Jane D. Marsching is an interdisciplinary digital artist focusing on issues of climate change and environmentalism. She earned a BA from

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and an MFA in photography from the School of the Visual Arts. She is Professor of Studio Foundation at

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. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at major museums including the ICA Boston and MassMoca.

Art

Marsching's climate change related work began using the

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's North Pole webcam. She created a time-lapse film of footage from the webcam with sound by Victor McSurely. She created interactive works using data and relying heavily on research. Multiple works including the ''North Pole Webcam'' make up the interdisciplinary and collaborative project, ''Arctic Listening Post'' (2005-2009). The project was awarded a Creative Capital Grant in Emerging Fields in 2006. Her works have been influenced by the writing of

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. Her projects extend for a number of years and include collaboration with scientists, choreographers, and software engineers. The resulting projects including, ''Field Station Concordia'', are interactive, participatory and utilize networks, communities and the local landscape for their creation. She,

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and Andi Sutton co-founded the Art&Activism group Platform 2. In 2020, Marsching conducted ink-foraging workshops at Fruitlands Museum in Harvard, Massachusetts.

Awards

*Creative Capital *LEF Foundation *James and Audrey Foster Prize Finalist, ICA Boston, 2006

References

External links

*http://www.platform2.info/ *http://www.plotformplot.org/ *http://www.janemarsching.com/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Marsching, Jane Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American digital artists Women digital artists Massachusetts College of Art and Design faculty School of Visual Arts alumni Hampshire College alumni Interdisciplinary artists 21st-century American women artists