Betascape 2010 | Baltimore's largest technology festival at Artscape

Betascape Kick-Off Party and Speaker Series

Speaker Series - 7pm - 9pm

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.

Live Music - 9:30pm

Quartet Offensive

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

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

Fire and Ice
Icarus Revisisted

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 detoxification.

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.

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.

Quartet Offensive (http://www.myspace.com/quartetoffensivebaltimore)

John Dierker - Reeds
Eric Trudel - Sax
Matt Frazao - Guitar
Adam Hopkins - Bass
Nathan Ellman - Bell-drums

Betascape Technology Exhibits

in front of the MICA Brown Center.

Robot Fest

Robotfest, which is for all ages, presents some of the most interesting robots from their recent festival. Robots will include bots that draw their power from the sun and produce art without human intervention and robots that are used by the military to diffuse explosives.

3D ShapeShot

For the first time, digital cameras combined with special software take split-second ShapeShots of faces with amazingly accurate shape and color. Exhibit sponsor Direct Dimensions will be featuring live demonstrations taking 3D ShapeShots of attendees who visit the Betascape Tent.

Live stream of Betascape

Mark Huson of Baltimore Node and Steve Hulbert will be to be live stream Betascape and Artscape using a USB fishing pole camera.

Interactive Sculpture & workshops sponsored by Digital Media Center

Sound artist, Rose Burt and sculptor, Bonnie Crawford Kotula collaborate to create a sculpture that combines interactive circuits, textiles, and sound. Alongside their sculpture, the artists will offer hands-on workshops exploring soft circuitry. These workshops are sponsored by the Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Dear Baltimore

Dear Baltimore is a for profit/social good photography company that shoots messages of love and hope, happiness and creativity. Their flagship theme is "Love Notes to Baltimore" and they shoot events for companies and people who believe too that a simple message and a beautiful face inspire us all.

BetaScape Arcade and Video Game Showcase

Innovate Baltimore is bringing together individuals and educational institutions across Maryland to showcase their video games. Attendees can get out of the heat and demo these locally created video games or play arcade favorites like Donkey Kong, Pac-man, Mortal Kombat, Marvel vs. Capcom, and King of Fighters.

RepRap

Brian Dolge will be showing the latest in RepRap technology, including a working MakerBot- come see how DIY 3D printing works for yourself. RepRap is a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects.

Betascape Video Game and Arcade Hall

Cafe Doris in the MICA Fox Building.

Betascape Technology Exhibits

in front of the MICA Brown Center.

Power tool drag racing

The Baltimore Node & Baltimore Toolbank are organizing power tool drag racing for Betascape. Power tool drag racing is all about taking ordinary electric power tools and turning them into drag racers.

DIY Rocket Launches

Baltimore Node is sponsoring DIY Rocket launches. Betascape visitors can build their own rockets and be apart of a rocket launch team.

Robot Fest

Robotfest, which is for all ages, presents some of the most interesting robots from their recent festival. Robots will include bots that draw their power from the sun and produce art without human intervention and robots that are used by the military to diffuse explosives.

3D ShapeShot

For the first time, digital cameras combined with special software take split-second ShapeShots of faces with amazingly accurate shape and color. Exhibit sponsor Direct Dimensions will be featuring live demonstrations taking 3D ShapeShots of attendees who visit the Betascape Tent.

Live stream of Betascape

Mark Huson of Baltimore Node and Steve Hulbert will be to be live stream Betascape and Artscape using a USB fishing pole camera.

Interactive Sculpture & workshops sponsored by Digital Media Center

Sound artist, Rose Burt and sculptor, Bonnie Crawford Kotula collaborate to create a sculpture that combines interactive circuits, textiles, and sound. Alongside their sculpture, the artists will offer hands-on workshops exploring soft circuitry. These workshops are sponsored by the Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University.

Dear Baltimore

Dear Baltimore is a for profit/social good photography company that shoots messages of love and hope, happiness and creativity. Their flagship theme is "Love Notes to Baltimore" and they shoot events for companies and people who believe too that a simple message and a beautiful face inspire us all.

BetaScape Arcade and Video Game Showcase

Innovate Baltimore is bringing together individuals and educational institutions across Maryland to showcase their video games. Attendees can get out of the heat and demo these locally created video games or play arcade favorites like Donkey Kong, Pac-man, Mortal Kombat, Marvel vs. Capcom, and King of Fighters.

RepRap

Brian Dolge will be showing the latest in RepRap technology, including a working MakerBot- come see how DIY 3D printing works for yourself. RepRap is a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects.

Betascape Video Game and Arcade Hall

Cafe Doris in the MICA Fox Building.

Betascape Technology Exhibits

in front of the MICA Brown Center.

Power tool drag racing

The Baltimore Node & Baltimore Toolbank are organizing power tool drag racing for Betascape. Power tool drag racing is all about taking ordinary electric power tools and turning them into drag racers.

DIY Rocket Launches

Baltimore Node is sponsoring DIY Rocket launches. Betascape visitors can build their own rockets and be apart of a rocket launch team.

Robot Fest

Robotfest, which is for all ages, presents some of the most interesting robots from their recent festival. Robots will include bots that draw their power from the sun and produce art without human intervention and robots that are used by the military to diffuse explosives.

3D ShapeShot

For the first time, digital cameras combined with special software take split-second ShapeShots of faces with amazingly accurate shape and color. Exhibit sponsor Direct Dimensions will be featuring live demonstrations taking 3D ShapeShots of attendees who visit the Betascape Tent.

Interactive Sculpture & workshops sponsored by Digital Media Center

Sound artist, Rose Burt and sculptor, Bonnie Crawford Kotula collaborate to create a sculpture that combines interactive circuits, textiles, and sound. Alongside their sculpture, the artists will offer hands-on workshops exploring soft circuitry. These workshops are sponsored by the Digital Media Center at Johns Hopkins University.

BetaScape Arcade and Video Game Showcase

Innovate Baltimore is bringing together individuals and educational institutions across Maryland to showcase their video games. Attendees can get out of the heat and demo these locally created video games or play arcade favorites like Donkey Kong, Pac-man, Mortal Kombat, Marvel vs. Capcom, and King of Fighters.

RepRap

Brian Dolge will be showing the latest in RepRap technology, including a working MakerBot- come see how DIY 3D printing works for yourself. RepRap is a free desktop 3D printer capable of printing plastic objects.