Water Will Be Here 2010

Water Will Be Here is a site-specific video installation that imagines what it might feel like if sea levels rose to the point where cities found themselves underwater.

For all the attention the issue of climate change has received, for most of us it still remains an abstract issue that resides somewhere far away, both temporally and geographically. This project brings climate change to our cities for us to experience here and now.

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Eric Corriel

United States

https://ericcorrielstudios.com

Eric Corriel is a multidisciplinary artist living in New York City. After graduating from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, he received a Diplôme National d’Arts Plastiques from the École Régionale Supérieure d’Expression Plastique in Tourcoing, France. Eric currently teaches Artist as Activist at School of Visual Arts, where he is also Digital Strategy Director.

Eric has been awarded a Digital/Electronic Arts Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts and an Impact Artist Fellowship from the Human Impacts Institute. He has been honored twice as a grantee of the New York State Council on the Arts for his work addressing environmental issues and has twice won a Webby Award for his design work at School of Visual Arts.