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PANEL DISCUSSION: “Artful Intelligence, Transdisciplinary Curiosity, and the Beautiful Future: A Conversation with Artist Rita Leduc and Ecologist Dr. Rich Blundell,” moderated by Dr. David Syring, University of San Diego Chair of Anthropology at American Anthropological Association conference. Listen here.
ARTIST TALK: “The Coming AI Revolution: Artful Intelligence in the Beautiful Future” at Syracuse University, September 19, 2024. Listen here.
PODCAST INTERVIEW: A discussion of Extending Ecology on Dartington’s Arts+Ecology Podcast. Listen here (Apple) or here (show page).
ARTIST TALK: “Extending Ecology: An Oika Project in Personal + Planetary Prosperity” as part of the in-person component of The Nature of Cities Festival in Berlin, June 6, 2024. Recording of talk available here.
PANEL DISCUSSION: “Making Meaning with the White Mountains,” panel discussion, October 4, 2023, Museum of the White Mountains.
Anthropologist David Syring speaks about Extending Ecology in the context of a necessary unity between Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, Nov 1, 2023, Museum of the White Mountains.
ARTIST TALK: Maria Mitchell Science Speaker Series: Rita Leduc: I discuss my individual work and the overarching curatorial themes of the Art of Oika: Nantucket exhibition.
GUEST SPEAKER: The Cognitive Science Show: Episode 5 and Episode 6
PODCAST INTERVIEW: The Nature of Nantucket Podcast, Part III. Also see Part II and Part I which discusses interdisciplinary collaboration, my art practice, and Oika Exhibition Nantucket at Maria Mitchell Association.

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Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities: “The Process of Process: Piloting GROUNDWORK: Interdisciplinary Cultivation Unit at Rutgers University.”
“How the Light Gets Out,” a written accompaniment to “How the Light Gets Out (Three Questions),” nine collages from research with Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, later installed in Grizedale Forest and G-Town Arts.
EcoArt Scotland’s review of The Place Collective’s exhibition, “See, Here, Now: Art in a Time of Urgency,” April 2025.
“Keeping the -ing in Extending Ecology,” The Place Collective, November 2023.
Art Spiel “Hot Air” feature for “Field Marks: Bay Ridge,” May 2023.

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SELECT AUDIO:

Watch Rita make faces as she talks passionately about what she loves:

ARTIST TALK: “The Coming AI Revolution: Artful Intelligence in the Beautiful Future” at Syracuse University, September 19, 2024. Listen here.

PODCAST INTERVIEW: A discussion of Extending Ecology on Dartington’s Arts+Ecology Podcast. Listen here (Apple) or here (show page).

ARTIST TALK: “Extending Ecology: An Oika Project in Personal + Planetary Prosperity” as part of the in-person component of The Nature of Cities Festival in Berlin, June 6, 2024. Recording of talk available here.

PANEL DISCUSSION: “Making Meaning with the White Mountains,” panel discussion, October 4, 2023, Museum of the White Mountains.

Anthropologist David Syring speaks about Extending Ecology in the context of a necessary unity between Arts, Sciences, and Humanities, Nov 1, 2023, Museum of the White Mountains.

ARTIST TALK: Maria Mitchell Science Speaker Series: Rita Leduc: I discuss my individual work and the overarching curatorial themes of the Art of Oika: Nantucket exhibition.

GUEST SPEAKER: The Cognitive Science Show: Episode 5 and Episode 6

PODCAST INTERVIEW: The Nature of Nantucket Podcast, Part III. Also see Part II and Part I which discusses interdisciplinary collaboration, my art practice, and Oika Exhibition Nantucket at Maria Mitchell Association.

SELECT WRITING:

Sans the faces but still with love:

Alliance for the Arts in Research Universities: “The Process of Process: Piloting GROUNDWORK: Interdisciplinary Cultivation Unit at Rutgers University.”

“How the Light Gets Out,” a written accompaniment to “How the Light Gets Out (Three Questions),” nine collages from research with Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest, later installed in Grizedale Forest and G-Town Arts.

EcoArt Scotland’s review of The Place Collective’s exhibition, “See, Here, Now: Art in a Time of Urgency,” April 2025.

“Keeping the -ing in Extending Ecology,” The Place Collective, November 2023.

Art Spiel “Hot Air” feature for “Field Marks: Bay Ridge,” May 2023.