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For more information please contact: Sharon Herfurth | (512) 974-9960
November 7, 2009
A Conversation on Antarctica with DJ Spooky and Assistant Professor Ginny Catania
Join us on Wednesday, November 18 at 6:30 p.m. for a discussion and visual presentation about climate change in Antarctica at the North Village Branch of the Austin Public Library, 2505 Steck Ave. Our guests will be DJ Spooky, composer of Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica, and Ginny Catania, a UT faculty member who is currently researching the thinning of Greenland's ice sheet for NASA. This program precedes a performance by DJ Spooky at the Hogg Memorial Auditorium on November 20. This event is made possible in part by the University of Texas Performing Arts Center. For more information please call 512-974-9960 or visit www.cityofaustin.org/library.
 About DJ Spooky
Writer, DJ, filmmaker, composer, and professor Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, That Subliminal Kid, studied macro-economic policy the first couple of years of university, then switched to philosophy and French literature. For “Terra Nova: Sinfonia Antarctica” he has composed a score for a piano quartet which he combines in live performance with electronic music and audio samples he recorded in Antarctica with a live string ensemble --merging science and art to create a “musical meditation on climate change.” Reflecting on his visit to Antarctica, he said, “when I was there, they were losing 140-mile-long pieces of ice—it was heavy duty.”
 About Ginny Catania
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 melt-water to the peripheral thinning of Greenland’s ice sheet for NASA.
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