While studying at RPI, Bart's research focused on the cultural relationship to global climate change.  His thesis promoted understanding and developing a relationship to this problem as a key to uncovering solutions and inspiring change.  These works are: The Hottest Year on Record - a sound art installation composed of sonified global climate temperature data, SUNflower - an eco-visualization of energy generated by a photovoltaic solar array, and Climate Control Weather Damage Modification Program - an interactive installation that metaphorically acts as an interface to climate, allowing the user to adjust an imagined climate.

To the extent that new technology holds the answers to these problems, artists are poised to explore these technologies and to discover or inspire remedies.  The goal of artists using New Media technologies is not merely to showcase the plethora of new technologic and scientific tools, but is instead to teach society how to use them.  Environmental issues demand that we learn quickly.  New Media, after all, relies on the energy infrastructure that powers it, and is therefore obligated to it.  These issues challenge and inform Bart's work - a work to decipher and relate environmental data, to question the uses of new technologies, and to inspire the use of alternative, green energy sources.

Bart Woodstrup's eco-related artwork began in 1995 with his film "You Cannot Survive the End of the World" which was produced for the first annual World Population Film and Video Festival.  He enjoys hacking solar powered LED lawn lamps, authoring data visualization software, and dreaming of ways to power his plethora of electronic gadgets carbon neutrally. His work takes the form of traditional musical composition, real-time interactive audio/video performance, multimedia installation and networked experience. He holds a Masters of Music from Northern Illinois University and a Masters of Fine Art from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.  His work is performed frequently in the US and abroad at various venues, including: Siggraph ('02, '07), ISEA (2000), SEAMUS ('01, '05), Chicago Underground Film Festival ('00, '03), and Electronic Music Midwest ('01, '06, '07).

Find out more at:

www.vodstrup.com  (blog of works in progress)
and
www.bartwoodstrup.com (portfolio of work)