Bridging Arts and Science
Arctic Research
Seminar Series
Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S.
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ate/time: Monday, 21 September 2020, 8:00 a.m. AKDT (12:00 p.
m. EDT)
Title: Bridging Arts and Science
Presenters: Matthew Burtner (University of Vir
ginia), Leena Cho (University of Virginia), and Gabrielle Russomagno (Schoo
l of Visual Arts)
The Arctic Research Consortium of the U.S. (ARCUS) invites registration for the next Arctic R esearch Seminar. This seminar, titled Bridging Arts and Science, will take place Monday, 21 September 2020 at 8:00 a.m. AKDT (12:00 p.m. EDT).
This seminar will be presented by Matthew Burtner (University of Virginia), Leena Cho (University of Virginia), and Gabrielle Russomagno (School of Visual Arts). During this webinar presenters will discuss how th eir work spans science and the arts through media such as music, landscape architecture, and the visual arts.
Matthew Burtner is an Alaskan-born composer, eco-acoustician, and sound artist. He i s the Eleanor Shea Chaired Professor of Music at the University of Virginia where he Co-Directs the Coastal Futures Conservatory< /a>. He also Directs the non-profit organization EcoSono. A 2020 Emmy Award recipient, his ecoacoustic music has been featured by NASA, the BBC, the O bama U.S. State Department, NPR NewsHour, the Humanities Center at the Univ ersity of Michigan, the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and in concerts a nd exhibitions around the world.
Matthew will share how he uses sound as a medium between music and science in Arctic coastal ecosystems. Ecoaco ustic music utilizes sonification, field recording, and environmental mater ials to imbed natural systems into music. He will discuss the methodology a nd show examples of these techniques in his work.
Lee na Cho is an Assistant Professor in Landscape Architecture and Co- Director of Arctic Design Group at the University of Virginia School of Arc hitecture. Her research examines the design of Arctic landscapes and cities , including emerging forms of landscape and landscape-making in the era of new climatic regimes. In particular, her work positions the uniquely dynami c Arctic landscape material systems as a critical foundation for vibrant so cioecological and design expressions, while paying close attention to mater ial meanings and design methods developed in specific historical contexts i n the Arctic.
By merging the study of environmental humanities, and s cience and technology studies with landscape architecture, Leena highlights the Arctic ground’s vibrant materialities as a conceptual and physical bas is for design, while delineating potential areas of landscape design resear ch and collaboration to further examine design potentials unique to the Arc tic’s built environment. Permafrost ground is one of the defining landscape elements in the Arctic, and is a foundation for dynamic socioecological an d cultural expressions in Arctic cities.
Gabrielle Ru ssomagno received her Master of Fine Arts in photography from Yale University. She is a photographer and installation artist based in Philade lphia and New York. Exhibiting internationally since 1985 her artwork is in cluded in many permanent collections including University of Pennsylvania H ospital, Smith College, University of New Mexico Museum of Art, Yale Univer sity Beinecke Library, the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is on the Bachelor of Fine Arts Photography faculty at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Gabrielle will disc uss A Quick and Tragic Thaw, a series of artworks that explor es the impact of a warming world using the Arctic region as the symbolic ap ex. Through the study of scholarly research and data, use of mapping techno logy, and satellite imagery, as well as essays, poems, photographs, and ill ustrations, these artworks interpret the more recent story of human influen ced climate change. More broadly, this urgent narration recognizes migratio n movements of biological forms, toxins, and water and is meant to be a med itation on loss and the fragility of the planet.
For more information
and to register, go to:
ARCUS Arctic Research Seminar
Series webpage
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