UCSC Pivot Party

This soundmapping project invites listeners and visitors to experience a coastal bluff through the shifting textures of its acoustic life—songbirds and shorebirds, wind through cypress trees, the oft-not-so-distant surf, and our own human traces.

An artistic exploration of the long, entwined histories of misinformation and vaccine hesitancy, and the contemporary implications to each due to American public health policy, neoliberal economic incentives, and the digital media landscape.

Jessica Jackley describes love as a “desire to really be meaningful and useful in another person’s life." She pitches that there is a “weirdness” that accompanies the relationship between donors and their benefactors and that, by comparison, microlending “is a relationship that can promote respect."