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  WATERPOD™. WHAT IT IS. HOW IT IS. WHO IT IS.
Doug Cohen

DOUG COHEN is the acting Ambassador at large of Waterpod™ Project. He is the Founder of The Leadership Center; Chair, Resource Council, National Youth Initiatives, US Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development ; and Founder, Inspired Futures Global Campaign–Inter-Generational Partnerships for Livable Futures, New York/Wellington, New Zealand. His cross-sector efforts focus on designing large-scale change campaigns to achieve generational solutions in human systems. Cohen leads At the Edge of Emergence retreats worldwide, inviting change agents on seven continents into collaborative efforts to bring about an inspired, healthy, and sustainable future culture. Through youth-focused Leaders of the Next Generation programs, Cohen emphasizes leadership development, sustainability literacy, and systemic change literacy for tomorrow’s leaders. He consults to emerging green economy clients and is developing green jobs for at-risk youth through his consultation to the New York State Office of Children & Family Services. Cohen consults to the New Zealand Dept. of Conservation on leadership for the learning organization. Cohen’s writing appears in Einstein’s Business (St. John, 2006). He co-authored Who’s Minding the Future, with Holly English (Leadership Excellence, 2001); wrote a vignette in Shaping the Learning Organization (Marsick, Watkins, 1990). Cohen received his B.A. in Psychology from The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, and his Master’s in Applied Behavioral Science from The Leadership Institute, Seattle/Spokane, WA.

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Carissa Carmen

CARISSA CARMAN is an artist, seamstress, and teacher. She is managing the Waterpod Living Systems team. Her work incorporates social activity, collaboration and public interventions that infuse botany, ecology, print, edibles, objects, editions and education. She has shown at Exit Art, Figment, The Muster, Creative Time, Islip Museum and the Women's Studio Workshop and is the recipient of funding from NYSCA, Andy Warhol Foundation, NYFA and LMCC Swing space. In 2008 she created public projects using "Buttercup," her vegetable-grease powered car, for State of Progress and A.T.T. Taxi Service at the Scope Art Fair, NY. Carissa is a co-founder of Dusty Hollows and collaborator of SP Stationers Group and SP Potluck. She has created projects for Socrates Sculpture Park, Brooklyn Children Museum, and The Children's Museum of Manhattan. She has works in private collections at Yale, RIT, RISD and Virgina Commonwealth and lives and works in New York City.

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Tim Corrigan

TIM CORRIGAN is the power systems designer for Waterpod. He is electrical engineer with a B.E. from City College where he focused on robotics and control systems, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in power engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In a past life he worked in IT as a system integrator and project manager for 12 years, but decided after a year long motorcycle trip to South America that he hated both computers and working indoors. Tim works with Green Power Solutions, a NYC based renewable energy integrator. He is also working on various permaculture projects at his family's farm in Albany County, including microwind and microhydro power generation, ground source heat pumps, electric vehicles and straw bale structures.

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IAN DANIEL is a curator, permaculturalist and filmmaker. He is the Residency Curator on Waterpod™. A native of Indiana, Ian lives and work in New York City. He was the Assistant Curator for the art website culturehall.org and completed a curatorial internship with The Kitchen art space in 2008. Ian also received his Permaculture Design Certificate last fall at the Lost Valley Eco-Village in Oregon and helps teach permaculture/urban sustainability workshops throughout New York.

 

Waterpod™ MAYRA CIMET DATTOLI is a double degree student at The New School completing a BFA in Fine Arts and a BA in Social Politics and the Environment. She was born and raised in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, Brasil and has also lived in Paris, France, which has enabled her to speak Spanish, English, French and Portuguese fluently. She has worked in political art festivals in France as an artist and on the organization teams, and her interest in the juncture between the environment, social systems, and art has brought her to participate more and more with public ventures that combine those disciplines. As an artist she has a growing passion for the grotesque in beauty; torture or torsion and its presence in nature, and has always had an interest in rope. She has been working with the Waterpod™ rope, knotting it, weaving it and repairing it.

Stephanie Dedes 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.
Veronica Flores

VERONICA FLORES was born in Guadalajara, Mexico. Flores’ is an emerging artist working between Guadalajara and NY.  She studied Architecture in Guadalajara and completed a degree in sociology and development in London at Roehampton University. In 1997 she discovered an interest in carpentry while working in a wood workshop in London and has since designed and produced several pieces of furniture. Flores’ background in architecture and sociology informs her newly found interest in art. She started her art practice at the end of 2005 and has since been involved in alternative plastic tecniques.  She was an International artist in residence at Braziers workshop 2007 in Oxfordshire, England. She has exhibited at the Raul Anguiano Museum and in the City Museum of Guadalajara. Her art work is represented by the Curro y Poncho Gallery in Guadalajara.

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R. DAVID GIBBS is a solar installer who has worked with Solar One, Bagatai, Center for West African Dance and Percussion, and RELAB. He is currently working with Pace University, Radyo Ayiti/Radio Haiti Internationale, and Power Rockaways Resilience.

Meg Glasser

MEG GLASSER is a roof top gardener, dog walker, seamstress and a native Kentuckian. She is a co-curator and advisor to the Waterpod Living Systems team. Her passion for growing food and working with her hands has taken her to the rainforests of South India and Costa Rica and to the cities of Cuba. While exploring Havana she visited the vast urban farms and the prolific roof top gardens. In Costa Rica she studied eco-design at La Suerte Field Station and developed a large scale composting program for neighboring banana and pineapple plantations. Her time in India was spent managing an organic coffee and spice plantation and teaching classes in green tea processing, vanilla pollination, wild orchid identification and paper making. She has a degree in textile design and lives and works in New York City.

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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.

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James Halverson

JAMES HALVERSON is a profesional pixel pusher working with a small elite cadre of like minded professionals at Lux Visual Effects, in Vancouver BC. He has been working with Waterpod™ because he get's a chance to organize his pixels into forms conjured by incredibly inspiring people, and hopefully get to sit and watch a sunset on an eco-experiment-art piece floating off of Manhattan some day soon, how sci-fi-awesome is that?

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Derek Hunter

DEREK N. HUNTER is the Lead Builder/Construction Director, and one of the primary designers of Waterpod™ Project. He is a Canadian interdisciplinary visual artist and environmentalist originally from Vancouver, BC. Derek is an inventor, a sculptor, an ironworker, a tailor, a plumber, a carpenter, a jeweler, a painter, a draftsman, a gardener and a whirling dervish. 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, which was produced in collaboration with his wife Mira Hunter, features 65 35mm 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. He will also be debuting a companion piece to Time Machine, working title Time Bomb in 2010. Time Bomb aims 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.

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Mira Hunter

MIRA HUNTER is a visual artist and an environmentalist, and one of the primary conceptional artists involved in the imagining, founding and building of Waterpod™. She also acts as the Virtual Director or Waterpod™ Project, shaping its online identity and legacy. Born in Vancouver, she lives and works in New York and Istanbul. As a visual artist, she studied at NSCAD and Yale (where she met Mary Mattingly and Stephanie Dedes). For the past 10 years she has collaborated with Turkish born, Canadian producer/musician/DJ Mercan Dede, performing at such acclaimed international events all over the world, from New York, to London, to Japan. She was recently featured in David Michalek’s Slow Dance project that was exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2008.

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Gabe Krause

GABRIEL KRAUSE is the lead designer of Waterpod™ Project. He is a designer and entrepreneur and 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.

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ERNEST J. MARTIN assisted in the construction of Waterpod™'s systems and structures, threw volunteer work parties, wrote articles describing the project, assisted with fund raising events, and acted as an onboard docent. As a native New Yorker, Ernest's M.O. stems from a desire to live a life rich in diverse experiences, which is no doubt inspired by the multifariousness of his home town. This disposition has driven Ernest into many different areas of exploration. This year Ernest received his BBA from Baruch College, managed a photography studio in Chelsea, assisted in the development of Waterpod™, became a certified producer at Brooklyn Public Access TV, wrote, directed, and acted in his own television pilot, and collaborated on a performance art piece with other members of the Waterpod™ Team.

Mary Mattingly

MARY MATTINGLY is an artist based in New York, and the founder of Waterpod™. In 2006, her work headlined “Ecotopia,” the International Center of Photography's Triennial. In 2007, she completed solo shows including “Fore Cast,” a multimedia opera at White Box in Manhattan, "Frontier" with Galerie Adler in Germany, and "Time Has Fallen Asleep" at the New York Public Library. She has co-curated several water-based exhibitions on maritime vessels, alongside the Miami Basel Art Fair, the Venice Biennale, and the Istanbul Biennale. Mary has recently exhibited work at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France, the Tucson Museum of Art, AZ, the Neuberger Museum, NY, and at Robert Mann Gallery, NY. Mary just returned to land after a five-month journey onboard Waterpod™ and is currently working on “Sky Cities Brooklyn”.

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John Mcgarvey

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.

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Waterpod™ MARY KAY MCGARVEY is the Waterpod™ Musical Curator. A native of South Dakota, she has performed extensively throughout the U.S. and Italy. Recently, Ms. McGarvey performed in various programs such as “Women in Love”, the Queen of Hearts and the White Queen in a new musical ALICE IN ANALYSIS and Lulu in a mixed media production INNOCENT DEPRAVITY. A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, the soprano performed the title role in the premieres of Murray Boren's operas EMMA and Aunt Julia/Mrs. Malins in THE DEAD in NYC. Other roles include Micaela, Baby Doe, Despina, Susanna, Gilda, Musetta, Sophie, Adele, Violetta, Mabel, and Laetitia which she has performed in Dallas, Ft. Worth, Aspen, Chicago, New York and Rome, Italy. She made her Lincoln Center debut singing Mozart concert arias and was a finalist in the Long Island Opera Competition, NATS American Composer's competitions and won the Queens Oratorio Competition. With a doctorate degree in vocal performance, Dr. McGarvey has served on the faculties of Texas Christian University, Westminster Choir College, Concordia College, Brooklyn/Queens Conservatory of Music. She is currently the voice coordinator of LECPSM at Queens College and CenterStage, the Performing Arts Center of Queens. Dr. McGarvey is the Northeast Regional Governor of the National Opera Association, and has served on the board of Governors of the American Guild of Musical Artists. She is a member of National Association of Teachers of Singing, Actors Equity Association, and Professional Women Singers Association.
Logan Smith

LOGAN SMITH is a visionary builder and inventer, a natural horticulturist, a survivalist and a native of Northern California from a diverse background. He is a principal builder, and directed/participated in much of the fabrication of Waterpod™. As a primary advocate and member of the Living Systems team, he contributes his passionate gentle group management, leather working, attentiveness to work music, handiwork skills, and experience working with soils and run-off from years of maintaining primitive trails in the western mountains of Wyoming and Colorado. He additionally has extensive skills in primitive survival techniques from his time as a Therapeutic Wilderness Therapist in the West Deserts of Utah. Logan designed and fabricated with Carissa Carman, Waterpod™'s treddle watering system that pumps water to the gardens.

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STEEL NEAL is a New York based Union Ironworker, poet, sculptor and performance artist. He was responsible for welding much of the supportive structures on Waterpod™. His works include 'The Agony of Man', a 1200 pound, 3 times lifesize rendition of the human form built entirely out of scrap metal steel. Some of the components include repurposed: I-beam, railroad track, rebar, boilers, New York City garbage cans, and bits (the teeth) from road resurfacing equipment.The Eye/Zygoma bone is salvaged from the original park benches at Madison Square Park. The ribs are salvaged from the original concrete island of Worth Square, where the water from upstate New York comes to lower Manhattan.

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NICOLE PILAR FELL is an artist working in many media: drawing, painting photographer, sculpture, living installations and textiles. She is also a product designer, carpenter, an avid adventurist, into lichen, and a birder. A native New Yorker, Nicole was born in the Bronx. Organic matter and nature’s schematics have always influenced her work. Using her body as a means of communication while incorporating nature she has created living installations focusing on philosophical metaphors of life as in her piece for DUMBO’s Art Under the Bridge Festival, “Water and Watch Me Grow”. Nicole coordinated the hydroponics system onboard Waterpod™, created a hydroponics window farm and is currently working on other sustainable systems.

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JEAN-MICHEL ROSS is a young curator, art writer, and art collector based in Montreal. For six years he was assistant editor of Espace Magazine and directed certain thematic issues. His articles have been published regularly in C Magazine and Espace Sculpture. In 2008 he was the co-curator of the exhibition Québec Gold showing 17 Québécois artists in Reims, France. A publication was produced. He has also curated group nd solo shows in Canada. He has been a member of the board and programming commitee of Optica Gallery since 2004. He works for private galleries, and as an independent art consultant.

Eve K. Tremblay

EVE K. TREMBLAY is an artist working between Berlin, New York and Montreal. She is an artist, creative advisor, and co-curator of the Waterpod. Eve is also an advisory member of the administrative counsil of Occurence in Montreal for the Waterpod. Her works have been exhibited and published internationally. She has upcoming projects with the Musée National Des Beaux-arts Du Québec in Quebec city, Abbaye Saint-André Centre D’art Contemporain, Meymac, France, as well as Program in Berlin. Her work is represented by Galerie Donald Browne in Montreal, and she recently presented her ongoing project Becoming Fahrenheit 451 at a solo show in New York.

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Waterpod™ HENDRIK "RIK" VAN HEMMEN is an aerospace and ocean engineer and a principal in Martin, Ottaway, van Hemmen & Dolan, Inc., a maritime consulting firm that has been in continuous operation in the port of New York since 1875. Mr. van Hemmen consults on maritime engineering and human factors issues to a wide variety of clients and has performed investigations in hundreds of human/technology interactions such as yacht design, ship crew size and workload, environmental management, novel technologies, the Exxon Valdez spill and the Staten Island ferry disaster.

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Alison Ward

ALISON WARD is an artist whose work incorporates performance, video and sculptural installation. She focuses on issues of identity interpreted through physical and slapstick humour. Exhibitions include Mastel+Mastel Gallery, Haven Arts, Dumbo Arts Center, Diesel Gallery and the Bronx Museum in New York and Liquid Blue Gallery and Red Dot Project in Miami, as well as the CCCB Museum in Spain and Castlefield Gallery in England. She has performed at Smack Mellon Gallery, Dumbo Arts Center, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival. She has done residencies at Raw Space in Australia, The Artist in the Marketplace Program, and the LMCC studio program.

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Tressie Word

TRESSIE WORD is the greywater system designer for Waterpod™. She is an environmental engineer, artist, and professional lecturer. She works to improve environmental conditions in creative, appropriate and elegant ways. She received her engineering degree from Humboldt State University in 2002 and began practicing stream restoration and design. She received her Master’s Degree in international development in 2006 and has been actively working around the world in water and health projects since. She is currently a Project Engineer for Winzler & Kelly in Guam, codirector of Coalition of Water, Environment and Health of Oaxaca (CAMSO), and Vice President of the Engineers Without Borders Northcoast Professional Chapter. She is also active on many advisory boards, such as Water For Humans and the Humboldt Bay Center for Sustainable Living

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