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• DEEP LISTENING: The Story of Pauline Oliveros - Q&A with Daniel Weintraub

  • When
    Tuesday, March 24, 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros

  Q&A with filmmaker Daniel Weintraub

  Tuesday, March 24 Timebuddy

  United States: 9am HDT, 11am PDT, 1pm MDT, 2pm CDT, 3pm EDT

  Europe: 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET, Australia: Wednesday, March 25, 6:00am AEDT

  Listening is a spiritual path. Pauline Oliveros

  ecoartspace has invited filmmaker Daniel Weintraub, the director of Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros, for a Q&A session where participants can share stories and learn more about this central figure in the development of post-war experimental and electronic music. You can watch the film (2 hrs) via VIMEO on demand here

  Deep Listening: The Story of Pauline Oliveros tells the story of the iconic composer, performer, teacher, philosopher, technological innovator and humanitarian, Pauline Oliveros. She was one of the world’s original electronic musicians, one of the few women amongst notable post-war American composers, a master accordion player, a teacher and mentor to musicians, a gateway to music and sound for non- musicians and a technical innovator who helped develop everything from tools that allow musicians to play together while in different countries to software that enables those with physical limitations to create beautiful music. On the vanguard of contemporary American music for six decades, her story illuminates the pathway to how we got where we are and where the future will take us in the worlds of music, the philosophy of sound, and the art of listening. Made in collaboration with executive producer Ione, Oliveros’ partner in life and work, and the Ministry of Maåt, Inc., the film combines rare archival footage, live performances, and unreleased music with appearances by Terry Riley, Anna Halprin, Ione, Linda Montano, Laurie Anderson, Thurston Moore, Alvin Lucier, Claire Chase, Miya Masaoka, Morton Subotnick, Tony Martin, Ramon Sender and many more ground-breaking artists.

  
  

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  Deep Listening: the Story of Pauline Oliveros has been Daniel’s primary focus since a conversation with Oliveros started them down this path. During the process, Daniel created documentary shorts on the work of Oliveros: Don’t Call Them Lady Composers, and Montage for lmprovisors which were shown in museums and festivals in the US, UK, Spain and Switzerland. Additionally, Daniel acted as video consultant on the exhibition of Pauline’s work at El Centro de Creacion Contemporanea de Andalucia in Cordoba, Spain. Daniel has written and directed several narrative short films that have featured at festivals around the world. Seasoned in film and television, Daniel has worked on commercials, music videos, TV shows, and feature films across a career spanning 25 years. Most recently, he edited the award-winning post-Katrina documentary feature Forced Change (2022). Daniel is passionate about youth arts education, both as an educator and as director of Forge Media, an apprentice-based production company offering film students professional experience working on videos for local organizations focused on supporting and building community. Daniel is also a musician, producer, and recording engineer, mixing sound for picture, and music recordings of artists including Lionel Loouke, The Felice Brothers, Karen Ann, and the record Molecular Affinity, a trio with Pauline Oliveros, Thollem McDonas, and Nels Cline. thestoryofpaulineoliveros.com

  
  

  You are invited to watch the documentary via VIMEO On Demand prior to this event (2 hrs), which is free for members plus one guest, and $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER. 

  
  

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• Wicked Monstrous Dialogues: Part lV

  • When
    Thursday, April 16, 2026
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    1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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    ZOOM - Mountain Time

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  WICKED MONSTROUS DIALOGUES: Part lV

  Thursday, April 19 Timebuddy
  

  United States: 10am HDT, Noon PDT, 1 MDT, 2pm CST, 3pm EDT

  Europe: 19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET, Australia: Friday, March 20, 6:00am AEDT

  
  

  Elizabeth McAlpin

  Felipe-Andres Piedra and Sayaka Ganz

  Kim Bernard

  This spring we are exploring through a series of dialogues, works that our members are making today that engage plastics as a material for reuse, research, and aesthetic inquiry. Artists invited are included in the upcoming ecoartspace book titled Wicked Monstrous, that will launch fall 2026.

  For this fourth Dialogues, we will hear from Elizabeth McAlpin, who will share her ongoing Plastic Fossils series, including Pawn Game, which is a large-scale interactive chess set inviting reflection on single-use plastics consumption, and Felipe-Andres Piedra and Sayaka Ganz, who will present Plastihenge, a proposed contemporary monument that will function as a scientific research site for discovering microbes with a 'taste' for plastic. And Kim Bernard, who will share her mobile educational upcycling unit that she uses to create plastic sculptural installations in schools, art centers, neighborhood communities, and public settings, known as the PopUpCycler.  

  Each presenter will have approximately 15 minutes to discuss their work, then Q&A with audience participation following. 

  
  

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  Elizabeth McAlpin is an eco-artist whose work explores the intersection of environmental awareness, material culture, and public engagement. Her work reimagines disposable materials as enduring artifacts, reframing waste as both cultural evidence and a call to action. Her single-use plastic chess set, titled Pawns Game, has been exhibited for public participation at annual NYC Earth Day events in Morning Side Park (2024),  El Museo del Barrio (2025), and this year at Museum of the City of New York (April 22nd, 2026). Expanding this practice into participatory public art, McAlpin created the Eco Art Treasure Hunt, an interactive project that blends sculpture, poetry, and environmental storytelling. Inspired by the idea of hidden treasure, she conceals ceramic “plastic fossils” in natural and urban landscapes, accompanied by poetic clues shared with the public. Participants who discover the works are invited not only to keep them, but also to engage with their deeper message: a collective responsibility to reduce plastic waste and protect local ecosystems. Her work is rooted in eco-art and social practice, often combining tactile craft, narrative, and community interaction to foster environmental consciousness. By transforming discarded cultural symbols into meaningful artistic experiences, Elizabeth encourages audiences to reconsider what we leave behind—and what we choose to preserve.  eternalnarrative.com
  

  
  

   

  Dr. Felipe-Andrés Piedra is an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. He is an eco-microbiologist focused on developing microbial biotechnology for the conversion of plastic waste, including micro- and nanoplastics, into life-giving biomass. Sayaka Ganz was born in Yokohama, Japan. Her formative years were spent across Japan, Brazil, and Hong Kong. She holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Indiana University Bloomington and a Master of Fine Arts in 3D Studies from Bowling Green State University. Ganz has mastered the art of finding beauty in the overlooked. Her distinctive sculptures transform discarded metal and plastic objects into dynamic animal forms and natural elements that pulse with vitality. She describes her approach as "3D impressionism"—creating the illusion of solid forms using plastic objects as brush strokes that reveal their true nature only upon close inspection. Her acclaimed traveling exhibition "Sayaka Ganz – Reclaimed Creations" has been featured in 21 venues throughout the United States since 2017, with additional showings scheduled through 2027. sayakaganz.com

  
  

  
  

  Kim Bernard creates sculpture that is recycled, interactive, publicand involves the community. She creates installations upcycled out of trash and is currently focusing on transforming plastic waste into sculpture using her portable recycling machines. She shows her work nationally and has been invited to participate in many exhibits, some of which include the Portland Museum of Art, Farnsworth Art Museum, Fuller Craft Museum, Harvard University, Art Complex Museum and UNH Museum of Art. Her work has been reviewed in the Boston Globe, Art News and Art New England. Bernard is the recipient of the Artist Advancement Grant, Kindling Fund Grant, NEFA grant, 7 Maine Arts Commission Grants as well as funding from the Ellis-Beauregard Foundation. She was an artist-in-residence in the Physics Department at Harvard University and at the University of New England. She received her BFA from Parsons in 1987 and an MFA from Mass Art in 2010. www.kimbernard.com/popupcycler

  
  

  
  

  This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.

  
  

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