Please join us to kick-off the first annual Betascape technology festival and hear some really fascinating presentations on technology. This event is free and open to the public to attend. The Windup Space offers a cash bar for beverages.

Visit us at http://www.betascape.org & http://www.facebook.com/betascape

Event Sponsors:

Organizer: Steve Hulbert
Music Curator: Brian Sacawa

Schedule

6:00PM Doors Open

7:00 - 9:00PM Speaker Series 

Doug Retzler: The Greening of Art
Zolt Levay: Art from Space
Kevin 'KAL' Kallaugher: The Art of Political Satire

Intermission  The Best Ice Cream in Baltimore generously served by Taharka Bros., Original American Ice Cream Culture taste-makers - www.taharkabrothers.org

9:30PM Live music begins - Quartet Offensive

Speaker Bios

Doug Retzler--Baltimore artist and TV/movies special effects wizard - http://www.artandeffects.com/

Doug is an artist with wide-ranging talents. Doug prominently features the four elements in his work: earth, water, air, and fire.

Fire and Ice: http://www.artsandeffects.com/art_event/fire_ice.jpg
Icarus Revisisted: http://www.artsandeffects.com/art_event/iccarus1.jpg

Doug is an experienced TV and movie special effects designer and has worked on local productions including: West Wing, Washington Square, Hair Spray, and Enemy of the State.

More recently Doug has begun to incorporate green technologies into his works and is involved in Green Arts projects around Baltimore. Doug has a keen interest in enviro-remediation art projects for water/soil detoxificatio

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Zolt Levay--Photographer and Lead of the Imaging Group at Space Telescope Science Institute http://web.mac.com/zgl

Zolt combines his passion for photography, his professional astronomy background and his guru-level programming skills to do a job that is the envy of many of us. Zolt is the guy who--working with scientists and technical professions--produces the "pretty pictures" from the Hubble Space Telescope that adorn countless magazine covers and web sites. One of his recent efforts is working as a member of Hubble Heritage Team, which strives to showcase the finest images made by the Hubble Space Telescope.

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Kevin 'KAL' Kallaugher--Political cartoonist for the Economist - http://www.kaltoons.com/

From pen to pixel: KAL is spearheading the evolution of political satire. KAL employs a system of interactive, 3-D animations to move political cartoons off the op-ed page and into 21st century. KAL has recently toured the country with the Second City comedy troupe culminating with shows at Time Square's Edison Ballroom.
        
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Quartet Offensive - http://www.myspace.com/quartetoffensivebaltimore
John Dierker-reeds
Eric Trudel-sax
Matt Frazao-guitar
Adam Hopkins-bass
Nathan Ellman-Bell-drums