Blue Humanities Archive

The Blue Humanities Archive is an interdisciplinary project designed at the intersection of digital art, environmental humanities, and emerging technologies to enhance and support the protection of the depleting biodiversity of salt and freshwater. It is focused on developing an ecological database dedicated to aquatic environments. Ultimately, the archive will be based on DNA digital data storage technology and will take a liquid form of a drop. We understand water as non-binary, transitional, and fluid substance that supports the idea of queer ecologies, environmental identity and justice, and the Fifth Wave of Feminism. Therefore, our goal is to create a sustainable and multi-sensorial model of documenting endangered species, preserving the memory of extinct aquatic environments, and open a collective space for hydrofeminist network and multispecies future through digital art. The Curators Justyna Gorowska Justyna Górowska (she/her) is a hydrofeminist and performative artist, and collaborator in interdisciplinary projects at the intersection of art, technology, and social activism. As a child, she fell in love with the aquatic creatures of the Skawa River in Poland. She has exhibited in Berlin, Jakarta, Warsaw and New York. She received her PhD at the University of Fine Arts in Poznan in 2020. Currently based in Karkow, where she teaches at The Intermedia Department at Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts. Ewelina Jarosz Ewelina Jarosz (she/they) is a hydrosexual researcher, blue posthumanities scholar, performative artist, and collaborator in interdisciplinary projects on hydro-art. They are a child of Baltic Sea where they grew up with cyanosis and algae. She received her PhD in the humanities at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. Ewelina was twice awarded with The Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship. Currently based in Krakow, where she teaches at The Department of Media and Cultural Research at The Pedagogical University.