Building Worlds While the Actual World Burns

On April 17th, 2026 we brought together two artists who are both making work about the climate crisis — and both are reckoning with what it means to build within the systems driving that crisis.

Kara Stone runs Solar Server from her apartment balcony in Calgary, making low-carbon games on a solar-powered computer. Her latest, Known Mysteries, asks a simple question: if we know how to solve the climate crisis, why can't we act?

Joshua Ashish Dawson documents ghost towns in the Atacama Desert — villages that lost their water to copper mining and are now being fitted with solar-powered server farms. His film Loa's Promise calls it what it is: greenwashing dressed up as adaptation.

For members, here's the full video recording and audio podcast.