Aidan Koch will be discussing environmental comics as a genre, discipline, and pedagogy. In describing how comics operate as a medium, she will outline their unique position to tell ecological stories both historically and into the future. As an artist who has worked in comics, illustration, fine art, social practice, and conservation, she will describe how her experiences have informed this insight and transformed her own work. This talk will consider how artists can shape the lens around climate change, biodiversity loss, and our relations to the earth.
Aidan Koch
Aidan Koch is an artist and graphic novelist living and working in the Mojave Desert. Koch’s work has been exhibited widely, including in Los Angeles, Bogota, Paris, and Hamburg. She has released several graphic novels including “Spiral and Other Stories” by New York Review Comics, and is the director of the Institute for Interspecies Art and Relations.