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Agnes Denes (Keynote) |
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A pioneer of both the environmental and ecological
art movements, as well as one of the pioneers
of Conceptual Art, and the relationship of Science
to Art. Agnes Denes brings her wide ranging interests
in the physical and social sciences, mathematics,
philosophy, linguistics, poetry and music to her
delicate drawings, books and monumental artworks
around the globe.
In 1982, she carried out what has become one of
the best-known environmental art projects when
she planted a two-acre field of wheat in a vacant
lot in downtown Manhattan. Titled, Wheatfield
-- A Confrontation, the artwork yielded 1,000
lbs. of wheat in the middle of New York City to
comment on "human values and misplaced priorities".
The harvested grain then traveled to 28 cities
worldwide in "The International Art Show
for the End of World Hunger" and was symbolically
planted around the globe.
In 1996 Denes completed "Tree Mountain --
A Living Time Capsule" in Finland. This massive
earthwork and reclamation project involved the
construction of a "mountain" on the
site of an old gravel quarry and the planting,
by volunteers from different countries, of 11,000
Finnish Pine trees in an intricate pattern. The
volunteers were then each given inheritable certificates
(valid for 400 years) which granted them responsibility
for the stewardship of one of the trees. This
project was first announced by the Government
of Finland at the World Summit in Rio de Janeiro
as a contribution to global ecology.
Other projects have included reforestation of
endangered tree species in Australia in 1998,
planting crops in downtown Caracas, Venezuela
as well as exhibitions of mathematically inspired
drawings, book projects and installations in major
museums worldwide. In a prolific career spanning
the history of the environmental art movement,
Agnes Denes has consistently pushed the boundaries
of ecologically inspired art. She has created
works of stunning beauty linked not only to the
cycles of life but to notions of human stewardship
and responsibility.
Agnes Denes has had over 350 solo and group exhibitions
on four continents, including Documenta VI in
Kassel (1977), three Venice Biennales (1978, 1980,2001)
and "Master of Drawing" Invitational,
representing the U.S., at the Kunsthalle in Nürnberg
(1982). She has shown at the Museum of Modern
Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney
Museum in New York, and in 42 other museums on
four continents. In l992 she had a major retrospective
at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University.
An artist of enormous vision, Denes has written
four books and holds a doctorate in fine arts.
Among her numerous awards are the Watson Transdisciplinary
Art Award from Carnegie Mellon University (l999);
the Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome
(l998); the Eugene McDermott Achievement Award
from M.I.T. "In Recognition of Major Contribution
to the Arts" (l990); the American Academy
of Arts and Letters Purchase Award (l985); four
National Endowment Fellowships and four NYSCA
grants; and the DAAD Fellowship from Berlin. Denes
is a Research Fellow at the Studio For Creative
Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; the Center
for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T. and the
Courant Institute at N.Y.U. She lectures extensively
at universities in the U.S. and abroad and participates
in global conferences.
greenmuseum.org/content/artist_index/artist_id-63.html
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Agnes Denes,
"Wheatfield - A Confrontation,"
Battery Park Landfill, NY, 1982
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Jackie Brookner |
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Ecological artist Jackie Brookner works collaboratively
with ecologists, design professionals, communities
and policy makers on water remediation/public art
projects for wetlands, rivers, and stormwater runoff--
with recent and current projects near Dresden, Germany,
in West Palm Beach, FL, Cincinnati and Toledo, OH,
San Jose, CA, New York City, and 3 towns in the
Pacific Northwest working with the National Park
Service.
Her projects demonstrate how the undervalued resources
of stormwater and other polluted water can be reclaimed
and used to create lush environments, expressive
and multifunctional public spaces. They range from
Biosculptures™ that are vegetated water filtration
systems, to municipal planning where local water
resources become the focal point of community revitalization.
Brookner was Guest Editor of the 1992 Art Journal
issue, “Art and Ecology. ” Her essays can be found
in M/E/A/N/I/N/G, in Natural Reality/Artistic Positions
Between Nature and Culture, and in Cultures and
Settlements.
She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and
holds M.A.and A.B.D. degrees from Harvard University.
She lives and works in New York and teaches at Parsons
School of Design.
www.jackiebrookner.net
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Jackie Brookner and Angelo Ciotti,
"Elders' Cove Biosculpture,"
Dreher Park, Palm Beach, Florida, 2005
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EcoArtTech |
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Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir formed EcoArtTech
in 2005 with the aim of working with digital and
sustainable technologies and contemporary environments
to create art about the environmentality of modern
life. As the name of our collective suggests, we
are concerned with the intersections and exchanges
between the categories and definitions of nature,
wilderness, technics, and technology. Our approach
to this project is interdisciplinary: we draw on
ideas in digital art, critical theory, ecology,
eco-art, environmental literature, environmental
philosophy, ecocriticism, and environmentalist activism.
EcoArtTech ultimately seeks to imagine new, healthy,
and sustainable relationships between humans, environments,
and technologies. EcoArtTech works have been exhibited
internationally, including in the cities of Tokyo,
Montreal, Milan, NYC, and Osnabrück, and “Wilderness
Trouble” is currently being shown throughout Europe
and elsewhere with the European Media Arts Festival
Video Tour.
Cary Peppermint is a conceptual and performance
artist working with digital technologies and "natural"
environments. He is assistant professor of art at
Colgate University where he teaches courses in the
theory and practice of digital art. Cary’s website
"Restlessculture.net" is an internationallly
recognized platform for his ongoing series of net.art
and networked performance art. His latest works
engage the concepts of wilderness, space, the American
frontier, and environmental ethics and explore how
new media technologies both limit and expand our
conceptions of nature and the environment, questioning
how we live and make art with and in nature. He
has been the recipient of numerous awards, including
a Franklin Furnace Performance Grant, Experimental
Television Workshop Grant, and NYSCA's Decentralization
Grant. His work is in the collections of the Walker
Art Center, Rhizome.org at the New Museum for Contemporary
Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and Computer
Fine Arts. Cary is currently organizing an exhibition
and symposium on environmental art and new media
technologies to be held at Colgate Univeristy in
February 2008.
Christine Nadir is a doctoral candidate at Columbia
University where she is completing her dissertation
on modern environmental literature, art, and thought.
She has taught literature, theory, and expository
prose courses at Columbia University and at SUNY
College at Oneonta and has presented her research
internationally at conferences and universities,
including Colgate University, the American Comparative
Literature Association, the Society for the Study
of Narrative Literature, and the Association for
the Study of Literature and Environment. In fall
2007, Christine will teach a course on modernity
and modernism as a lecturer at Colgate.
www.ecoarttech.net
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Bunny Harvey |
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Bunny Harvey's paintings play the edge between representation
and invention, between traditional landscape and
abstract painting. The works represented in this
exhibition are natural scenes rendered in densely
and dynamically painted surfaces which reflect her
direct observation of nature. Using gestures large
and small and a broad range of color, Harvey expresses
a passionate relationship to her natural surroundings
and to her life within the studio.
Bunny Harvey was born in New York in 1946. She received
a BFA with honors and a MFA at the Rhode Island
School of Design, was the recipient of the prestigious
Prix-de-Rome in painting, and was awarded an individual
artist grant from the Rhode Island Council on the
Arts. In 1999 she was the recipient of the Pell
Award for Excellence in the Arts. She has taught
at Harvard University and the Rhode Island School
of Design and is currently the Chairman of the Studio
Art Department at Wellesley College where she recently
received the Anna and Samuel Pinanski Teaching Prize.
Bunny Harvey has exhibited widely throughout the
United States, including solo museum exhibitions
at the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown,
Ohio; the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of
Design, Providence; the Fuller Art Museum, Brockton,
Massachusetts, and the Newport Art Museum, Rhode
Island.
In addition, her work has been featured in group
exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum, Virginia; the
Soviet Hall of Art, Moscow; the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston; the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana;
and The Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley,
Massachusetts. Her work is represented in numerous
private and public collections in the United States
and abroad.
www.berry-hill.com/exhibitions/2004_10/index.html
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Bunny Harvey,
"Field Chatter," 2006
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John Holland |
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John Holland is a composer, performer, author
and digital recording artist. He is a Professor
in the Studio for Interrelated Media, and head
of the Electronic and Digital Music Studio at
Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He has
produced a number of recordings of electronic
and digital music, and has published scores for
most solo instruments (with and without electronic
enhancement), chamber music, orchestra, concertos,
opera. His work emphasizes the integration of
science and art, incorporating structures and
ideas that reference a variety of natural phenomena.
John Schaefer, host of New Sounds on WNYC Radio
in New York cited Holland's Natural Phenomena
as "one of the notable CD's of 2005."
Most recently Holland’s music has been performed
in Jordan Hall (New England Conservatory), Pickman
Hall (Longy School of Music), Bartos Theatre (Media
Lab, MIT), University Gallery (Tufts University),
IBM (Yorktown), Axiom Gallery, Zeitgeist (Cambridge).
This January, he will be performing his own work
at the Yamaha Piano Salon on Fifth Ave. and 54th
St. in New York City.
www.johnholland.ws
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Lawrence Kelley |
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Larry Kelley is an environmental engineer and
programmer with CDM, an environmental consulting
firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. For over
15 years, Larry has worked on numerous projects
related to water treatment, investigation and remediation
of contaminated soil and groundwater, and issues
of sustainability.
Currently, Larry and CDM are consulting to regional
and national authorities in Ireland to develop the
technologies, infrastructure, standards and procedures
for a water quality management system. He is developing
tools for implementing protective measures and monitoring
water quality impacts.
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Larry Kelley
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Jane Marsching |
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Digital media artist, Jane D. Marsching's current
project, Arctic Listening Post, explores our past,
present and future human impact on the Arctic
environment through interdisciplinary and collaborative
practices, including video installations, virtual
landscapes, dynamic websites, and data visualizations,
all of which foster emerging forms of participation
and social engagement. Her upcoming work brings
together scientists, architects, and scifi illustrators
to imagine what it will be like to live at the
North Pole in 100 years. She is the recipient
of numerous awards, including Creative Capital,
LEF Foundation, and Artadia grants. Recent and
upcoming exhibitions include ICA Boston, Allston
Skirt Gallery, and MassMoCA.
With Mark Alice Durant in 2005, she curated The
Blur of the Otherworldly: Contemporary Art, Technology,
and the Paranormal, at The Center for Art and
Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD; a catalog of the
exhibition was published in June 2006 with essays
by Marsching, Durant, Marina Warner and Lynne
Tillman.
She is currently Assistant Professor at Massachusetts
College of Art in Studio Foundation. She received
her MFA in photography from The School of Visual
Arts, New York City, in 1995.
www.janemarsching.com
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Jane Marsching,
"Mike supervising Naomi building an umiak,"
Austfonna Glacier, Svalbard, Norway, 2006
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Jeremy Martin |
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Jeremy Martin is the Development Coordinator
and Zoning Administrator for the City of Bangor,
Maine where he is responsible for all land use
permitting, compliance and enforcement activities.
In addition, Jeremy is the administrator of
the Historic Preservation and Design Review
Ordinances of the City of Bangor and staffs
the Historic Preservation Commission and the
City’s Design Review Committee. His background
in political science and geography combined
with an education in natural resources brings
a diverse, balanced and interdisciplinary approach
to land use permitting and regulatory activities.
Previously, Jeremy worked as a Natural Resource
Specialist with the China Region Lakes Alliance
(CRLA) in China, Maine providing technical and
permitting assistance to area landowners and
lakefront property owners. Jeremy also worked
as an Environmental Specialist with the Cobbossee
Watershed District (CWD) in the lakes region,
west of Augusta, Maine where he coordinated
watershed management activities and provided
technical assistance and environmental enforcement
for the areas towns. While working for the CRLA
and CWD, his focus was shoreland zoning and
natural resource protection issues.
Born and raised in suburban Cleveland, OH, Jeremy
Martin attended West Virginia University in
Morgantown, WV and received his baccalaureate
degree in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations
in Political Science and Geography. After working
in Cleveland, OH and Washington, DC for a number
of years, Jeremy realized the need to reacquaint
himself with the natural world and moved to
Maine 12 years ago and continued his education
in Environmental Policy and Forestry at Unity
College in Unity, Maine.
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Martin Prothero |
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Martin Prothero is a contemporary artist living
and working in the UK. His work is a personal exploration
of our human relationship with the natural world.
Attempting to bypass the anthropocentric viewpoint
and give voice to non-human nature, he sets up situations
where nature documents itself. He draws upon skills
in nature awareness, animal tracking and wilderness
survival training, and collaborates directly with
wild animals to present the calligraphy of animal
tracks on specially prepared carbon/glass sheets.
In an investigation to experience the rawness being
human, with minimal technological mediation between
his dependence on the natural world, Martin has
developed a process part meditation, part scientific
study in which he puts himself in situations where
his survival depends on what the land can offer
- he literally eats sleeps and breathes the places
he works in. The terrain, the seasons and weather
and available wild food supplies all determine what
work will be produced. Naturally made tools and
by-products of this process are presented as the
record of the work.
Working in the field for 10 years, talking at conferences
throughout the UK, lecturing and teaching nature
awareness, Martin’s work has particularly currency
in the critical debate about art, nature. He is
a featured artist with Greenmuseum.org and has had
solo exhibitions in Europe, recently completing
a research residency with University College Falmouth.
His artworks are in the permanent collection of
the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London, and he
is currently working with Egenis – the centre for
research in genomics in society at Exeter University.
www.martinprothero.com
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Martin Prothero,
"Carbon Light Life (PIGEON Columba livia),"
carbon on glass
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Ann T. Rosenthal |
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Ann Rosenthal brings to the art community 30 years
experience as an environmental artist, educator,
and writer. River Vernacular, her collaborative
installation with Steffi Domike, was commissioned
by the Hudson River Museum in 2003 for Imaging the
River curated by Amy Lipton. This series of river
postcards interpreting northeastern post-industrial
landscapes was exhibited in 2005 at Gallerie Sensenci,
Japan and in 2006 at Karl Drerup Gallery, Plymouth
State University.
A second exhibition in Japan with Stephen Moore,
Tree: The Numazu Suite was featured at the Numazu
Shinkin Street Gallery. The storefront exhibition
reconsidered the ancient pine forests along the
Hokaido Road as a “resource” for both humans and
ecological systems. “The Transformation of McKeesport”
with Stephanie Flom and Jackie Brookner, was one
of seven artist residencies through the STUDIO for
Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University,
which were featured in Groundworks: Environmental
Collaboration in Contemporary Art at the Regina
Gouger Miller Gallery in 2005 and includes an extensive
catalogue with critical essays.
Building on this collaboration, the artist launched
an ecoliteracy and art summer youth program in McKeesport
in 2006. For summer 2007, she is working with the
Steel Valley Trail Council on a Trail Art Initiative
that engages communities in their riverfronts and
trails through the creation of unique art banners
representing the historic and environmental features
of the trail.
In 2006, Ms. Rosenthal developed Recipes for Catch
& Release with Steffi. Domike, which addressed
toxins in the fish we eat and was customized for
watersheds in three northeastern states: Pittsburgh,
PA (Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon); in NYC (Exit
Art); and in New Hampshire (Plymouth State University).
Her 2007 collaborative project for the Andy Warhol
Museum (2007) “Food, Carbon, and the Commons” tackled
global warming and local agriculture . Ms. Rosenthal
has designed and taught numerous courses on environmental
art, and she lectures and publishes widely.
www.studiotara.net
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Ann T. Rosenthal,
"Smith Carpet Company," Yonkers, NY
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Genevieve Gaiser Tremblay |
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Genevieve Gaiser Tremblay is a multidisciplinary
artist and community catalyst who consistently places
herself at the convergence of art and technology.
Her creative work over the past 25 years has included
a wide range of mediums including digital and interactive
media, photography, painting, video and film. Genevieve
has spent the last 10 years developing programs,
residencies, lecture series, and roundtables that
leverage the synergy between artists, designers,
scholars, technologists and industry professionals.
In 2001, she co-founded Cultural Entrepreneurs,
a Seattle based firm that provides her unique approach
to strategic visioning, communications, and program
development to cross-disciplinary cultural and community-based
ventures.
Genevieve's leadership and vision has led to her
work with The Office of the Future Consortium, Museum
of Fine Arts, Boston; M.I.T. List Visual Art Center;
The Digital Worlds Department, University of Iowa;
Seattle Art Museum. Many of these efforts have been
sponsored through grants from AT&T, Microsoft,
The Benton, Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and
The National Endowment for the Arts. Since 2002,
she has received more than 30 local and national
foundation grants, including consecutive grants
for the pioneering program, High Tech Treasure Hunt:
Intro to Geocaching and GPS, a elementary unit introducing
geocaching, GPS, latitude/longitude, codes/encryption,
grids/graphing and creative writing and environmental
stewardship.
Genevieve was fortunate to work for two of her early
mentors, new media pioneers, Jenny Holzer and Dara
Birnbaum. She programmed electronic LED signage
systems in retail environments throughout Boston
for Holzer’s citywide installation, “Signs”, and
assisted Dara Birnbaum on the documentation of early
video installation work in public venues around
New York City. These first hand experiences with
pushing the boundaries of technology and moving
art from formalized spaces into the public realm
have continued to inform her work.
In 2006, Genevieve was appointed to the Bellevue
(WA) Arts Commission and is currently the Commission
Lead for the Neighborhood Public Art Program and
a member of the 2008 Sculpture Exhibit committee.
The City of Bellevue is currently in the process
of creating a Master Art Plan for the downtown corridor
as part of the Bellevue Great Streets project. In
her capacity as Commissioner, she is creating awareness
around the creative potential of social, mobile
and location-aware technologies for urban planning
and public art projects such as this one. She is
working to nurture this community of trailblazing
artists who are redefining public art through the
application of these new technologies, offering
unexpected views of our world and a new interpretation
of culture.
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Genevieve Gaiser Tremblay,
"ladybird and the seagods," 2006
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Allison Wallace |
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Author of A Keeper of Bees: Notes on Hive and
Home, Allison Wallace hails from the piney
woods of southeastern Louisiana, in the upper toe
of the “boot,” right on the Pearl River and about
an hour’s drive from New Orleans. Having spent her
childhood there and along coastal Texas and Mississippi,
she went on to attend the University of Mississippi
and later the University of North Carolina, where
she completed doctoral work in American literature
in 1992. Her first full-time faculty post, at Unity
College in central Maine, lasted nine years, where
she taught interdisciplinary humanities courses
in the literature and history of the American land.
All those cold, bitter New England springs (not
the winters, which were wonderful) eventually moved
her to trace her way back South, via the Honors
College at the University of Central Arkansas, where
she has been since the fall of 2001—minus a half
year spent on a Fulbright grant at the University
of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan. As time permits,
she enjoys reading, writing, hiking, canoeing, traveling,
gardening, and—of course!—keeping honeybees. Food
and farming, as well as the art of the essay, remain
her personal and professional passions.
www.allisonwallace.com
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