Team

Core Team

Chris Kilburn

Professor of Volcanology at University College London (UCL) and Director of the UCL Hazard Centre. He has been investigating how volcanoes behave for more than 40 years, having also worked in Italy at the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples, the University of Naples Federico II, and the headquarters of Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology in Rome, as well as at the University of Vienna (Austria) and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (California, U.S.A).

Building on responses to volcanic crises in Italy, Cameroon, the Canary Islands and the Caribbean, he has combined theoretical studies with practical measures for forecasting eruptions and their hazards. Since 2017, he has collaborated with members of the panel to develop novel arts-science methods for improving how warnings of volcanic threats are presented to non-specialists.

Karen Holmberg

Karen Holmberg is an archaeologist and volcanologist who studies radical climate changes of the past to determine what they can or cannot tell us about our environmental present and future. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at New York University (NYU) and the Scientific Director/co-founder of the NYU Gallatin WetLab, an experimental art-science laboratory dedicated to public pedagogy and outreach to address the climate crisis.

She also serves as the Engineering Writing Fellow at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. She is deeply interested in how creative outreach of science and engineering insights through collaboration with the arts can contribute to more sustainable and equitable societies. Some of her past fieldwork has been in Panama, El Salvador, and Papua New Guinea. Her ongoing field projects include work in Chilean Patagonia with the Chaiten volcano and work with the members of this panel at the Campi Flegrei volcano in southern Italy.

Kristin Horton

Kristin Horton is a theater director and educator who works primarily on new plays, re-imagined classics, and community-centered practices. She is committed to collaborating with playwrights and artists whose work disrupts and unsettles notions of race, gender, and class through imaginative and theatrical storytelling.

Additionally, Horton collaborates with researchers from a multitude of fields at the intersection of theater practice and scientific research. She is currently working as part of an international art-science research team on the development of innovative transdisciplinary approaches to examine future volcanic risk on the coastline of Italy (Campi Flegrei). Horton is an Associate Professor of Practice in Theater & Directing at New York University’s Gallatin School where she served as Chair of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program from 2017-2022.

Ellada Evangelou

Ellada is an interdisciplinary scholar and arts practitioner. She has studied in Cyprus and the United States (BA in English, MFA in Dramaturgy, PhD in Theatre Studies / Cultural Studies). She is interested in the relationship between theatre/dramaturgy and identity, and works in the intersection of aRtivism and scholarship in post-colonial, post-conflict communities.

She is co-founder of Rooftop Theatre, collaborates with the IMPACT Project, the Festival Academy, and Lemesos 2030 Bid for Cultural Capital of Europe. She was a 2020-21 Global Fellow of the International Society for the Performing Arts. She was a Global Faculty in Residency at Gallatin, NYU (2021) and the Artistic and Executive Director of the Buffer Fringe Performing Arts Festival (2019-22). She is a Research Fellow at CYENS Center of Excellence and Honorary Research Associate at Department of Earth Sciences, UCL.

Una Chaudhuri

Una Chaudhuri is Collegiate Professor in the College of Arts & Science, and holds appointments in the departments of English and Environmental Studies in Arts & Science as well as in the department of Drama at the Tisch School of the Arts, which she chaired for six years. She is Dean for Humanities and Vice Dean for Interdisciplinary Iniatives in the School of Arts and Sciene, at NYU. She served as Director of GSAS’s XE: Experimental Humanities & Social Engagement.

Una Chaudhuri is a scholar of environmental humanities with a focus on theatre history, performance studies, and dramatic literature. She has been a pioneer in the field of “eco-theatre," ecocriticism, and Animal Studies. She has written and lectured widely on two concepts she has proposed and theorized: “Zooësis,” and “AnthropoScenes”. Her current research explores what she calls “ecospheric consciousness”: ideas, feelings, and practices that attend to the multi-species and geo-physical contexts of human lives. Chaudhuri is the author and editor of several books, including The Stage Lives of Animals: Zooesis and Performance, The Ecocide Project: Research Theatre and Climate Change (co-author), and Animal Acts: The Stage Lives of Animals (co-editor).

Chaudhuri has been an active member of the theatre community in New York, serving as a judge for the Obie Awards and as a voter for the Tony Awards. She participates in numerous collaborative art, performance, and research projects.

Collaborators

Arche Teatro

Archè si propone scopi culturali, sociali ed artistici, impegnandosi affinché si stringano e si intensifichino relazioni di amicizia e culturali tra i membri interni e quelli di analoghe formazioni onde migliorare il più frequente scambio di idee.

For more, visit the Arche Facebook page.

Lux in Fabula

Cultural Organization based in Pozzuoli, working with arts and the community. For more on their work, visit their website.

Fabio Capuano

International projects coordinator, experienced in local politics and community-based initiatives, fostering cross-sectoral cooperation.

Contributors

Marina G. Zurkow

Media artist Marina Zurkow invites people to explore ways of knowing and feeling nature-culture tensions and environmental messes. By engaging research, speculation, and technologies, she fosters intimate multispecies and geophysical connections. Zurkow works as a founding member of the collaborative initiatives More&More (Investing in Futures), Dear Climate, and Climoji.

Her solo show—the Hyundai Terrace Commission at the Whitney Museum opens April, 2025. Recent exhibitions include WHAT IF? at MoMA’s Creativity Lab (New York); Antroposcenes, Lo Pati Centre d'Art (Amposta); The Breath Eaters, Wolfsonian Museum (Miami); Underfoot/Overhead, Wasserman Projects (Detroit); and Can the Substrate Speak? Festival Art Souterrain (Montreal). Zurkow was a 2022 fellow at the Environmental Media Lab, Princeton University; and received grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Rice University, NYFA, NYSCA, the Rockefeller Foundation, and Creative Capital. She resides in the Hudson Valley, New York, is represented by bitforms gallery, and teaches at NYU.

Visit her personal website for more.

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