A panel discussion on the Representation of Dinosaurs in Art & Popular Culture) featuring
Warren Allmon) Richard Kissel) and Ryan North. Moderated by Chris Wildrick.
Saturday, March 28, at the Redhouse, Syracuse, NY.
Warren Allmon
Warren D. Allmon is the Director of the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and its Museum of the Earth in Ithaca, NY and the Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology at Cornell University. Allmon’s major research interest is the ecology of the origin and maintenance of biological diversity and the application of the geological record to the study of these problems. Over the past decade, Allmon has led PRI in an ambitious renovation and expansion in staff, volunteers, community involvement, external grants, budget, donations, and collections. He started PRI’s quarterly magazine American Paleontologist, which they publish in addition to Bulletins of American Paleontology, the oldest paleontological periodical in the Western Hemisphere.
Richard Kissel
Richard Kissel is Director of Teacher Programs at the Museum of the Earth and a vertebrate paleontologist. Richard’s work investigates the evolutionary history and diversity of the enigmatic group of Paleozoic tetrapods known as diadectids, applying that information to examine questions regarding the development of the modern terrestrial ecosystem. Richard previously worked at The Field Museum, where he served as the primary scientific advisor for the tremendoulsy successful Evolving Planet. Richard has published numerous scientific articles and has presented his research at conferences throughout North America. He is the author of popular articles in Natural History and The Field Museum’s publication In The Field, and he was a featured scientist on NOVA’s scienceNOW. He recently co-authored the book Evolving Planet: Four Billion Years ofLife on Earth for young readers.
Ryan North
Ryan North is a Canadian writer and computer programmer who is the author and illustrator of Dinosaur Comics, which can be found at www.qwantz.com. as well as the Daily Orange newspaper here in Syracuse. He is also co-creator of Whispered Apologies and Happy Dog the Happy Dog. A fixed-art webcomic, Dinosaur Comics has run for more than 1,000 issues and has been published by Quack! Media as The Best of Dinosaur Comics: 2003200S AD: Your Whole Family Is Made Of Meat. In addition to his comics, North has created three tools to aid webcomic authors: Oh No Robot, a webcomic transcription tool which creates searchable text databases for comics RSSpect, a method of creating RSS feeds for websites, and Project Wonderful, a pay-per-day auction-based ad serving system.
Chris Wildrick teaches in the Department of Foundation in the School of Art and Design at Syracuse University. He has been studying to become a self-taught professional paleontlogist since 2001 and is an artist in residence at the Museum of the Earth) where he will exhibit more work from this project in
2010.
This panel is in conjunction with Wildrick’s exhibition Dinosaurs Had Sharp Teeth!: Parthenogenesis
and the Holocene Dinosaur at the Redhouse Arts Center.
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