FUNcolab Skinny Tuesdays
(3rd Tuesday of This Month at 6pm)

***Tuesday, February 21, 6 p.m., Gatehouse***

Presenter: Rita Blaik (materials scientist & photographer)

The next Skinny Tuesday talk at the Gallaudet Gatehouse, aka FUNCOLAB, will be on February 21, 6-8 p.m., and feature RITA BLAIK, an artist and scientist that uses creative syncretic methods within her research process as a materials scientist. Blaik, is a UCLA PhD student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She received her B.S. in Materials Science and Engineering with a specialization in biomaterials from the University of California, Irvine. During that time she co-found UCI MatSci, a student chapter of the nationally recognized society Material Advantage, which began an outreach program to local high school students. At UCLA she is a proud fellow of the IGERT Clean Energy for Green Industry fellowship and works with professor Bruce Dunn on biological fuel cell systems and architectures. She continues to develop her science outreach career; since 2008 she has been an instructor with the Sci|Art NanoLab and as of fall 2011, is the Art|Sci Center Networking and Outreach Coordinator. She is also a photographer, incorporating her point of view as a materials scientist by using photographic techniques to transform the apparent state of materials.

"What's the skinny?" The FUNcolab holds "Skinny Tuesdays" the first Tuesday of every month at the old Gallaudet Gatehouse. Skinny Tuesdays are an informal dialogue on syncretic forms of research, creative thoughts, and new cross disciplinary developments in art, technology, philosophy, and the sciences. Guest speakers from varying creative, philosophical, technical, and scientific backgrounds are invited to speak, present their projects, and to discuss creative ideas with attendees. This is an open forum, so attendees are invited to bring/share their own projects, techniques, and discoveries. A full spread of veggies, fruit and cheese are served.

http://www.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/EventXite_-_Announcements/Skinny_Lecture_Blaik.html

FUNcolab Skinny Tuesdays
(1st Tuesday of Every Month at 6pm)

***Tuesday, November 1, 6 p.m., Gatehouse***

Presenter: Chang Park (media artist & musician)

The next Skinny Tuesday talk at the Gallaudet Gatehouse, aka FUNCOLAB, will be on November 1, 6-8 p.m., and feature CHANG PARKS, a Seoul, Korea/Baltimore, Md. based sound and new media artist and electronic musician.
Parks' work explores boundaries of uni-dimensional and subliminal identity of objects and spaces. Through his variable sound and mixed media presentations (interactive installation, performance, composition), he talks about how sound can be understood as a method of subliminal communication between object and space in terms of psycho-acoustics. He will be introducing his creative and technical processes, and will also perform a sound piece created specifically for the Gallaudet community.

"What's the skinny?" The FUNcolab holds "Skinny Tuesdays" the first Tuesday of every month at the old Gallaudet Gatehouse. Skinny Tuesdays are an informal dialogue on syncretic forms of research, creative thoughts, and new cross disciplinary developments in art, technology, philosophy, and the sciences. Guest speakers from varying creative, philosophical, technical, and scientific backgrounds are invited to speak, present their projects, and to discuss creative ideas with attendees. This is an open forum, so attendees are invited to bring/share their own projects, techniques, and discoveries. A full spread of veggies, fruit and cheese are served.

http://www.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/EventXite_-_Announcements/Skinny_Tuesday_Alberto_Gaitan.html

FUNcolab Skinny Tuesdays
(1st Tuesday of Every Month at 6pm)

***Tuesday, October 4, 6 p.m., Gatehouse***

Presenter: Alberto Gaitán (media artist)

Alberto Gaitán is an independent media artist and one of the founding organizers of the Dorkbot hacker group in D.C., "people doing strange things with electricity." Gaitán creatively explores a range of technologies in the context of self-expression in his interactive kinetic hardware installations that many times use mobile technology, and exhibits his work often in D.C., around the U.S., and abroad.

"Skinny Tuesday" is an informal dialogue on syncretic forms of research, creative thought, and new cross-disciplinary developments in art, technology, philosophy, and the sciences. Guest speakers from varying creative, philosophical, technical, and scientific backgrounds are invited to speak, present their projects, and discuss creative ideas with attendees. This is an open forum, so attendees are invited to bring/share their own projects, techniques, and discoveries.

Coffee and veggies/cookies/crackers served.

http://www.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/EventXite_-_Announcements/Skinny_Tuesday_Alberto_Gaitan.html

FUNcolab Skinny Tuesdays
(1st Tuesday of Every Month at 6pm)

September 13th, 2011 (2nd Tuesday this month) 6pm: Speaker: Max Kazemzadeh is an electronic media artist, Assistant Professor of Art & Media Technology here at Gallaudet University and pursuing a PhD in the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth in the UK. His research investigates the connection between the mind and perception as it relates to creativity, and will more specifically be talking about his most recent research of Apophenia and it's relationship to computer vision/face-recognition technologies as models for representing how we see and process visual information. Kazemzadeh will also be speaking about a number of his projects implemented this summer at international institutes for the art & technology that invited him to develop works onsite in China and Spain that are great venues for interested Gallaudet students explore creative opportunities.

"Skinny Tuesday" is an informal dialogue on syncretic forms of research, creative thought, and new cross-disciplinary developments in art, technology, philosophy, and the sciences. Guest speakers from varying creative, philosophical, technical, and scientific backgrounds are invited to speak, present their projects, and discuss creative ideas with attendees. This is an open forum, so attendees are invited to bring/share their own projects, techniques, and discoveries.

Coffee and veggies/cookies/crackers served.

Contact max.kazemzadeh@gallaudet.edu with any questions regarding the event.

http://www.gallaudet.edu/Daily_Digest/Event_Xite_-_Events/SkinnyTuesday_13Sep2011.html

FUNcolab Skinny Tuesdays
(1st Tuesday of Every Month at 6pm)

<<< April 5th, 2011: Guest speaker: JD Talasek is an Artist, Writer, Curator, Director of the CPNAS (Cultural Programs of the National Academy of Sciences) and organizing DASERs events in DC, and is currently on the faculty in the Museum Studies Department at Johns Hopkins University.
"What's the skinny?" The FUNcolab will start "Skinny Tuesdays" this April 5th, 2011 at 6pm at the Gatehouse, an informal dialogue on syncretic forms of research, creative thoughts, and new cross disciplinary developments in art, technology, philosophy, and the sciences. Guest speakers from varying creative, philosophical, technical, and scientific backgrounds will be
invited to speak, present their projects, and to discuss creative ideas with attendees. This is an open forum, so attendees are invited to bring/share their own projects, techniques, and discoveries. Coffee and cookie/crackers served.