Screening with Jeremy Bolen and Brian Holmes 
Tour and screening begins at 7 PM

Carbon Register discussion 
with Amber Ginsburg and Andy Scarpelli
Tour and discussion at 8 PM

Join us for our first event of the summer with artists Jeremy Bolen, Brian Holmes, Amber Ginsburg, and Andy Scarpelli.

We begin with an exhibition tour with the artists Jeremy Bolen and Brian Holmes at 7 PM, followed by a screening of their film Born Secret (Cash for Kryptonite). A discussion with the artists follows. At 8 PM Amber Ginsburg and Andy Scarpelli discuss Carbon Register #1 transformation of seaweed into carbon sequestration. 

Born Secret begins in Metropolis, Illinois, where the fictional Superman discovered kryptonite, his one fatal weakness. In this sleepy little town on the banks of the Ohio River, a real factory produced uranium hexafluoride gas, which was enriched for use in nuclear bombs at another site just across the water, in Paducah, Kentucky. The two forgotten factories exemplify the science-based production process of our own fatal weakness: the “Great Acceleration” of the Anthropocene, whose geological threshold is marked by fallout particles deposited across the earth during the period of above-ground nuclear testing (1952-1964). The video follows this “Anthropocene mode of production” to its top-secret origin at Oak Ridge Laboratory, where the Manhattan Project drew on hydroelectric power furnished by the river-basin development program of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Following the film, join us for a conversation with Amber Ginsburg and Andy Scarpelli to discuss transforming seaweed into tattoos! On the 3rd floor, seaweed – collected from Lake Michigan – has been quietly growing in an aquarium/bio lab as a climate solution. Carbon Register – a collective of Sara Black, Marc Downie, Amber Ginsberg, and scientists Andy Scarpelli and Sarah Rosengard – have been harvesting seaweed to turn it into carbon. What if we could take abundant seaweed, dry it and capture carbon dioxide, and then turn it into ink for a tattoo? If carbon is the foundation of life on Earth and the principal driver of climate change, and we have abundant seaweed which have carbon sequestration rates. . . . Join us for an experimental discussion where we consider a collective artwork as a potential response to reduce global carbon dioxide.