https://steverowell.com Steve Rowell Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:59:42 +0000 https://steverowell.com en https://steverowell.com/Index Fri, 29 Jan 2021 20:38:39 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Index Steve Rowell &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Bio&nbsp;|&nbsp;CV&nbsp;|&nbsp;Exhibitions&nbsp;|&nbsp;Contact https://steverowell.com/Bio-1 Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:47:34 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Bio-1 Steve RowellBio Steve Rowell is a human artist and educator working with photography, moving image, sound, maps, and experimental geospatial media. His research-based practice investigates terrains of perception and intelligence across life on earth — human and otherwise — together with extinction, technology, and the landscape as a record of the decisions that produce it. Rowell reads the morphology of the built environment against the living systems that surround and outlast it, appropriating the methods and tools of the geographer, the archaeologist, and the remote sensor. He holds an MFA with Distinction from the University of Oxford and a BA in Studio Art from the University of Texas. Awards and honors that Steve has earned include: the McKnight Media Artist Fellowship (Film, 2024) the MacDowell Fellowship (2021-22) the&nbsp;John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (Film, 2019)the&nbsp;Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Grant (2022 and 2025) grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts (Film, 2016) and&nbsp;Creative Capital (Emerging Fields, 2013) artist residencies at the Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik,&nbsp;at the Villa Aurora Berlin, and Fogo Island Artsvisiting fellowships at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Newcastle University and&nbsp;the Erna Plachte scholarship at the University of Oxford He has collaborated with SIMPARCH (Chicago, 2003-2009), The Office of Experiments (London, 2009-present), and The Center for Land Use Interpretation (Los Angeles, 2001-2013). Born in Houston, Steve has been based in Los Angeles, Oxford, Berlin, Washington, D.C., and Chicago over the past twenty years. He currently lives in Minneapolis, where he is Associate Professor of Creative Entrepreneurship at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.&nbsp;At MCAD he directs the Planetary Futures Lab, a hybrid research-and-studio lab that translates remote-sensing and climate data into cinematic, XR, and public-facing spatial narratives. He is also the founder of Planetary Spatial LLC, an ethical geospatial media company creating immersive representations of fragile biomes, fusing conceptual landscape practice with advanced geospatial technologies to transform remote sensing data into living archives of ecological change. Steve has taught at numerous institutions including: School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)ArtCenter College of DesignScripps CollegeUniversity of Applied Arts ViennaKansas City Art InstituteUniversity of Minnesota He has been lecturer, guest artist, and portfolio committee member at numerous institutions including: Northwestern UniversityCorcoran College of Art and DesignNewcastle UniversityUniversity College LondonSwiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich)California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-arc) Steve's work (collaborative and solo) has been exhibited internationally at a range of galleries and museums, including: New York: The 2006 Whitney Biennial, Apex Art, MoMA PS1, and Storm KingWashington, D.C.: The Smithsonian American Art MuseumMarfa: Ballroom MarfaPittsburgh: The Center for PostNatural HistoryMilwaukee: The Institute for Visual ArtChicago: The Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Contemporary PhotographySan Francisco: Yerba Buena Center for The ArtsLos Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions,China Art Objects Gallery, and California Museum of Photography UC RiversideIstanbul: 3rd Istanbul Design BiennialLondon: The Barbican Art Centre, the Frieze Art Fair, and The Architecture FoundationSouthampton: The John Hansard GalleryNottingham: Nottingham Contemporary MuseumCornwall: Groundwork 2018Halle an der Saale: Werkleitz 2010 festivalBerlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, and Deutsche Bank Kunsthall Filmography: 2026 &nbsp; NATURAL STATE (23:30 min) single channel film or looping three channel video installation versionDirector, camera, writer, editor, sound 2024 &nbsp; Lost Prairie Valley (14 min) Director, camera, writer, editor, sound 2023&nbsp; DEAD ZONES (17 min)&nbsp; Director, camera, writer, editor, sound World art exhibition premire, Insurgent Ecologies group show, Antenna, New Orleans, April-May 2023 2022 MacDowell Trilogy (3 min each): RCNWR,&nbsp;Near Space Environment,&nbsp;Walden; version 2 Director, camera, writer, editor, sound Permanent collection: MacDowell Foundation, Peterborough 2021 Comfort in Hydrology (13 min) + looping 2 screen version Director, camera, writer, editor, sound Midwest Film Festival, 2022, Nominated Best Sound World Premiere, Overflow group show, Qarma, Minneapolis, 2021 2020Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys (indefinite looping video), multiple screen installation Director, camera, writer, editor, sound2020 Full installation premiere, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon2015 Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene group show, INOVA Gallery 2014 Uncanny Sensing (Texas Prototype) solo exhibition, CounterCurrent festival, University of Houston Mitchell Center2013 Uncanny Sensing (Wisconsin Prototype) solo exhibition, INOVA Gallery 2020 make the world go away, rain, trail of tears&nbsp;(2 min) Director, camera, writer, editor, sound 2018 Water Castle (20 min) Director, camera, writer, editor, sound World Premiere: Art Safiental 2018, Tenna, Switzerland 2017 and 2021 (final cut) Humans Lived Here Once (23 min) Director, camera, writer, editor, sound World Premiere, MFA thesis exhibition, Oxford University, 2017 2016&nbsp; Midstream at Twilight&nbsp;(20 min) Director, camera, writer, editor, sound Environmental Impact group show, Hofstra University Museum of Art, 2019 European premiere Stormy Weather group show, Museum Arnhem, 2019 NY premiere, Indicators, group show, Storm King Art Center, 2018 MN premiere World of Matter Symposium, University of Minnesota, 2017 World premiere: Petcoke: Dirty Energy exhibition, MOCP, Chicago, 2016 2015 Parallelograms (32 min), two screen or single screen version Director, camera, writer, editor, sound Diagrams of Power, group show, Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven, 2019 French premiere, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin film festival, 2017 Californian premiere, California Museum of Photography, Riverside, 2017 Dutch premiere, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2016 PA premiere Data Half-lives, group show, University of Pittsburgh, 2016 Swedish premiere, European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, 2016 US premiere, Start Here.Finish Here, group show, Cleveland, 2016 World premiere, transmediale festival, HKW, Berlin, 2016 2014 In the Best of All Possible Worlds (5 min) Director, camera, writer, editor, sound CA premiere, Los Angeles Film Forum, The Velaslavasay Panorama, 2015 MI premiere, Trans-Farm, Detroit, 2014 World premiere, Presentism film festival, WhiteSpace, Atlanta, 2014 2012 Johnson Island Saturday Night (9 min)Director, camera, writer, editor, soundArtbound PBS and The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angles 2010 Scuttling Across the Floor of Silent Seas (18 min)Director, camera, writer, editor, sound 2009 Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan aka Texas City Landscan (14 min) with CLUICo-director with Matthew Coolidge / CLUI, editor, soundPremiered at Blaffer Gallery, Houston, multiple exhibitions 2006 Dissipation &amp; Disintegration (20 min) with CLUICo-director with Erik Knutzen and Matthew Coolidge / CLUI, camera, editor, soundpremiered at CLUI, Los Angeles. 2005 Terminal Island Pentalogy (5 shorts ranging from 2 to 7 min) with CLUICo-director with Erik Knutzen and Matthew Coolidge / CLUI, camera, editor, soundpremiered at CLUI, Los Angeles 2000 Ballarat: Beneath Sentinel (5 min) Director, camera, writer, editor, sound https://steverowell.com/Select-Exhibitions-Events Thu, 05 Nov 2020 20:47:34 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Select-Exhibitions-Events Steve RowellSelect Exhibitions &amp; Events 2026October: NATURAL STATE, streaming in the “Experiments” issue, LabocineSeptember: NATURAL STATE, MCAD Faculty Biennial, Minneapolis College of Art &amp; Design, MinneapolisJune: Humans Lived Here Once&nbsp;California Premiere at 248th American Astronomiocal Meeting, Pasadena, California March:&nbsp;NATURAL STATE solo exhibition at Watershed for Art &amp; Ecology, Chicago 2025Lost Prairie Valley screening at Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin2024Lost Prairie Valley screening at “The Ecosystem,” Labocine 2023 April: Insurgent Ecologies group show, Antenna, New Orleans DEAD ZONES screening at Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; DEAD ZONES screening at Midwest Film Festival, Chicago 2022 September-December: Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston July: Dreamsong, MinneapolisJune: Interview in Imaginations with special issue editor Emily Roehl May: Comfort in Hydrology screening at Midwest Film Festival, Chicago March: Whole Life Academy II congress, Haus der Kulturen der Welt and Silent Green, Berlin 2021 October: Watershed Art &amp; Ecology, Chicago August-December: Whole Life Academy II workshop, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin July-August:&nbsp;Overflow group show, Q.arma, Minneapolis (with support from the&nbsp;the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin) January: Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys project premiere, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene OR 2020 September: I Never Read Book Festival at Schaulager, Basel June: Whole Life Academy II online group assembly, Haus der Kulturen der Welt,&nbsp;Berlin February: Ways of Reading Symposium, Kadist Foundation, e-flux, New York 2019 November: Background Listening Post, Goethe Institut, Kansas City November: Cold Coast Archive, L’Atelier, Nantes, France September: NEW 5 group show, H&amp;R Block Artspace, Kansas City September: Anthropocene River, group show, SIU Surplus Gallery, Carbondale, IL September: Midstream at Twilight, Environmental Impact group exhibition, Hofstra University Museum of Art, New York July: Midstream at Twilight, Stormy Weather group exhibition, Museum Arnhem, the Netherlands May: Whole Life Academy: Archives and Reality, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden March: Diagrams of Power, Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven March: Lineage and Impact group show, Haw Contemporary, Kansas City 2018 September-December: Digital Trash, group exhibition, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University July: Diagrams of Power, OCAD, Toronto May-November: Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, group exhibition with Mark Dion, Jenny Kendler, Maya Lin, Mike Nelson, Mary Mattingly, Rebecca Smith, and others, Storm King Art Center, New York May-September: Groundwork, expanded landscape group exhibition with Steve McQueen, Francis Alÿs, Manon de Boer, Janet Cardiff, Rosemary Lee, Sean Lynch, Christina Mackie, and Semiconductor, Cornwall, UK March: How to Be in Two Places at Once colloquium, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU, New York City 2017 November:&nbsp;Texas City Landscan in ARE WE HUMAN?: The Design of the Species : 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years, Princeton University School of Architecture, Princeton September: Midstream at Twilight Minnesota premiere, World of Matter Symposium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis March 30: ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Department of Architecture, Zurich March 13-19: Parallelograms, French premiere, 2017 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin film festival, Paris October - March: Parallelograms, Californian premiere, California Museum of Photography, Riverside 2016 December: Parallelograms, conference &amp; Dutch premiere, Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam November:&nbsp;Texas City Landscan in New Cities Future Ruins, SMU&nbsp;Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas November: Routes of Least Surveillance map (with the Institute for Applied Autonomy), New Cities Future Ruins, SMU Meadows School of the Arts, Dallas October: Houston Petrochemical Corridor&nbsp;Landscan (with CLUI), 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey September: Parallelograms, Pennsylvanian premiere, Frick Fine Arts Building, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh July: Midstream at Twilight, Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago June: Parallelograms &amp; Uncanny Sensing (Texas Prototype), Swedish premiere for both films,European Society for Literature, Science and the Arts annual conference: CONTROL, organized by Dehlia Hannah, Stockholm May-July: Parallelograms, US Premiere, Start Here. Finish Here. solo installation, Spaces Gallery during the 2016 Republican National Convention, Cleveland March:&nbsp;Texas City Landscan in L’image volee, curated by Thomas Demand and Manfred Pernice,&nbsp;Prada Foundation, Milan March:&nbsp;Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan, Marfa Dialogues @&nbsp;Museum of Fine Arts, Houston February: Parallelograms, World, European, &amp; German premiere, Transmediale festival, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin2015 November: Forest Threnody projection and sound event, Garrison Theater, Scripps College, Claremont October: ARROWHEAD projection and sound event, Nelson Series panel on drought in California , H. Mudd College, Claremont July: screening of "In the Best of All Possible Worlds", The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles June: artist talk, Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin June: artist residency, Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Berlin March: Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene group show, INOVA Gallery, Milwaukee March: Art + Technology: Remote Sensing panel, Caltech, Pasadena February: artist residency, Pitzer College / Honnold Mudd Library, Claremont January: Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan,&nbsp;Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas group show, with CLUI, Nottingham Contemporary Museum, Nottingham 2014 November: Title TBD (Test Structure Prototype), in collaboration with Lucy Raven, CLUI Desert Research Station open house, Hinkley, California November: Parallelograms photo grids, artist project, Cabinet Magazine, Issue 54, Fall 2014 October: Parallelograms video excerpt, Art as Research group exhibition, George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia September: In the Best of all Possible Worlds video,Trans-Farm, Apexart sponsored group show, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit August: In the Best of all Possible Worlds video, Presentism film festival, WhiteSpace, Atlanta July:&nbsp;Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan, UMOCA, Salt Lake City May: Encounters at the Edge of the Forest group exhibition, Gallery 400, Chicago April: Uncanny Sensing (Texas Prototype), CounterCurrent festival, University of Houston Mitchell Center, Houston March: Ecotone Lab group exhibition, Actual Size Gallery in partnership with USC Roski School of Art and Design, Los Angeles January: Menwith Hill After the Rain in CounterIntelligence group exhibition, Barnicke Gallery, Toronto 2013 November: Points of Presence in The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology, group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago September: Networked Nation: The Landscape of the Internet in America, (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles July: Biennial of the Americas group exhibition, Draft Urbanism, 2209 Broadway (billboard), Denver June: Uncanny Sensing (Wisconsin Prototype) solo exhibition, INOVA Gallery, UW, Milwaukee May: Perishable: An Exploration of the Refrigerated Landscape of America, (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles April: Artistic Research Science Fair, hosted by D. Graham Burnett, Museum of Modern Art, New York April: Seminar lecture, Obermann Center for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Iowa February: Omniscience &amp; Contingency: Landscapes of Military Intelligence and Terror Simulation panel paper, CAA 2013, New York February:&nbsp;Urban Crude&nbsp;in 2013 Artefact Festival, STUK Arts Center, Leuven, Belgium 2012 November: The Cold Coast Archive exhibition - (with Annesofie Norn and Signe Lidén), Rom8, Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Bergen [Re:place Blog] May: The Cold Coast Archive exhibition - (with Annesofie Norn and Signe Lidén), Center for PostNatural History, Pittsburgh Exhibit PDF March: Suspension of Disbelief curatorial project, DC 5X5 city-wide public art initiative, Washington, D.C. February: "Sites of Monumental Institutional Response to Catastrophe", talk, Association of American Geographers 2012 Annual Meeting, New York February: "The Cold Coast Archive" video presentation,The Long Now Foundation SALT seminar, San Francisco 2011 November:&nbsp;Urban Crude in The Oil Show, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV), Dortmund, Germany. July: Telegraph (live video broadcast), Field Broadcast: Seven Sunsets, 20:13 EDT 07/28/2011,Washington, D.C. July: ASAP Kamp Kippy residency, Mt. Desert Island, Maine June: A-Z West in Context: A Spatial Analysis (article), Afterall, issue 27 - mapping May: Incidental Soundscapes: High and Low, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco May: Hollow Earth (sound installation / performance), Performances in Hansaviertel, TiergartenEins, Berlin April:&nbsp;Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan in Public Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago March: Ultimate High Ground (online version), Triple Canopy, New York February: A Field Guide to Future Island (fieldwork) with Annesofie Norn and Signe Lidén, Svalbard, Norway. Kulturkontakt Nord, the Norsk kulturråd and the Long Now Foundation February:&nbsp;Emergency State: First Responder and Law Enforcement Training Architecture in Critical Infrastructures: New American Approaches to Civic Activism and Research, The Architecture Foundation, London 2010 November - December: Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute for Applied Autonomy, credited as SITE-R), Saint Étienne International Design Biennial, Saint Étienne, France July - October: Background Listening Post, Angst in Form, Werkleitz Festival, Halle (Saale), Germany. See this project webpage for more June : Two bus tours: Military Landscapes of the NE &amp; Post-Industrial and Future Landscapes of the NE, GURU, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne June - Playas Counter-Terrorism Training Site photo exhibition, States of Emergency conferfence, John-F.-Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität Berlin May - October: Greater New York 2010 (with An Atlas of Radical Cartography), P.S.1, New York May 21-23: TelePort – A Tour of the Lizard's Landscape of Telecommunication, conference and bus tour, Falmouth Convention, Cornwall May: Ultimate High Ground Global Map, Theater of Peace group show, NGBK, Berlin Order a copy of the map March - May: The Sonic Boom Archive, Aural Indicators, Contemporary Conflict Institute, Troy, New York March 31: Show and (Fore)Tell event, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham March: The Atrocity Exhibition group show, FEINKOST, Berlin February: American Oil Vol. I audio piece for Framework &amp; Resonance FM, London January: Contribution to The Redactor (ed. Neal White), for the The Incidental Person exhibition at Apexart, New York 2009 December: ZEIGEN, an Audio Tour group show, Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin December: Crisis: Exercises in the State of Emergency (Krise. EinÜbungen in den Ausnahmezustand) group show, Villa Ichon, Bremen November: Ultimate High Ground, UK, for Arts Catalyst's Dark Places group show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton November: Overt Research Project (with The Office of Experiments), for Arts Catalyst's Dark Places group show, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton October: New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape (with CLUI), LACMA, Los Angeles October: Urban Crude: The Oil Fields of the Los Angeles Basin (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles October: Mountain Radio Redux, Herbst Radio 99.1, Berlin June: Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009 group show (with CLUI), Barbican Art Centre, London May: Not A Cornfield (with Lauren Bon &amp; The Metabolic Studio), George Eastman House, Rochester January: Texas Oil (with CLUI), Blaffer Gallery, Houston 2008 September: TX AUX IN (with SIMPARCH), The Marfa Sessions, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa September: Experimental Geography (with CLUI), Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana July: Room Tone (18 sounds in 6 models), A group project by Brandon LaBelle, Staalplaat Record Shop, Tuned City Festival, Berlin July: Autotechnogeoglyphics: Vehicular Test Tracks in America (with CLUI), Between Bridges London February: Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute for Applied Autonomy, credited as SITE-R), An Atlas of Radical Cartography, Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse Sound design and composition for Deborah Stratman's film O'er The Land 2007 November:Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) as SITE-R), An Atlas of Radical Cartography,Gallery 400, Chicago October:Routes of Least Surveillance (with the Institute for Applied Autonomy (IAA) as SITE-R), An Atlas of Radical Cartography,LACE, Los Angeles September: Exhibit Poster Retrospective (with CLUI), The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. July: Hinterland Redux: Things Changed and Not, in the Desert Proper, bus tour. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles June: Pavement Paradise (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles Feb: Vacation: Dauphin Island (with CLUI), The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles January: Hydromancy (in collaboration with SIMPARCH), Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, El Paso 2006 October: Shock and Awe (with SIMPARCH), Year_06 Art Fair in conjunction with Frieze Art Fair 2006, London October: Dissipation and Disintegration (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles June: Boron: The Element of Place, bus tour. Afterall, Los Angeles May: Gloom and Doom I (with SIMPARCH), Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati May: Gloom and Doom II (with SIMPARCH), Arnoff Center for the Arts Gallery, Cincinnati March : CLUI Touch-screen Informational Display (with CLUI), Whitney Biennial 2006, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2005 September: Interstate (group show, with CLUI), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York June: Southern California Landscape Information Display (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles May : Weather Radio, Materials + Applications / 88.5 FM, Los Angeles May: Three Projects Revisited (with CLUI), Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, New York March: Terminal Island (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles March : KDRS, The CLUI Desert Research Station, Hinkley, California January: Immersed Remains: Towns Submerged in America (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles 2004 October : Site:Nonsite:Quartzsite (in collaboration with AUDC), High Desert Test Sites 2004, Joshua Tree, California August: Wendover, USA (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles May: Emergency State: First Responder and Law Enforcement Training Architecture (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles April: Diversions &amp; Dislocations: California's Owens Valley (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles March: Loop Feedback Loop: The Big Picture of Traffic Control In Los Angeles (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles February: A View into the Pipe: East Central Interceptor Sewer (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles 2003 October: The Nellis Range Complex - Revisited (with CLUI), Ibid Projects, London September: Ground-Up: Photographs of the Ground in the Margins of Los Angeles (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles July: West Coast Points: A Linear Portrait from North to South (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles July: The Best Dead Mall in America: A Photographic Documentation and Indefinite Installation (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles June: Between Oregon and Mexico: The California Coastal Records Project (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles February: The Silent Key: Incursions into Knob Culture (Mountain Radio performance with Mason Cooley) (touring performance) Sheffield, Glasgow, Brighton, London February: The Most Expensive Space in North America, Form + Function group show (with AUDC), Chapman Univ. - Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, California January: Property in the Harper Lake Basin: A Project of the CLUI Desert Research Station (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles 2002 September: Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica's First Highway (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles August: One Wilshire: Telco Hotel Central (with CLUI), CLUI,Los Angeles June: Alternate Routes: An Aerial Survey of the 'Inland Empire'group show (with CLUI) The California Museum of Photography, The University of California - Riverside June: Ecovention – Current Art to Transform Ecologies group show (with CLUI), Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art - Cincinnati March: Proximity Issue: The Barricades of the Federal District (with CLUI), CLUI, Los Angeles January: Genius Loci (with CLUI), The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCIARC) - Los Angeles January: Genius Loci (Mountain Radio Project performance with Mason Cooley), (SCIARC) - Los Angeles January: Lobby in Rear - DIY lo-fi electronic sounds (Mountain Radio Project with Mason Cooley), The Schindler House &amp; The MAK-Schindler Scholarship Program - Los Angeles 2001 December: Hallucination of Theory, readings by Sylvère Lotringer, Chris Kraus, &amp; Giovanni Intra (Mountain Radio performance with Mason Cooley), China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles December: 100 Years of Radio (Mountain Radio performance with Mason Cooley), Lat / Long: 34.08'52" x - 118.26'17", Los Angeles September: Fresh Kills: Six Proposals, Los Angeles August: Back to the Bay: An Exploration of the Marginal Zones of the San Francisco Bay (with CLUI), The Yerba Buena Center for The Arts, San Francisco August: Vision Embraces the World (Mountain Radio performance with Mason Cooley), Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles https://steverowell.com/CV Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:24:04 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/CV Steve RowellCV EDUCATION MFA with Distinction, University of OxfordBA, Studio Art, University of Texas at Austin AWARDS &amp; GRANTS MAJOR FELLOWSHIPS &amp; NATIONAL AWARDS 2024 FilmNorth + McKnight Foundation, McKnight Media Artist Fellowship (Media Arts) 2019 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship (Film–Video) 2013 Creative Capital Award, (Emerging Fields: Interdisciplinary) Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Grant (Film/Video) INSTITUTIONAL AWARDS &amp; GRANTS 2025 Reginald Moore Travel Grant for Research in Activism and Social Justice, Woodson Research Center, Rice University (Co–Grantee with Priyanka Basu) 2021 Institute on the Environment (IoNE) Mini Grant for “Extinction Simulation Landscapes: Midwest Chapter,” University of Minnesota, Primary Investigator (with Priyanka Basu) 2017 Kansas City Art Institute, Faculty Development Grant 2016 Erna Plachte Scholarship, University of Oxford 2010 HaSS Visiting Faculty Fellowship, Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University 2004 Annenberg Center for Communication Institute for Multimedia Literacy USC, residency STATE &amp; REGIONAL GRANTS 2025 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant 2022 Minnesota State Arts Board Grant 2006 The Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles, exhibition completion grant 2005 The Institute for Figuring, Los Angeles, research grant AWARDS &amp; GRANTS WITH CLUI 2001–2009 Programs and Exhibitions supported by: Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Annenberg Foundation, LEF Foundation, Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department,&nbsp;Los Angeles County Arts Commission, National Endowment for the Arts,&nbsp;Nevada Humanities Committee, Lannan Foundation, Peter Norton Family Foundation, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, David and Lucille Packard Foundation,&nbsp;Nathan Cummings Foundation SELECT PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE 2022– Research Fellow and Lecturer, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis 2020–22 Lecturer in Moving Image and Photography, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 2021 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Morris 2017–20 Assistant Professor of Photography, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City 2015 O’Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship, Scripps College, Claremont 2000–13 Program Manager, Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI), Los Angeles 2005–12 Art Director, Program Manager, Metabolic Studio, Los Angeles OTHER TEACHING, CURATORIAL, WORKSHOPS 2023–24 &nbsp; Advisor, Transart Institute for Creative Research 2021–22 Workshop Convener (with Priyanka Basu), “Un–/Learning Archives in the Age of The Sixth Extinction,” The Whole Life Academy Berlin, HKW, Berlin 2019 Workshop Participant, The Whole Life Academy Dresden, HKW + Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden 2018 Visiting Faculty, Alps Art Academy, Tenna, Switzerland (invited) 2016 Curator with Christina Vassallo, “Start Here. Finish Here,” Spaces Gallery, Cleveland 2015 Visiting Artist, Art + Technology Program, University of Florida, Gainesville (invited) 2014 Adjunct Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2013 Artist residency lecture &amp; studio visits, George Mason University, Fairfax (invited) Visiting artist talks, School of the Art Institute of Chicago; tour &amp; talk, Savanna Army Depot, Univ. of Iowa, (invited) 2012 Curator, “Suspension of Disbelief,” 5x5, DC Commission on the Arts &amp; Humanities, Washington, D.C. Visiting Lecturer/Curator, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena; Visiting Artist, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington D.C. (invited) 2011 Visiting Lecturer and Artist, University of Applied Arts Vienna; College of Fine Arts, Braunschweig (invited) 2010 Visiting Artist, Newcastle University, UK; Visiting Artist, UCL London; Visiting Artist, University College Falmouth, Cornwall (invited) 2009 Visiting Artist, University of Southampton; University of Houston (invited) 2005 Visiting Artist, Texas A&amp;M University (invited)2002 Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA ARTIST RESIDENCIES 2026 Mass MoCA Artist Residency 2021 MacDowell Fellowship and Artist Residency 2015 Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (ZK/U) Artist Residency Villa Aurora, Berlin Artist Residency Pitzer College Library Artist Residency 2013 Provisions Library: Art for Social Change, George Mason University Research Residency 2012 Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland, Canada Artist Residency Acadia Summer Arts Program Artist Residency 2011 Acadia Summer Arts Program Artist Residency 2005 Texas A&amp;M University Artist Residency and Visiting Instructor INVITED TALKS 2023 Fine Art MA Program, Falmouth University, Falmouth, UK 2021 Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston, Houston, TX Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Univ. of Oregon / Creative Capital (online), “Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys: A Conversation with Emily Eliza Scott.” University of Minnesota Morris, Distinguished Visiting Professor of the Liberal Arts Lecture Series: “Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys” and Cold Coast Archive” 2019 Goethe–Institut Pop Up, Kansas City, MO2018 Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY 2018 Alps Art Academy, Tenna, Switzerland2016 University of Houston, Houston, TX 2016 Spencer Museum of Art / University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 2015 Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, Berlin, Germany University of Florida, Gainesville, FL2014 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL2014 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA 2014 Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA2014 University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 2013 St. Norbert College, De Pere, WI2013 Northwestern University, Evanston, IL School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI Lawrence University, Appleton, WI Columbia University, New York, NY 2012 Fogo Island Arts, Newfoundland, Canada 2011 Braunschweig University of Fine Arts, Braunschweig, Germany University of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria 2010 Fellow Lecture, Newcastle University, Newcastle, UK 2008 Alfred University, Alfred, NY 2007 TELIC, Los Angeles, CA Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 2005 Texas A&amp;M University, College Station, TX 2004 MAK Schindler House, Los Angeles, CA 2002 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA PANELS, &nbsp;SYMPOSIA AND COLLOQUIA 2024 River of Fire: Art + Climate Justice Symposium, DiverseWorks, Houston, TX Panelist, Arctic Science Summit Week, Edinburgh, UK Panelist, Arctic Congress 2024, Bodø, Norway Panelist, American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI 2020 Speaker, Ways of Reading Symposium, e–flux / KADIST, New York, NY 2018 Speaker, Being in Two Places at Once: Art &amp; the Geopolitics of Remote Sensing Colloquium, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY 2017 Participant, World of Matter Symposium, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 2016 Speaker, Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy Symposium, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL Screening + Conversation (with Brian Holmes), transmediale Festival Opening, Berlin, Germany 2015 Speaker, Art + Technology: Remote Sensing Panel, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 2013 Panelist, Omniscience &amp; Contingency: Landscapes of Military Intelligence and Terror Simulation, CAA Annual Conference, New York, NY Artistic Research Science Fair (hosted by D. Graham Burnett), MoMA, New York, NY 2012 Speaker, AAG Annual Conference, New York, NY 2010 Speaker, TelePort – A Tour of the Lizard's Landscape of Telecommunication, Falmouth Convention, Cornwall, UK Speaker, Show and (Fore)Tell, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK Speaker, UCL, London, UK “Experimental Ruins” Workshop, Convened by Gail Davies, Neal White and Steve Rowell, University College London 2009 Speaker, Fieldnotes on the Ultimate High Ground, The Program: Initiative for Art &amp; Architecture Collaborations, Berlin, Germany 2009 Speaker, NGBK, Berlin, Germany Speaker, UCL Institute of Archaeology, London, UK 2008 Speaker, University of Dundee, Dundee, UK Speaker, HFBK Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany 2004 Speaker, SCI–Arc, Los Angeles, CA VISITING ARTIST / CRITIC &amp; SEMINAR APPOINTMENTS 2017 Guest Speaker, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Switzerland Guest Speaker, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK Guest Lecturer, Stanford University Overseas Program, Oxford, UK 2013 Seminar Lecture, Obermann Center for Interdisciplinary Research, U. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 2012 Visiting Instructor, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA Visiting Artist, Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington, D.C. 2010 Visiting Artist, University College Falmouth, Cornwall, UK 2009 Visiting Artist, University of Houston, Houston, TX FILMOGRAPHY 2025 Lost Prairie Valley (14 min). 2024 edit premiered in Labocine: “The Ecosystem” 2023 Dead Zones (17 min) premiered at Antenna, New Orleans 2022 RCNWR (3 min) MacDowell Foundation permanent collection Near Space Environment (3 min) MacDowell Foundation permanent collection Walden; Version 2 (3 min). MacDowell Foundation permanent collection 2021 Comfort in Hydrology (13 min), Midwest Film Festival nominee; World Premiere, Overflow group show, Qarma, Minneapolis 2020 Make the World Go Away (2 min.) 2018 Water Castle (20 min), premiered at Art Safiental, Switzerland 2017 Humans Lived Here Once (23 min), MFA thesis film, Oxford University 2016 Midstream at Twilight (20 min). Premiered Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; screened internationally, 2016–2019 2016 Parallelograms (32 min), premiered at transmediale, Berlin, multiple exhibitions 2015 Arrowhead (19 min), with site-specific installation, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 2014 In the Best of All Possible Worlds (5 min), multiple European and U.S. premieres 2012 Johnson Island Saturday Night (9 min), Artbound PBS and The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angles 2010 Scuttling Across the Floor of Silent Seas (18 min) 2009 Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan (14 min) with CLUI, premiered at Blaffer Gallery, Houston, multiple exhibitions 2006 Dissipation &amp; Disintegration (20 min) with CLUI, premiered at CLUI, Los Angeles.&nbsp; 2005 Terminal Island Pentalogy (5 shorts ranging from 2 to 7 min) with CLUI, premiered at CLUI, Los Angeles 2000 Ballarat: Beneath Sentinel (5 min) SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2020 “Uncanny Sensing, Remote Valleys,” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Univ of Oregon, Eugene 2019 “Background Listening: Steve Rowell,” Goethe Institut Pop Up, Kansas City 2016–17 “Flash! Steve Rowell,” California Museum of Photography, UCR ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside 2015 “Arrowhead,” video with map/photo installation, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 2014 “Uncanny Sensing (Texas Prototype),” CounterCurrent festival, Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts, University of Houston &nbsp;(curated by Karen Farber) 2013 “Uncanny Sensing (Wisconsin Prototype)” INOVA Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2005 “Weather Radio,” Materials &amp; Applications, Los Angeles COMMISSIONS 2018 “Points of Presence,” Telegraph Museum, Groundwork: International Art in Cornwall 2015 “Forest Threnody” projection w/ live performance, with Yii Kah Hoe, Scripps College “Arrowhead,” video with map/photo installation, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 2014 “Uncanny Sensing (Texas Prototype),” Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts 2013 “Uncanny Sensing (Wisconsin Prototype),” INOVA Gallery “Ludlow”, billboard for Draft Urbanism–Biennial of the Americas, Denver 2012 “Suspension of Disbelief,” 5x5, DC Commission on the Arts &amp; Humanities, Washington, D.C., Curatorial Commission (commissioned and curated works by Deborah Stratman and Steve Badgett, ZK/U—Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik, Neal White, Charles Stankievich, and Lize Mogel) 2011 “Cold Coast Archive and the Svalbard Global Seed Vault” with with Signe Lidén and Annesofie Norn, Long Now Foundation, Nordic Culture Fund, and Arts Council Norway “The Ultimate High Ground,” Triple Canopy online interactive essay 2010 “Background Listening,” Fear Has Big Eyes (Angst hat große Augen), Werkleitz Festival, Halle an der Saale, Germany 2009 “Dark Places,” with Office of Experiments, Arts Catalyst and SCAN, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK 2008 “TX AUX IN,” with Steve Badgett, Ballroom Marfa, “Sounds Across Town,” Marfa, TX “Shepard Inversion Ghost,” Sound Design and Composition for Deborah Stratman, O’er the Land (2009) 2007 “Hydromancy,” with SIMPARCH, Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso 2006 “Gloom and Doom II / Tactile Air II,” with SIMPARCH, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center For The Arts, Cincinnati&nbsp; “Gloom &amp; Doom I &nbsp;/ Tactile Air I,” with SIMPARCH, Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati “Shock and Awe,” with SIMPARCH, Frieze Art Fair, London COLLECTIONS Acadia Summer Arts Program, Mount Desert Island, ME Alps Art Academy /Institute For Land And Environmental Art, Zürich, Switzerland Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX CAST, Cornwall, UK Desert Research Station, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Hinckley, CA INOVA Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK Labocine, New York Long Now Foundation, San Francisco MacDowell Foundation, Peterborough, NH Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP), Chicago Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2023 “Insurgent Ecologies,” Antenna Gallery, New Orleans 2021 ”Overflow,” Watershed Art &amp; Ecology, Chicago; “Overflow,” Qarma, Minneapolis 2019 “Esthétiques Biopolitiques,” L'île d'en face, L’Atelier, Nantes, France; “NEW 5,” H&amp;R Block Artspace, Kansas City; “Environmental Impact,” Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Museum of Art, NY; “Stormy Weather”, Museum Arnhem, the Netherlands; “Diagrams of Power,” Onomatopee Projects, Eindhoven; “Lineage and Impact,” Kansas City 2018 “Indicators: Artists on Climate Change”, Storm King Art Center, New York; “Groundwork” expanded landscape group exhibition, Cornwall, UK; Alps Art Academy, Tenna, Switzerland; “Land Art Biennial Art Safiental,” Safiental, Switzerland; “Digital Trash”, Stedman Gallery, Rutgers University; “Diagrams of Power,” OCAD, Toronto 2017 “Thought Beside Itself” MFA graduate thesis exhibition, The Ruskin School of Art at University of Oxford, UK; With CLUI: “Landschaft = Labor,” the Carinthian Museum of Modern Art/MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria 2016 transmediale opening event and world premiere of “Parallelograms,” transmediale 2016, Berlin; “Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy,” Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago; Screening, “MoneyLab #3: Failing Better,” Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam; “New Cities Future Ruins,” Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University, Dallas; “Data (after)Lives: The Persistence of Encoded Identity,” University of Pittsburgh; Screenings, ELSA Stockholm; Screening, “Start Here. Finish Here,” Spaces Gallery, Cleveland; “Krake Kapital,” Elbelandpartie festival, Hannover, Germany; With CLUI: Istanbul Design Biennial; Istanbul, Turkey; “Marfa Dialogues: Houston,” Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX; “New Cities, Future Ruins,” Southern Methodist University, Dallas; “L’image Volee,” curated by Thomas Demand, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy 2015 “Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene,” INOVA Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; With CLUI: “Rights of Nature,” Nottingham Contemporary, UK 2014 CounterCurrent Festival, Mitchell Center Houston; “DRS Open House,” with Lucy Raven, CLUI Desert Research Station, Hinkley; “Art as Research,” George Mason University; “Trans–farm,” Detroit; “Presentism” Film Festival Atlanta; “Encounters at the Edge of the Forest,” Gallery 400, Chicago; “CounterIntelligence,” Barnicke Gallery, Toronto; “Ecotone,” Actual Size, Los Angeles; With CLUI: “CLUI: Houston Petrochemical Corridor Landscan,” Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; “Experimental Geography,” Museum London, London, Canada 2013 “The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology,” MCA Chicago; “Draft Urbanism,” Biennial of the Americas, DenverWith CLUI: “Perishable: An Exploration of the Refrigerated Landscape of America,”&nbsp; CLUI, Los Angeles“Network Nation: The Landscape of the Internet in America,” CLUI, Los Angeles&nbsp; 2012 “Cold Coast Archive,” with Signé Liden and Annesofie Norn, Center for PostNatural History, Pittsburgh; “Cold Coast Archive,” with Signé Liden and Annesofie Norn, Bergen Academy of Art; “In the Best of All Possible Worlds,” Long Now Foundation, SALT seminar, San Francisco; Screening, “Landscape is a Weapon: An Incendiary Traces Event,” The Velaslavay Panorama, Los Angeles 2011 With CLUI: “Experimental Geography,” Foreman Art Gallery, Bishop's University, Sherbrooke, Canada 2010 “unORTnung,” Vienna; “An Atlas of Radical Cartography,” MoMA PS1; “Theater of Peace,” NGBK Berlin; “The Atrocity Exhibition,” FEINKOST Berlin; “Aural Indicators,” Contemporary Conflict Institute, Troy; “Routes of Least Surveillance,” as SITE–R, Saint Étienne International Design Biennial, Saint Étienne, France; With CLUI: “Experimental Geography,” James Gallery, The Graduate Center at CUNY, New York 2009 “Dark Places,” John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK; “Zeigen: An Audio Tour through Berlin,” Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin; “Crisis: Exercises in State of Emergency Art,” Villa Ichon Bremen; “Not a Cornfield,” with Lauren Bon &amp; The Metabolic Studio, George Eastman House, Rochester; With CLUI: “Texas Oil,” Blaffer Gallery Houston; “Urban Crude,” CLUI, Los Angeles; “Radical Nature,” Barbican London; “Experimental Geography,” Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN; “Experimental Geography,” Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM; Miller Gallery, “Experimental Geography,” Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh 2008 “TX AUX IN,” with Simparch, Ballroom Marfa; “Room Tone,” Tuned City Festival, Berlin; “An Atlas of Radical Cartography,” as SITE–R, Redhouse Arts Center, Syracuse; With CLUI: “Autotechnogeoglyphics: Vehicular Test Tracks in America,” Between Bridges, London; “Experimental Geography,” Richard E. Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN 2007 “Hydromancy,” with Simparch, Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas, El Paso”;&nbsp; “An Atlas of Radical Cartography,” as SITE–R, LACE Los Angeles; “An Atlas of Radical Cartography,” as SITE–R, Gallery 400, Chicago; With CLUI: “CLUI Exhibition Posters,” Smithsonian American Art Museum;&nbsp; “CLUI Exhibition Posters,” CLUI Los Angeles; “CLUI Exhibition Posters,” Natural History Museum of LA; “Weather Report: Art and Climate Change,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder 2006 “Shock and Awe,” with Simparch, Frieze Art Fair, London; With CLUI: “CLUI Touchscreens,” Whitney Biennial, NY; “Land Sakes Alive,” Cal State Northridge 2005 With CLUI: “Interstate,” Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery NY; “Emergency State” Columbia Univ. NY 2004 “Site:Nonsite:Quarzite,” with AUDC, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree. CA; With CLUI: “Formations of Erasure,” Princeton University; SCI–Arc Los Angeles 2003 “The Silent Key: Incursions into Knob Culture,” Live FM radio performance with Mason Cooley, various sites, UK; With CLUI: Ibid Projects London; CLUI Los Angeles; Chapman University CA 2002 “Genius Loci,” Live FM radio performance with Mason Cooley, SCI–Arc, Los Angeles; With CLUI: CLUI Los Angeles; California Museum of Photography; CCA, Cincinnati&nbsp; 2001 “Vision Embraces the World,” Performance with Mason Cooley, Echo Park Projects, Los Angeles; With CLUI: "Back to the Bay: An Exploration of the Marginal Zones of the San Francisco Bay,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco SELECTED SCREENINGS, FESTIVALS, &amp; EVENTS 2025 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2024 “The Ecosystem,” Labocine 2023 Rencontres Internationales, Paris/Berlin; Midwest Film Festival, Chicago 2022 “Hearkening #3,” Dreamsong, Minneapolis; Whole Life Academy Berlin, HKW, Berlin 2019 “Whole Life Academy: Archives and Reality” Workshop, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin and Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden 2017 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; ETH Zurich, Zurich 2015 “Forest Threnody” Projection and Sound Event, with Yii Kah Hoe, Scripps College; “Arrowhead” Harvey Mudd College; “Polar Film Club – The Journals of Knud Rasmussen,” The Velaslavasay Panorama, Los Angeles; Villa Aurora Berlin; “Current State,” Pitzer College 2011 “Hollow Earth,” Sound Installation and Performance, Performances in Hansaviertel, TiergartenEins, Berlin; “Field Broadcast,” Washington D.C.; “Incidental Soundscapes: High and Low,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco 2010 “Background Listening Post,” Werkleitz Festival, Halle an der Saale, Germany; “American Oil Vol. 1,” Framework and Resonance FM radio broadcast, London; “Regional Spatialities: Two Tours Around Newcastle-Upon-Tyne,” Newcastle University 2005 “Weather Radio,” FM radio broadcast/installation, Materials &amp; Applications, Los Angeles; “KDRS,” multi–year autonomous FM radio broadcast, CLUI Desert Research Station, Hinkley;&nbsp;2001 “Mountain Radio,” Live FM radio performance with Mason Cooley, China Art Objects, Los Angeles; “100 Years of Radio,” Live FM radio performance with Mason Cooley, Los Angeles SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (AS AUTHOR) ORCID:&nbsp;0000-0002-5979-3792 Steve Rowell. Field Guide to Environmental Crime: Houston and the Texas Oil Coast. Chicago: Half Letter Press, forthcoming 2026. Commissioned by the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts. Rowell, Steven. “Atlas of a Vanishing Shore: Point-Cloud Evidence and Nonhuman Vision at the Birnirk Mounds, Utqiaġvik, Alaska.” Manuscript submitted for publication to GeoHumanities, 2025. Rowell, Steven, et al. “Multiscale LiDAR and Photogrammetry Integration for Permafrost Landscape Detection: Comparative Utility of UAV Photogrammetry Sensors, UAV-Mounted RESEPI LiDAR, and Matterport Pro3 Ground-Based Scanners.” Manuscript submitted for publication to Remote Sensing, 2025. Rowell, Steven, et al. “From Tripod to UAS: A Reproducible Terrestrial–Aerial Workflow for Arctic Heritage Change Detection at the Birnirk National Historic Landmark, Alaska.” Manuscript submitted for publication to Sensors, 2025. Steve Rowell, and Priyanka Basu. “Dead Zones: Fertile Wastes at the Head and Tail of the Mississippi River.” In Decapitated Economies (intercalations 5), edited by Anna-Sophie Spring and Etienne Turpin, 521–551. Berlin: K. Verlag, 2025. Rowell, Steven, et al. “A Permafrost Tunnel Digital Twin: Web3D Applications for Infrastructure Visualization and Arctic Research.” In Web3D ’25: Proceedings of the 30th International Conference on 3D Web Technology(September 2025), 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1145/3746237.3746291.Rowell, Steve. “Svalbard Global Seed Vault.” Photographs and text. In This Is Not an Artifact: Selections from the Center for PostNatural History, by Rich Pell. Berlin: K. Verlag, 2023. Rowell, Steve, and Priyanka Basu. “Introduction: Landscape and/as Archive” and “Un-/Learning Archives in the Age of the Sixth Extinction.” In The Whole Life Repository. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2022. https://wholelife.hkw.de/landscape-and-as-archive/&nbsp; and https://wholelife.hkw.de/un-learning-archives-in-the-age-of-the-sixth-extinction/.Bolen, Jeremy, Jaime Allen, Priyanka Basu, Tamara Becerra Valdez, Simon Browne, Susan Cahill, Mél Hogan, and Steve Rowell. “The Impossibility of a Planet.” In The Whole Life Repository, Un-/Learning Archives in the Age of the Sixth Extinction. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2022. https://doi.org/10.26041/fhnw-4542. Steve Rowell and Priyanka Basu. “Prairie Remnants: Settler–Colonial and Indigenous Histories in a Nontraditional Archive.” In Proximities: Folded Readings on the Archival. A Publication of the Whole Life Academy, edited by Lama Khatib et al. Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt, 2022. Steve Rowell. “Experimental Documentary Captures Oil Midstream,” Edge Effects (2019), https://edgeeffects.net/midstream-at-twilight/ . Steve Rowell and Neal White. “Overt Research: Fieldwork and Transparency.” In The Routledge Research Companion to Military Research Methods, edited by Alison J. Williams et al, 387–405. London: Routledge, 2016. Steve Rowell. “Parallelograms.” Cabinet Magazine 54 (Summer 2014): 34–39. Steve Rowell. “Peaks and Nulls: Supersonic Amplitudes in the Airspace above the Mojave Desert.” Landscape: Editing Spatial Relations 3 (Spring/Summer 2013): 18–23. Steve Rowell, “Johnson Island Saturday Night,” Artbound, PBS online (July 30, 2012), https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/artbound/johnston-island-saturday-night.&nbsp; Steve Rowell, Sean Dockray, and Fiona Whitton. “Blocking All Lanes: Sig–Alerts, Detection Loops, and the Management of Traffic.” In Curiosity and Method: Ten Years of Cabinet Magazine, 409–15. Brooklyn, NY: Cabinet Books, 2012. (reprint of 2005 Cabinet Magazine publication) Steve Rowell. “Quantum Danube.” Landscape: Editing Spatial Relations 2 (Fall/Winter 2012): 12–15. Steve Rowell, “The Ultimate High Ground,” Triple Canopy 11 (2011), https://tc3.canopycanopycanopy.com/contents/the_ultimate_high_ground. Steve Rowell. “A—Z West in Context: A Spatial Analysis.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 27 (June 2011): 95–102. Steve Rowell. “A Doubting World.” The Redactor (2010). (publication for group exhibition “The Incidental Person,” Apexart, New York, curator Anthony Hudek) Steve Rowell and Neal White, Overt Research Project: A Fieldguide to Dark Places, South Edition, 2010, https://www.dark-places.org.uk/. &nbsp; Steve Rowell, Sean Dockray, and Fiona Whitton. “Traffic: Blocking All Lanes.” In The Infrastructural City: Networked Ecologies in Los Angeles, edited by Kazys Varnelis, 102—117. Barcelona and New York: Actar, 2008. (reprint of 2005 Cabinet Magazine publication) Steve Rowell (as SITE–R) with the Institute of Applied Autonomy. “Routes of Least Surveillance” Map. In An Atlas of Radical Cartography, edited by Lize Mogel and Alexis Bhagat. Los Angeles: Journal of Aesthetics and Protest Press, 2007. Steve Rowell, “Playas New Mexico Braces for the Future.” In Desert America: Territory of Paradox, edited by Ramon Prat, 142–153. Barcelona: Actar Press, 2006. Steve Rowell, Sean Dockray, and Fiona Whitton. “Blocking All Lanes: Sig–Alerts, Detection Loops, and the Management of Traffic.” Cabinet Magazine 17 (2005): 19–26. Steve Rowell “Playas, New Mexico: A Modern Ghost Town Braces For The Future.” The Lay of the Land CLUI Newsletter #28 (Spring 2005). Steve Rowell. “Twilight Capitol.” Forum Annual 2004. Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (2004): 11–18. Steve Rowell, “The Best Dead Mall? A Photographic Documentation and Indefinite Installation,” The Lay of the Land CLUI Newsletter #26 (Winter 2003). SELECT CATALOG, ARTICLE, INTERVIEW, AND REVIEW BIBLIOGRAPHY Emily Roehl and Steve Rowell, “Petro–Landscapes and Political Imagination: Interview With Steve Rowell.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross–Cultural Image Studies 13, no. 1 (2022): 135–50. Sara Callahan,&nbsp; Art + Archive: Understanding the Archival Turn in Contemporary Art, 275–76. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2022. Martine Drozdz, “Maps and Protest,” International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 367–378. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2020 (2nd ed.). Stephen Graham, “Unearthly Domain: The Enigmatic Data Publics of Satellites,”&nbsp; Data Publics: Public Plurality in an Era of Data Determinacy, edited by Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, 95–115. London: Routledge, 2020. Karen T. Albert, Environmental Impact, 38–39. New York: Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University Museum of Art, 2019. Johannes M. Hedinger and Hannah B. Hölling, Landscape #1, St. Gallen and Berlin: Vexer Verlag, 2019. Stephen Graham, “Enigmatic Presence: Satellites and the Vertical Spatialities of Security.” In Spaces of Security: Ethnographies of Securityscapes, Surveillance, and Control, edited by Setha Low and Mark Maguire, 206–230. New York: NYU Press, 2019. Nora R. Lawrence et al. Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, 68–71. NY: Storm King Art Center, 2018.&nbsp; Stephen Graham, Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers. London: Verso, 2018, 34-37. Bronwyn Holloway-Smith, The Southern Cross Cable: A Tour. Art, the Internet and National Identity in Aotearoa-New Zealand. Ph.D. diss. Massey University, 2018, passim. Brian Holmes, “What Can Art Do About Pipeline Politics?” South Atlantic Quarterly 116, no. 2 (2017): 426–431. Dominic David Walker, Experimental Geographies, Artists, and Institutions: Spaces of and Practices for Knowing. PhD. diss. University of Exeter, 2017, passim. Kevin Esterling, “Flash: Steve Rowell.” Riverside: California Museum of Photography, UCR ARTSblock, University of California, Riverside, 2016. Brian Holmes, “Mirror, Window, Door: Aesthetics of the New Avant–Garde,” transmediale journal, 2016, https://archive.transmediale.de/content/test-blog-0. Natasha Egan and Karen Irvine. Petcoke: Tracing Dirty Energy, 46–49. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Photography (MoCP) and Columbia College Chicago, 2016. Emily Eliza Scott. “Archives of the Present–Future: On Climate Change and Representational Breakdown.” The Avery Review, no. 16 (2016): 130–142. (Climates: Architecture and the Planetary Imaginary. New York: Lars Mülller and Columbia University, 2016). Neal White and John Beck, “Overt Research.” In Cold War Legacies: Legacy, Theory, Aesthetics, edited by Neal White and John Beck, 252–272. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. Dehlia Hannah and Sara Krajewski. Placing the Golden Spike: Landscapes of the Anthropocene, 90–99. Milwaukee: Inova (Institute of Visual Arts), 2015. Bonnie Fortune, ed., “Cold Coast Archive: AnneSofie Norn and Signé Liden,” 142–167. In An Edge Effect: Art and Ecology in the Nordic Landscape. Chicago: Half Letter Press, 2014. Ruth Dusseault and Michael Shanks, “Play War: Homemade Recreational Battlefields.” Places (November 2014), https://placesjournal.org/article/play-war-paintball-battlefields/. Rhoda Rosen, Encounters at the Edge of the Forest. Gallery 400 and University of Illinois, Chicago: 2014. Kate Bonansinga, “SIMPARCH: Hydromancy, 2007.” In Curating at the Edge: Artists Respond to the U.S./Mexico Border, 49–66. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014. Dieter Roelstraete, “Steve Rowell,” In The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology, 196–203. Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2013. Ruth Dusseault, “The Incomplete Illusion: Photographing the Training Ground.”Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 72, no. 3 (2013): 292–300. Neal White, “Experiments and Archives in the Expanded Field,” In All This Stuff: Archiving the Artist, edited by Judy Vaknin et al., 47–62. Faringdon: Libri Publishing, 2012. Richard Hollinshead et al., Five Site-Specific Installations, Washington, D.C. 2012. Washington, D.C. and Newcastle: Grit and Pearl, 2012. Paul Roberts, “Illuminating Landscapes,” Afterimage 37:5 (March/April 2010): 22–23. Gail Davies, “Where Do Experiments End?” Geoforum 41:5 (September 2010): 667–670. Stephen Graham, “Steve Rowell: Background Listening Post.” In Angst Hat Grosse Augen (Fear Has Big Eyes). Werkleitz Festival catalog,&nbsp; edited by Kristina Tiecke, 194–197. Halle, Germany: Werkleitz Center for Media Art, 2010. Stephen Graham. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. London: Verso, 2010, 196–197. Anke Hagemann and Steven Rowell, “The Ultimate High Ground” (Interview). In Friedensschauplätze: Frieden und Sichtbarkeit in der asymmetrischen Welt/Theater of Peace: Peace and Visibility in an Asymmetrical World, edited by Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst e.V. NGBK. Berlin: argobooks, 2010. Iris Hellmuth, ""US-Shopping Malls: Untergang der Konsumtempel.” Der Spiegel online (September 24, 2009), https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/us-shopping-malls-a-948503.html. Peter Kelly, “Office of Experiments.” Blueprint 289 (April 2010): 54–60. Nicola Triscott et al., Dark Places: Office of Experiments, Halford and Beard, Beatrice Da Costa, Steve Rowell. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery/The Arts Catalyst/SCAN, 2009. Regine Basha et al., The Marfa Sessions, 12–13. Marfa: Ballroom Marfa, 2009. Janneke Schönenbach and Olaf Arndt, Crisis: Exercises in the State of Emergency/Krise. Einübungen in der Ausnahmezustand. Bremen: Villa Ichon, 2009. Kate Bonansinga et al., Hydromancy: By SIMPARCH with Steve Rowell. El Paso: Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Visual Arts, University of Texas at El Paso: 2007. Jack Eric Stenner, Critical Reflection In A Digital Media Artwork—Playas: Homeland Mirage. Ph.D. diss. Texas A&amp;M University, 2007, passim. Jack E. Stenner, “PLAYAS: Critical Reflection In An Immersive Space,” In C&amp;C '07: Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity &amp; Cognition, 271–72. New York, Association for Computing Machinery, 2007.&nbsp; Jack Stenner et al. “Playas: Homeland Mirage.” In MULTIMEDIA '05: Proceedings of the 13th annual ACM international conference on Multimedia, 1057–58. New York, Association for Computing Machinery, 2005.&nbsp; SELECT CATALOG, ARTICLE, INTERVIEW, AND REVIEW BIBLIOGRAPHY, WITH CLUI: Carly Berwick, “Remaking the Map.” ARTnews 109, no.8 (October 2010) https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/remaking-the-map-345/ Jan Tumlir, “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man–Altered Landscape at LACMA.” X–TRA 12, no. 4 (Summer 2010). Francesco Manacorda et al., Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet, 79–86. London: Barbican Art Gallery and Koenig Books, 2009. Kurt Mueller, “Center for Land Use Interpretation: Blaffer Gallery, Houston, USA” Frieze 123 (May 2009). Rachel Hooper and Nancy Zastudil, On the Banks of Bayou City: The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Houston. Texas Oil exhibition catalog. Houston: Mitchell Center for the Arts and Blaffer Gallery, 2009. Bree Edwards, “Immersion in the Land of Oil.” Art Lies 58 (Summer 2008), 60–65. “Global Issues / Portrait of a Place / CLUI.” DAMnº Magazine 18 (2008). John Strausbaugh, “Take Nature, Add Humans, Observe Results” The New York Times (Sept. 24, 2006): sec 2. p30. Michael Ned Holte, “The Administrative Sublime, or The Center for Land Use Interpretation.” Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry 13 (Spring/Summer 2006), 18–26. 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Seiler, Sensing Security through Contemporary Art and Ethnographic Encounters. PhD. diss. Ohio University, 2017. Gavin Kroeber, “Suburban Futurism.” Art in America (November 2016): 106–115. Center for Land Use Interpretation, “ The Nation’s Media Archive: Taking Our Present Into The Future,” The Lay of the Land CLUI Newsletter #36 (Winter 2013). Knut Asdam, “Space, Place and the Gaze: Landscape Architecture and Contemporary Visual Art.” In Exploring the Boundaries of Landscape Architecture, edited by Simon Bell et al., 117–130. Abingdon: Routledge, 2012. Dan Smith. One Hundred Places You Will Never Visit. London: Quercus, 2012. Stephen Graham. Cities Under Siege: The New Military Urbanism. London: Verso, 2010: 197. Janet Owen Driggs and Lauren Bon, Not a Cornfield. Rochester: George Eastman House, 2009. Shelley Jacobson, Temporal Landscapes. M.A. thesis, Massey University, 2009. Lauren Bon, Janet Owen Driggs, et al. Not a Cornfield: History/Site/Document. 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Los Angeles: Center for Land Use Interpretation, various issues, 2001–present. https://steverowell.com/Contact Sat, 14 Nov 2020 18:33:01 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Contact Steve RowellContact ︎ ︎<img width="1468" height="1468" width_o="1468" height_o="1468" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4fe891308e477685b473758fdbda0fc95f5468c673315a414fd1e5a905e45d00/steve-rowell-fieldwork-ozarks-april2019-180-1500px.jpg" data-mid="88822442" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4fe891308e477685b473758fdbda0fc95f5468c673315a414fd1e5a905e45d00/steve-rowell-fieldwork-ozarks-april2019-180-1500px.jpg" /> https://steverowell.com/NATURAL-STATE Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:59:42 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/NATURAL-STATE Steve RowellNATURAL STATE2026 NATURAL STATE is a film and multi-channel video installation mapping four Minnesota research stations where the climate’s future is a physical simulation. Across peatland, conifer forest, oak savanna, and tallgrass prairie, a shifting environment is rehearsed through the mechanical acceleration of warming and biodiversity loss. Moving between aerial photogrammetry, camerless LiDAR, and conventional static views, I recorded these biomes as they are measured, altered, and curated by scientists simulating climate stress to observe how the living world adapts to a warming planet. 1. Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories 2. Marcell Experimental Forest 3. Cloquet Forestry Center 4. Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve These sites function as terrestrial laboratories for a landscape in flux, where shifting hydrologies and CO2 concentrations are made legible through bog warming chambers, hexagonal biodiversity plots, and biome manipulation infrastructures. Three of the four sites are stewarded by the University of Minnesota. Marcell Experimental Forest sits on federal U.S. Forest Service land and operates in partnership with the Department of Energy and Sandia National Laboratories. This pairing underscores both the historic entanglement of environmental research, nuclear deterrence, and national defense, as well as the current administration’s active erasure of federal climate data. Since this film was made, the SPRUCE experiment at Marcell has been disabled and the Grand Rapids, MN field office closed by the current administration. At Cedar Creek, the largest experiment currently running is called RESCUE — Rescuing Ecosystems and Species Currently Undergoing Extinction. The acronym reads like a mission statement for the whole project: an ecosystem named, funded, and instrumented against the extinction it faces, tended by the same species accelerating its collapse. NATURAL STATE asks what it means to archive a living ecosystem being engineered to survive its own end.&nbsp; <img width="5280" height="3956" width_o="5280" height_o="3956" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b040f568cb39cfcc669bc3773ca32d7918bef1a85974b599bc43f217247bf4b/CAM_20251103131350_0277_V-web.jpeg" data-mid="245411185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b040f568cb39cfcc669bc3773ca32d7918bef1a85974b599bc43f217247bf4b/CAM_20251103131350_0277_V-web.jpeg" /> <img width="4284" height="5712" width_o="4284" height_o="5712" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/03cb4eea939d77144f4e1828b7895dd221b12bf391bc586924b56ab87f2d438a/IMG_2920.JPG" data-mid="245411251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/03cb4eea939d77144f4e1828b7895dd221b12bf391bc586924b56ab87f2d438a/IMG_2920.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/63a3148d2a5c7585d250f3ddf06c81d7d4342f712b8c8b3edc53d15a6b26ce1e/IMG_2936.JPG" data-mid="245411257" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/63a3148d2a5c7585d250f3ddf06c81d7d4342f712b8c8b3edc53d15a6b26ce1e/IMG_2936.JPG" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/104d6b78865a95d3621287c0659fe9b6ceb7f33ea2b05ce1a1fed7b3e4d8572a/NATURALSTATE_INTRO_SAMPLE1.jpg" data-mid="251406018" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/104d6b78865a95d3621287c0659fe9b6ceb7f33ea2b05ce1a1fed7b3e4d8572a/NATURALSTATE_INTRO_SAMPLE1.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4a4fdc770331317572fa022a2453e8751b61724db02b425eb0665d10ee385ce7/IMG_2969.JPG" data-mid="245411189" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4a4fdc770331317572fa022a2453e8751b61724db02b425eb0665d10ee385ce7/IMG_2969.JPG" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/05a2a883e6cabd8dbf7901d53cbf9f6fa88215818647768af1193e58a55955c7/NATURALSTATE_CGI_SAMPLE3.jpg" data-mid="251406019" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/05a2a883e6cabd8dbf7901d53cbf9f6fa88215818647768af1193e58a55955c7/NATURALSTATE_CGI_SAMPLE3.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/475711a593c8e752055b2d55a6276a24ef62737b2fd1405a8ca75f8ce971e4d6/NATURALSTATE_CGI_SAMPLE1.jpg" data-mid="251406021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/475711a593c8e752055b2d55a6276a24ef62737b2fd1405a8ca75f8ce971e4d6/NATURALSTATE_CGI_SAMPLE1.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="1152" width_o="2048" height_o="1152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/96804590e7a7ed11fce76f1c970328e395714aa72dc22b7ef68095f29ef22454/NATURALSTATE_CGI_SAMPLE2.jpg" data-mid="251406020" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/96804590e7a7ed11fce76f1c970328e395714aa72dc22b7ef68095f29ef22454/NATURALSTATE_CGI_SAMPLE2.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d3dd444c147644f8f608df2c93fb86daffde86b22be047e35e5a586a195fb73/IMG_2896.JPG" data-mid="245411253" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d3dd444c147644f8f608df2c93fb86daffde86b22be047e35e5a586a195fb73/IMG_2896.JPG" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/43cfa32fb3c2a6456e75145d82b6854f776f1806408525dcbcb9140dd628775d/IMG_3011.JPG" data-mid="245411192" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/43cfa32fb3c2a6456e75145d82b6854f776f1806408525dcbcb9140dd628775d/IMG_3011.JPG" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f50504bde97f06467295f79b2965d476cfdfc29c5e398e996ff75739fd8ea4a7/IMG_2958.JPG" data-mid="245411249" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f50504bde97f06467295f79b2965d476cfdfc29c5e398e996ff75739fd8ea4a7/IMG_2958.JPG" /> The three-channel moving image installation version loops indefinitely and incorporates these components that shape this iteration:Introductory Film (4 minutes): A 360° spherical view recorded atop a vehicle moving beneath a forest canopy. Captions explain how and why we evolved to see, tracing the journey of photons from the sun’s core as they cross space, enter atmosphere, and reflect off the surfaces of a lit and warming planet.Main Film (23 minutes, 30 seconds): A documentary of all four research sites, captioned with text to ground the viewer in the specificities of each biome.Ceiling Projection (14 minutes): Sequences of CGI 3D point clouds derived from aerial LiDAR and photogrammetry, projected as a circular overhead element. These render the landscape through the digital architecture of the scan. These moving images are presented alongside maps, manuals, and field ephemera, framing the material culture of ecosystem science alongside its political stakes. An multi-channel installation of&nbsp;NATURAL STATE was exhibited at Watershed Art &amp; Ecology (Chicago), March–April 2026. A public screening of the film and workshop occured on&nbsp;May 16, 2026 at Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve. This workshop invited members of the local community, surrounding counties, and the Twin Cities to engage directly with the project. Activities included presentations of drone imagery, demonstrations of mobile 3D vegetation scanning using phone-based photogrammetry, discussion of how research plots and monitoring systems function, and conversation about how visual media can translate climate science for broader audiences.NATURAL STATE was featured in the 2026 MCAD Faculty Biennial (Minneapolis) as a single channel film, August 22-October 31, 2026.NATURAL STATE streamed in the “Experiments” issue, Labocine, October 2026 More detail on each site featured in the project:Itasca Biological Station and Laboratories (University of Minnesota), where forest and freshwater systems are studied through long-term ecological monitoring and climate-sensitive field research. Operating since 1907/1909, one of the oldest continuously operating field stations in the US. The 49-acre campus is entirely within Itasca State Park, near the Mississippi headwaters. It runs intensive residential field biology courses for students (bunkhouses, dining hall, full immersive program), has 11 research labs across six buildings, and maintains collections of birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and a herbarium. The library holds over 2,000 student research project reports accumulated across decades. Aquatic instrumentation on Lake Itasca and Elk Lake.The Marcell Experimental Forest (U.S. Forest Service), a globally significant peatland research site investigating hydrology, carbon cycling, and how warming accelerates carbon release in bog / forest wetland ecosystems. Established 1962, the longest-running peatland research program in the world, with continuous hydrological and climate data since 1960. Six instrumented experimental watersheds. SPRUCE ran 2016–2025 (now decommissioning): 10 open-topped octagonal aluminium enclosures, DOE-funded, run in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory. SPRUCE asked whether warming will release 10,000 years of accumulated peat carbon — peatlands hold a third of global soil carbon despite covering only 3% of land.Cloquet Forestry Center (University of Minnesota), dedicated to forest management and the future of northern forests as rising temperatures reshape species composition, growth, and disturbance cycles. The primary climate research is B4WARMED (Boreal Forest Warming at an Ecotone in Danger), a DOE-funded experiment using infrared lamps and underground soil-heating cables across 96 plots to warm ten tree species by 2°C and 4°C — temperatures projected for northern Minnesota by 2050 and 2100. The site sits at the boreal-temperate ecotone, where the "competition" between forest types makes it especially sensitive to warming. The University is also in the process of returning the land to the Fond du Lac Band.Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve (University of Minnesota), focused on biodiversity, grassland ecology, and long-term climate experiments that test ecosystem responses to warming, drought, and shifting seasonal patterns. Core experiments: BigBio (342 plots, one of the world's longest-running biodiversity experiments, begun in the late 1980s); BioCON (Biodiversity, CO₂, and Nitrogen — one of the world's few Free Air CO₂ Enrichment experiments, also among the longest-running elevated CO₂ studies globally); and RESCUE (Rescuing Ecosystems and Species Currently Undergoing Extinction — the newest experiment, testing whether seed inputs can rescue species in fragmented habitats in hexagonal plots of various sizes). Made possible with support from: Watershed Art &amp; Ecology +The Minnesota State Arts Board &nbsp;<img width="432" height="388" width_o="432" height_o="388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3449c7183af6f4cc5e4b439385b325939b7afd6a896a25961efca6bf9df414b7/msablogossizesd.jpg" data-mid="245411150" border="0" data-scale="12" data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/432/i/3449c7183af6f4cc5e4b439385b325939b7afd6a896a25961efca6bf9df414b7/msablogossizesd.jpg" />&nbsp;Steve Rowell is a fiscal year 2025 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. https://steverowell.com/Lost-Prairie-Valley Fri, 17 Nov 2023 21:14:47 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Lost-Prairie-Valley Steve RowellLost Prairie Valley2024 This is a film about plants. “Every day the urge grows stronger to get hold of an object at very close range by way of its likeness, its reproduction.”- Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," (1935) in Illuminations, ed. Hannah Arendt, trans. Harry Zohn, (New York: Shocken, 1969) Prior to the nineteenth century, western philosophers thought of eyes as broadcast centers, producing images of the world. As this perceived center of the universe shifted away from humans, and the Earth, it became more difficult to see the natural world exactly at the moment that industrial society’s exploitation began driving entire species towards extinction. Since that time, increasingly complex machines and algorithms do the work of seeing and recording the effects of the global climate emergency. Lost Prairie Valley investigates this moment at ecological research stations in the American state of Minnesota, with a little object recognition help from artificial intelligence. “The apple of the eye was that center from which emerged all the images that created the outer world.” — Marshall McLuhan, archival recording (1968), as featured in Lost Prairie Valley This "help" manifests as a friction between the organic and the algorithmic. Intercut with the archival voices of McLuhan, Harley Parker and Tony Schwartz—who distinguishes the pre-Newtonian eye as a "making center" rather than a "matching center" —the film’s AI narrator attempts to translate the sublime into data. It confidently reduces ancient ecosystems to "dense green foliage" or "well-maintained lawns," seeing the image but missing the entropy. By juxtaposing the frozen specimens of the university herbarium with these flat digital descriptions, the film questions whether our new machines are recording the world, or broadcasting a hallucination of nature that no longer exists. <img width="5120" height="2880" width_o="5120" height_o="2880" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/206e59d1890fdbf7f03b4892f31a7d6b9d26a549837e3f26d04ce26c7ffa03af/Lost-Prairie-Valley-poster-image-1.jpg" data-mid="197201299" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/206e59d1890fdbf7f03b4892f31a7d6b9d26a549837e3f26d04ce26c7ffa03af/Lost-Prairie-Valley-poster-image-1.jpg" /> Lost Prairie Valley, Steve Rowell, 2024, 14 minutes, color, stereo sound, 4K digital video and 16mm Kodak Vision 3 color film 4K overscan Shot in 2020-23 in Minnesota, USA which is located on Mnisóta Makhóčhe, the contemporary, traditional, and ancestral homelands of the Dakota people at these locations: Voyageur Park, Dunlap Island Duluth Seaway Port, Lake Superior Bdote Confluence, Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers Cedar Creek Long Term Ecological Research Site Cloquet Forestry Center Regis West Art Building Darkroom, University of Minnesota (UMN) Advanced Imaging Service for Objects and Spaces (AISOS), UMN Lost Valley Prairie Scientific and Natural Area University of Minnesota Herbarium Image recognition: Be My Eyes / OpenAI GPT-4 image-to-text model Audio narration: Heidi, Murf AI Interview: Marshall McLuhan With Harley Parker and Tony Schwartz, 17 June 1968 Tony Schwartz Collection, US Library of Congress, National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, Culpeper, VA Music: “Your Chance to Live: Earthwatch” 1972, Screenscope, Inc., U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency “Rediscovery: Earthquake Below” 1975, Screenscope, Inc., NASA, U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency “Rediscovery: Flood Below” 1975, Screenscope, Inc., NASA, U.S. Defense Civil Preparedness Agency Thank you: Samantha Thi Porter, Research Associate, UMN AISOS Tim Whitfeld, Collections Manager, UMN Herbarium Caitlin Barale Potter, Associate Director, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve Anita Porath-Krause, Researcher, Cedar Creek Ecosystem Science Reserve Kyle G Gill, Research Project Specialist, Cloquet Forestry Center John Marks, MIRRORLAB Andy Graydon Priyanka Basu Made possible with support from: The University of Minnesota Institute on the Environment, The MacDowell Foundation, and The Minnesota State Arts Board. Steve Rowell is a fiscal year 2022 recipient of a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board. This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, thanks to a legislative appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature; and by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. <img width="746" height="675" width_o="746" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7015c6788901c3e77a2e103e34bb9b7e687bb121ad72a0be22c28b4704dc518e/2020edit-MacDowell-Logo-full-color1200.jpg" data-mid="197201367" border="0" data-scale="7" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/746/i/7015c6788901c3e77a2e103e34bb9b7e687bb121ad72a0be22c28b4704dc518e/2020edit-MacDowell-Logo-full-color1200.jpg" /> <img width="400" height="220" width_o="400" height_o="220" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be00a8bc55878ba9658f656b0e562e6637993d68d7b92e420381b2055c42b8c0/IonE_wordmark_400x220.png" data-mid="197201365" border="0" data-scale="6" data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/be00a8bc55878ba9658f656b0e562e6637993d68d7b92e420381b2055c42b8c0/IonE_wordmark_400x220.png" /> <img width="432" height="388" width_o="432" height_o="388" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3449c7183af6f4cc5e4b439385b325939b7afd6a896a25961efca6bf9df414b7/msablogossizesd.jpg" data-mid="197201366" border="0" data-scale="7" data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/432/i/3449c7183af6f4cc5e4b439385b325939b7afd6a896a25961efca6bf9df414b7/msablogossizesd.jpg" /> https://steverowell.com/Planetary-Bayou Sun, 18 Sep 2022 18:00:03 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Planetary-Bayou Steve RowellPlanetary Bayou2023-TBD Planetary Bayou is a film about a slow-moving, shallow, muddy creek in Texas that has changed the course of life on Earth, as it has mutated during its flow through the most concentrated petrochemical complex in the world. Seen as a built environment, Houston is a chaotic and confounding metroplex. What makes it so compelling as a subject of inquiry is its singular status as the petrochemical capital of the world and the planetary impact of its fossil fuel manufacturing. By extension, this city affects all life on Earth today and every imaginable tomorrow.Planetary Bayou examines the historical and contemporary landscape of the Buffalo Bayou, a waterway that originates as a drainage ditch in the countryside and extends through Houston to the Gulf of Mexico. Along its course, the bayou transitions from a modest channel to a major industrial shipping canal lined with petrochemical facilities, before reaching offshore pipelines that stretch for hundreds of miles across the sea floor. The film documents the bayou’s widening, channelization, and intermittent rewilding, as well as its role as a critical conduit for global industry. The waterway passes through two bays before entering the Gulf, where industrial and ecological systems converge in complex and consequential ways. Using a combination of aerial and ground-based cinematography, historical and contemporary documentation, and layered narration (delivered through voiceover, intertitles, and captions), Planetary Bayou presents a detailed portrait of the waterway. The narrative moves across multiple temporal and geographic scales, situating the Buffalo Bayou within broader systems of energy, infrastructure, and environmental change. This is not simply a film about a single city or channel; it frames the bayou as a site where ecosystems, industrial capitalism, and planetary processes intersect. More information soon. <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ab7889c0f6aadced69bea91797b84cd74791e438f3651cf6ff790e0d042b25b/20220914-095219-buffalobayou-web.jpg" data-mid="153260901" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ab7889c0f6aadced69bea91797b84cd74791e438f3651cf6ff790e0d042b25b/20220914-095219-buffalobayou-web.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2665" width_o="4000" height_o="2665" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/78097b486d86d47f4d53b37b7a480a7b4fa1113202a15740c3091be63702f070/Planetary-Bayou-002.jpg" data-mid="162149134" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/78097b486d86d47f4d53b37b7a480a7b4fa1113202a15740c3091be63702f070/Planetary-Bayou-002.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="3000" width_o="4000" height_o="3000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/20c1027eb30a54caabd77351207f778d0ce34103497cfb913b8560ee17114cb7/Planetary-Bayou-004.jpg" 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Donation page access. <img width="900" height="202" width_o="900" height_o="202" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/388998bac2c52b144eb0c594bb99e438f84040da870b41ecd34655c51cbea0a5/filmnorth-logo-transparent.png" data-mid="162149117" border="0" data-scale="23" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/900/i/388998bac2c52b144eb0c594bb99e438f84040da870b41ecd34655c51cbea0a5/filmnorth-logo-transparent.png" /> https://steverowell.com/Field-Guide-to-Environmental-Crime-Houston-and-the-Oil-Coast Tue, 10 May 2022 19:23:22 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Field-Guide-to-Environmental-Crime-Houston-and-the-Oil-Coast Steve RowellField Guide to Environmental Crime:&nbsp;Houston and the Oil CoastFall 2022 / Spring 2023 More information soon.&nbsp; Made possible with support from the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts and the University of Houston. &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="3000" height="2250" width_o="3000" height_o="2250" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bada46886bd6eb9e1e25e3428014cb9619f154ab84e0bea2290b7d80124ac89f/Houston-Sep-2021-website-001.jpg" data-mid="142211317" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bada46886bd6eb9e1e25e3428014cb9619f154ab84e0bea2290b7d80124ac89f/Houston-Sep-2021-website-001.jpg" /> https://steverowell.com/Dead-Zones Sat, 14 Nov 2020 20:18:45 +0000 Steve Rowell https://steverowell.com/Dead-Zones Steve Rowell Dead Zones2020-23 A film, photographic, essay*, and mapping project about the aquatic dead zone of the Gulf of Mexico and the terrestrial dead zones of subsidized factory farming across the transformed prairies of the “American heartland”. Critically threatened and devastated landscapes are revealed from above and below the land of the vast Mississippi River Watershed. In collaboration with Priyanka Basu.&nbsp; <img width="3712" height="2090" width_o="3712" height_o="2090" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f28ea83dfca44b582fb5ed78e365091fd87e27540cff1f576d2386c0fa19af3/DEADZONES-posterimage.jpg" data-mid="173069296" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f28ea83dfca44b582fb5ed78e365091fd87e27540cff1f576d2386c0fa19af3/DEADZONES-posterimage.jpg" /> The Gulf dead zone is an exemplary instance of the normalization of environmental violence and death in the contemporary world. This dead zone, first recorded in 1972, is the massive hypoxic area in the Gulf of Mexico caused primarily by agricultural runoff along the Mississippi River. This overflow of excess nutrients, bacteria, and other waste materials causes the wild overgrowth of sunlight-absorbing algal blooms that blanket the Gulf for miles. The resulting waste and devastation spaces grow to enormous scales, and like other types of slow violence, are difficult to grasp and represent. These directly affect communities whose voices and stories are rarely heard, in this case, from rural communities along and at the end of the polluted waters, small-scale fishermen around the Gulf, to distinctive cultural communities, including communities of color, along the Mississippi River Delta. * Text from “Dead Zones: Fertile Wastes at the Head and Tail of the Mississippi River” by Priyanka Basu and Steve Rowell in Decapitated Economies (Berlin, K. Verlag, 2023). Made possible with support from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the MacDowell Foundation, and the Art + Technology department at the University of Florida. Film details: DEAD ZONES, 2023, 17 minutes, single channel video, stereo soundSteve Rowell: director, camera, writer, editor, sound (text adapted from “Dead Zones: Fertile Wastes at the Head and Tail of the Mississippi River” by Priyanka Basu and Steve Rowell)World art exhibition premiere, Insurgent Ecologies group show, Antenna, New Orleans, April-May 2023 <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/91089a802e08a839921dadb6b1d312f78d1207afe09097857c363eec6dc9a930/Dead-Zones-001.jpg" data-mid="101014469" border="0" alt="Mosaic artwork at the Henry T. Odum Center for Wetlands at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Dr. Odum (pictured here bottom left) is credited as one of the founders of modern Ecology studies. He attempted to equate the intricacies and chaos of the natural world with the ordered, predictable world of computer systems and engineering. This mosaic shows various mesocosms, outdoor experimental systems that examines the natural environment under controlled conditions, in action." data-caption="Mosaic artwork at the Henry T. Odum Center for Wetlands at the University of Florida, Gainesville. Dr. Odum (pictured here bottom left) is credited as one of the founders of modern Ecology studies. He attempted to equate the intricacies and chaos of the natural world with the ordered, predictable world of computer systems and engineering. This mosaic shows various mesocosms, outdoor experimental systems that examines the natural environment under controlled conditions, in action." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/91089a802e08a839921dadb6b1d312f78d1207afe09097857c363eec6dc9a930/Dead-Zones-001.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1199" width_o="1600" height_o="1199" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2572c368b49afe8a18a6e7d34afbb00af1cf75ff35be855393b6d7c10290d9c2/Dead-Zones-005.jpg" data-mid="101014473" border="0" alt="A massive earthwork of potash mine tailings waste looms above a lake of wastewater in what was a forest in Northern Florida. Nutrien Limited White Springs Complex, White Springs, Florida. Potash is a raw resource for phosphate based fertilizers. Over 60 billion pounds of hazardous waste, along with billions of gallons of acidic wastewater, exists at sites like this across Florida and Louisiana." data-caption="A massive earthwork of potash mine tailings waste looms above a lake of wastewater in what was a forest in Northern Florida. Nutrien Limited White Springs Complex, White Springs, Florida. Potash is a raw resource for phosphate based fertilizers. Over 60 billion pounds of hazardous waste, along with billions of gallons of acidic wastewater, exists at sites like this across Florida and Louisiana." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2572c368b49afe8a18a6e7d34afbb00af1cf75ff35be855393b6d7c10290d9c2/Dead-Zones-005.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/230059d0e166bccdbaddc9d6dc05d9f51ada963c4039f80976b354ca0a1af31e/Dead-Zones-007.jpg" data-mid="101014477" border="0" alt="After the digging is done and waste ponds seep into scrape pits, the land bears little resemblance to it former self. This landscape looks less like the woodland of northern Florida and more like the surface of Saturn's moon Titan with its clouds of nitrogen smog and rivers of liquid methane." data-caption="After the digging is done and waste ponds seep into scrape pits, the land bears little resemblance to it former self. This landscape looks less like the woodland of northern Florida and more like the surface of Saturn's moon Titan with its clouds of nitrogen smog and rivers of liquid methane." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/230059d0e166bccdbaddc9d6dc05d9f51ada963c4039f80976b354ca0a1af31e/Dead-Zones-007.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c4d69e6d1e7fc3427722c4f8ecc419eca5f3e9a8ea68c466ad5a01a97d3f163/Dead-Zones-009.jpg" data-mid="105282327" border="0" alt="The Port Neal Nitrogen Complex run by CF Industries on the Missouri River south of Sioux City, Iowa. This facility produces Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) fertilizer from urea and nitrogen gas, using an advanced version of the Haber Process developed in the early twentieth century by Fritz Haber, the so-called &ldquo;father of chemical warfare,&rdquo; who weaponized chlorine in WWI for the German military." data-caption="The Port Neal Nitrogen Complex run by CF Industries on the Missouri River south of Sioux City, Iowa. This facility produces Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) fertilizer from urea and nitrogen gas, using an advanced version of the Haber Process developed in the early twentieth century by Fritz Haber, the so-called “father of chemical warfare,” who weaponized chlorine in WWI for the German military." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c4d69e6d1e7fc3427722c4f8ecc419eca5f3e9a8ea68c466ad5a01a97d3f163/Dead-Zones-009.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="2998" width_o="4000" height_o="2998" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e91a3b972896d26169b5f7f089889757f407787ef1d96d1ad8816b18aaae23d0/dead-zone_010_20190927_151900-2.jpg" data-mid="98599059" border="0" alt="Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Cargill is one of the big agribusiness companies in the American Midwest. Like their corporate brethren, Monsanto (St. Louis, Missouri) and ADM (Chicago, Illinois), Cargill has holdings globally and is responsible for the spread of biotechnological side-effects and deforestation around the world as part of its process of constant growth." data-caption="Minneapolis, Minnesota-based Cargill is one of the big agribusiness companies in the American Midwest. Like their corporate brethren, Monsanto (St. Louis, Missouri) and ADM (Chicago, Illinois), Cargill has holdings globally and is responsible for the spread of biotechnological side-effects and deforestation around the world as part of its process of constant growth." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e91a3b972896d26169b5f7f089889757f407787ef1d96d1ad8816b18aaae23d0/dead-zone_010_20190927_151900-2.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8ca67f34f6550dd5ca0e54f8ce058b5998fd7f2cc7cebde57a2a30d1849b8139/Dead-Zones-023.jpg" data-mid="101014606" border="0" alt="Brilliant winter sunlight reflects saturated colors from the vibrant green waste ponds which deceptively shimmer with toxins and deadly plankton at the Mosaic Faustina Ammonia Plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River. This stretch of the river is known as Cancer Alley &ndash; 7 of the 10 census tracts with the highest cancer risk in the nation are found here." data-caption="Brilliant winter sunlight reflects saturated colors from the vibrant green waste ponds which deceptively shimmer with toxins and deadly plankton at the Mosaic Faustina Ammonia Plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana, along the Mississippi River. This stretch of the river is known as Cancer Alley – 7 of the 10 census tracts with the highest cancer risk in the nation are found here." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8ca67f34f6550dd5ca0e54f8ce058b5998fd7f2cc7cebde57a2a30d1849b8139/Dead-Zones-023.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/28841ee4162e5e4cfeafc7f70efaef015ef6022d81a9bda4bf97459f6edc0747/dead-zone_008_20190719_133715-1500px.jpg" data-mid="88829492" border="0" alt="A pile of agricultural lime ready for field application somewhere in Minnesota. Lime helps soil absorb chemical fertilizers such as anhydrous ammonia, potassium sulfate, and phosphate. While early fertilization of fields was done using the ground bones of animals (including humans) and burnt lime, most of the dry phosphate fertilizer used in the USA comes from the Bone Valley of Florida where the geologic remains of sea life from the Paleocene (~10 millions years ago) are scraped from the ground. Trillions of ancient shark carcasses are transported through time and space and transmuted into corn syrup and soy protein." data-caption="A pile of agricultural lime ready for field application somewhere in Minnesota. Lime helps soil absorb chemical fertilizers such as anhydrous ammonia, potassium sulfate, and phosphate. While early fertilization of fields was done using the ground bones of animals (including humans) and burnt lime, most of the dry phosphate fertilizer used in the USA comes from the Bone Valley of Florida where the geologic remains of sea life from the Paleocene (~10 millions years ago) are scraped from the ground. Trillions of ancient shark carcasses are transported through time and space and transmuted into corn syrup and soy protein." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/28841ee4162e5e4cfeafc7f70efaef015ef6022d81a9bda4bf97459f6edc0747/dead-zone_008_20190719_133715-1500px.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c82d08d56de86ffee800cb6cd45f92ca5d9932002e749b1368f2c724984da050/Dead-Zones-012.jpg" data-mid="101014602" border="0" alt="Founding families of the American agribusiness story started small. This is the historic home of the Mayo and Cosgrove families. The Cosgrove family farm grew into the iconic American frozen and canned vegetable Green Giant Company, now owned by the Bloch &amp; Guggenheimer Foods conglomerate." data-caption="Founding families of the American agribusiness story started small. This is the historic home of the Mayo and Cosgrove families. The Cosgrove family farm grew into the iconic American frozen and canned vegetable Green Giant Company, now owned by the Bloch &amp; Guggenheimer Foods conglomerate." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c82d08d56de86ffee800cb6cd45f92ca5d9932002e749b1368f2c724984da050/Dead-Zones-012.jpg" /> <img width="3992" height="2992" width_o="3992" height_o="2992" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6cf8eda554ac5d1a02308bc9fe82539c8051788b926140e0f0dc4d486119f26a/Meadow-Star-Dairy--005-2-2.jpg" data-mid="98598807" border="0" alt="An industrial dairy operation floats in a sea of homogenous, government-subsidized farms for genetically modified corn and soybeans, run by a handful of conglomerates and family businesses. This gridded and parceled landscape, like much of the American Midwest, was once the largest tall-grass prairie in the world. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been leveled, scraped, irrigated, and manipulated to serve a single purpose: to grow as much product as possible using largely synthetic means of extracting nutrients from the earth for profit." data-caption="An industrial dairy operation floats in a sea of homogenous, government-subsidized farms for genetically modified corn and soybeans, run by a handful of conglomerates and family businesses. This gridded and parceled landscape, like much of the American Midwest, was once the largest tall-grass prairie in the world. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, it has been leveled, scraped, irrigated, and manipulated to serve a single purpose: to grow as much product as possible using largely synthetic means of extracting nutrients from the earth for profit." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6cf8eda554ac5d1a02308bc9fe82539c8051788b926140e0f0dc4d486119f26a/Meadow-Star-Dairy--005-2-2.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c5b58fe07527368b8169585740353669133e56b4e5056a6d15b75d73e1542fd6/Dead-Zones-011.jpg" data-mid="101014603" border="0" alt="Companies like Big Gain owe their 'bigness' in the animal enlarging feed business to the fertilizer industry which boosts genetically modified corn and soy crop yields. Bigger yields, bigger animals, bigger profits, bigger people." data-caption="Companies like Big Gain owe their 'bigness' in the animal enlarging feed business to the fertilizer industry which boosts genetically modified corn and soy crop yields. Bigger yields, bigger animals, bigger profits, bigger people." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c5b58fe07527368b8169585740353669133e56b4e5056a6d15b75d73e1542fd6/Dead-Zones-011.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1067" width_o="1600" height_o="1067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d8ba5b1d9002791f485a18c41518f59cab8d8cd5ae5c5cf462e6c53bb1ddec52/Dead-Zones-018.jpg" data-mid="105282264" border="0" alt="Along stretches of American farmland, which run parallel to the river, measures are taken to limit damage to critical infrastructure caused by catastrophic flooding, now common due to accelerated climate change. The Minnesota River, represented here as a mural, carries nitrogen and phosphate wastewater to the Mississippi River just beyond this flood wall in Mankato, Minnesota. " data-caption="Along stretches of American farmland, which run parallel to the river, measures are taken to limit damage to critical infrastructure caused by catastrophic flooding, now common due to accelerated climate change. The Minnesota River, represented here as a mural, carries nitrogen and phosphate wastewater to the Mississippi River just beyond this flood wall in Mankato, Minnesota. " src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d8ba5b1d9002791f485a18c41518f59cab8d8cd5ae5c5cf462e6c53bb1ddec52/Dead-Zones-018.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1199" width_o="1600" height_o="1199" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0ca2a32c2ff2e8a5da68ceb37551ada3a4d7bd355f832f2a17c6f16be5131cf3/Dead-Zones-014.jpg" data-mid="101014604" border="0" alt="As the infant Mississippi River winds its way across northern Minnesota, it merges with countless prairie creeks and forest streams. It also crosses oil pipelines, such as this one, owned by the Koch Brothers, which carries crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta Canada. Clearcutting of forests, even on tribal lands, is common by pipeline companies and provides the unintentional benefit of the easy identification of an otherwise hidden and covert infrastructure." data-caption="As the infant Mississippi River winds its way across northern Minnesota, it merges with countless prairie creeks and forest streams. It also crosses oil pipelines, such as this one, owned by the Koch Brothers, which carries crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta Canada. Clearcutting of forests, even on tribal lands, is common by pipeline companies and provides the unintentional benefit of the easy identification of an otherwise hidden and covert infrastructure." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0ca2a32c2ff2e8a5da68ceb37551ada3a4d7bd355f832f2a17c6f16be5131cf3/Dead-Zones-014.jpg" /> <img width="3000" height="1999" width_o="3000" height_o="1999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eeda1ce25bc7557d02d3f6b311882a62ed715a42365fa318647045e769a20094/MissRvrModel-20191204-003.jpg" data-mid="98599058" border="0" alt="The abandoned Mississippi River Basin Model Waterways Experiment Station near Jackson, Mississippi is the largest river model ever built, representing nearly half of the contiguous US in miniature. 24,000 kilometers of rivers that make up the Mississippi River Basin are rendered as thirteen kilometers of carefully carved channels across one square kilometer of poured concrete. This model was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1966, using German prisoners of war as labor until 1946. It has been gradually deteriorating for nearly half a century: its scaled landforms are being eroded by water and wind, its tiny waterways filled with dead leaves and debris, the strips of metal screens, once used to represent forests and swampland, now blow across this miniature landscape in drifts and piles." data-caption="The abandoned Mississippi River Basin Model Waterways Experiment Station near Jackson, Mississippi is the largest river model ever built, representing nearly half of the contiguous US in miniature. 24,000 kilometers of rivers that make up the Mississippi River Basin are rendered as thirteen kilometers of carefully carved channels across one square kilometer of poured concrete. This model was built by the US Army Corps of Engineers from 1943 to 1966, using German prisoners of war as labor until 1946. It has been gradually deteriorating for nearly half a century: its scaled landforms are being eroded by water and wind, its tiny waterways filled with dead leaves and debris, the strips of metal screens, once used to represent forests and swampland, now blow across this miniature landscape in drifts and piles." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eeda1ce25bc7557d02d3f6b311882a62ed715a42365fa318647045e769a20094/MissRvrModel-20191204-003.jpg" /> <img width="1600" height="1066" width_o="1600" height_o="1066" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/23f1b171451322fd63989fd554a608c5e9ac76ed8a81ed21b85b6a7651a10c70/Dead-Zones-021.jpg" data-mid="105282007" border="0" alt="An aerial view of the Birdfoot Delta as scale model along the Mississippi Riverwalk on Mud Island, in the middle of the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. This model represents 1,600 kilometers of the Great River from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico in 600 meters of molded concrete." data-caption="An aerial view of the Birdfoot Delta as scale model along the Mississippi Riverwalk on Mud Island, in the middle of the Mississippi River in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. This model represents 1,600 kilometers of the Great River from Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico in 600 meters of molded concrete." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/23f1b171451322fd63989fd554a608c5e9ac76ed8a81ed21b85b6a7651a10c70/Dead-Zones-021.jpg" /> <img width="2048" height="2048" width_o="2048" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/71e1478871d019f409714277631134070d3756a533e1f1f234b9e01321a55829/gulf-mexico-deadzone-nasa-NAS-056DEP001-01.jpg" data-mid="98599108" border="0" alt="Algal blooms along the Louisiana and Texas coasts. The dead zone is most concentrated in the eddying currents near the deltas of the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers, clearly made visible by the larger bloom, which extends far out into the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Aqua MODIS." data-caption="Algal blooms along the Louisiana and Texas coasts. The dead zone is most concentrated in the eddying currents near the deltas of the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers, clearly made visible by the larger bloom, which extends far out into the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: NASA/GSFC/Aqua MODIS." src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/71e1478871d019f409714277631134070d3756a533e1f1f234b9e01321a55829/gulf-mexico-deadzone-nasa-NAS-056DEP001-01.jpg" /> <img width="1200" height="949" width_o="1200" height_o="949" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fa91aa767d9c3fe9db82eb128150908fd34836e936e5ae9d33909d86b404bbff/buena-vista-cemetary-buried-beneath-sugarcane-field.jpg" data-mid="88829092" border="0" alt="Along the Mississippi River in Louisiana are numerous former plantations where ethno-anthropologists have recently discovered slave burial grounds. At this spot, buried beneath acres of sugarcane, is one of these - the Buena Vista Cemetery. Underground scanning has revealed that caskets and bodies from the 18th and 19th centuries are still intact. They are now under threat of exhumation and displacement by the development of the Formosa Chemical Company's plastics plant called the &quot;Sunshine Project.&quot;" data-caption="Along the Mississippi River in Louisiana are numerous former plantations where ethno-anthropologists have recently discovered slave burial grounds. At this spot, buried beneath acres of sugarcane, is one of these - the Buena Vista Cemetery. Underground scanning has revealed that caskets and bodies from the 18th and 19th centuries are still intact. They are now under threat of exhumation and displacement by the development of the Formosa Chemical Company's plastics plant called the &quot;Sunshine Project.&quot;" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/fa91aa767d9c3fe9db82eb128150908fd34836e936e5ae9d33909d86b404bbff/buena-vista-cemetary-buried-beneath-sugarcane-field.jpg" /> <img width="300" height="75" width_o="300" height_o="75" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/fe321623d3f42ffb071436485c70b87426e7879ab63be579e75ee3b92771cb8a/guggenheim-foundation-logo.png" data-mid="129532288" border="0" data-scale="100" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/300/i/fe321623d3f42ffb071436485c70b87426e7879ab63be579e75ee3b92771cb8a/guggenheim-foundation-logo.png" />&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="746" height="675" width_o="746" height_o="675" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7015c6788901c3e77a2e103e34bb9b7e687bb121ad72a0be22c28b4704dc518e/2020edit-MacDowell-Logo-full-color1200.jpg" data-mid="129532544" border="0" data-scale="8" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/746/i/7015c6788901c3e77a2e103e34bb9b7e687bb121ad72a0be22c28b4704dc518e/2020edit-MacDowell-Logo-full-color1200.jpg" />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img width="1000" height="184" width_o="1000" height_o="184" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b96bff22582937c01e7d30bbb1d763c19b4e536f4dcc1d4d57643a192d1b2bbc/uf-footer.png" data-mid="129926439" border="0" data-scale="2" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b96bff22582937c01e7d30bbb1d763c19b4e536f4dcc1d4d57643a192d1b2bbc/uf-footer.png" />