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Artists, scientists putting a different spin on things
By Ray Mark Rinaldi

At first glance, Michelle Ellsworth and Jason Neff seem to have little in common. He's a down-to-earth research scientist. She's an out-of- this-world performance artist.

But a shared concern over climate change lured the pair into an unlikely collaboration. Working together, they created "The Objectification of Things," Ellsworth's singing-dancing stagework that uses carbon tracing as a thread for exploring the environment and human behavior.

"The scientific rigor of the piece is solid," said Ellsworth, who also joined biogeochemist Neff to co-teach "The Art and Science of Climate Change," a class at the University of Colorado at Boulder. "But if you aren't into the science, you can still have a good time."

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