Associate Professor, Head of Photography, Director of Graduate Studies: Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA, Director of Art + Science Research at the Norris Center for Natural History, Founding Director: Unseen California
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Associate Professor, Head of Photography, Director of Graduate Studies: Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA, Director of Art + Science Research at the Norris Center for Natural History, Founding Director: Unseen California
Faculty
Kenneth S Norris Center for Natural History
Environmental Studies Department
Film and Digital Media Department
Digital Arts Research Center
DARC # 239
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Art Department
Through a range of photographic media Karlic creates work that addresses the intersection of photography and documentary practices, with a focus on systems of labor and industry, globalization, and their impact on the social and environmental landscapes. Karlic has been the recipient of numerous fellowships, residencies, and awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
Her research is dedicated to telling the stories of those persons and ecologies who have been affected by the post-modernization of the industrial world. In her research, Rubberlands, a photographic survey that maps the ways natural rubber manufacturing is socially, ecologically and systemically formed, Karlic proposes that rubber + photography are both integral components of the second phase of the industrial revolution. This research proposes that each are equal players in the development of a globalized contemporary mobile society of making and consuming.
Karlic is the founding director of Unseen California, the Director of Graduate Studies Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program and the Faculty Director of Art + Science initiatives at the Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History at UCSC.
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University of California Office of the President Multi-Campus: UC Climate Action Arts Network (2025)
Fellowship: Hellman Fellow (2019-2020)
Fellowship: Department of Cultural Affairs Los Angeles, Cultural Exchange Artist between Los Angeles /Brazil. (2015)
Artist in Residence: Sacatar Foundation, Bahia, Brazil (2014)
Artist in Residence: Light Work, Syracuse, New York (2013)
Guggenheim Fellowship: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Creative Arts: Photography (2011-2012)
