RECENT EVENTS

Partnering for the Climate: An Artist-Scientist Mixer
Climate Change Art/Science Dating Game
Klaus & Klaus: Climate Manipulation Station
Superhero Clubhouse performance, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
The Civilians’ The Great Immensity

 

Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer

A Noguchi Museum Event Co-Sponsored by PositiveFeedback
Sunday, February 12, 2012, 3:00-5:00 pm
The Noguchi Museum,  9-01 33rd Rd, Long Island City, NY

Featuring Mary Miss and Eric Sanderson. Moderator: Jeremy Pickard.

How can individuals and communities make sense of fragmented, confusing and often overwhelming news and data about climate change? The nervous system that interweaves artists, researchers, and the concerned public is largely disconnected. How can we make a difference and spark new relationships in the process?

Now more than ever, the climate needs artists and scientists to partner up and marry hard science with interpretive media. PositiveFeedback and The Noguchi Museum hosted a pre-Valentine’s-Day event to initiate new and meaningful relationships, before celebrating romantic partnerships.

“Partnering for the Climate: An Artist/Scientist Mixer,” on Sunday, February 12, 2012, provided stimulating discussion and ample time for mixing with fellow artists, scientists, and community members active in climate change issues in New York City. It was also the perfect follow-up to December’s Speed Dating Event for Artists and Scientists. Civic Action artist Mary Miss and leading scientist Eric Sanderson led a discussion, moderated by artist and playwright Jeremy Pickard, about how interpretive media and collaboration between artists and scientists can help us to better understand and respond to global warming.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Noguchi Museum hosted this event as part of its ongoing exhibition Civic Action. Click here for more photos of this event!

Read OneEarth’s coverage of this event here!

 

Climate Change Art/Science Dating Game

Thursday, December 1, 2011, 7:00 p.m.
Parsons The New School for Design, Manhattan

Featuring Mary Miss and Stephanie Pfirman. MC: David Berreby.

Wondering what brings scientists and artists together on climate change? Installation artist and urban socio-architect Mary Miss and scientist and climate researcher Stephanie Pfirman went on their first date. The event was also a chance to hook up with other artists and scientists as well!

More About the Artist:
Mary Miss is a New York City artist whose long career has ranged between sculpture, architecture, installation and landscape design, always with a focus on the artist’s role in addressing the issues of our time. Her work examines social, cultural, and environmental sustainability through various projects that encourage the visitor to become more aware of the underlying history and ecology of a site. Current and past projects include the transformation of Broadway into a ‘green’ corridor, marking flood levels in Boulder, Colorado, and transforming a sewage treatment plant into a public space.

More About the Scientist:
Stephanie Pfirman is an environmental researcher with a focus on Arctic and polar science, studying the dynamics of glaciers, sea ice, and contaminant transport. While working to understand the nature of these rapidly changing and increasingly important areas of environmental concern, Pfirman educates students at Barnard College, Columbia University, and is committed to public outreach. Her other positions include research scientist at the University of Kiel and GEOMAR, Germany; staff scientist for the US House of Representatives Committee on Science; and oceanographer with the US Geological Survey in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

This PositiveFeedback partnership event, made possible by the  Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Parsons The New School for Design, was part of Cape Farewell’s U-N-F-O-L-D: A Cultural Response to Climate Change exhibit.

Sponsored by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, this event was held at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design
2 W. 13 Street, Ground Floor

 

 

 

Klaus & Klaus: Climate Manipulation Station

Brown Bag Lunch Series at Parsons The New School for Design
Monday, November 7, 2011, 12:30 p.m. 

Geophysicist and Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy Director Klaus Lackner joined artist Klaus Schafler for a discussion about their shared and individual collaborations and perspectives about climate change, climate science, and geoengineering. This event was made possible by the  Sheila C. Johnson Design Center and Parsons The New School for Design.

This event was part of the ongoing exhibition U-N-F-O-L-D: A Cultural Response to Climate Change.

Presented by the Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, in collaboration with PositiveFeedback at the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, Parsons The New School for Design
2 W. 13 Street, Ground Floor
Free and open to the public.

Superhero Clubhouse performances at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House

October 1, 2011
“A boy wanders down a deserted road searching for his vanished community, and the trees begin to speak….”

Join the artists of Superhero Clubhouse to discover what happened, and why!

Following up on 2010’s improvisational performance at Lamont Open House, the artists of Superhero Clubhouse returned to the Palisades with an new original piece that engaged and stimulated children and adults alike.  Arising from their collaboration with the scientists of Lamont’s Tree Ring Lab, Superhero Clubhouse’s work was a riff on ‘cultural collapse’ as discovered through dendrochronology, otherwise known as tree-ring dating.  Using the trees themselves as the lens, audience members witnessed a series of cultures throughout history that have been impacted by major climatic shifts.  The experimental piece allowed participants to engage with their new knowledge of tree ring science on a cultural and human level. Set on a scenic road on the Lamont campus and incorporating natural elements into the work, this unique theatrical performance was one to be remembered!

The Civilians’ The Great Immensity (Excerpts)

Friday, April 22, 2011, 6:30 p.m.
CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall. 

Investigative theatre company The Civilians performed excerpts from The Great Immensity, written by Steve Cosson with music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, their work in progress on climate change, followed by a discussion on the project and the issues it addresses. Developed in part at the Princeton Environmental Institute in 2009-10, The Great Immensity explores the themes of climate change, deforestation and extinction in Barro Colorado Island, Panama Canal and in arctic Canada. The work draws on interviews with scientists and affected citizens alike, serving as a call to action at a critical time.

The Civilians is the center for investigative theater, supporting the development and production of new theater from creative inquiries into the most vital questions of the present.

Presented with support from the Graduate Center’s Science & the Arts series and PositiveFeedback.

October 2, 2010: Open House

With major activity set to launch in the fall of 2011, PositiveFeedback began its public outreach in 2010-11, kicking off with our participation in the 2010 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Open House on October 2, 2010. 

PositiveFeedback supported flash performances by SuperHeroClubhouse across the Lamont campus during the Open House.