Piece Title: Deluge Artists in Residence
Date: Summer 2022
Venue: NYU Integrated Design and Media
Curatorial Team: Elizabeth Henaff and Tega Brain
Artists: Paolo Cirio, Sabina Sethi Unni and Nikolas Michael, Maya Simone Z., Nancy Nowacek, Shinnosuke Komiya, Danielle Isadora Butler
Summary: As part of the interdisciplinary project Data Deluge, Deluge Data, the FloodNET team hosted five artists in residence at NYU over the summer of 2022. They presented their work in public engagement at the Deluge Symposium in Fall of 2022.
More information: 
Flood Labs Symposium and Flood Labs Artists in Residence
PROJECTS
Flooding NYC Claims
Paolo Cirio
Flood NYC Claims is a new work by Paolo Cirio that imagines a world where those to blame for the climate crisis are held accountable. If you have experienced flooding, simulate what you would be owed by using the calculator on the project website:
https://flooding-nyc-claims.net/
state of water: brooklyn waterfronts
Maya Simone Z.
https://mayasimonez.com/state-of-water-brooklyn-waterfronts
state of water: brooklyn waterfronts is an oral history project that documents and archives NYC residents’ stories and experiences of flooding and how we exist in relationship with water. Through a series of interviews, conversations and interactions, this project centers how individuals, families and community members across Brooklyn neighborhoods on Lenapehoking exist in relationship with water and city infrastructure. Stories are powerful, important artifacts that show the effects of flooding and city policies and legislation on our lives. With a focus on community-based solutions to city-wide problems, this project chronicles first-hand accounts of flooding’s impact in Brooklyn waterfront neighborhoods.
Rainy Day Play
Sabina Sethi Unni and Nikolas Michael
“Rainy Day Play” is a devised comedic show about flooding, climate resiliency, and community. Are you scared of the rain? What’s your first memory of flooding and water? How has your neighborhood’s environment already changed since you grew up? What’s a time you’ve leaned on a neighbor during a disaster? Together with a group of 8 theater-makers, we wrote a play that explores how communities flood, change, and can adapt and be resilient to climate change.
Encounter at Farpoint
Nancy Nowacek
Encounter at Farpoint is a community workshop to uncover the frustrations, needs, and desires of FloodNet communities in relationship to flooding and other climate events, and most importantly, to imagine futures informed by FloodNet data. To build a language of possibility, workshops will explore the city’s past relationships to water, other cities’ past and current relationships to water, images from sci-fi media as well as current speculative projects about living on and with water.
Flood Realities
Shinnosuke Komiya
FLOODAR is an Augmented Reality project that visualizes site-specific, historical flood height data registered by the FloodNet sensor network. In the context of this residency, we have focused on making an AR app prototype to visualize flood height and extent during the storm events associated with hurricanes Ida and Henri in 2021.