Item
Event

What is Missing?

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.
Title
What is Missing?
Presenter/ Speaker
Maya Lin
Date
September 29, 2014
Description
A lecture by artist and architectural designer Maya Lin in the Berkeley Center for New Media's Art, Technology and Culture Colloquium, held at the David Brower Center, Berkeley. Lin discussed her large-scale environmental installations, studio works, architecture and memorials, and her final memorial, What is Missing?, which addresses biodiversity and habitat loss and asks viewers to rethink their relationship to the natural world. Attendees were invited to add their own environmental memories to the project's archive in the Brower Center gallery.
Format
Artist Talk / Lecture
Event / Conference
UC Berkeley Center for New Media
Climate & Ecology Themes
Biodiversity and Species Loss
Themes and Concepts
Loss and Grief
Memory and History
Methods & Approaches
Public Programming
Discipline / Field
Arts & Design
Audience / Engagement Type
Public / General Audience
Academic / Research
Location
David Brower Center, 2150 Allston Way, Berkeley, California
Recording
archive.org
Rights
Rights held by artist or creator
Item sets
California Art & Climate Archive
UC Berkeley
Media
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.Maya Lin, What is Missing?
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.Maya Lin, What is Missing? 2 (still)