Time Pools: Accessing the Aquifer The League of Imaginary Scientists in collaboration with The University of Memphis

April 6 through May 24, 2013 Opening reception Friday, April 5 from 5 to 7:30

120,000 years ago, during an age of Saber-Tooth Tigers and Wooly Mammoths, rain poured down on Memphis and soaked into the soil. The resulting accumulation of water is the aquifer: a watery time capsule, in which rain from different ages is stored until the water flows to Memphis homes. Time Pools: Accessing the Aquifer provides an apparatus for examining the aquifer's liquid history. Along with The League of Imaginary Scientists, University of Memphis students brainstormed a cross-disciplinary dive into the Aquifer, resulting in an exhibition spurred on by the Ground Water Institute, that literally dives into the Memphis water table, one decade at a time. Cloud computing, a method for sharing data across a network, is parallel to the strata of Memphis' shared water supply, since Memphis dwellers access water from throughout the ages. Time Pools: Accessing the Aquifer reveals a time pool where data about and from the Aquifer's water from different years becomes visible. Peering into the time pool — its layers spanning the aquifer and the ages — one may question: "How deep is now, and how far is 10,000 years? Where was my water 50 years ago, and where is it going in the next decade?"