Mission

The Climate Crisis and Media Arts working group seeks to create a public-facing and interdisciplinary project that centers on the everyday experiences of people living on the front lines of the climate emergency.

What does climate change actually look and feel like?
How does it intersect with and compound other pressing problems, including migration and economic inequality? 

Combining the expressive power of the media arts with critical frames offered by the environmental humanities and the rigor of climate science, this project seeks to influence cultural and political discourse on the climate emergency not by speculating on unlivable futures, but by creating new ways of depicting what it means to live and die within a changing climate, right now.

Supported by the Northwestern Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, CC+MA brings together artists, scholars, activists, and students, with the goal of producing empowering, public-facing, and sensorial depictions of the material effects and lived experience of climate crisis in a range of sites in China, Central America, the US-Mexico Borderlands, Southeast Asia, and beyond.