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“Charting a ‘Good’ Path in a Turbulent Age”

Andrew Revkin (The New York Times) to give IHC lecture. Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.

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EHI Film Series – Ecological Storytelling: Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli. Watch the trailers!

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“The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Thought?”

Kathryn Yusoff (Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London) to give IHC lecture. Tuesday, November 4, 2014 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.

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Netherlands-based artist Diederik Storms draws upon the mysteries of nature to create his captivating collection of organic sculptures. He uses raw substances, like stones and petrified wood, combined with plexiglass to create a visually exciting juxtaposition of materials. He says, “Nature, more than anything else, confronts me with the question of what is invisibly present behind all that is alive” (source). 

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Working in the tradition of land art, artist Gerry Barry utilizes organic media to create epic installations on poetic landscapes across the Irish countryside. Barry’s installations often feature circular or crescent shapes, and they enhance the terrains upon which they are built. Using rocks, water, sand and landscaping, he creates ephemeral artworks that can last a day or a decade (source). 

 

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“Should We Welcome the Anthropocene?”

Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB) to give IHC inaugural lecture. Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.

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painting by Alexandra Pacula

A New York-based artist, Alexandra Pacula’s collection Luminous Heights features rare and stunning cityscape paintings of New York City, with a bit of a twist. The artist beautifully blurs city lights from buildings, street lamps, taxi cabs, and bridges to create an abstract portrayal of the urban environment from various perspectives. (source).

  

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The Machine in the Garden, Leo Marx (1967)

For over four decades, Leo Marx’s work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define–and continues to give depth to–the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and the way society and culture both determine these links. The Machine in the Garden fully examines the difference between the “pastoral” and “progressive” ideals which characterized early 19th-century American culture, and which ultimately evolved into the basis for much of the environmental and nuclear debates of contemporary society. (from Amazon)

Preview / Find at your local library

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The UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s 2014-2015 public events series, The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities, will explore this time of significant biospheric human influence, with the aim of bringing into focus the challenges that now confront the planet and its inhabitants through the unique, critical perspectives afforded by the humanities and fine arts.

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Kinetic sculptor Anthony Howe has created a number of new kinetic artworks. The artist works with specialized software to first mockup each piece digitally before fabricating the individual components from metal. The motion you see is generated completely by the wind, with even the slightest breeze setting the dozens of rotating components in action. (source).