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July 14th – City of Water Day – iLAB Residents in Action

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Follow the Water Walks will offer a full river paddle in the morning and then support a community group with their Soundview Festival.

On the Water, For the Water
Saturday, July 14, 2012 • 10am to 4pm
Governors Island, NYC
Liberty State Park, NJ
& In Your Neighborhood
Presented by the Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance

A FREE day of entertainment, education & adventure 
celebrating the potential of our waterfront!
From the upper Hudson to Raritan Bay, we are a City of Water—yet too many of us are cut off from this tremendous resource. Help revitalize the waterfront with a festival for the entire family.

http://www.cityofwaterday.org/

iLAB Retreat 2012 Documentation

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[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/44993044 w=600&h=338] Past and Current iLAB Residents along with iLAND Board and community members gathered on June 17th at Eyebeam and along for the Hudson for a day of collaborative exploration and discussion about iLANDing.

We went to a park along the Hudson River to engage in some iLANDing, sharing collaborative process and research tactics.  To do this we broke into small groups, shared our individual research practices with each other and then created an amalgamation of them to share with the larger group.

We then returned to Eyebeam, had lunch and the current iLAB residents, Follow the Water Walks and Higher ED (Ecology+Dance) gave presentations about the work they are engaged in.

2010 iLAB Residents

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

iLAND – interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art Nature and Dance is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2010 iLAB collaborative residencies:

RIVER TO CREEK: A ROVING NATURAL HISTORY

Marine scientist/dancer Carolyn Hall, ecologist/visual artist Kathleen McCarthy and Clarinda Mac Low andPaul Benney, members of TRYST

STREET-TREE STEWARDANCE: Urban Forest Stewardship as Movement Practice

Choreographer Jaqueline Dodd with Philip Silva, Urban Environmental Steward

JUXTAPOSING THE REMOTE AND THE IMMEDIATE

Dance artist Diana Crum and geophysicist Chris Small

[Read more…] about 2010 iLAB Residents

Opening Remarks from the Symposium

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photo by Bob Braine

Last month’s symposium had a great turnout and a variety of thought-provoking presentations. Over the next few weeks, the presentations will be posted online so that they can be shared with a much wider audience. For starters, here are the opening remarks from artistic director Jennifer Monson. An excerpt is below:

“Both art and science are fundamentally creative fields where there is a strong desire to investigate the unknown. Often the only way we can develop our understanding of something is by making a creative leap that dislodges our assumptions of it. This is part of the nature of experimentation and innovation – to put things together in an unexpected alchemy.”

Stay tuned for the next post – on NYC from a native plant’s perspective.