The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with Lauren Bon and Grant Slater)

12/08/2025 1h 20min Temporada 1 Episodio 9
The Cyborg Watershed of the American West (with Lauren Bon and Grant Slater)

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The ever-branching network of lakes, rivers, and streams that flow west from the Rockies enable human life to flourish in one of the hottest places on Earth. This is a “cyborg watershed” – part natural, part machine, and wholly entangled with the myths and machinery of the region.



In this episode, LA-based artist Lauren Bon joins Futurology producer Grant Slater to trace the path of her large-scale artworks that intervene in that system, blurring the lines between art, engineering, and activism. The conversation moves through buried waterways, the choreography of permits and politics, and the search for a civic identity grounded in the flow of water rather than the lines on a map.

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