2020
Presentation at Palmetto Bay Business Association Meeting
OnlineOn October 1st, Xavier Cortada joined the Palmetto Bay Business Association to give a presentation about his Underwater Vote project. To learn more about the Underwater Vote, click here.
UM Faculty Exhibition presents Underwater Vote
University of Miami Gallery 2750 NW 3rd Avenue, Suite 4, Miami, FL, United StatesUHOA Home | About | Meetings | Elevation Drive | Markers | Press | Organize an Underwater HOA | Resources | Archive | Underwater Vote | Participate Xavier Cortada is proud to be showing "Underwater Vote" at the University of Miami Department of Art and Art History's Faculty Art Exhibition at the University of Miami Gallery in Wynwood. Viewing hours are Wednesday to […]
FIU Guest Lecture with Dr. Evelyn Gaiser
OnlineOn October 9th, Xavier Cortada joined Dr. Evelyn Gaiser's "Creative Science Communication" class. Cortada spoke to Dr. Gaiser's graduate students about his approach to participatory environmental science and discussed his work with diatoms in particular (Diatom Court, Diatom Fountain, etc.)
Underwater Vote Installation at University of Miami Foote Green
University of Miami Coral Gables, FL, United StatesUHOA Home | About | Meetings | Elevation Drive | Markers | Press | Organize an Underwater HOA | Resources | Archive | Underwater Vote | Participate In collaboration with the University of Miami Student Government's ECO Agency and Climate Reality Project club, UM Professor of Practice Xavier Cortada is creating an "Underwater Vote" installation on campus at UM's Foote Green from October 12th - 23rd. Because of the pandemic, only people permitted to […]
Underwater HOA at “A Festival of Climate Action: It’s Time”
OnlineXavier Cortada is proud to be showing his Underwater HOA participatory art project at “A Festival of Climate Action: It's Time.” To learn more about the Underwater HOA, click here. In the first week of November, the British government was supposed to host COP26, the United Nations’ climate change conference, in Glasgow, Scotland. […]
“Pandemic | Miami Corona Project” Virtual Exhibition
OnlineXavier Cortada Pandemic | Miami Corona Project The University of Miami Department of Art and Art History presents Pandemic | Miami Corona Project, a virtual exhibit by artist Xavier Cortada. Though the Wynwood Gallery remains closed to the general public due to the global health emergency, you can still enjoy our exhibitions virtually. Xavier Cortada’s “Pandemic | Miami […]
Presenting “Socially Engaged Art: Using Slow Activism to Tackle a Climate Emergency” at SciVizNYC
OnlineOn December 2nd, Xavier Cortada will deliver a 20-minute presentation, "Socially Engaged Art: Using Slow Activism to Tackle a Climate Emergency" to attendees of SciVizNYC 2020. Talk Summary: Understanding that Miami’s climate emergency is a race against the clock, in my practice, I double down on slow activism. For instance, in my “Underwater […]
Underwater HOA Monthly Meeting – December 2
OnlineUHOA Home | About | Meetings | Participate | Elevation Drive | Markers | Press | Organize an Underwater HOA | Resources | Archive https://youtu.be/eJAzRHLT7ss On Wednesday, December 2nd, join the Underwater HOA for our final virtual monthly meeting of 2020 with featured speaker Alberto Cairo, Ph.D., Author, Lecturer, and Professor at the […]
Panelist at the Behavior, Energy & Climate Change Conference
OnlineReimagining Creativity: Inspiring Behavior Change Moderator: Marda Kern, EcoArts Connections Panelists: Xavier Cortada, Artist and Professor of Practice at the University of Miami, and Eve Mosher, Artist Images, storytelling and experiential activities are increasingly used to improve climate change communication. Allieship with artists increases the suite of tools and creative capacity in addition to "inviting people in" to inspire attitude […]
Presenting “Using Socially Engaged Art to Make the Invisible Visible” at SWS International Conference on Social Sciences
OnlineUsing art’s elasticity to work across disciplines, Cortada creates processes that engage community in problem-solving. Focusing on the pandemic and our climate emergency, Cortada takes us on a journey through his science art and socially engaged art practice. This year we invite you to participate in a very special gathering. We will witness the unpredictable […]