Clarissa Chevalier
...is an environmental media theorist, curator, and PhD Candidate at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). She explores oceanography through the lens of feminist science and technology studies. At UCSD, she is jointly affiliated with Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Visual Arts Department. Chevalier’s work intersects technical image studies, oceanography, anticolonial and intersectional feminist theory, art/science collaboration, environmental media studies, and blue humanities approaches.
Education
PhD Candidate, Program for Interdisciplinary Environmental Research, and Art History, Theory and Criticism. Visual Arts Department, and Scripps Institution of Oceanography
M.A., Art History, research concentration in feminist ecological art
Savannah College of Art and Design
B.A., Cinema Arts with Minor in Art History
Columbia College Chicago
Selected Curatorial and Museum Work
Curator, Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast. Geisel Library, UCSD.
Getty PST Art: Art and Science Collide
Co-Curator with Lisa Cartwright, Embodied Pacific: Seaways. The Visual Arts Gallery at SME, UCSD.
Getty PST Art: Art and Science Collide
Archival Researcher, SCAD Museum of Art
Savannah College of Art and Design
Selected Publications
Clarissa Chevalier and Dante Capone. “Between Tactile and Digital: Zooplankton, Visual Science Studies, and the Automation of Oceanographic Observation.”
In Visualizing Oceanography: Pacific Collaborations in Art and Science Research. Bloomsbury Press.
Clarissa Chevalier. “Clay as Technical Medium: Claudine Arendt’s Through a Porcelain Cast.”
In Visualizing Oceanography: Pacific Collaborations in Art and Science Research. Bloomsbury Press.
Clarissa Chevalier. “The Ocean is Not a Machine: A Feminist Media Analysis of Oceanographic Models, Simulations, and Futures.”
In World Futures Review SI: Environmental Futures: Media, Literary, and Narrative Approaches
Review: “Living Surfaces: Images, Plants, and Environments of Media by Alberlardo Gil-Fournier and Jussi Parikka.”
In Configurations: A Journal of Literature, Science, and Technology
Clarissa Chevalier. “Agnes Denes: Ecological Art and Cultural Sustainability.”
In The Palgrave Handbook of Global Sustainability. Palgrave Macmillan Press.
Clarissa Chevalier. “Eco-Phenomenology and the Maintenance of Eco Art: Agnes Denes’s A Forest for Australia.”
In The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art.
Selected Public Speaking + Conferences
Presenting Scholar, “Crafting Plankton Data: A Feminist Materialist Reframing of Oceanographic Representations Across Art and Science.” PhD Candidate Colloquium.
Visual Arts Department, UCSD
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD
Toronto, Canada
Participating Scholar, Colby Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities
Colby College, Maine
Presenting Scholar, “Bio-Optical Oceanography, Ocean Simulacrum, and Posthuman Feminism. FEMeeting: Women in Art, Science, and Technology.
University of Windsor, Canada
University of North Texas
Presenting Scholar, “Pulling Apart the Myth of Independent Scientific Genius with Feminism, Disability Studies, and Artistic Practice.” Society for the Social Studies of Science 2023 Conference.
Honolulu, Hawai’i
San Francisco, California
Invited Speaker, “Ceramics, New Technologies, and Posthuman Feminism.” Design@Large Series: Soft Structures in Hard Times.
Design Lab, UCSD
Savannah College of Art and Design
Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla, Mexico
Evora, Portugal
Brooklyn, New York
Selected Teaching
Instructor of Record, VIS101: Introduction to Urban Ecologies.
Instructor of Record: VIS103A: Shaping Science through Design.
Educational Materials Developer, The History of Art: A Global View, 1st and 2nd editions
UCSD Visual Arts Department
UCSD Visual Arts Department
Thames & Hudson
UCSD Visual Arts Department
Thames & Hudson
Graduate Writing Consultant
UCSD Teaching and Learning Commons
Teaching Assistant
VIS102: Democratizing the City
VIS85A: Media History
VIS21A: Introduction to Global Indigenous Art History
VIS103: Contemporary Architectures
VIS30: Introduction to Speculative Design
VIS127B: Arts of China
UCSD Visual Arts Department
Selected Awards
Outstanding Graduate Teaching Scholar Award
UCSD
Ships Oceanographic Research Fund, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
UCSD
Russell Grant, Visual Arts Department
UCSD
Faculty of Liberal Arts Outstanding Academic Achievement Award
Savannah College of Art and Design
Harrison Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Research
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Background Image: Jess Holz, Plankton Painting 4/27/24 #88, Halls Pond, chronomicrograph, 2024.