Kaley Clements is an Assistant Professor of Documentary Arts with expertise in filmmaking, photography, visual narratives, aural storytelling, and soundscape design. He received an MFA in Experimental and Documentary Arts from Duke University. His research focuses on where social conflict, climate change, and the loss of diversification converge under the power structures of the globalizing economy.
His current project is a documentary film that follows the flow of the Mekong River from its origins in China all the way through six countries until the river spills into the Pacific Ocean in Vietnam's Mekong River Delta. The film focuses on sediment flow and the commoditization of sand. The Mekong River Delta is an agricultural rich region that is responsible for 75 percent of Vietnam’s annual rice production and more than half of their total aquaculture. Unfortunately, various forms of urban development are threatening this crucial part of Vietnam’s food supply.
His early work includes Low Hanging Fruit, a documentary film that follows avocados as a commodity in Michoacán, the only state in México allowed to export the product into the USA. Through this seemingly monopolistic practice, Low Hanging Fruit uncovers the social conflicts and environmental problems spurring migration into the US. Thus, exposing the multifaceted layers created by the structure of a globalizing economy that allows for 80 percent of the world's supply of avocados to come from a region notorious for being controlled by the cartels.
Benjamin Leland Bacon is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, and musician. His practice and research sit at the intersections of computational media, machine and robotic art, networked systems, digital fabrication, and sound. His body of work has been exhibited in various venues worldwide, including North America, Europe, East Asia, and the Middle East at venues such as the Chelsea Museum (NYC), Gallery Ho (NYC), the National Art Museum of China (Beijing), Millennium Museum (Beijing), Plug-In Gallery (Switzerland), Art Laboratory Berlin (Berlin) and more.
Bacon’s work has been profiled by print magazines such as Design 360, IDEAT Magazine, and Modern Weekly, as well as online magazines and platforms such as the New York Times, Rizhome, Creators Project (China), LEAP, The Art Newspaper, Neural Magazine, and CLOT Magazine.
He is an Associate Professor of Media and Art at Duke Kunshan University and co-director of the Design, Technology, and Radical Media Lab. He is also a fellow at V2_Lab for the Unstable Media since 2019 and co-chair of the XResearch Cluster.
Nathan Hauthaler is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at DKU. Nathan's work is centered fundamental issues in agency and practical cognition, which he approaches from various systematic and historical vantage points.. He is especially interested in the nature of intentional action; in forms of practical capacity and knowledge involved in it; and in the complex ways in which our agency is contoured by and manifested in social space.
Nathan’s publications include essays in the philosophy of mind & action, on issues of practical error and ignorance; the relation of intention to belief; and practical capacity and knowledge; and on the history of philosophy, on Wittgenstein on reasons vs. causes of action, as well as various essays and editorial work on philosopher Elizabeth Anscombe. Both a philosopher and lawyer by training, he has also worked and published on public international law.
Nathan obtained a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University (2020); an MPhilStud in Philosophy from the University of London (Birkbeck); and a Mag. iur. in Law as well as a Mag. phil. in Philosophy from Graz University (in 2009 and 2010, respectively).
I'm Mai, from the Class of 2025, majoring in Behavioral Science—Neuroscience. I am interested in how social interactions shape our cognitive function and determine decision-making. I believe the dynamics of these interactions can have a lasting impact on our perception, surrounding environment, and life choices.
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