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The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry presents a talk by Fellow Carolyn Lambert on her Ohio River Lifeboat Project at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 28 in the Wright Room on the second floor of the University Center. The presentation is free and open to the public.

The Ohio River Lifeboat Project is an exploration and documentation of life along the river. Lambert will present background on how the project came about, and highlights from a 100 day journey completed in October 2006. Lambert and her crew encountered fishermen, boat captains, environmental activists, farmers, rope swingers, towboat engineers, mayors, scientists, long lost herons and jumping carp.

An audio documentary of the interviews and dialogues recorded on the journey is currently in production. It is intended to share stories across regional borders and introduce the people who share our drinking water, fishing spots and river transportation routes. Lambert will share samples from these recordings and talk about the journey and the audio project.

The project is supported by the Steinbrenner Institute for Environmental Education and Research, Sprout Fund, Ford Motor Co., National Wildlife Federation, STUDIO for Creative Inquiry with funding from the PA Council on the Arts, New York Foundation on the Arts, and community groups, businesses and individuals.

More information about this project can be found at http://www.ohioriverlifeboatproject.org


Lambert is a performance and multimedia artist. Her work unravels social histories by playing, re-narrating and re-enacting them in the public spheres of the city. Lambert earned a master of fine art degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a bachelor of art degree in humanities and art from the University of New Hampshire. Her work has been presented at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston Center for the Arts, and at Pauline Oliveros¹ Deep Listening Space.

The STUDIO for Creative Inquiry is an arts research center and exists to support creation and exploration in the arts, especially interdisciplinary projects that bring together the arts, science, technology and the humanities, and impact local and global communities.
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Steven R. Weisman, chief economic correspondent for the New York Times, will speak at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 1, in the Singleton Room of Roberts Engineering Hall. His talk is titled ³Globalization, the World and the Bush
Administration: A Perspective from the Front Lines of the New York Times.² Weisman¹s talk is sponsored by the International Relations Program.
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Broadband and the Arts

Tom Smart, Executive Director of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, and Malcolm Stanley, technology strategist, will discuss the new electronic presence being developed for the McMichael, one of Canada's premier art collections.

The presentation - part of an ongoing restructuring of the McMichael Canadian Art Collection's electronic presence - surveys awareness on the Internet of the works in the McMichael collection, and links these to the emergent social networking behaviors exhibited by Internet users today. Taking a systems approach, the goal of the new electronic presence is to lever these social networking behaviors to create relationships with targeted potential patrons and customers of the museum - and in doing so ultimately increase attendance, reduce time between visits, and reduce the average age of visitors to the Collection.

Case studies of similar activities will be discussed, and some practical implementation activities will be outlined.

The presentation will be on March 1, 4-6PM, in Porter Hall 126A.