UCI - Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center

05 Jun, 09 PM - 10 Jun, 01 PM

My name is Kelley O’Leary and I am a first-year graduate MFA candidate in Studio Art at UC Davis. My most recent work investigates nature, the built environment, and absurd articulations of life on Earth in the digital age from an ecofeminist perspective. The work often manifests in assemblage sculptures composed of found and handmade objects, found footage video collage and immersive installations. My research has included inquiries into ecology, science fiction and psychogeography as well as the materiality of digital technology. Informed by the ancient astronomical earthworks of Ireland, the land of my ancestors, I am setting out to understand human connection with land and sky through building models of neolithic Irish astronomical technologies in the home-state of the internet. The crux of my research relies on two main questions: Where will our human technologies bring us, and at what cost? How is our relationship to the knowledge of the environment (and ultimately ourselves) changing with the introduction of the internet? Being that Anza-Borrego Desert State Park contains the only designated International Dark Sky Community in California, this location will provide an ideal environment to build these temporary earthworks for sky observation. During my time at Steele/Burnand Anza-Borrego Desert Research Center, I am interested in visiting the petroglyphs, pictographs and other archaeological sites located within the reserve.

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Under Project # 46486 | Research

California Cosmologies

graduate_student - University of California, Davis

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Kelley O'Leary Jun 5 - 10, 2021 (6 days)

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