AUDREY J. BOGUCHWAL is an executive producer of Waterpod™ Project. She is a freelance curator, writer and artist. She has worked at the American Museum of Natural History, Ellis Island National Monument, and she currently conducts research for the Skyscraper Museum. Audrey has curated for several nonprofit art ventures, including the Emergence gallery show and the FIGMENT participatory art event on Governors Island, and the NYC Decompression show produced by Circle Arts. Audrey developed her interest in interactive culture while working in media, advertising and online business at Dow Jones (Wall Street Journal) and Time Warner (Fortune, InStyle). She recently completed her masters’ degree in Museum Anthropology at Columbia and received her bachelors’ in history from Harvard.
lowconcept.blogspot.com
tentaclesblog.blogspot.com
emergenceshow.blogspot.com
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STEPHANIE DEDES is an artist and renderer based in Brooklyn, NY. Over the past 10 years, she has traveled to many parts of the world fulfilling art residencies, including ones at Yale School of Art in Connecticut, Duende Ateliers in the Netherlands and OpenArt Residency in Greece. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally. Her artwork for the past few years has been focused on abstracted landscape, paintings, drawings and sculptures recreated from the places she visits. She has worked for her own company, DP Renderings, for the past 6 years, making hand renderings for interior designers and project managers, and is continuing to grow this business to include landscape architecture. Stephanie is working as the Co-Producer on the Waterpod project and is very excited and dedicated to all the good projects of this kind this can do for the world.
stephaniededes.com
dprenderings.com
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LONNY GRAFMAN is an Instructor of Environmental Resources Engineering and Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University; the co-founder and instructor in a summer abroad, full immersion, Spanish language and appropriate technology program in Parras, Mexico; and the executive editor of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering. In addition, he is the President of The Appropedia Foundation, sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives.
Academically, Lonny seeks ways to increase knowledge of the world through exposure and synthesis, highlighting that science, culture and language are inextricably linked. He seeks to demonstrate this connection through service-learning based education, working to improve existing conditions by leveraging local knowledge, materials, wealth and labor through transparency and stakeholder participation. Professionally, Lonny supports and develops tools to thrive, catalyzing and strengthening networks of positive change, to help us be better ancestors.
appropedia.org
ijsle.org
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DEREK N. HUNTER is a Canadian interdisciplinary visual
artist and environmentalist originally from Vancouver, BC. He is the lead builder for Waterpod™ Project. His work has included a wind powered record player, a series of cassette players powered by hand cranked egg beaters and 65 unit bullet time camera among other large scale construction projects. He has worked in the film industry as a prop maker and sculptor, as well as for a company creating large scale sculpted concrete climbing walls and swimming pools. His most recent piece Time Machine features
65 disposable cameras fixed to a 360 degree rail made from reclaimed
lumber, activated by electromechanical solenoids. The images,
often displaying unusual exposure disturbances anomalies, are
scanned and made into two films which will play simultaneously
within a wooden yurt, installed at the SFU School for Contemporary
Arts exhibition space in Vancouver.
He will also be debuting
a companion piece to Time Machine, working title Time Bomb.
Time Bomb iaims to be a novel look at reparative/restorative potential
in art. Inspired by Fischli/Weiss and Mary Mattingly's future
human Navigators, it will playfully document a moment when nature
and the common animal will raise a molotov cocktail in the
name of environmental injustice, through bullet time photography,
stop motion animation, super 16 film, video and a rotating tripod
machine.
derekhunter.net
hunterproject.org
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GABRIEL KRAUSE, lighting designer and entrepreneur, has spent the last seven years designing a diverse array of artifacts and processes, such as workplace automation systems, custom architectural millworks, low power designer lighting, greywater treatment systems and other appropriate technology projects. His fascination for design, aesthetics, and our relationship with the environment, first manifested in the creation of SEED (Students at Evergreen for Ecological Design) in Olympia, Washington. Gabriel completed his B.A. in applied mathematical modeling, with a minor in dance, at Humboldt State University. As a designer, creator, and conservationist, he has discovered that modeling a concept reduces design flaws and wasted resources, while providing foresight on the building process and insight into end-use functionality. Gabriel is an active member of the Appropedia Foundation technical team, supporting collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development.
appropedia.org
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JOHN MCGARVEY is the Executive Director of
the Waterpod. He is also the Art and Technology Coordinantor
and Maritime Director of the Waterpod. He leads the Managing
Directors. John is a local and international Art/Technology/Creative
consultant for the past 15 years as well as an art and politics
activist. A kayaker and maritime environmental proponent for
10 years in the NY Waterways, he is a primary organizer for
the Long Island Community Boathouse which is a free all volunteer
kayak group that provides water access and education for the
public on the East River. Providing access to the waterways
and education about the increasing cleaniness of the water,
gives the public a sense of ownership and hence stewardship.
John has also done professional Hollywood film kayak stunt work
on the East River as well as water rescue. Currently also the
Director of Development for the Action Arts League and on the
Board of Directors of Millennium Film Workshop. John is also
working on the Sundance Jury Prize Winning film ,The Greatest
Silence, recently shown on HBO.
licboathouse.org
John McGarvey also works with:
thegreatestsilence.org
kostumekult.com
actionartsleague.org
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