Carrie Bodle’s work explores notions of history, memory, and social dialogue in architectural contexts through artistic interventions. Recent works take the form of temporary large-scale public art installations that explore multi-channel sound set-ups.
 
In the past two years, Bodle has concentrated her work on the history of sonic arts and public art and has studied under Joan Jonas, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Antonio Muntadas. She has previously worked as a project assistant for Ann Hamilton (2000-2003) where she was responsible for digital video work and Mac admin. At the Visual Arts Program at MIT, Bodle has gained teaching experience as a teachng assistant for the upper level undergraduate Video Art production class with Professor Joe Gibbons.
 
Carrie Bodle is a graduate of the MIT Visual Arts Program, SMVS ’05.  She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts with Distinction from The Ohio State University in Art and Technology in 2002. Past projects include Boltworks (2002), Oscillations (2004), and most recently she was an Artist in Residence at IBM Watson Collaborative User Experience Group through the Boston Cyberarts Group with her piece, Wikipedia / Soundscape (2005) exhibiting at the DeCordova Museum.  Her work has also been shown at the Location One Gallery in NYC and was webcasted internationally by radioartemobile through the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, CAVS, at MIT.
 
 
Dr. Philip Erickson received his Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and his doctorate in space plasma physics from Cornell University. In 1995, he joined the staff of the Atmospheric Sciences Group at MIT Haystack Observatory as a research scientist. He is currently a co-Principal Investigator for Millstone Hill, a National Science Foundation supported mid-latitude American sector high power incoherent scatter radar probing the upper atmosphere and ionosphere. Dr. Erickson is involved with radar experiment, scheduling, hardware, and software systems, conducts studies of topside light ion behavior and coherent E region backscatter irregularities, and participates extensively in education and public outreach efforts. He is a member of the American Geophysical Union, has served on the steering committee for the Coupling Energetics and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions (CEDAR) US initiative, and is a member of URSI Commission G. His research at MIT Haystack uses the technique of backscatter radar as a remote sensing tool to probe the physics of Earth's charged upper atmosphere, or ionosphere. Radar scatter from naturally occurring ionospheric wave structures can be caused either by discrete plasma waves or by weak random thermal gas fluctuations. It is the most powerful ground based tool available to diagnose the density, temperature, velocity, and compositional structure of the ionosphere and its dynamic variations as a function of time of day, season, and solar cycle at altitudes well beyond typical space shuttle orbits. This research contributes not only to basic models of atmospheric behavior, but also to the emerging national effort aimed at understanding space weather and its potentially disruptive effects on human technologies such as global positioning systems and ground-satellite radio links. He is also involved in designing and implementing next generation Software Radar systems, which leverage rapid computational advances to employ general purpose hardware and software for the majority of radio frequency (RF) signal processing operations. This lends an unprecedented flexibility in designing novel, multi-use experiments which can be controlled and monitored over standard ethernet networks, and makes possible the creation of meta-instruments which encompass more than one physical radar system. Throughout their research, Haystack maintains a strong commitment to education and public outreach in order to communicate our research results and energize future generations of scientists.
Dr. Philip Erickson [email]
http://www.haystack.mit.edu
 
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