom when language and computers meet. She is an Assistant Arts Professor at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. Allison was named “Best Maker of Poetry Bots” by the Village Voice in 2016, and her zine of computer-generated poems called “Compasses” received an honorary mention in the 2021 Prix Ars Electronica. Allison is the co-creator of the board game Rewordable (Clarkson Potter, 2017) and author of several books, including @Everyword: The Book (Instar, 2015) and Articulations (Counterpath, 2018). Her poetry has recently appeared in BOMB Magazine and Strange Horizons. Allison is originally from West Bountiful, Utah and currently lives in Brooklyn.

Eric Lee

Eric Lee, aka easterner, is an interdisciplinary audiovisual artist/musician from London/Hong Kong, currently based in New York, who explores the cyborg condition: what does it mean to live in interconnected human-machine communities in a precarious world? He experiments with–and glitches–old and new technologies, ubiquitous to obsolete, to explore their poetic potential, as well as to critique their role in society.

He is a member of the livecode.nyc art collective, organises and performs audiovisual shows, and curates exhibitions and workshops.