Aug 29 – Introductions
Aug 31 – Lovelock, Atmospheric homeostasis by and for the biosphere: the Gaia hypothesis
Sept 5 Labor Day
Sept 7 Teaser/Environmental Justice
Read:Ecocinema Theory and Practice, Chapter 3
Watch Abuela Grillo, Tambien La Lluvia
Climate Change Intro
Sept 12 TCE Chapter 1 and 2
Sept 14 TCE Chapter 3 and 4
** FRIDAY Sept 16 SPECIAL EVENT **
11:30-2 Student Union Field, UB North Campus
The UB Haudenosaunee-Native American Research Group and The Native Graduate Students Association will be hosting a peaceful gathering in support of The Standing Rock Sioux and #NoDAPL
Sept 19 Lovelock and Gaia Hypothesis
Watch – BBC beautiful minds : the Gaia Hypothesis
** TUESDAY Sept 20 SPECIAL EVENT **
This changes everything screening, CFA 212 at 5 pm
Theoretical Intro
Sept 21 Ecocinema Intro (Vivien, James) & Chap 1 (Yanzi, Amir); Program Earth Intro (JP)
** FRIDAY Sept 23 SPECIAL EVENT **
CFA B45, Dept of Art Gallery, 10:30
Presentation and Workshop Igor Vamos, AKA Mike Bonanno, of the legendary, culture-jamming, activist duo: The Yes Men. Vamos will present and discuss several of his groundbreaking tactical media projects including his recently unveiled project, Share the Safety.
Sept 26 Ecocinema Chap 2 (Peter), 4 (Vivien) ; Program Earth Chap 9 (JP)
** TUESDAY Sept 27 SPECIAL EVENT **
Sept 28 Ecocinema Chap 13 (Peter), Program Earth Conclusion (Amir, James); Lakoff “Why it Matters …” (JP)
Human Impact and Consumption
Oct 3 TCE Chapter 5 Vivien and 6 Yanzi, Atmospheres by Judy Chicago, Petropolis, Deseret by James Benning
Oct 5 Program Earth Chapter 7 Project Proposals and Feedback,
** FRIDAY Oct 7 SPECIAL EVENT **
ARTIST TALK: JOAN LINDER
Friday, October 7, 2016, 6–7 pm
Operation Sunshine, Albright Knox
The exhibition highlights Linder’s most recent body of work, which explores toxic waste sites in Buffalo, Tonawanda, and Niagara Falls, New York, and the documents related to such precarious properties.
Oct 10 TCE Chapter 7 (peter) and 8, (JP) Molle Industria Radical Games, Capacities: Life In The Emergent City,
Activism, Art, Entertainment etc.
Oct 12 FIELD TRIP
Oct 17
TCE Chapter 8 (JP) Chapter 9 (Vivien) , Program Earth Chapter 4 (Amir) , Feral Robotic Dogs,
Oct 19 Project Work
*** Oct 21 and 22 SPECIAL EVENT ***
Workshop on Emerging Issues in Genetics and the Law — October 21 & 22, 2016
Oceans
Oct 24 Ecocinema Chapter 8 (Peter) and 12 (Yanzi), Program Earth Chapter 6 (JP) and 8 (Vivien),
Oct 26 Project Work
Oct 31 TCE Chapter 10 (Yanzi) , Program Earth Chap 2 (Amir) and Chap 5 (John P), The Forgotten Space,
Environmental Justice
Nov 2 Project Work
Nov 7 Ecocinema Chap 7 (Peter) , TCE Chapter 11 (Vivien), TCE Chapter 12, (Amir)
Nov 9 Project Work
Animals
Nov 14 Ecocinema Chap 5 and 6, TCE Chap 13
Nov 16 Project Work/ DEADLINE analysis
Nov 21 Program Earth Chap 3
Donna Haraway: “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Plantationocene, Chthulucene: Making Kin,” Environmental Humanities, vol. 6, 2015 http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol6/6.7.pdf
Nov 23 Thanksgiving
Nov 28 Project First Draft – run through installation
Nov 30 TBA
Dec 5 TBA
Dec 7 TBA