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Mae Lubetkin

Mae Lubetkin
Ocean scientist, writer, and artist

Mae Lubetkin is an ocean scientist, writer, and artist. With remixed methods, they traverse disciplines and practices to understand our many relationships to bodies of water. Often at-sea, their scientific work is rooted in oceanography, volcanology, and imaging. Guided by fieldwork, creative experimentation, and thinking with the more-than-human, they approach making and writing through queer, anti-extractive, and decolonial frameworks. Working with 3D reconstructions, field recordings, maps, imagery, glass and volcanic materials, Mae traces the transformations of the natural world and its digital models. Their core practice is in solidarity with submerged, ancient, ephemeral, and imaginary environments.