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Extra Credit 1:

For my fourth event I attended Natasha Meyers lecture on May 17, 2016, called Ungrid-able Ecologies. I was unable to get a picture with Natasha Meyers nor Professor Vesna because I had to leave the lecture a little early, but I did speak to Professor Vesna and I took pictures. Natasha Meyers is a philanthropist, active participant in her studies and experimentations and watches closely to plants and fungi. She said, " Plants are a force of power that we should reckon with." To me this ment that as individuals we need to learn more about our environment and what it is offering us.

Natasha Meyers showed a video of the carbon dioxide levels for the year 2006. The carbon dioxide was labeled red and we were able to see the when carbon dioxide was expansive and when it was not. When seasons change and forest photosynthesize in the summer you can see a change in carbon dioxide levels. This was interesting because I did not know that carbon dioxide levels fluctuated. 

I have attached the video we watched above, therefore you can see the changes I saw. Then we moved on to focus on the plants, plants made life possible. Plants create energy, air, sugar that is needed to nourish us. She said, "We are only because they are". We need to respect the land and nurture it like it has nurtured us for all these years. She talked about how the trees remember a time before colonization, trees and plants have survived through it all. Then she went on to explain a few of her experiments, her ecological monitoring. At first I was confused because I did not understand what the purpose of the video and what it meant. The whole time it was playing I was so focused. I was trying to find out it meaning and what the images where about. It looked like a bunch of blurred photos that where shot with movement. I could barely make out what each photo was. Then there was sound to the video and the sound was not matching the photo. It was not until after the video that she explained what she did. The photos where taken while dancing and therefore that is why the photos were blurry and out of focus. The music was sped up and slowed down just to manipulate the sounds. After finding this meaning it added to the art the images brought and the formulation of the video. This was a great lecture and really opened my eyes to the environment and what it has offered me.

Video cite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1SgmFa0r04