An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Curated by Clarissa Chevalier.
Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming at UC San Diego organized by the Visual Arts Department and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography for the Getty Foundation’s region-wide PST ART: Art and Science Collide initiative. Embodied Pacific features projects by 30 artists working with researchers in laboratories, field sites and archives in Southern California and the Pacific Islands. It invites immersive engagement in oceanography, Indigenous design and critical craft through exhibitions, workshops and programs at six venues.
About the Contributors
Claudine Arendt is a Luxembourgish artist based in Amsterdam. She performs and exhibits in public spaces, has presented at science and ceramics conferences, and collaborates with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. She was awarded the Stipendium for Emerging Artists by Mondriaan Fonds, has stayed in residence at the European Ceramic Workcenter and International Studio & Curatorial Program, and installed a fountain sculpture at Oeuvre Nationale de Secours Grande-Duchesse Charlotte. She received her B.F.A from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and an M.A. in European Film and Media Studies from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Sven Gastauer is a senior research scientist at the Thünen Institute of Sea Fisheries in Germany and a visiting scholar at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a fisheries acoustician, who studies fish and zooplankton distributions as well as their interactions and responses to changes in the environment. He has worked with Zooglider since 2019, during his postdoctoral studies at Scripps. He has studied marine environments in many of the world’s oceans.
Mark Ohman is Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. He is a zooplankton ecologist who studies copepods, krill, and other organisms with which they interact as predators and prey. He is the founder of the California Current Ecosystem Long-Term Ecological Research site, supported by the National Science Foundation. He has studied plankton ecology in different parts of the ocean, including in both the northern and southern hemispheres of the Pacific, the Northwest Atlantic, the Norwegian Sea, the North Sea, and the western Mediterranean Sea. He developed Zooglider in collaboration with the Instrument Development Group at Scripps.
Also On View at Geisel Library
While visiting Through a Porcelain Cast at The Nest, be sure to visit the Exhibition Gallery at Geisel on the 2nd (main) Floor to view Embodied Pacific: Three Lives. This exhibition features oceanographers Easter Ellen Cupp, Anita Hall, and June Pattullo, with work by artists Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Nicolas Miller, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Lisa Cartwright, Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.
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Image Credit: Claudine Arendt
Image Description: Claudine Arendt, Through A Porcelain Cast (Euphausiid 200-1000kHz), 2022