Spring 2020 Video Installation: "Climate Sight"

This spring, students in Professor Jane Cassidy’s Video Installation class had planned an event in April at the Waterworks Museum, located on the site of the original Chestnut Hill Reservoir. The students were to fill the cavernous space with projections and sounds - all themed around the idea of water conservation. Unfortunately, the event was cancelled and the class had to be “reinvented.” Despite their disappointment at not being able to create this ambitious, large-scale video installation, the students reconsidered their projects and changed their focus to creating “Climate Sight” videos, based on their conversations about the current climate crisis.

They conversed with their grandparents, or with someone at least a generation older than themselves, about the effects of climate change, and then followed up by talking with their peers. Their major concern is that future generations will suffer more because of what is happening, and that we need to act now.