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In a darkened hall, a pale screen glows with a drawing of contour lines folding like a landscape, while below it a small figure stands at a lectern washed in red light.
What is Missing?
A row of half-built houses in raw plywood sheathing marches down a new street of bare dirt under a washed-out sky, scaffolding perched on one roofline and lumber stacked at the curb.
Tracy Hills
In profile, Anna Friz speaks into a microphone, one hand raised mid-thought, her swept-back hair catching the pale glow of a projection screen behind her.
Acoustic and Transmission Ecologies
In thick embroidered stitches, a wildfire crew in yellow works a hillside: one man speaks into a radio beside a red truck, others cut a line through the brush, and a hose arcs water toward a wall of orange flame under rolling gray smoke.
A Radical Thread
Eyes closed, face lifted toward a pale sky, a woman wrapped in a golden fur cloak stands on a fog-white shore scattered with stones, a collar of white leaf-shaped shells resting at her throat.
A’ai: Language, Biodiversity, and the Art of Coexistence
Orange letters ask “Why Center Gaza on Earth Day” beside the whole Earth seen from space, Africa beneath swirling cloud. Below: T. J. Demos, HAVC, UCSC.
The Politics of Earth Day: Gaza and the Genocide–Ecocide Nexus
A slide titled “The Labor of a Dispatcher” lays out four facts: 10 seconds to answer a call; 123 operators for a San Francisco population of 842,754; shifts of up to 16 hours when a dispatcher calls in sick or resigns; codes and terminology learned by rote.
Emergency Infrastructure & Climate Crisis Mediation
A green-tinted aerial satellite image of the UC Santa Cruz Digital Arts Research Center and surrounding wooded landscape, overlaid with the title “HERE, HERE” in large white letters. Small text along the bottom credits Rachel Berger and the 2026 Arts and Ecology Festival.
HERE, HERE
Rachel Berger's recorded research talk featuring prompts that encourage uncommon reflections on the past, present, and possible futures. Adapted from a series of creative workshops Rachel Berger and Ri Dym conducted with Berkeley middle school students. In the workshops, students produced diverse statements and drawings responding to Berkeley’s past and imagining speculative future “histories” for themselves and their city.