Past Performance
November 18, 2009, 6:30 pm

A Conversation on Antarctica with Paul D. Miller (aka) DJ Spooky and Assistant Professor Ginny Catania
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
6:30 p.m.
Austin Public Library (North Village Branch)
2505 Steck Avenue

GINNY CATANIA joined the Jackson School of Geosciences faculty at University of Texas at Austin in 2005, after completing her Post-Doctoral Research at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She won the Jackson School of Geosciences Excellence in Research Award in 2007 and the University of Minnesota’s Outstanding Teaching Award in 1998. Catania has done fieldwork in Greenland and Antarctica. She is currently researching the importance of meltwater to the peripheral thinning of Greenland’s ice sheet for NASA.

About the performance:
Melting. Moving. Cracking. Splashing. Without politics or preaching, the sounds of a dramatically changing world are at the core of this intense multi-media experience. DJ Spooky shares his vision of our future by weaving the sounds of ice he recorded in Antarctica. The performance features his trademark spinning backed by live music. If you think you’ve already seen the power of DJ Spooky at the edge of a dance floor at a downtown club at 3 a.m., think again. Whether performing at the Melbourne Festival or the Democratic National Convention, the future of sound mixing is here… and it’s center stage.