Art after Nature
Dr. Giovanni Aloi is an author, educator, and curator specializing in the representation of nature and the environment in art. Aloi is the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. He is the author of many books on art and nature including Art & Animals (2011), Speculative Taxidermy (2018), Why Look at Plants? The Botanical Emergence in Contemporary Art (2018), Botanical Speculations (2018), and Lucian Freud Herbarium (2019). He is a regular public speaker at the Art Institute of Chicago, a radio contributor, and has curated exhibitions in the USA and abroad. Aloi lectures on modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York.
Caroline Picard is a writer, publisher, and curator who has presented exhibitions nationally and internationally. She has two graphic novels, The Chronicles of Fortune (Radiator Comics, 2017), and Meowsers (Radiator Comics, 2023) published under the name Coco Picard, and her novel The Healing Circle won the 2020 Women's Prose Prize (Red Hen Press, 2022). She is the Executive Director of the Green Lantern Press.
Giovanni Aloi and Caroline Picard join Cary Wolfe, author of the inaugural volume in the Art after Nature series Art and Posthumanism, in conversation on the University of Minnesota Press podcast.
Petra Kuppers, author of Eco Soma, talks art, performance, environment, awareness, attention, capitalism, language, identity, and disability culture with Aloi and Picard.
Graham Harman, author of Architecture and Objects, talks architecture and object-oriented ontology with Aloi and Picard.