Simplifying Complexity 8.4.11 Excerpt
Channel: Aviva Rahmani
Date: 2012-11-01

"Simplifying Complexity" a "Gulf to Gulf" performance August 4th, 2011. Ecological artist Aviva Rahmani: www.ghostnets.com with the late wetlands ecologist Dr. Michele Dionne from Wells NERR: http://www.wellsreserve.org/, environmental historian Dr. Thomas Dunlap, poet/philosopher, Dr. Harvey Hix, an American poet and scholar who holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Texas and Dr. Jim White, paleoecologist, Professor of Geological Sciences, Fellow and Director of the Institute for Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, CO: http://instaar.colorado.edu/index.html talking about understanding communicating complexity and climate change on the relationships between global warming, extractive industries, water, geopolitical-economic disruptions, energy, restoration issues, predator-prey impacts and the food web. The "Gulf to Gulf," series sponsored by NYFA, began as a series of collaborative conversations between Rahmani and White to compare how global warming is affecting gulf systems internationally. The collaboration began in 2007, with "Weather Report," curated by Lucy Lippard for the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art. Their first desktop sharing film, "Trigger Points/ Tipping Points," premiered at the 2007 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy. text reference: "The Wolf's Tooth," Eisenberg, 2010, "Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth," Estes et al 2011, "Ecological restoration and global climate change," Harris et al 2008.
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