“What glows after the system shuts down?”

Join us for an in-depth panel discussion exploring the theme of Residual Light, the first section of Industrial Afterglow. This conversation brings together six exhibiting artists whose work investigates the material, emotional, and ecological aftermath of industrial systems. From analog light sculptures and decaying CRT monitors to sonic cartographies and luminous grids, these artists reimagine technological decay not as an end, but as transformation.

Featured Artists:

• McCoy Chance — sculptural installations using obsolete technologies as vessels of memory and emotional afterlife.

• Tara Youngborg — glitch media and soundwork uncovering the ghostly hum of post-industrial spaces.
  Timothy Nohe — kinetic dioramas simulating climate-driven fire as a residual glow of ecological collapse.

• Jinyoung Koh — exploration of light, color, and imperfect geometry through Sumi ink, watercolor, and acrylic on raw cotton canvas, reflecting perception, identity, spatial experience, and socio-cultural themes of migration, labor, and memory.

• Sue Borchardt — repurposing salvaged furniture, unwanted books, and bioplastics cast in hoarded housewares to illuminate a lifetime of post-industrial consumerism.

• Lynn Cazabon — photographic archives of “weeds” growing in toxic sites, challenging how we define value, resilience, and nature.
  
  

Moderated by curator Liz Faust, the panel will dive into questions of memory, obsolescence, repair, and the aesthetics of leftoverness. What do these residual forms tell us about labor, energy, and the systems we’ve inherited—or abandoned?

This event invites artists, students, scientists, designers, and community members into conversation about what we carry forward from broken systems—and how art can illuminate the ruins not with nostalgia, but with insight and imagination.

At the Peale Museum, 2nd floor