Daniel Cohn

Daniel Cohn is the artist whose question, “does the ocean have memory?”, catalyzes the Ocean Memory Project in Melody Jue: Ocean Memory. The source presents the question as deceptively simple: it opens scientific, artistic, historical, sensory, ecological, and philosophical ways of asking what memory can be in seawater.

Cohn’s role is important because the question does not resolve into one answer. In Melody Jue’s telling, it becomes a collaborative prompt linking Ocean Memory, Jody Deming’s microbial sea-ice work, sensory art, and underwater archives.

Connections

• Ocean Memory Project — project shaped by Cohn’s question.
• Ocean Memory — concept opened by the question.
• Melody Jue — speaker who develops the question across disciplines.
• Jody Deming — scientist whose sea-ice example helps answer the question in microbial terms.