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Nobuho Nagasawa’s earthworks, museum installations and public art are all specific to their particular location. Nagasawa never conceives an idea until she has visited a site and conducted extensive research into the area's past.  She states, "I believe that art can provide a visual poetry to the environment as well as funtion as a catalyst to deconstruct and reinvent a new vision of our society. By revealing personal memories, collective histories, hidden myths, and contradictory issues of human nature, I try to explore social and personal facets that can galvanize public interaction." From the Series:What Follows
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Video Length: 2193
Date Found: February 12, 2009
Date Produced: April 01, 1999
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May 16, 2010
City in Five Acts: Interpreting Urban Experience You’re invited to the sixth lecture in the University of Washington's NEXT CITY: Sustainable Urbanization series. Daniel S. Friedman, Dean of the UW College of Built Environments, will deliver the Spring 2010 Provost Distinguished ...
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March 09, 2010
Understand the role information systems can play in clinical and translational research, drawing upon the experience of the Biomedical Informatics Core of the CTSA-funded Institute of Translational Health Sciences (www.iths.org). The University of Washington’s Dr. Peter Tarczy-Hornoch, ...
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October 31, 2009
Author and illustrator Maurice Sendak isn’t afraid to show the darker side of childhood. Find out what inspired his book “Where the Wild Things Are” and what made the story so groundbreaking. In this 1991 interview host Marcia Alvar also asks Sendak about other projects, including how the ...
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June 27, 2009
A love for travel inspired author and photographer Phil Borges' striking portraits of indigenous peoples around the world, but his work with various humanitarian organizations, and the creation of the non-profit Bridges to Understanding to bring digital storytelling to teens around the ...
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April 04, 2009
In this University of Maryland, Baltimore County program, Ed Beimfohr sits down with Christopher Corbett, author of "Orphans Preferred: The Twisted Truth and Lasting Legend of the Pony Express," for a discussion of the beloved American myth of the Wild West. Behind the image of a lone rider ...
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