MALpost: Upcoming Events!

MALfunction #9: Reflections

Tuesday, April 10 @ 6:30pm
CU Museum of Natural History
Free and open to the public

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/1655719741138635/

MALfunction: A series of intimate events that question where media and society, research and practice meet. Each MALfunction features one researcher and one artist whose projects examine a similar technological theme. FREE.

Curated by Maya Livio

Researcher: Jen Liu  //  Tools for Collaborative Survival
Artist: Christopher M. Carruth // Results from MAL Residency

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/ Jen Liu /
Jen Liu is a researcher and designer working at the intersections of technology and culture. Her current research seeks to consider the role of design in the Anthropocene by examining and mediating human-nonhuman relationships through interactive technologies. Her work has been exhibited, presented, and published in several venues, including the U.S. Science and Engineering Festival, the International Symposium on Electronic Art  (ISEA), and the Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interactions (TEI). She holds a BFA in Fiber Arts from the Maryland Institute College of Art and a Master in Tangible Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon University. Jen is currently a PhD student at the ATLAS institute and a member of the Unstable Design Lab directed by Dr. Laura Devendorf.  

/ Chrisopher M. Carruth /
Christopher M. Carruth is an artist, technologist, and educator whose work ranges from writing to visual arts. For nearly two decades, he's drawn from a rich and eclectic background in emerging technologies, critical media studies, and visual art to approach the mutual influence of technology and society with playful inquisitiveness. In addition to his creative practice, he is an Instructor at the ATLAS Institute at University of Colorado. 

Take It Aparty! 
April 17, 6-8 pm
ATLAS 113 (BTU Lab)

The final MAL/BTU Lab Take It Aparty of the semester is coming! We will focus on re-purposing this time around, and will be pulling usable parts from various electronics in order to build new devices. Everyone is welcome! Bring your broken things & see what we can do with them! 
 

Retro Game Nite (REDUX)
May 2, 6-8 pm
ATLAS 113 (BTU Lab)

Retro Game Nite went so well this semester we are doing it again! Come, play games, eat snacks!
Challenge your friends to play the worst video game ever made!