Above left: Image courtesy the artist.
Above right: Cyanobacteria on display at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science in Espelie's "Refresh" exhibit. (Credit: Espelie)
"Blue Velvet & Bacteria”
Thursday, April 3, 4:00 p.m.
Lectures will be in Lawrence Hall, Room 115, 1190 Franklin Boulevard, Eugene, OR 97403.
Erin Espelie will discuss how her film practice evolved from her time in a virology lab to her editorial role at Natural History magazine, based at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She will show several short films and discuss her two feature films, The Lanthanide Series (2014) and Ideas of Order (2025).
Erin Espelie co-founded NEST (Nature, Environment, Science & Technology) Studio for the Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017, where she’s an associate professor of cinema. Her poetic, nonfiction films have shown at the New York Film Festival, the British Natural History Museum, SFMoMA, Full Frame, Rotterdam's International Film Festival, and more. Her feature-length film, The Lanthanide Series, premiered at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen and won the grand prize at the Seoul International New Media Festival in 2015. She has been editor in chief of Natural History magazine since 2014 and her hybrid writing has appeared in Leonardo, the Brooklyn Rail, TiltWest, and in her co-edited book, Deep Horizons: A Multisensory Archive of Ecological Affects & Prospects, published by Amherst College Press in 2023.