schedule

* Studio 2 has been reserved for all day Friday and Saturday * EMPAC 7th floor plaza as well as 6 floor "Parterre" lobbies are now reserved straight through from Friday morning through Sunday evening. * We are encouraging departments across campus to organize sustainability-oriented colloquium this week.
 * Studio Beta has been reserved for all day Friday, Saturday and Sunday

**SCHEDULE UPDATED**

Sponsored by the Information Technology Program, School of Science, Peter Fox Director All day. Location Lally 102/104. Theme - Creating innovative visual representations and experiences of sensed environments in celebration of Earth Day Open to individuals and teams, with a special category for 2-person technical-artistic pair-ups.
 * SATURDAY-SUNDAY APRIL 13- 14 ** Eco-Visualization Hackathon


 * SUNDAY APRIL 14 **

++ k-12 event or teacher event?

4-6pm: Film "A Fierce Green Fire: The Battle for a Living Planet" LOCATION DCC 308

[] A FIERCE GREEN FIRE: The Battle For a Living Planet is the first big-picture exploration of the environmental movement – grassroots and global activism spanning fifty years from conservation to climate change. From halting dams in the Grand Canyon to battling 20,000 tons of toxic waste at Love Canal; from Greenpeace saving the whales to Chico Mendes and the rubbertappers saving the Amazon; from climate change to the promise of transforming our civilization... the film tells vivid stories about people fighting – and succeeding – against enormous odds. A Fierce Green Fire premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival


 * MONDAY APRIL 15 **

10-12 Film? Monday or Thursday -- Shengbai ? 2:00 pm Talk: Mike Fortun "Genes in History: How the Gene Got Its Environment" (DCC 318) 3:00 pm Talk: David Rothenberg "Bug Music: How Insects Gave Us Rhythm and Noise" (DCC 318) (invited PDI 6 - Nieusma)


 * TUESDAY APRIL 16 **

10-12 Panel: Updates on Water Research (Michael Mascarenhas, Kathleen Ruiz, Abby Kinchy, Faye Duchin, Phillipe Baveye) 2:00 pm Talk: Igor Vamos " Political Design for a Sustainable Future"(CBIS) 3:00 pm Talk: Mimi Katz EES, " "Lessons from Ancient Oceans & Climate Changes" (CBIS) 4:00 pm Talk: Karen Pinkus "title" (CBIS)


 * WEDNESDAY APRIL 17 **

11: 00am Talk: Chuck Hass - Chair of Environmental at Drexel University Currently in JEC 3117 (seats 50 - Seek another venue - possibly Mother's) (contact P. Baveye)

2:00 Panel: Environmental Leadership: Challenges and Directions (Moderated by Steve Breyman, with student clubs)(Mother's) 6:00 Talk: Katherine Hayles, " Performing Technogenesis: The Affective Power of New Media" (EMPAC) Presented by EMPAC, in its // Observer Effects // series

2:00 pm Talk: Pauline Oliveros "Listening In and Out" Location: EMPAC Studio Beta (confirmed) 3:00 pm Talk: John Gowdy (dep't of Economics) - title tba
 * THURSDAY APRIL 18 **


 * FRIDAY APRIL 19 **

10am -- 4pm poster session (Studio Beta) 2-4: Panel: Updates on Disaster Research (Jose, Deborah M, David M. KFortun, Bolek, moderated by Michael Mascarenhas) (Studio 2)

4:00 pm Dr Gavin Schmidt, What are climate models good for? EMPAC CONCERT HALL

7:00 pm Film, Reach of Resonance, EMPAC Studio 2

Filmed in ten countries, "The Reach Of Resonance" is a meditation on the meaning of music, which juxtaposes the creative paths of four musicians who use music to cultivate a deeper understanding of the world around them. Among them are Miya Masaoka using music to interact with insects and plants; Jon Rose, utilizing a violin bow to turn fences into musical instruments in conflict zones ranging from the Australian outback to Palestine; John Luther Adams translating the geophysical phenomena of Alaska into music; and Bob Ostertag, who explores global socio-political issues through processes as diverse as transcribing a riot into a string quartet, and creating live cinema with garbage.

9-11 Open House: NYState Network, Transition Troy, Fracking (with tables) 9:30-11:00 Elementary Green Building (Studio Beta) 9:30 -10:30 Secondary School Frack Out! (Studio 2) 11 - 12:30 Eco-Film Medley for Kids (Studio Beta) 10:30 - 12:30 Updates on Shale Gas Research: A Systems Approach (EMPAC Studio 2)
 * SATURDAY APRIL 20 **

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch

2-4 Eco-Film for Kids: Hoot (Studio Beta)


 * 2:00 pm ** Andrea Polli " Ecomedia: Environmental Science and Technology and Interaction in Public Art " EMPAC Studio 2 (see abstract below)


 * 4:00 pm ** David Dunn " Sonic Interventions Into Hidden Sound Worlds: //A Composer at the Edge of Science"// EMPAC Studio 2 (see abstract below)


 * 6:00 pm ** Marina Zurkow " The Haunting: challenging our environmental relations " EMPAC Studio 2


 * SUNDAY APRIL 21 Workshops **

10 - 1 Connecting Sustainability Educators, SAGE --Lunch at 1 with STS


 * 11:00 am - 12:00 ** Workshop for ChildrenGuinean drum/dance, EMPAC Studio Beta

12:00 - 12:30 Lunch


 * 12:30 - 1:30 pm ** World Drum Mask Workshop, EMPAC Studio Beta

2:00 World Drum Performance, Prospect Park 3:30 Musical Procession to EMPAC 5:00 EMPAC Concert Hall performance of "Circadian Rhythms" by Susie Ibarra

Performers include percussion ensembles of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Union, Williams, Bennington Colleges, Empire State Youth Ensemble, Troy High School Drum Core, Ensemble Congeros, the Troy Samba Group, Woodstook DaySchool Guinean Drum Ensemble, and featuring soloists Devesh Chandra, Tabla; Jim Weber, berimbau; Alan George, waterdrum; Roberto Juan Rodriguez xxxx; Matthew Gold, xxxx.


 * KIOSKS FRIDAY APRIL 19-21 EMPAC LOBBY 7**

Eco-Viz Hackathon (sponsored by IT Program and Center for Open Source Software) ??ECO VEDA Mimi Katz: Ocean Fossils Research Branda/Yuri Gorby: Hills and Hollers/Fracking Kim/Mike Fortun://The Asthma Files// Abby Kinchy / Kirk Jalbert : visualization of water monitoring Dominic DiFranzo  Tetherless World MashUps


 * SPONSORED BY**

Bank of America

Other corporate and foundation

Rensselaer Office of the President

Jaffe Fund for Experimental Media and Performing Arts

Vasudha Living and Learning Community at Rensselaer

New York State Council for the Arts

School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

abstracts: Andrea Polli In the 21st century, there has been a resurgence of ecologically conscious art using new media technologies. Like Eco-art, this recent Ecomedia movement is interdisciplinary and global. Ecomedia is heavily influenced by developments in science, particularly remote imaging and other Earth sensing (for example, the widespread use of GPS data) and developments in computer modeling (for example, detailed models that not only model the physics of the Earth and solar system, but also explore the Earth's chemistry and biology). This presentation will include a series of public art work case studies, both permanent and temporary, that could be considered ecomedia.

While Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1840's saw wilderness as 'essences unchanged by man: space, the air, the river, the leaf' and as perpetually regenerative, in the 21st century many scholars like Bill Mckibbon have expressed concern that we are facing 'the end of nature'. Clearly this speaks to an urgent need to re-examine the connection between humanity and our wild spaces. The ecomedia case studies gathered for this presentation require deep reflection, a historical foundation and critical analysis. What have been the historical precedents for this kind of work? How have these prior initiatives succeeded or failed and what can we learn from this history? What can we learn from the case studies of collaborations and other models internationally? How can we move forward to a more sustainable context for art and science collaborations in the field nationally and internationally?

David Dunn For over three decades there has been an ongoing discourse addressing the role that the sonic arts can play in increasing our collective awareness to environmental issues through sensitizing us to the soundscape. A variety of approaches and strategies have used experimental music practices and audio recording technologies to document, compose, preserve, study, manipulate, intensify, and otherwise attempt to bring issues of the natural environment into foreground awareness through sound. This presentation will focus upon composer David Dunn’s participation in projects that have attempted to bring artists and scientists together towards applied environmental problem solving. These projects illustrate how the sonic arts might move beyond documentary and sensory heightening strategies alone towards participation in both scientific research and subsequent interventions to growing environmental dilemmas