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Allie E.S. Wist is an artist-scholar and writer, currently working on an Interdisciplinary Arts PhD at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, with a focus on the senses, the Anthropocene, and environmental archives.
Her artwork encompasses photography, radio broadcasts, artifacts, writing, dinners, and experiential installations that render futuristic speculation accessible through sensory narratives. Wist has recently focused on the role of taste and aesthetics in accessing scales that exceed human subjectivity. She has also studied the role of affect, disgust, and ambiguity in ecological perception and ecological ethics.
Many of her works involve relational epistemology and depict New Materialist concerns which situate both the aritist and audience with and within collapse, decay, and ruins. More recently, Wist’s body of work has focused on future customs and traditions related to food and water, as well as nonhuman companionship as an important aspect to food futures.
Wist is co-founder of Mutamur, a futurist art and culture radio show. Her work and participatory artworks have been exhibited by the Nobel Prize Museum, Pioneer Works, Honolulu Biennial, The Wellcome Collection, The Centre for Sensory Studies, EMPAC, MIT, and HESSE FLATOW.
Wist received a B.A. in Media and Fine Art from Boston University, and an M.A. in Food Studies from New York University. She has been a photo editor and art director for several food publications including Bon Appétit and Saveur Magazine. She has over a decade of experience in food media and journalism. She currently teaches at NYU and hosts an interdisciplinary Anthropocene working group.
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