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ecoarttech, founded by Leila Christine Nadir and Cary Peppermint, is a postdisciplinary collaborative whose work spans art, music, performance, theory, criticism, and creative writing.
Leila earned her PhD in literature from Columbia University and was Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow of Environmental Humanities at Wellesley College in 2010-2011. Cary is Assistant Professor of Digital Art at the University of Rochester, where Leila also teaches humanities courses in the sustainability and digital studies programs. Much, but not all, of their work together explores experiences and philosophies of modern ecological life within networked environments, from biological systems to industrial grids and digital networks. Merging primitive with emergent technologies, they investigate the overlapping terrain between "nature," built environments, mobility, and electronic spaces.
Their research has received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and Franklin Furnace, as well as numerous university fellowships. Their performances, exhibitions, and lectures have taken place at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Postmasters Gallery, 319 Scholes, Smackmellon Gallery, Exit Art, U.C.L.A., M.I.T. Media Lab, ISEA 2012, Banff New Media Institute, European Media Art Festival, Parsons The New School for Design, and the Neuberger Museum of Art. Their work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Walker Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum, Turbulence.org of New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc., and the Cornell University Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art.
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