Clarissa Chevalier
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Clarissa Chevalier (she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego affiliated with the Visual Arts Department and the Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Her dissertation research combines media theory, feminist science studies, biological oceanography, and artistic practice to critically reimagine contemporary ocean visualization, datafication, and simulation. Chevalier has written and presented on topics of sustainability, ecological crisis, early women oceanographers, and the vital importance of artistic collaboration with scientists to offer alternative interpretations of scientific data calibrated to different ethical commitments. Email: cchevalier @ ucsd.edu
Clarissa Chevalier
Art + Science History, Environmental Media Theory, Feminist Science Studies
Education
2021 – 2027 [anticipated]
Art History PhD student, Dept. of Visual Arts, University of California San Diego,
2018 – 2020
M.A., Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, Graduated
Summa Cum Laude, Art History Thesis: Anticipating the Anthropocene: Agnes
Denes’s Public Works, 1968–1998
2014 – 2018
B.A., Cinema Arts, Columbia College Chicago, Chicago, IL, Minor in Art History,
Graduated Summa Cum Laude, Art History Thesis: At the Intersection of Past and
Future: Daniel Buren, Faheem Majeed, and the Realization of Institutional Critique in 2018