Elizabeth Case

I am a genderfluid scientist, writer, and artist living¹ between glaciated, deglaciated, and flood-prone landscapes. As a glaciologist, I study how ice forms, flows², and disappears³ using radar, satellites, computational models, and historical records. As an artist and writer, I am interested in how intra-action and diffraction—the reading and doing of disciplines through each other—prompts different lines of understanding, connection, or response than their doing alone. I am motivated by a deep conviction that holistic intra-engagement between the arts, humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences is required to respond to the hyper-faceted crises of our time.

I am currently a postodoctoral researcher at IMAU (Utrecht University) in the Netherlands. A copy of my PhD thesis, Ice Formation, Deformation, and Disappearance, can be found here. I have worked on and with glaciers in Alaska, Wyoming, and Antarctica.

I write a newsletter called Process Pending about art-science, academia, & glaciology and co-founded an art-science collaboration called Glacial Hauntologies. I am actively seeking further scientific and artistic collaborations that work to dissolve boundaries between disciplines.

If you’re looking for an expert on glaciers, polar-related climate-crisis impacts, or scientific context for art related to ice, I am available for freelance work in Europe and the U.S. I have advised on glacier-related short films, reviewed books related to Antarctica, and written essays for polar-related art exhibitions.

My CV can be found here.