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SUMMARY:Water Justice Lab End of Season Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join Riverkeeper and NATURE Lab along with our community science volunteers\, fellows\, family and friends to celebrate the sixth season of Water Justice Lab. Activities include researcher and youth fellow presentations and a community meal followed by a 7pm film screening of The Story of Plastic and panel. \n\n\n\nSchedule: \n\n\n\n\n4:30 pm: Water Justice Lab open house and mural tours\n\n\n\n5:00 pm: Welcome and youth fellow presentations\n\n\n\n5:30 pm: Research talks by professor Sarah Cadieux and artist Nicole Chrochrek\n\n\n\n6:00 pm: Community meal and volunteer appreciation\n\n\n\n7:00 pm: screening of The Story of Plastic in the main Sanctuary space followed by a panel including artists\, community organizers\, activists and researchers. Register for the screening here.\n\n\n\n\n7pm: “The Story of Plastic” Screening and Panel Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOur Water Justice Lab programming is made possible by funding from Alfred Z. Solomon Charitable Trust\, The McCarthy Charities\, Water Resources Institute\, and The NY Department of Environmental Conservation. \n\n\n\nKey partners for this event include Riverkeeper and Beyond Plastics.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/2025-wjl-celebration/
CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:FEMeeting Sister Labs: Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Join FEMeeting Sister Labs\, a conference bringing together women in art\, science and technology\, for two days of speakers\, workshops\, and community activities. NATURE Lab hosts FEMeeting Sister Labs right here in North Central Troy\, NY\, welcoming local and international artists\, scholars\, students and community members.  \n\n\n\n\n\nSchedule:April 5\, 7:00pm – 9:30pm: Speakers \n\n\n\nApril 6\, 9:00am – 2:00pm: Workshops \n\n\n\n\n9:00am Coffee and light fare at The Sanctuary.\n\n\n\n9:30am FEM Tour of Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\, 3361 6th Ave: Join us for a tour of the Sanctuary’s campus\, where abandoned buildings and lots have been transformed into a learning living laboratory. Walk with us as we celebrate our launch of the Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail\, which embeds art\, environmental justice\, Indigenous history and legacy into an urban nature and multimedia walk along 6th Ave in North-Central Troy. Walk begins at the Sanctuary and moves across campus with tour guides Branda Miller\, Kathy High\, Ellie Irons and Azuré Keahi \n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:30  NATURE Lab Workshop: Community Science in N. Central Troy\, 3319 6th Ave: Meet the visionary women as they share community science projects in the North Troy Art\, Technology and Urban Research in Ecology Lab\, otherwise know as NATURE Lab (NL)! The Sanctuary’s community health and urban ecology research initiative\, NL began in 2010 and continues into the future as a series of workshops and symposiums\, alongside artist and scientist research residencies.\n\nKathy High\, Introduction\n\n\n\nSarah Cadieux: Microplastics in our water\n\n\n\nAbby Kinchy: Our Soil project\n\n\n\nEllie Irons: Water Justice Lab\n\n\n\nA’Livija Mullins-Richard: Air Justice Lab\n\n\n\nEmilly Obuya: STEM / STEAM Learning\n\n\n\n\n\n12:15-1:45 Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail workshop\, “L Lot\,” 3305 6th Ave\, “AILANTHUSxYUCCA: Clearing\, Weaving\, Opening”: Join in a hands-on workshop for confronting invasion\, embracing diaspora\, and clearing space for life among life. We will cut and process the vigorous shoots of the introduced tree of heaven\, opening space to experiment with rooting yucca\, a cordage plant we’d like to collaborate with as we build towards a fiber garden. \n\nAzuré Keahi\n\n\n\nEllie Irons\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRegister for FEMeeting 4/6/24\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFEMeeting is driven by the desire to develop and promote a more direct collaboration between women working at the intersection art\, science\, and technology. The conference aims to disseminate projects being undertaken by women worldwide and\, as a result\, to contribute to the development of art-science research methodologies and to the growth of cooperation strategies that can increase knowledge sharing and bring communities closer.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMore about FEMeeting and Sister Labs\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaunched in 2017\, the conference “FEMeeting: Women in Art\, Science and Technology” was driven by the desire to develop and promote more direct collaboration between individuals who identify themselves as Women\, independently of their sex. The idea behind FEMeeting was orchestrated by the Portuguese artist Marta de Menezes and scholar Dalila Honorato\, after realizing that women in the field of Art and Science have an unquestionable presence worldwide.  \n\n\n\nIn 2021\, FEMeeting Sister Labs launched as an hybrid model of interaction between local and global\, between digital and physical: where FEMeeting members address to the community of women in art\, science and technology an invitation to their lab spaces. \n\n\n\nDiscover the lab spaces already presented by FEMeeting members through Sister Labs and learn more about the community of women in art\, science and technology! Check out Sister Lab around the World! \n\n\n\nWe are particularly interested in hearing about the experiences of BIPOC\, trans women\, non-binary women\, and gender queer women\, and people living with disabilities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is curated by iEAR Presents! and is made possible in part by New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Governor and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event is a collaboration between the iEAR Presents!series with support from RPI’s ARTS department and School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, and from the New York State Council for the Arts/ NYSCA\, with The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and is a featured project of the NEA Our Town “Sanctuary Eco-Art Trail” creative placemaking grant.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/femeeting-sister-labs/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Speaker
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SUMMARY:BioArt Visionary @CBIS with Miriam Simun
DESCRIPTION:“Corporeal Entanglements All The Way Down“\n\n\n\nJoin us for this virtual session of the series BioArt Visionary @CBIS\, presented in conjunction with RPI’s Center for Biotechnology\, the ARTS department & the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences\, and the Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe BioArt Visionary @CBIS is sponsored by RPI’s Arts department\, the iEAR Presents series\, the Center for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Studies (CBIS)\, the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences\, and the Sanctuary for Independent Media’s NATURE Lab initiative. \n\n\n\nThe iEAR Presents series has been generously supported by funds from the New York State Council on the Arts by approval of the New York State legislature and the Governor. We are grateful for this support! \n\n\n\nIf collision is understood as a form of disturbance (in the ecological sense)\, then in disturbance we find not only damage\, but also the opportunity for renewal. As we collide in new and ancient ways\, we discover\, as the poet Fred Moten said\, “a shared need to renew our habits of assembly.” I work with sensorial\, corporeal experience e as sites of multi-species\, multi-epistemological assembly. The corporeal is political\, the political is corporeal. What happens when we treat bioart as performance art and performance art as bioart? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMiriam Simun works at the intersection of ecology\, technology and the body\, spanning multiple formats including video\, performance\, installation\, writing\, and communal sensorial experiences. Of chief concern is the collision of bodies (human and non) with rapidly evolving techno-ecosystems. If collision can be understood to be a form of disturbance (in the ecological sense)\, then in disturbance we move through damage to an opportunity for renewal. Simun’s centers the sensorial as imperative for this renewal.  \n\n\n\nTheir work has been presented internationally\, including Gropius Bau (Berlin)\, New Museum (New York)\, Himalayas Museum (Shanghai)\, The Contemporary (Baltimore) and the Bogota Museum of Modern Art (Bogota) and has been supported by Creative Capital and the Robert Rauschenberg\, Joan Mitchell\, and Onassis Foundations. More at linktr.ee/mseamoon
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/bioart-visionary-cbis-with-miriam-simun/
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SUMMARY:“DIRT: The Secret Life of Soil” with Arm-of-the-Sea Theater
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a theatrical production about the dirt under our feet by Arm-of-the-Sea Theater\, an arts ensemble that fuses visual storytelling with live music in contemporary works of mask and puppet theater.  \n\n\n\nThis production will take place outdoors in Freedom Square\, a two-minute walk from the Sanctuary.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere does food “come from” and from what is it made? Here’s a lively primer for urban bumpkins and upcountry gardeners alike. Fusing cutting-edge science and age-old puppetry\, DIRT takes audiences on an extravagant journey of discovery into the Great Underneath—revealing the epic alchemy of plants\, the fungi’s dance of mutual delight\, and the microbes’ herculean labors. Fifty minutes in length\, performed by a five- member company\, and featuring live music and a myriad of puppet figures ranging from 12 inches to 12 feet tall\, the show reminds earthly residents of all ages how profoundly essential the ground beneath their feet is. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArm-of-the-Sea Theater’s mission is to inspire wonder\, offer insight\, spark joy and enrich the public imagination. They accomplish their mission through the symbolic visual language of mask and puppet theater. This handmade\, low-tech form of communication is decentralized and locally adapted. It can bridge language barriers and engage people of many ages and walks of life.  \n\n\n\nArm-of-the-Sea was founded in 1982 by Marlena Marallo and Patrick Wadden as an experimental hybrid performance group combining art\, ecology and social action. They continue to experiment with this ephemeral art form as a symbolic visual language that can illuminate the links between human communities and the life-support processes of this blue ocean planet.   \n\n\n\n\n\nPhotos by Robert Cooper from the performance at Freedom Square on October 8\, 2022\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by NATURE Lab and People’s Health Sanctuary.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/dirt-the-secret-life-of-soil/
LOCATION:Freedom Square\, 35 5th Ave\, Troy\, NY\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:We're All Living in the Estroworld
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this virtual session of the series BioArt Talks @CBIS\, presented in conjunction with RPI’s Center for Biotechnology\, the ARTS department & the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences\, and the Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab.  \n\n\n\nHow do bodies queer at the molecular level? How is this queering inextricably tied to industrial capitalism? Combining body and gender politics and environmental toxicity\, we begin to unpack the concept of “open source estrogen\,” the underlying premise that hormonal molecules are ubiquitously all around us – available for us to hack\, mutate\, and become-with. Through this process of unboxing their molecular mystique\, we see that even in our sublime sea of toxic molecules\, it is still a sea of co-mattering. With our extractive tools we can see only the tiniest picture in the macro cosmos of space and time. But perhaps this is all we need to transmute the traumas of our old world into the new. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Maggic (b. Los Angeles\, ’91) is a nonbinary artist working at the intersection of hormones\, body and gender politics\, and ecological alienations. Maggic frequently uses “biohacking” as a xeno-feminist practice of care that potentially demystifies invisible lines of molecular biopower. Completing their Masters in the Design Fiction group at MIT Media Lab\, they received the Prix Ars Electronica Honorary Mention in Hybrid Arts (2017) for the project “Open Source Estrogen” and a 10-month Fulbright research award in Yogyakarta\, Indonesia (2019). Maggic is a current member of the global network Hackteria – Open Source Biological Art\, the tactical theater collective Aliens in Green\, the Asian feminist association Mai Ling Vienna\, as well as a contributor to the radical syllabus project Pirate Care and to the online Cyberfeminism Index. maggic.ooo/ \n\n\n\n\n\nSee all BioArt Talks @CBIS here\n\n\n\nBioArt Talks @CBIS are an online series of one hour lunchtime presentations given by internationally recognized bioartists. Bioartists work with biological materials\, consider bioethics\, and look at the materiality of biosystems and the technologies used in biotechnology and scientific research. These artists cover a broad range of fascinating topics including research into lost environmental microbial systems\, cognitive states of mind and behavior\, biomechanical prototyping of assisted device design\, colony-building with non-humans\, and queering hormone disruption. The BioArt Talks @CBIS artists include: Orkan Telhan\, Heidi Boisvert\, Aisen Caro Chacin\, Anna Lindemann\, and Mary Maggic.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/were-all-living-in-the-estroworld/
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SUMMARY:Evo Devo Art
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this virtual session of the series BioArt Talks @CBIS\, presented in conjunction with RPI’s Center for Biotechnology\, the ARTS department & the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences\, and the Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab.  \n\n\n\nAnna Lindemann will present her work as an Evo Devo Artist. In her creative work\, Anna combines animation\, video\, music\, and performance to explore the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology (Evo Devo). Her work seeks to uncover narratives within rigorous scientific research\, to visualize biological processes in novel ways\, to define new artistic creative processes modeled on biological processes\, and to examine the human emotion and subjectivity behind scientific research. As part of her talk\, Anna will highlight several Evo Devo Artworks including The Colony\, an art-science performance about sisterhood and the evolution of social life in humans and ants. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Lindemann calls herself an Evo Devo artist. Her work as an animator\, composer\, and performer explores the emerging field of evolutionary developmental biology (Evo Devo). Anna graduated magna cum laude with honors from Yale with a BS in Biology before receiving an MFA in Integrated Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She is currently an Assistant Professor in the Digital Media & Design department at the University of Connecticut where she has pioneered courses integrating art and science. Anna has presented her Evo Devo Art at such venues as the Imagine Science Film Festival\, New York\, NY; ISEA\, Vancouver\, Canada; KLI Institute for Theoretical Biology\, Klosterneuburg\, Austria; EvoMUSART\, Parma\, Italy; Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center\, Troy\, NY; SCINEMA International Film Festival\, Australia; The State Darwin Museum\, Moscow\, Russia; The Franke Program in the Science and Humanities\, Yale University; The ATLAS Center for Media\, Art and Performance\, University of Colorado Boulder; MATA Festival\, New York\, NY; Istanbul Fringe Festival; SEAMUS. She is the recipient of a Connecticut Artist Fellowship and her animation work includes commissions from the USS Constitution Museum and Boston Cyberarts. www.annalindemann.com    \n\n\n\n\n\nSee all BioArt Talks @CBIS here\n\n\n\nBioArt Talks @CBIS are an online series of one hour lunchtime presentations given by internationally recognized bioartists. Bioartists work with biological materials\, consider bioethics\, and look at the materiality of biosystems and the technologies used in biotechnology and scientific research. These artists cover a broad range of fascinating topics including research into lost environmental microbial systems\, cognitive states of mind and behavior\, biomechanical prototyping of assisted device design\, colony-building with non-humans\, and queering hormone disruption. The BioArt Talks @CBIS artists include: Orkan Telhan\, Heidi Boisvert\, Aisen Caro Chacin\, Anna Lindemann\, and Mary Maggic.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/evo-devo-art/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speaker
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SUMMARY:BioArt + Assistive Device Art: Transformation of Ability and Perception\, the Plasticity of the Mind\, and Human Expansion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this virtual session of the series BioArt Talks @CBIS\, presented in conjunction with RPI’s Center for Biotechnology\, the ARTS department & the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences\, and the Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab.  \n\n\n\nGlowing rabbits\, ears on arms\, female human sperm are artworks that apply scientific methods and technology to explore and sculpt living systems. BioArt and Assistive Device Art are contemporary art practices that incorporate biological sciences and assistive technology as a form of artistic inquiry into biosystems and the human condition.  Seeing through your tongue\, listening to music through your teeth\, navigating space through sonic vision\, are examples of interfaces that are functional and assistive\, yet can serve as interactive portals to gain new cross-modal perceptual abilities. Bio-artworks aesthetically and conceptually apply materials and methods from bioengineering\, health sciences\, synthetic biology\, and medicine\, generating work that deals directly with these bio-fields’ socio-cultural implications. The convergence of expertise necessary to create these artworks is a platform to generate discussions and new directions for research between health practitioners\, bioethicists\, and artists to envision alternative biofutures that are humanistically\, socially\, and aesthetically conscious and concerned. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Aisen Caro Chacin is an artist and the medical prototyping lab lead at the University of Texas Medical Branch. She holds a BFA in sculpture and a minor in visual studies from the University of Houston (UH)\, where she is an Affiliate Faculty of New Media Arts. She has an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons\, The New School\, NYC\, where she was an Adjunct Professor of Physical and Creative Computing. She created a framework for assistive technology and Device Art while attaining her Ph.D. in Human Informatics at the University of Tsukuba\, Japan. She is the Chair for LASER Houston\, a series of art and science talks sponsored by Leonardo\, IAST\, and Transart Foundation for Art and Anthropology\, and she is also a Board Member of the Medicine and Media Arts Program at UCLA. Her work lies within the intersection of art\, science\, and technology\, with a focus on new media art\, human-computer integration\, medical devices\, sound art\, and Assistive Device Art. She has presented and exhibited at Ars Electronica\, Cite du Design\, TEI\, NIME\, NYC Museum of Art and Design\, The New York Hall of Science\, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston\, World of Haptics\, SXSW. www.aisencaro.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\nSee all BioArt Talks @CBIS here\n\n\n\nBioArt Talks @CBIS are an online series of one hour lunchtime presentations given by internationally recognized bioartists. Bioartists work with biological materials\, consider bioethics\, and look at the materiality of biosystems and the technologies used in biotechnology and scientific research. These artists cover a broad range of fascinating topics including research into lost environmental microbial systems\, cognitive states of mind and behavior\, biomechanical prototyping of assisted device design\, colony-building with non-humans\, and queering hormone disruption. The BioArt Talks @CBIS artists include: Orkan Telhan\, Heidi Boisvert\, Aisen Caro Chacin\, Anna Lindemann\, and Mary Maggic.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/bioart-assistive-device-art-transformation-of-ability-and-perception-the-plasticity-of-the-mind-and-human-expansion/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Where Do Gardens Come From? And Where Do They Go?
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the first of the virtual series\, BioArt Talks @CBIS\, presented in conjunction with RPI’s Center for Biotechnology\, the ARTS department & the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences\, and the Sanctuary’s NATURE Lab initiative. \n\n\n\nOrkan Telhan will present the outcomes of an ongoing research project that is centered on an investigation in Istanbul’s historical gardens and how they endure social\, environmental\, and political challenges over 1500 years. The talk will feature artworks and scientific research that intend to foreground the less-visible aspects of the gardens\, discussing the roles gentrification\, immigration\, nationalism\, and the climate crisis in shaping their meaning in the public imaginary. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrkan Telhan investigates critical issues in cultural\, environmental and social responsibility. Telhan is Associate Professor of Fine Arts – Emerging Design Practices at the University of Pennsylvania\, Stuart Weitzman School of Design. He holds a PhD in Design and Computation from MIT’s Department of Architecture. He was part of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and a researcher at the MIT Design Laboratory. Telhan is a co-founder of Biorealize and the head of foundry engineering at Ecovative. Telhan’s individual and collaborative work has been exhibited internationally in venues including the Istanbul Biennial (2013)\, Istanbul Design Biennial (2012\, 2016\, 2021)\, Milano Design Week\, London Design Week\, Vienna Design Week\, the Armory Show 2015 Special Projects\, Ars Electronica (2007\, 2017)\, ISEA\, LABoral\, Archilab\, Matadero Madrid\, Architectural Association\, the Architectural League of New York\, MIT Museum\, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit\, the New Museum of Contemporary Art\, New York\, the Philadelphia Museum of Art\, the Walker Art Center\, and the Design Museum\, London. www.orkantelhan.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\nSee all BioArt Talks @CBIS here\n\n\n\nBioArt Talks @CBIS are an online series of one hour lunchtime presentations given by internationally recognized bioartists. Bioartists work with biological materials\, consider bioethics\, and look at the materiality of biosystems and the technologies used in biotechnology and scientific research. These artists cover a broad range of fascinating topics including research into lost environmental microbial systems\, cognitive states of mind and behavior\, biomechanical prototyping of assisted device design\, colony-building with non-humans\, and queering hormone disruption. The BioArt Talks @CBIS artists include: Orkan Telhan\, Heidi Boisvert\, Aisen Caro Chacin\, Anna Lindemann\, and Mary Maggic.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/where-do-gardens-come-from-and-where-do-they-go/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ruderal Ecologies 2
DESCRIPTION:The Ruderal Ecologies 2 virtual conference builds upon the 2018 Ruderal Ecologies: Grounds for Change conference\, which brought together thought leaders in art\, science\, and environmental justice to explore the history and future of urban environments shaped by stress. “Ruderal\,” from the Latin rudus (rubble)\, refers to plant species that are first to repopulate disturbed lands\, an apt analogy for the state of our post-industrial neighborhoods. It is through this lens that we will envision our futures. Ruderal Ecologies 2 conference is a collaboration between the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Science\, ARTS and STS departments\, NATURE Lab and The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, and the iEAR Presents series\, supported by in part by a Humanities New York SHARP Grant with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the federal American Rescue Plan Act\, and the Vollmer Fries Lecture Series at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  Media Alliance programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.   \n\n\n\nClick For SCHEDULE OF CONFERENCE\n\n\n\nRuderal Ecologies 2 will once again bring together cutting-edge artists\, social scientists\, scholars\, and activists learning and working beyond the barriers of any one discipline\, and this time our work will be all-virtual\, making it possible to present thinkers and host virtual audiences from all over the globe. Reflecting our commitment to curating a feminist framework into this conference\, the majority of our presenters are women or gender non-conforming. We have also invited Indigenous authors\, artists\, and speakers\, with the intention of embedding a variety of Indigenous ways of thinking\, storytelling\, and expression into conversations about our urban futures. \n\n\n\nNATURE Lab\, a project of The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, is one block from the Hudson River at the beginning of the Erie Canal. Our Environmental education campus\, including Collard City Growers’ garden\, the L-Lot sustainable forest\, the NATURE Lab Residency Space\, and Freedom Square commons offer programming including community workshops\, public art installations\, artist residencies\, research activities\, and after school programs. NATURE Lab’s biosafety level 1 community bio laboratory focuses on issues around urban environmental justice and social justice. Upstairs from the laboratory the People’s Health Sanctuary space is being constructed to share health skills\, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRuderal Ecologies 2 virtual conference confirmed presenters include: \n\n\n\nFriday night\, October 22\, 6pm – 8pm EDT: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Max Liboiron \n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Max Liboiron is leader in both developing and promoting anticolonial research methods into a wide array of disciplines and spaces. As founder of CLEAR\, an interdisciplinary plastic pollution laboratory whose methods foreground humility and good land relations\, Liboiron has influenced national policy on both plastics and Indigenous research\, invented technologies and protocols for community monitoring of plastics\, and led the development of the interdisciplinary field of discard studies. \n\n\n\nHere is the recording of Dr. Liboiron’s talk. \n\n\n\nLiboiron’s book\, Pollution is Colonialism\, bridges Science and Technology Studies (STS)\, Indigenous studies\, and discard studies while providing a framework for understanding all research methods as practices that align with or against colonialism. Focusing on plastic pollution\, the text models an anticolonial scientific practice associated with Métis concepts of land\, ethics\, and relations\, and demonstrates that anticolonial science is not only possible\, but it is currently being practiced. One reviewer for the book wrote that the text “is at the leading edge of a significant turn in STS towards thinking with settler-colonialism as a structure and terrain and contributes significantly as well to thinking about how ethical principles related to lab science and studies of pollution and shorelines. There are exceedingly few texts of this kind that ask\, how might we consider relations with land/waters and science – and still practice ‘good’ science?” \n\n\n\nDr. Liboiron is an Associate Professor in Geography and is formerly the Associate Vice-President (Indigenous Research) at Memorial University. Liboiron is Métis/Michif (Woodman via Red River) who grew up in Lac la Biche\, Treaty 6 territory. Gender pronouns: they/them. Liboiron is pronounced: Lee-Bwah-rohn. https://maxliboiron.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 23 11am – 4pm EDT: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Bettina Stoetzer \n\n\n\n\n\nBettina Stoetzer teaches cultural anthropology at M.I.T. Her research focuses on the intersections of ecology\, globalization\, and urban social justice. Bettina received her M.A. in Sociology\, Anthropology and Media Studies from the University of Goettingen and completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz in 2011. Before coming to MIT\, she was a Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows at the University of Chicago. Bettina’s most recent book\, Ruderal City: Ecologies of Migration and Urban Life in Berlin (Duke University Press\, 2018)\, draws on fieldwork with immigrant and refugee communities\, as well as ecologists\, nature enthusiasts and other Berlin residents to illustrate how human-environment relations have become a key register through which urban citizenship is articulated in contemporary Europe.  https://culanth.org/fieldsights/rethinking-nature-an-interview-with-bettina-stoetzer \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Anna Scime \n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Scime is an internationally exhibited media artist whose latest project\, Lake Sturgeons’ Guide for Surviving the Anthropocene\, is an experimental work created from nine years of research and fieldwork collaborations with scientists working in biology\, geology and ecology. It consists of a feature length nonfiction film\, a series of short video essays and a multimedia installation comprised of interrelated pieces. The project examines history\, art\, culture\, and language through an ecological lens pointed at a single species and zooms outward from there. Though varied in material\, style and genre\, Scime most often experiments with moving-image-based work at the intersection of art\, technology and science – addressing topics including the Anthropocene\, eco-histories\, and the archive. http://www.a–a.org/ \n\n\n\nMediaSanctuary · Interview with Anna Scime\, Presenter at Ruderal Ecologies 2\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTiare Ribeaux is a kānaka maoli interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker originally from Honolulu and based in the Bay Area. Her work employs storytelling to reveal social and ecological imbalances while imagining more regenerative futures. She explores how both our bodies and the technologies we use are entangled with the environment\, and aims to recenter indigenous narratives. She is the co-founder and creative director of B4BEL4B gallery. \n\n\n\nShe has shown work both nationally and internationally\, and has won numerous grants and awards for her artistic leadership including 2 New and Experimental Works Grants from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation\, and grants from the Zellerbach Family Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Doris Duke Foundation\, and the Center for Cultural Innovation\, among others. She has given artist guest lectures at conferences and universities\, and has worked with Leonardo/ISAST\, the de Young Museum\, YBCA\, and the California Academy of Sciences\, among others. She was awarded a web residency with Akademie Schloss Solitude + ZKM in 2019 and selected for the American Arts Incubator in 2017-18 with ZERO1 Arts and Technology Network with the US Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs. http://www.tiareribeaux.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNatasha Myers is ill and unable to attend \n\n\n\nNatasha Myers is an anthropologist\, artist\, and activist living on Dish With One Spoon Lands\, in Toronto. She is an associate professor at York University\, director of the Plant Studies Collaboratory\, founder of the Politics of Evidence Working Group\, and co-founder of Toronto’s Technoscience Salon. Her current ethnographic projects speculate on ways of seeding plant/people conspiracies\, with investigations spanning the arts and sciences of vegetal sensing and sentience\, the politics of gardens\, and the enduring colonial violence of restoration ecology. Since 2015 she has been working with dancer and filmmaker Ayelen Liberona on Becoming Sensor\, an anticolonial research-creation project that detunes settler common sense to invent protocols for an ungrid-able ecology of the happenings ongoing in the ancient oak savannah lands around Toronto. She is the author of Rendering Life Molecular: Models\, Modelers and Excitable Matter (Duke 2015)\, co-author of Le Ravissement de Darwin: Le langage des plants (Éditions La Découverte 2020) co-editor of the forthcoming Reactivating Elements: Chemistry\, Ecology\, Practice (Duke\, 2022)\, and co-editor of the forthcoming What is Life? (Das Neue Alphabet\, Spector Books\, 2021).  For more information see http://natashamyers.org  \n\n\n\n\n\nSunday\, October 24 11am – 4pm EDT: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Scott Kellogg \n\n\n\n\n\nScott Kellogg\, is the Educational Director of the Radix Ecological Sustainability Center\, an urban environmental education non-profit in Albany\, New York.  Radix’s pedagogy applies questions of equity\, access\, race\, and class to the post-industrial urban ecosystem\, seeking to create reciprocal and mutualistic relationships between urban youth and the soils\, water\, air\, non-human life\, and waste cycles of the city.  Scott’s work with Radix is documented in his new book Urban Ecosystem Justice: Strategies for Equitable Sustainability and Ecological Literacy in the City (Routledge\, 2021)\, which explores topics including community-based bioremediation\, artificial floating islands\, composting justice\, and biocultural diversity.  Scott holds a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and teaches in Bard College’s Masters in Environmental Education program. http://radixcenter.org/   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with WhiteFeather Hunter \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhiteFeather Hunter is a multiple award-winning Canadian artist and scholar working in a research\, craft and performance-based transdisciplinary practice. She specializes in biomaterials research\, used predominantly to develop new critical discourse. She has been professionally engaged in a craft-based (bio)art practice for over 18 years\, via an ongoing material investigation of the functional\, aesthetic and technological potential of bodily materials. Her works coalesce various media approaches\, such as textile methods\, biology\, storytelling (video\, audio and text)\, performance\, public intervention\, digital + web-based installations and DIY electronics. WhiteFeather is a multiple-award winner and grant recipient\, holding a Master of Fine Arts in Fibres and Material Practices from Concordia University. She is currently a SSHRC Doctoral Fellow\, Australian Government International RTP Scholar and UWA Postgraduate Scholar\, situated between the School of Human Sciences and School of Design at The University of Western Australia. https://www.whitefeatherhunter.ca/about \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHear HMM’s interview with Margaretha Haughwout  \n\n\n\n\n\nMargaretha Haughwout collaborates with humans\, and the more-than-human\, across technologies and ecologies\, to enact possible worlds. Speculative fabulation\, intervention\, participatory event\, walking tour\, experimental pedagogy\, installation\, and biological processes articulate stages of her worlding processes. As an intertwined series of related interventions\, she explores Ruderal Witchcraft: a project in collaboration with the artist Oliver Kellhammer that consider of set of practices specific to planetary\, weedy natures that work their way at edges and interstices of public and private property\, and which are entangled with a range of other human and non-human outcasts of capitalist modernity. Active relationships with weedy\, rapidly reproducing species that primarily operate in everyday spaces of disturbance give guerrilla gardeners\, activists\, artists\, witches\, and other practitioners concerned with the ongoing threats of the global Capitalocene new spatiotemporal opportunities for anti-capitalist magic\, sabotage\, and retreat. Haughwout received her MFA from the Digital Art and New Media program at the University of California Santa Cruz\, her Permaculture Design Certificate from the Urban Permaculture Institute\, and has studied with numerous herbalists including Matthew Wood. https://beforebefore.net/ \n\n\n\n\n\nRadio Bonus! Hear the interview with NATURE Lab director Kathy High who talks about Ruderal Ecologies 1 and what to expect at this year’s conference.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSchedule of Event\n\n\n\nFriday\, October 22 6:00pm – 8:00pm EDT \n\n\n\n6:00 Welcome to the Conference \n\n\n\n6:10 Max Liboiron \n\n\n\n7:15 General Panel Discussion with Discussants Abby Kinchy & Guy Schaffer  \n\n\n\n7:30 Q&A \n\n\n\n8:00 END SESSION \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSaturday\, October 23 11:00am – 4:00pm EDT \n\n\n\n11:00 Welcome to Day 2  \n\n\n\n11:10 Bettina Stoetzer \n\n\n\n12:30 Anna Scime \n\n\n\n1:45 Tiare Ribeaux \n\n\n\n3:00 General Panel Discussion with Discussants Nancy Campbell & Ellie Irons & Jenifer Wightman \n\n\n\n3:30 Q&A \n\n\n\n4:00 END SESSION \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSunday\, October 24 11:00am – 4:00pm EDT \n\n\n\n11:00 Welcome to Day 3 \n\n\n\n11:10 Scott Kellogg \n\n\n\n12:30 WhiteFeather Hunter \n\n\n\n1:45 Margaretha Haughwout \n\n\n\n3:00 General Panel Discussion with Discussants Oliver Kellhammer & Kate Galloway \n\n\n\n3:30 Q&A \n\n\n\n4:00 END SESSION \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\nRegister for the Virtual Conference\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAny views\, findings\, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment of the Humanities.
URL:https://www.mediasanctuary.org/event/ruderal-ecologies-2-bios/
LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:NATURE Lab Opening Celebration with Dr. Jennifer Willet and special guests
DESCRIPTION:From the streets of Troy\, NY to community science labs around the globe\, join our NATURE Lab Opening Celebration!  \n\n\n\nJoin us for the grand virtual opening of NATURE Lab! From around the world\, bio artists\, scientists and ecologists will inaugurate our new community science laboratory. Featuring a virtual talk/performance by Dr. Jennifer Willet\, bio artist from INCUBATOR Lab in Windsor\, Canada\, along with special guests including Dr. Catherine Febria  from Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research in Windsor\, Marta de Menezes from Cultivamos Cultura in Portugal\, and more!  \n\n\n\nDirectly after this event\, witness our Water Justice Lab youth fellows\, in collaboration with Riverkeeper\, test community collected water samples of our nearby Hudson River! \n\n\n\nSponsored by iEAR Presents! and the School of Humanities\, Arts and Social Sciences at Rensselaer\, made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. \n\n\n\nDr. Jennifer Willet\n\n\n\nDr. Jennifer Willet is a Canada Research Chair in Art\, Science\, and Ecology and an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Arts at the University of Windsor (Canada.) Willet is an internationally successful artist and curator in the emerging field of bioart. Her work explores notions of representation and body in relation to evolving biotechnologies with an emphasis on ecological metaphors.  She taught in the Studio Arts Department at Concordia University in Montreal Canada from 2000-2007\, and completed her PhD in the Interdisciplinary Humanities Program at the same institution.  Willet also taught “Bioart: Contemporary Art and the Life Sciences” for The Art and Genomics Centre at The University of Leiden in The Netherlands in 2008.  In 2009 she opened the first bioart lab in Canada called INCUBATOR: Hybrid Laboratory at the Intersection of Art\, Science\, and Ecology.  www.incubatorartlab.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSPECIAL GUESTS\n\n\n\nDr. Catherine Febria\n\n\n\nDr. Catherine Febria is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair and Assistant Professor at the Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research (GLIER) & Dept. of Integrative Biology at the University of Windsor. She is co-Director of the GLIER Organic Analysis & Nutrients Laboratory\, a central research facility.  She is Associate Director of FishCAST\, an NSERC CREATE graduate student training program. Her research focuses on the ecology and restoration of small streams and wetlands\, and their role in contributing to ecosystem health in the Laurentian Great Lakes. She remains actively involved as an alumni Fellow with the Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)\, as Co-Chair of the International Science Advisory Panel for New Zealand’s Biological Heritage National Science Challenge\, and has served as Coordinating Editor with the journal Restoration Ecology since 2017. She held a postdoctoral role at the University of Maryland’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (2010-2013) and most recently relocated her research back to the Great Lakes Region of Canada from the University of Canterbury in Aotearoa New Zealand. She is co-founder of the Kindness in Science global initiative\, and contributes actively to actions\, scholarship & mentorship to support justice\, equity\, diversity & inclusion in academia. Twitter: @ecofebria \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes\n\n\n\nMarta de Menezes is a Portuguese artist with a degree in Fine Arts by the University in Lisbon\, a MSt in History of Art and Visual Culture by the University of Oxford\, and a PhD candidate at the University of Leiden. She has been exploring the intersection between Art and Biology\, working in research laboratories demonstrating that new biological technologies can be used as new art medium. In 1999 de Menezes created her first biological artwork (Nature?) by modifying the wing patterns of live butterflies. Since then\, she has used diverse biological techniques including functional MRI of the brain to create portraits where the mind can be visualised (Functional Portraits\, 2002); fluorescent DNA probes to create micro-sculptures in human cell nuclei (nucleArt\, 2002); sculptures made of proteins (Proteic Portrait\, 2002-2007)\, DNA (Innercloud\, 2003; The Family\, 2004) or incorporating live neurons (Tree of Knowledge\, 2005) or bacteria (Decon\, 2007). Her work has been presented internationally in exhibitions\, articles and lectures. She is currently the artistic director of Ectopia\, an experimental art laboratory in Lisbon\, and Director of Cultivamos Cultura in the South of Portugal. http://martademenezes.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Vanouse\n\n\n\nPaul Vanouse is an artist working in Emerging Media forms. Radical interdisciplinarity and impassioned amateurism guide his practice. Since the early 1990s his artwork has addressed complex issues raised by varied new techno-sciences using these very techno-sciences as a medium.  His artworks have included data collection devices that examine the ramifications of polling and categorization\, genetic experiments that undermine scientific constructions of race and identity\, and temporary organizations that playfully critique institutionalization and corporatization. These “Operational Fictions” are hybrid entities–simultaneously real things and fanciful representations–intended to resonate in the equally hyper-real context of the contemporary electronic landscape. Paul Vanouse is the founder and director of Coalesce: Center for Biological Arts. Coalesce Lab is a hybrid studio laboratory facility dedicated to enabling hands-on creative engagement with the tools and technologies of the life sciences. https://www.buffalo.edu/genomeenvironmentmicrobiome/coalesce.html Website: http://paulvanouse.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Joel Ong\n\n\n\nProfessor Joel Ong is a media artist whose works connect scientific and artistic approaches to the environment\, particularly with respect to sound and physical space.  Professor Ong’s work explores the way objects and spaces can function as repositories of ‘frozen sound’\, and in elucidating these\, he is interested in creating what systems theorist Jack Burnham (1968) refers to as “art (that) does not reside in material entities\, but in relations between people and between people and the components of their environment”. A serial collaborator\, Professor Ong is invested in the broader scope of Art-Science collaborations and is engaged constantly in the discourses and processes that facilitate viewing these two polemical disciplines on similar ground. Joel Ong is the Director\, Sensorium: Centre for Digital Arts and Technology. Based in the School of the Arts\, Media\, Performance & Design (AMPD) at York University\, Sensorium is a research centre for creative inquiry and experimentation at the intersection of the media arts\, performance\, and digital culture. As a site for co-creation and shared critical reflection\, Sensorium serves as a catalyst for examining how diverse media platforms enable multi-sensory perception and embodied experience\, along with new modes of social engagement. Bridging disciplines and diverse communities\, Sensorium researchers\, artists\, and scientists explore networked connections between people\, sentient environments\, and ecologies of place. https://sensorium.ampd.yorku.ca/joel-ong/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Tuck\, M.S.\n\n\n\nBeth Tuck (she/her) is the Executive Director at Genspace. Previously\, she was a genomics education specialist at the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) where she worked on enhancing K-16 genomic literacy\, education\, and community engagement. Her work included designing curricular resources\, engaging students and teachers in hands-on genomics activities\, supporting teacher professional development\, and training scientists in public engagement skills. Her graduate research at Washington University in St. Louis focused on the genetics and molecular mechanisms of neurological and neuromuscular disorders. Genspace is the world’s first community biology lab — a place where people of all backgrounds can learn\, create\, and grow with the life sciences. Since 2009\, we have served the greater New York area by providing hands-on STEAM education programs for youth and adults\, cultural and outreach events for the public\, and a membership program to support New York’s community of creatives\, researchers\, and entrepreneurs. Our programs demystify scientific processes\, provide a platform for innovation\, and cultivate the next generation of life sciences leaders in emerging global technologies\, such as biotechnology\, neuroscience\, epidemiology\, genomics\, and many more. https://www.genspace.org/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Vesna\, Ph.D.\n\n\n\nVictoria Vesna\, Ph.D.\, is an Artist and Professor at the UCLA Department of Design Media Arts and Director of the Art|Sci Center at the School of the Arts (North campus) and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) (South campus). Although she was trained early on as a painter (Faculty of Fine arts\, University of Belgrade\, 1984)\, her curious mind took her on an exploratory path that resulted in work can be defined as experimental creative research residing between disciplines and technologies. With her installations she investigates how communication technologies affect collective behavior and perceptions of identity shift in relation to scientific innovation (PhD\, CAiiA_STAR\, University of Wales\, 2000). Her work involves long-term collaborations with composers\, nano-scientists\, neuroscientists\, evolutionary biologists and she brings this experience to students. Victoria Vesna is the founder and director of Art|Sci of UCLA. The Art|Sci Center focuses on collaborative projects that address social\, ethical and environmental issues related to scientific innovations. “To pursue\, facilitate and promote research and programs that demonstrate the potential of media arts and science collaborations.” We are part of a world-wide network of artists and scientists who are interested in philosophical dialogue as well as working together on artistic or applied projects. http://artsci.ucla.edu/ Website : https://www.victoriavesna.com/
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LOCATION:The Sanctuary\, 3361 6th Ave\, Troy\, 12180\, United States
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SUMMARY:Witness to the Future: 25th Anniversary Screening
DESCRIPTION:Witness to the Future still\n\n\n\nTwenty-five years after its release\, Witness to the Future’s focus on so-called “ordinary” citizens turned environmental activists has more relevance than ever before! Here’s an interview with producer Branda Miller on the WOOC Hudson Mohawk Magazine as part of the build-up to this event. \n\n\n\nIt’s time to watch this video again!   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThen\, watch the Q&A with WTTF filmmaker Branda Miller and co-producer Robin Oppenheimer speaking with interviewer Corinne Carey of WOOC 105.3 FM’s Hudson Mohawk Magazine before this 25th anniversary screening. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBranda Miller’s “Witness to the Future” is an experimental documentary video project about individuals who have been transformed from so called “ordinary” citizens into activists who struggle for environmental and social change. \n\n\n\n“Witness to the Future” seeks connections that unite people of all cultures\, communities\, races\, and economic classes as they struggle for environmental and social change. Represented are people from three regions of the U.S.: the “downwinders” of Hanford\, WA\, including Native Americans; “whistleblowers” and white-collar workers from the nuclear reservation; rural African American\, poor\, and working-class communities in “Cancer Alley\,” LA; and Latino and Hmong farmworkers and mothers in the San Joaquin Valley\, CA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nReviews of “Witness to the Future“ \n\n\n\nThe Economist \n\n\n\n\n“Environmentalist may be leery of some modern technologies\, such as genetic engineering and nuclear power. Yet one new technology promises to make their movement much more powerful. This CD-ROM demonstrates how recent advances in computing and the internet can be used for dramatic political effect. The enemies of the greens – the firms and governments that greens accuse of neglecting nature – aught to watch out.” \n\n\n\n\nMacWorld \n\n\n\n\n“If you seek thought-provoking material for an environmentally inclined friend\, look no further.“ \n\n\n\n\nI.D. Magazine \n\n\n\n\n“It will change the way you think about [Image] consumerism and the industrial infrastructure that supports it.“ \n\n\n\n\nWorldFest International Film and Video Festival \n\n\n\nGold Award – Interactive Educational / Adult CategorySilver Award – Ecology / Environment / Conservation Category \n\n\n\nDr. Nicholas J. Smith-Sebasto \n\n\n\n\n“When I experienced Witness to the Future\, I was left literally NUMB. My initial impression was one of complete shock. Branda has created something that appears to be truly revolutionary. Those interested in the Environmental must be made aware of her production and more important\, must be trained in how to use it.” (National Association of Environmental Educators) \n\n\n\n\nPacifica Network & Democracy Now!Segment about “Witness to the Future\,” December 29\, 1997 \n\n\n\nAbout the Filmmaker \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBranda Miller is a media artist and educator\, dedicated to art\, ecology and community interdisciplinary arts. She is the Arts and Education Coordinator at The Sanctuary for Independent Media\, where she has developed numerous media literacy/community arts/youth media and creative place-making projects. She is a Professor of Media Arts at Rensselaer\, teaching courses in documentary\, art\, community and technology\, and independent art production.  Miller is an Emmy award-winning editor who worked in the media industry of L.A. and N.Y.C.\, and whose media art works have been screened\, exhibited and broadcast nationally and internationally. Branda Miller has three decades of experience in participatory design and praxis\, and a history of transdisciplinary collaborations created to stimulate cultural animation\, build community\, and create dialogue around freedom of expression and environmental justice. \n\n\n\nAbout the Producer\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRobin Oppenheimer is a Seattle-based internationally recognized media arts historian\, curator\, educator\, and scholar who has worked in the field since 1980. She was Executive Director of media arts centers in Atlanta (IMAGE Film/Video 1984-89) and Seattle (911 Media Arts 1989-95). Earning a PhD in Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in 2011\, she was a Lecturer at the University of Washington Bothell (2008-2015) and adjunct faculty at Cornish College of the Arts (2014-16). Recent projects include working as a media arts historian/writer for Google’s Artist and Machine Intelligence group in Seattle https://ami.withgoogle.com/ . Her areas of research include media arts histories\, with an emphasis on 1960s collaborative art & technology projects (light shows\, E.A.T.)\, participatory media\, and media activism.
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CATEGORIES:Community Event,Screening
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SUMMARY:Dying with Dignity in New York
DESCRIPTION:In the midst of unprecedented personal\, national and global oppression\, suffering and death\, how do we process loss to maintain hopeful connections?  The People’s Health Sanctuary has offered a 3-part series\, End-of-Life in the Age of Covid featuring conversations about our experiences of death\, end of life care\, and the creation of social and spiritual community during the pandemic. \n\n\n\nAs a result of COVID-19\, far too many New Yorkers have been forced to confront death\, spurring what used to be uncomfortable\, avoidable discussions about life and death issues among family and friends. What death looks like\, when it comes\, is something far too many of us now think about regularly yet many of us remain awkward about discussing.  \n\n\n\nAdvance care planning can help ensure that you get the care that you want at the end of life\, but terminally ill New Yorkers don’t have the full range of options that our neighbors in New Jersey and Vermont\, and 8 other US jurisdictions have: the right to medical aid in dying.  Nearly 20% of people living in the United States have access to this compassionate end-of-life care option\, which allows terminally ill\, mentally capable adults with six months or less to live to ask their doctor for a prescription they can take to avoid needless suffering and die peacefully on their own terms. \n\n\n\nParticipants will discuss what it means to have a “good death\,” explore what advance care planning means and what tools exist to help put those plans in place\, and learn about the option of medical aid in dying. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the “End-of-Life in the Age of Covid” series of virtual conversations every 6 weeks presented by People’s Health Sanctuary.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCorinne Carey\, Esq. MODERATOR & presenterSenior State Director for New York & New Jersey\, Compassion & Choices \n\n\n\nCompassion & Choices is the nation’s oldest\, largest and most active nonprofit organization committed to improving care and expanding choice at the end of life. The organization works towards a society where people receive state-of-the-art care and a full range of choices for dying in comfort\, dignity and control. \n\n\n\nCorinne Carey joined Compassion & Choices as a Campaign Director in August 2015. She led the successful campaign for New Jersey’s Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act\, which took effect on August 1\, 2019. \n\n\n\nCorinne joined C&C after nearly a decade with the New York Civil Liberties Union where she served as Deputy Legislative Director. At NYCLU\, she engaged in advocacy around a wide range of civil liberties issues\, concentrating on public health\, medical privacy\, discrimination\, drug law reform\, and reproductive rights issues. She led the campaign to pass a 10-point Women’s Equality Agenda as co-chair of the New York State Women’s Equality Coalition. All 10 points\, including strengthening equal pay laws and codifying Roe v. Wade into state statute\, have become law. \n\n\n\nPrior to her tenure at the NYCLU\, Corinne was a researcher with the U.S. Program at Human Rights Watch where she focused on access to public housing for people with criminal records\, punitive and ineffective sex offender registries\, and the treatment of prisoners during Hurricane Katrina. \n\n\n\nCorinne holds a masters degree in American Studies from the University at Buffalo\, and she graduated summa cum laude and first in her class from SUNY Buffalo School of Law in 1998. \n\n\n\nVolunteering as a political & public affairs correspondent for the Hudson Mohawk Magazine\, an evening radio show on WOOC 105.3 FM out of the Sanctuary for Independent Media in the capital region\, Corinne has produced more than 100 stories that can be heard on WOOC’s podcast. She lives in Troy\, New York. \n\n\n\nDonna SmithDiversity and Inclusion Advisor and State Director\, Compassion & Choices \n\n\n\nDonna Smith is an accomplished professional with over twenty years of experience in political consulting\, legislative advocacy\, public affairs\, policy and program management. \n\n\n\nDonna has been employed by Compassion and Choices (C&C) for 7 years.  She is the Diversity and Inclusion Advisor and  State Director  for DC and Maryland.  In this capacity she directs  C&C’s state-based strategy on how to integrate diversity\, equity and inclusion principles into the work\, helping to ensure build culturally competent programming from the outset. led the campaign to pass end of Death with Dignity legislation in both the District of Columbia (the legislation passed in Feb. 2017) and Maryland. \n\n\n\nDonna was the Chief of Policy and Community Programs for eight years at the Maryland Department of Aging. She led a team of program managers that implemented aging statewide programs for the aging and their caregivers.  She was also detailed to work on the White House Conference on Aging in as a public relations specialist. \n\n\n\nA graduate of Tuskegee University and George Washington Law School\, she has one son and resides in Laurel\, Md. \n\n\n\nDr. Mary Applegate \n\n\n\nDr. Mary Applegate is highly regarded nationally for her work in public health education and in maternal & infant health.  She served as a public health physician and medical director in Women’s Health at the New York State Department of Health (DOH) for 14 years\, followed by 15 years at the University at Albany School of Public Health as the Associate Dean for Public Health Practice. Dr. Applegate has been awarded statewide and national leadership awards in the fields of Preventive Medicine and Maternal & Child Health.  Her volunteer work with Compassion & Choices takes her to a different part of the life cycle\, but still emphasizes her belief in individual’s autonomy during this other universal life transition. \n\n\n\nMORE ABOUT PEOPLE’S HEALTH SANCTUARY\n\n\n\nPeople’s Health Sanctuary‘s goal is to establish a central space to share health skills\, provide basic integrative care and explore ways to build networks of community health. We are celebrating a year of organizing around this project\, initiated under the organizing name Health Autonomy Clinic and after listening sessions with our surrounding community\, re-named People’s Health Sanctuary. Our goal is to embrace models of open sharing of health knowledge\, and empower all of the growing collective of community members to seek their independent health goals\, as opposed to the traditional\, hierarchical top-down approach of clinical medical practice. Though caring for our elders\, our children\, or cooking soul-nourishing food for family or friends may not be deemed ‘real’ healthcare\, they know that in fact\, it’s what holds us together and keeps us sane. Our growing network sharing skills to build a space where creative\, joyful health is possible and accessible. \n\n\n\nIn this current crisis\, we are more than even committed to the potential that People’s Health Sanctuary can offer.  Everyone it seems is struggling to keep up with the flood of information about the current crisis\, the ways those in power are forcing us back to a “normal\,” the over-reliance of the economy as a marker of anything lending towards health.  And then we have the horrific news from Georgia and Minneapolis\, the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd\, a stark reminder of the crisis behind the crisis. COVID has only exacerbated the social oppression and disparities that mark the “normal” so many of the elites want to return to.
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CATEGORIES:Community Event
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SUMMARY:Clearing the Air in Coeymans: Community Forum on Clean Air vs. Tire Burning
DESCRIPTION:Hold this date for the Coeymans Community Clean Air Forum! \n\n\n\nLafarge/Holcim wants to burn millions of tires every year at their Ravena cement plant opposite the Ravena Coeymans Selkirk middle and high schools on Route 9W.  In 2019\, the Town of Coeymans adopted a Clean Air Law to establish clean air standards for waste burning facilities. The law requires continuous monitoring of 19 serious pollutants\, and places other restrictions on burning by any facility. This law defends the public from emissions containing highly toxic dioxins\, sulfur\, lead particulates\, benzene\, carbon monoxide\, and more. \n\n\n\nOn November 19\, 2020 the new business-backed Town Board held a public hearing on their decision to amend the Town’s Clean Air Law . These amendments would strip the strong pollution protections in the law and pave the way for any business to burn massive amounts of tires and waste.  On November 23\, the Town Board unanimously passed the amendments after only one public hearing and very little notice to town residents struggling in the middle of a pandemic. \n\n\n\nAs a result\, the Town of Coeymans is now the only town within the County of Albany where hazardous waste and tires can be burned in spite of the Albany County Clean Air Law prohibitions. Since the amendments to the clean air law went into effect immediately\, Lafarge/Holcim can now add the burning of tires to the waste it is already burning in the town. \n\n\n\nAmong the issues to be discussed in this community forum\, moderated by WOOC 105.3 FM correspondent Corinne Carey\, include: \n\n\n\nOverview of LaFarge’s history as a polluterThe Albany County Clean Air Law\, Amendments to the Coeymans Clean Air Law\, and the Permissive ReferendumHealth threats of burning tires and waste for fuel vs. coal in cement kiln incineratorsLaFarge’s threats of job loss or even closing the plantCoeymans Town Board misrepresentations to votersWhy the DEC and EPA does not protect us\, using the Norlite hazardous waste incinerator in Cohoes as an exampleThere will be plenty of time for Q&A\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPANELISTS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAttorney Carlo A.C. deOliveira is a Ravena resident. He is actively involved in the community’s Ravena Soccer Club Board and volunteers as a coach during the year and most recently with the Coeymans Clean Air Coalition. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt Miller is a Selkirk Resident and Regents and AP Biology teacher in the Ravena-Coeymans-Selkirk Schools. He is serving his first term in the Albany County Legislature representing the 36th Legislative District\, Committee Assignments: Conservation\, Sustainability and Green Initiatives\, Health \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJane Williams is the Chair of the National Sierra Club Clean Air Team. She is an environmental policy expert with 30 years of policy and advocacy experience. She has extensive knowledge on incinerators. (Photo: Earth Justice) \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoseph Ritchie is an environmental justice advocate and the Executive Director of Saratoga Sites Against Norlite Emissions. He is a student at Syracuse University studying Environmental Policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator Corinne Carey is a political & public affairs strategist taking on bold public health initiatives backed by sound evidence & human rights. She is a regular correspondent for WOOC 105.3 FM. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by the Coeymans Clean Air Coalition and the Hudson Mohawk Environmental Action Network.
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CATEGORIES:Community Event,Panel Discussion
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