Please join us on Thursday, October 23 for a visiting artist lecture with Karolina Karlic at 1:00 p.m. in Auditorium 150.
Karolina Karlic is a visual artist whose work spans photography and documentary practices to explore the intersections of labor, industry, and the environmental and social impacts of globalization. Her projects investigate how systems shaped by post-industrialization affect both people and ecologies within global production networks.
Her work, Rubberlands, traces the global footprint of the natural rubber industry. Through this photographic survey, Karlic examines rubber’s critical role in the second industrial revolution and its deep connections to photography—both as materials and as drivers of contemporary mobile economies of production and consumption.
Karlic has been widely recognized for her work, receiving numerous awards and fellowships, including the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the founding director of Unseen California, an artist-led research initiative engaging with the UC Natural Reserve system across the state of California and serves as Director of Graduate Studies in the Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program at UC Santa Cruz. She is the Faculty Director of Art + Science Initiatives at the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History. She is also leading a University of California systemwide initiative, the UC Climate Action Arts Network.
This lecture is sponsored by the Media Arts Department.