tedxjacksonhole_2011 program guide

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We inhabit a place of transcendent beauty, in a world facing unprecedented global environmental threats. We believe in the power of ideas and the power of media to inspire wonder and catalyze change through personal action. Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival is proud to launch TEDxJacksonHole as an ongoing and constantly changing force to inspire dialog and foster creative connections within our community.

TEDxJacksonHole explores the convergence of nature and science with inspiration and culture, and each presentation was selected with this in mind. Here is what we have slated:

1:00-3:00 PM Inspiration & Exploration4:00-6:00 PM Transformation & Celebration6:00-7:00 PM Sunset Reception7:00 PM Explore the Night Skies with DMN&S7:00 PM Art of FLIGHT Screening9:00 PM Art of FLIGHT Screening

TEDxJacksonHole Co-Organizers: Lisa Samford and Logan Smalley

TEDxJacksonHole Production Team: Julie Kling, Steve Jansen, Latham Jenkins, Kori Price, Lily Bieber-Ham, Will Bissell, Natalia Duncan Macker, Thomas Macker, Ben Levin, Rebecca Fix, Carrie Richer and Jessica Weemans

TEDxJacksonHole Steering Committee: Babs Case, Shelly Fuerte, Gary Silberberg, Emy diGrappa, Pier Trudelle, Cindee George, Susan Thulin and Don Kushner

TEDxJacksonHole Photography: Images here and at the TEDxJacksonHole website were generously provided by Tim Mayo.

Deep thanks to Wyoming Council for the Arts, the Community Foundation of Jackson Hole, Town and County Arts for All, the Charles Engelhard Foundation and our Old Bill’s Fun Run donors for supporting this new initiative!

Faces of Freedom ProjectOur local Faces of Freedom initiative is a small part of a global project created by this year’s TED Prize winner, the Parisian street artist, J.R. “INSIDE OUT” is a large-scale participatory art project that transforms messages of personal identity into pieces of artistic work, using black and white photographic portraits to discover, reveal and share personal stories and images. Our project included almost 200 people who answered the question, “What does ‘freedom’ mean to you?” Their responses and their portraits will be uploaded and the installations archived at www.insideoutproject.net and at www.tedxjacksonhole.org

Thanks to everyone who participated, including the talented photographers who volunteered their time, the guerillas who installed and dismantled the exhibits in a dozen locations around the community, and of course each of the wonderful faces of freedom who agreed to be part of it all. Like J.R. they all remain semi-anonymous.

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Speaker: Casey Anderson is the handler and best friend of Brutus the Bear and the co-owner and director of the Montana Grizzly Encounter, a grizzly bear sanctuary in Bozeman, Montana. He is the host and executive producer of the Nat Geo WILD series Expedition Wild and America the Wild. A fifth generation Montanan, Casey was born and raised in Helena.

Talk: Casey discusses his unique relationship with Brutus and offers insight into grizzly bears and wild animals, while introducing speakers throughout the day.

www.grizzlyencounter.org

Speaker: Mike Chamberlain is the Manager of Innovation for the Guest Experience at the Monterey Bay Aquarium. In this capacity, he helps oversee the design and development of new initiatives in the guest experience group.

Talk: A car inspired by a boxfish? A wind turbine blade modeled after a whale’s flippers? This presentation tells the story of inventions that mimic the efficient designs of ocean animals, and how these animal-inspired inventions could play a role in reducing carbon pollution, helping us create a clean energy future.

www.montereybayaquarium.org

Master of Ceremonies

CASEY ANDERSONWhales to Windmills: Inventions Inspired by the Sea

MIKE CHAMBERLAIN

inspiration & exploration

the next big idea... the next big idea...


Speaker: David Gonzales is a local writer, photographer, filmmaker who is well known for his book on the history of skiing: Jackson Hole — On a Grand Scale. He founded TreeFight, an initiative to inform the public of the plight of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem’s whitebark pines and to search for solutions to prevent their extinction.

Talk: TreeFight is an initiative to inform the public of the plight of the GYE’s whitebark pines, and to search for solutions to prevent their extinction. TreeFight is administered by David Gonzales, who appreciates the support of Bridger-Teton National Forest, Grand Teton National Park, GEO/Graphics, Inc, and all donors and TreeFighters.

www.treefight.org

inspiration & explorationinspiration & exploration

Fighting for the Trees

DAvID GONzALES


Speaker: Robert E. Grady chairs New Jersey’s $75 billion pension system and runs the private equity firm Cheyenne Capital. He has been head of venture capital at The Carlyle Group, partner at technology investment bank Robertson Stephens, and #2 at the Office of Management and Budget and Deputy Assistant to President George H.W. Bush.

Talk: The U.S. economically outperformed most of the world for 30 years by being the home of innovation. But the pillars of the innovation ecosystem—university research, excellent public education, access to talent, and access to capital for growth companies—are all under assault today. They must be preserved and rebuilt.

www.cheyennefund.com

The Care and Feeding of the Innovation Ecosystem

BOB GRADY


Speakers: Babs Case is artistic director of Dancers’ Workshop in Jackson and founder of Contemporary Dance Wyoming, its resident modern dance company. She has performed, choreographed, and taught modern dance around the world.

Keith Phillips began his career playing piano and keyboards in jazz and rock groups in Chicago in the 1970s. From 1980 to 1996 he served as keyboardist and keyboard programmer for numerous Broadway productions.

Performance: Performed by Contemporary Dance Wyoming, Choreography by Babs Case, Music by Keith Phillips, These works were premiered in June 2011 at the Center for the Arts in Jackson, Wyoming. The work is the result of a collaboration between composer Keith Phillips and choreographer Babs Case who worked for several weeks, along with Contemporary Dance Wyoming performers, to create a suite of dances set to original music.

www.dwjh.org


Fall and Find

KEITH PHILLIPS, BABS CASE & CONTEMPORARY DANCE WYOMING


Speaker: Louie Schwartzberg is an award-winning cinematographer, director and producer who is credited as an innovator in the world of time-lapse and slow motion cinematography. His film Wings of Life is inspired by the vanishing of one of nature’s primary pollinators, the honeybee. He is currently in pre-production with National Geographic to produce and direct a 3D-IMAX film.

Talk: Life depends on the little things we take for granted. We depend on pollinators for over half the fruits and vegetables we eat. You can’t tell the story of pollinators without telling the story of the invention of flowers and their symbiotic coevolution. Their relationship is a love story that feeds the earth.

www.blacklightfilms.com

A Love Story That Feeds The Earth

LOUIE SCHWARTzBERG


Speaker: Kyle Ruddick has been creating films since he was 16. After putting himself through USC film school, he worked with Lucasfilm where he helped launch Star Wars Episode III. On October 10, 2010 he created One Day on Earth with 15,000 people simultaneously creating media in every country in the world.

Talk: One Day on Earth, produces worldwide media events with participants in every country of the world that simultaneously film over a 24-hour period to create a film and archive “video time capsule” for humanity and the planet. In the process of producing the first event last year, One Day on Earth collaborated with over 60 non-profits including the United Nations, WWF, the Red Cross, Human Rights Watch and Oxfam. In the context of striving to tell the story of the entire world we will discuss, the importance of social media, the evolution of participatory cinema, media creation as a donation, and why the term crowd sourcing needs to evolve. The next global event is slated for 11-11-11.

www.onedayonearth.org


Participatory Cinema; One Day on Earth

KYLE RUDDICK


Speaker: With over forty years in local, regional and international conservation, Rutledge has led the National Audubon Society’s efforts in Wyoming and the Rocky Mountain west for the last seven years. Fostering research on African wild dogs, guiding ecotours to many corners of the globe and managing major zoos, Rutledge reflects on the Sagebrush Initiative as his most rewarding achievement.

Talk: Brian Rutledge is dedicated to protecting Greater Sage-grouse and the sagebrush ecosystem that is part of our country’s great natural heritage. In his role as a member of the Governor’s Sage-grouse Implementation Task Force, Brian helped Wyoming Governor Freudenthal draft and initiate the Sage-grouse Core Area Program, directing state agencies in the Cowboy State to conserve key breeding areas for this dwindling species.

www.audubon.org

The Bird That Won the West

BRIAN RUTLEDGE


A special thanks to Jason Jones and the Teton Raptor Center for showcasing their birds of prey during intermission. The Raptor Center works to help birds of prey and promote environmental health through veterinary care and rehabilitation, educational programs and conservation research and is located at the historic Hardeman Ranch, a Jackson Hole Land Trust in Wilson, WY.

www.tetonraptorcenter.org

Enjoy an immersive theater experience in the 90-seat EarthMatters Fulldome Theater located in front of the Lodge. There are six thrilling programs to enjoy!

We will take a one hour break between sessions!Please make a special point of talking with people you don’t already know.

Speaker: David Milarch is co-founder of the Archangel Ancient Tree Archive and a pioneer in the cloning of trees. He works to preserve the genetic heritage of the world’s last old growth forest giants. A fourth generation nurseryman from Michigan, he and his sons have propagated more than 90 species, including the tallest redwoods.

Talk: David Milarch, co-founder of Archangel Ancient Tree Archive, tells the story of the work of cloning ancient trees and explores the relationship we have lost between our planet, the climate and the forests, as well as what is left that can be utilized in a new approach.

www.ancienttreearchive.org

transformation & celebration

Ancient Trees For The Future

DAvID MILARCHTeton Raptor Center

JASON JONES

the next big idea...


Speakers: Nona Yehia and Jefferson Ellinger established the architectural firm E/Ye Design, Ellinger/Yehia Design LLC in 2003 to investigate links between architecture, landscape and technology. In 2004, the firm opened an office in Jackson Hole, Wyoming to further explore these inter-relationships.

Talk: Architects, artists, scientists and designers throughout the ages have been inspired by the beauty and elegance in nature; studying, imitating and attempting to recreate natural systems has shaped life as we know it. Today, the question is how natural phenomena can become instrumental in the design of new architectures that radically redefine our built environment.

www.eye-des.com

Speaker: A pioneer in ocean exploration, Bill Lange is an enthusiastic ambassador between the sea and those of us on dry land. His research interests include telemetry system design, deep submergence imaging systems, and marine mammal data telemetry and monitoring systems.

Talk: With vibrant 3D video clips captured by submarines, Bill Lange takes us to some of Earth’s darkest, most violent, toxic and beautiful habitats, the valleys and volcanic ridges of the oceans’ depths, where life is bizarre, resilient and shockingly abundant.

www.whoi.edu

transformation & celebrationtransformation & celebration

New Architectures: Nature and Phenomena

NONA YEHIA & JEFFERSON ELLINGERDiscovering New Worlds Beneath the Sea in 3D

BILL LANGE



Speaker: Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld is an African lion expert working in northern Tanzania to save one of its most threatened lion populations. She is co-founder and executive director of the African People & Wildlife Fund and a Yale research affiliate. Lichtenfeld is a member of the National Geographic Big Cats Initiative and a recipient of the Fulbright Award.

Talk: People and lions come into direct and frequent conflict when the big cats attack and kill the Maasai’s livestock and harm people. Intense retaliatory killing of lions occurs on a regular basis. Now, a project called Living Walls, using a unique combination of chain-link fencing and fast-growing trees as fence posts, is creating special enclosures to keep cattle safe from lions, and lions out of the way of Maasai spears.

www.afrpw.org

Speaker: Juan D. Martinez is director for the Natural Leaders Network, an initiative of the Children & Nature Network. He represents The North Face as an ambassador for outdoor engagement and he was named a National Geographic Emerging Explorer. He dedicates his energy to grassroots campaigns from health care and housing discrimination, to creating garden space where he grew up in South Central L.A.

Talk: For decades, our culture has struggled with two addictions, to oil and to despair. It’s pretty clear by now that we can’t kick one of those habits without kicking the other. The key questions here are: How do we change our vision of the future? Where do we start? Here’s one suggestion: reconceive environmentalism and sustainability— help them evolve into a larger movement that can touch every part of society. The New Nature Movement.

www.childrenandnature.org


Warriors for Wildlife: Saving Lions on the Maasai Steppe

LALY LICHTENFELDThe New Nature Movement

JUAN D. MARTINEz



Speaker: Bob Berky has performed as a solo artist throughout the world. He was a featured artist at The Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival in The Alchemedians and The Power Project. The Alchemedians, with Mr. Berky and Michael Moschen, was produced off-Broadway and toured worldwide.

Talk: Berky is an eccentric naturalist who becomes entangled in the lives of his subject matter.

www.offsquare.org

Speaker: Brian Leith is an executive producer for the BBC’s Natural History Unit in Bristol. His most recent films include Human Planet, the first wildlife series about mankind, and Elsa: The Lion that Changed the World. He has won numerous awards over the years, including a much-prized Best of Festival award at Jackson Wildlife Film Festival in 2003.

Talk: For the BBC series Human Planet we filmed—for the first time—an as yet ‘un-contacted’ tribe in Amazonia. These are moving and mysterious images, glimpses of people peering up at us, spears in hand, never having seen a helicopter before—let alone our world of skyscrapers, computers and television. Were we intruding on their world? Yes. Were we potentially saving their world from far more destructive intrusion? I hope so. But it is a weird, and worrying, and yet wonderful encounter between two vastly contrasting worlds.

www.bbcearth.com


Bird Watcher

BOB BERKYFilming the Invisible People

BRIAN LEITH



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Final Screening Event: The Art of FLIGHT7 PM and 9 PM with the filmmakersA new breed of action sports film comes to life as Red Bull Media House, in association with Brain Farm Digital Cinema, present The Art of FLIGHT, a Curt Morgan film. Equal parts action and adventure mix with the inevitable drama encountered along the way. Two years in the making, The Art of FLIGHT gives iconic snowboarder Travis Rice and friends the opportunity to redefine what is possible in the mountains. Experience the highs, as new tricks are landed and new zones opened, alongside the lows, where avalanches, accidents and wrong-turns strike. For the first time, viewers join in the sometimes successful, often trying quest to open up new, unexplored mountains in remote corners of the world. Immerse yourself in the cinematic experience as Brain Farm and their ever-expanding arsenal of filmmaking technology capture the dramatic beauty of the culture, wildlife and scenic landscapes the riders take in along the way.

Join astronomers from Denver Museum of Nature and Science for an evening of star gazing at the telescopes on the terrace, and visit the EarthMatters Fulldome Theater for an immersive cinema journey into the cosmos then enjoy complimentary hot chocolate and treats reception with our hosts from Jackson Lake Lodge!


Thank you to our SponsorsThank you to our Sponsorsthat’s a wrapthat’s a wrap

National Geographic

Global Immersion

Panasonic Solutions

Sony Electronics

Dolby Laboratories

Spring Creek Resort

Disneynature

Terra Mater Factual Studios

The Discovery Channel

Animal Planet

Denver Museum of Nature &

Science

GoPro

Hughes Production

NHK Japanese Broadcasting

Natural History New Zealand

BBC

FujiFilm Optical Devices

Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Images of Nature,

Tom Mangelsen

NHU Africa

ORF Austrian Broadcasting

The Nature Conservancy

Aman Resorts

Advanced Imaging and

Visualization Laboratory at WHOI

Arete Media Group

American University Center

Environmental Filmmaking

Discovery Retreats

International Fund for Animal

Welfare

Jackson Hole Wildlife Safaris

Montana State University - Natural

History Filmmaking Program

nWave Pictures Distribution

Off the Fence Productions

Principal Large Format

Salmon River Rafting

Teton Science Schools

Wildlife Conservation Society

WNET / NATURE

ARKive

ARRI, Inc.

Cameron I Pace Group

Canon USA, Inc.

Carbon XL

D3D Cinema

Footage Search

FootageBank HD

Humane Society of the US

IMERSA

North Carolina Museum of

Sciences

Marco Polo Film

Jackson Hole Mountain Resort

Circumerro Media

So What LLC

Teton Club

Wyoming Business Council

Wyoming Film Office

Bob Landis Wolf Tour

Four Seasons Jackson Hole

Grand Targhee Resort

Hilton Homewood Suites

Inn on the Creek

Jackson Lake Lodge

Snake River Lodge & Spa

Terra Resort Group

Teton Club

The Lexington

The Painted Buffalo

The Wort Hotel

Green Planet Films

Shooting Star

Jackson Hole Golf & Tennis

Mad River Boat Trips

Barker Ewing

The Hole Hiking Experience

Exum Mountain Guides

National Museum of Wildlife Art

Fine Dining Restaurant Group

Trio, an American Bistro

Atelier Ortega

Teton Pines

The Wildlife Film Festival’s Education and Outreach initiatives are funded in part by generous grant support from: The Anderson Family FoundationBridger-Teton National ForestThe Charles Engelhard FoundationCommunity Foundation of Jackson HoleThe Deupree Family FundThe Laura Jane Musser Next Generation FundNational Endowment for the ArtsRebecca Rooney, Trustee—Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund InternationalTown and County Arts for AllWyoming Arts CouncilWyoming Business CouncilWyoming Cultural Trust FundWyoming Department of Agriculture

tedxjacksonhole_2011 program guide

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pm inspiration exploration4

pm sunset reception7

pm transformation celebration6

wonderful faces of freedom

tedxjacksonhole website

global project

grizzly bear sanctuary