Ocean School Podcast

Ocean School Podcast: Episode 5 explores the topic of “oceanic phenomenology” with special guest Dr.Terri Pyle, a competitive marathon ocean swimmer who is writing a book: “Ocean Phenomenology and theAthlete-Philosopher-Artist.”

The Camera as Mediator of Ocean Thinking: A Conversation between Kate Farrington, PhD, Chief Curriculum Officer, and Leo Santiesteban, Lead Media Archivist, Ocean School Collective.This is the 4th episode for the temporary Open Art School called “Ocean School,” created by the art collective Ocean School Collective (OSC) as part of their 2025 Goetemann Environmental/Installation Artist Residency at the Ocean Alliance on Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts from September 4th to September 28, 2025, sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony. In this episode, artist-philosopher Kate Farrington, Ph.D. (whose title at OSC is “Chief Curriculum Officer”) interviews Leo Santiesteban, the videographer and media archivist for the public programming of the 2025 Goetemann Environmental Installation Artist Residency at the Ocean Alliance on March 2, 2026. The episode considers the question of media in general, as Leo served as the chief documentarian during the G.A.R. artist residency that was filmed using professional video equipment, drone cameras, and other modes of recording media. Leo describes his early work in Cuba where he helped secure location resources for two nature documentaries as well as his experience filming the G.A.R. residency. Topics include the role of the camera in mediation, especially when it comes to earth ecology; “Three-ing” by 1960s video artist Paul Ryan, and the role of the archive. For more information, see:https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Three_Person_Solution.html?id=EQk8oG7wFPUC. :https://katefarrington.org/ocean-school-collective-osc.

This is the third episode of Ocean School, the temporary open art school created by the art collective Ocean School Collective (OSC) as part of their 2025 Goetemann Environmental/Installation Artist Residency sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony at the Ocean Alliance on Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts from September 4th to September 28, 2025,  In this episode, artist-philosopher Kate Farrington, Ph.D. (whose title at OSC is “Chief Curriculum Officer”) engages in a far-ranging conversation with two other philosophers, Ocean School Collective (OSC) member María Patricia Tinajero, Ph.D. (whose title at OSC is “Chief Value Officer”), and Dominique Walmsley, Ph.D., LMHC, a Seattle-based psychotherapist with training in architecture and philosophy. María Patricia and Dominique share excerpts of recent writing, bringing a rich and open depth of thinking to Ocean School. For more information on the speakers, please visit: www.seattlemindcounseling.com; www.katefarrington.org; https://www.wormfarminstitute.org/programs/current/walking/wtzine25; and https://brill.com/display/book/9789004731943/BP000034.xml.

This is the second episode of Ocean School, the temporary open art school created by the art collective Ocean School Collective (OSC) as part of their 2025 Goetemann Environmental/Installation Artist Residency at the Ocean Alliance on Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts, from September 4th to September 28, 2025, sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony. In this episode, artist-philosopher Kate Farrington, Ph.D. (whose title at OSC is “Chief Curriculum Officer”), introduces “ocean thinking” in a free-flowing conversation with Liz DiFiore, the Community Engagement Manager at BevCam in Beverly, Massachusetts. Listeners are invited to think about how art can reimagine our ethical relationships to the special places we love.

This is the pilot episode for the temporary Open Art School called “Ocean School,” created by the art collective Ocean School Collective (OSC) as part of their 2025 Goetemann Environmental/Installation Artist Residency at the Ocean Alliance on Rocky Neck in Gloucester, Massachusetts from September 4th to September 28, 2025, sponsored by the Rocky Neck Art Colony. In this episode, artist-philosopher Kate Farrington, Ph.D. (whose title at OSC is “Chief Curriculum Officer”) gives a basic introduction to the philosophical framework of the project. Topics include: History of the Ocean School Collective, basic outline of the collective’s plan for the G.A.R. Residency at the Ocean Alliance for the month of September 2025, as well as an introduction to her background and the philosophical framework of the residency as a “place-as-medium” project. Listeners are invited to dive into the world of whales with OSC through speculative fabulation as a way to participate in a new environmental ethic called “ocean thinking.”