Dr Sergio Fava

Biography

Coming from a background in epistemology and history of science, my research in environmental arts and climate science is resolutely interdisciplinary (if not 'antidisciplinary'). Being mostly interested in asking questions across diciplinary boundaries, I closely follow objects and practices across their social lives - usually with STS (Science and Technology Studies) tools - mapping trajectories along their causal networks, with special attention to chronology and mereology. This ultimately informs my understanding of how our cognitive frameworks and epistemic paradigms both limit and enable our world-creating statements, patterns, and inertias.

As a photographer exploring the clumsy absurdity, and the efficient opression, of our dystopian human environments, I have exhibited internationally in group and solo exhibitions. I now spend more time writing -- about visual arts and social change, with a particular interest in the role different knowledge systems play in social, ecological and personal emancipatory practices.

All the above has sustained and expanded my interest in methods (i.e, how we make stuff, including statements of truth) and methodologies (i.e., how we present our choreographies of making as statement of truth) as strategies for emancipation or tools of opression.

I supervise doctoral research in visual art and ecology, environmental justice, art and social change, art and technoscience, art and theology - especially projects employing interdisciplinary methods.