Alumna delivers lecture on role the arts play in environmental awareness
Design Media Arts Alum Pinar Yoldas presents a Counterforce Now lecture
Pinar Yoldas is a cross-disciplinary artist/researcher who lives and works between Durham, NC and Berlin. Pinar’s research explores the collaborative potential between art and biological sciences at the age of the anthropocene. Pinar received her M.S. at Istanbul Technical University, B.Arch. (METU) and her M.F.A. at UCLA, Design Media Arts.
"Pinar Yoldas challenged her gallery attendees to an interactive yoga session in a dark, hot room.The necessary heat radiated from a glowing red sign reading “GLOBAL WARMING.”
Alumna and artist Yoldas discussed her 2016 installation, “Global Warming Hot Yoga Studio,” in UCLA’s Counterforce Now lecture series Thursday entitled, “Causality is Broken: Can We Fix It With Art and Design?” Her installations use sensory experiences to highlight the relationship between everyday behavior and environmental harm, she said. Yoldas said art helps physically and emotionally reconstruct the cause-and-effect mechanism between an individual’s actions and climate change, as people often aren’t aware of their impact."— Nina Young, May 23, 2019
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