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highlight open broadband initiatives in New Mexico, and willinvolve the audience in a general discussion of open networking.Presenter: Richard Lowenberg9:30am –10:45amPanel:University Technology During a Budget CrisisAlbuquerque Main LibraryToday’s tough economic times are adversely affecting fundingin higher education. Especially hard hit are traditionallyunderfunded fields where costly technologies are used. Inthis panel, educators with backgrounds in music, art, architecture,and engineering discuss ways forward under thesecircumstances. The common tools for the panelists are: usingcheap and repurposed materials;, using freeware, DIY booksand websites, and collaborative cross-disciplinary research.The panel explores how to cultivate the correct mindset for this“doing more, spending less” approach, creating with these tools,the educational philosophy behind their use, and embracingfinancial challenges as a spur to creative problem-solving.Presenters: Dr. Linda Antas & Aaron Stutterheimmoderated by J. Neil Lawley11:00am – 12:00pmKeynote:Conversation with Laurie Anderson & Tom LeeserKiMo TheatreLaurie Anderson is a renowned performanceartist, composer and musician, who is a pioneerin electronic music and has invented severaldevices that she has used in her recordings andperformance art shows. As a former artist-inresidencewith NASA, she has a long history ofexploring the intersection of art and science.Anderson will speak in conversation with TomLeeser, co-leader for Radical Cosmologies themeand Program Director, Art & Technology in theSchool of Art, California Institute of the Arts. Presented by 516ARTS in partnership with AMP Concerts.12:30pm – 1:45pmScreening / Q&A: Trash DanceKiMo TheatreSometimes inspiration can be found in unexpected places.Choreographer Allison Orr finds beauty and grace in garbagetrucks, and in the men and women who pick up our trash.Filmmaker Andrew Garrison follows Orr as she joins citysanitation workers on their daily routs to listen, learn anduntimely to convene them to collaborate in a unique danceperformance. Hard working, often carrying a second job, theirlives are already full with work, family and dreams of their own.But some step forward, and after months of rehearsal, twodozen trash collectors and their trucks perform an extraordinaryspectacle. On an abandoned airport runway in Austin, Texas,thousands of people show up to see how a garbage truck can“dance.” Join filmmaker Andrew Garrison in person.1:15pm – 1:40pmTalk: Internet Wilderness:Creating the ISEA2012 WebsiteWarehouse 508Presenters: Chris Butzen & Andrew McConville1:15pm – 2:15pmTalk: Burning Man Art Vehicles, Art Carsand the Camera VanHotel Andaluz: Valencia RoomHarrod Blank will present a visual history ofArt Cars at the Burning Man festival, discusinghow and why these vehicles have evolved frompersonal totems into large scale fantasies onwheels called mutant vehicles. Over the years,Burning Man has inspired folks to bring more “wow” factor,larger scale interactive works featuring cutting edge technologyintegrated into virtually all expression such as contemporary artinstallations, sculptures, theme camps and especially mutantvehicles. Blank will also highlight and introduce Doc Atomic, anAlbuquerque nuclear scientist and visionary art car artist, alongwith other art car artists from New Mexico.43