How do we make sense of climate? Artist, researcher and creative coder Denisa Půbalová explores the possibilities for sensing and recording environmental changes. In movement, through interaction, materially, digesting–as Maker in Huis, Denisa will experiment with tools for climate sense-making to investigate the intersections of human perception, environmental processes, and the emotional landscapes shaped by climate anxiety. Climate, emerging across vast spacetimes, feels intangible and unperceivable. The acts of making sense are means to confront own anthropocentric perspectives and generate strategies for processing climate emotions.

The project will delve into sensory research and practices to embody changing climates. Beyond the human body, she will continue her research with microorganisms to find unconventional strategies for climate adaptations, climate creation, and climate sensing. She will work with traditional climate sensors, technology, and tools, to research the experience of technological hyper-aestheticization.

Denisa Půbalová (she/her, CZ/NL) is an audiovisual artist, a researcher on environmental philosophy, critical posthumanism, and technological infrastructures, a creative coder and a
lecturer. She works at the intersections of arts and science.

Exploring microscopic and macroscopic climates, her current research expands from climatic storytelling with diatoms (microalgae), to critical research of the phenomenon of Earth’s digital twin. She works with microorganisms (molds, fungi, diatoms, biofilm). For her artistic research, she worked with Waag Futurelab, Posthuman Art Network CA, and Artbiom Prague.

Together with Dr. Lea Luka Sikau, she forms duo sikau/pubalova, an artistic initiative focusing on embodied multi-sensory encounters within the arts. sikau/pubalova were commissioned by S+T+ARTS, Ars Electronica, BASE Milan, Science Gallery Bengaluru, IMPAKT Utrecht, transmediale Berlin, LABoral, Ensemble Modern, TONALi Hamburg, and ligeti zenter Hamburg.

She is a visual artist in Metanoia Creatives, a collective that focuses on digital animation, generative arts, projection mappings, and large-scale audiovisual installations presented
worldwide.