Dear cool person, you're invited to an evening filled with some drinking and thinking!
About the evening:
Technology in all its forms enables human beings to transcend our limitations. But what about our ultimate limitation: mortality?
The fact of death may be non-negotiable, and in this Drink Salon, we explore how human beings shape its manner and meaning using technology. Oftentimes whether consciously, by developing weapons or medicines, or unconsciously, through the adoption of other seemingly unrelated technologies, we develop technologies that afford us greater control than ever before over our bodies and environments.
In light of this trend, we ask: How do different technologies mediate our material and emotional concerns? How do certain technologies orient us to confront--or to ignore--death? What does it mean to re-negotiate our anxieties and hopes of what it means to die and, in turn, what it means to live?
There will of course be snacks!
The event will kick-off with this month's Drink Salon Community Curators, Amanda Zhang and Kit Cali.
Community Curators: Amanda Zhang and Kit Cali
Speakers: Liz Cormack, Austin Nijuis & Jackson Renshaw
We'll have some light snacks and drinks (boozy & non-boozy) for you as well!
RSVP is required for entrance. 21+ event. Bring your ID.
Seating is limited to 60 guests.
Suggested donation: $8 or pay what you can at door.
Your donations at the door go directly to help cover the drinks and food, and support the community that makes Drink Salon possible!
Dear cool person, you're invited to an evening filled with some drinking and thinking!
About the Evening / Curatorial Statement:
Technology in all its forms enables human beings to transcend our limitations. But what about our ultimate limitation: mortality?
The fact of death may be non-negotiable, and in this Drink Salon, we explore how human beings shape its manner and meaning using technology. Oftentimes whether consciously, by developing weapons or medicines, or unconsciously, through the adoption of other seemingly unrelated technologies, we develop technologies that afford us greater control than ever before over our bodies and environments.
In light of this trend, we ask: How do different technologies mediate our material and emotional concerns? How do certain technologies orient us to confront—or to ignore—death? What does it mean to re-negotiate our anxieties and hopes of what it means to die and, in turn, what it means to live?
There will of course be refreshing beverages and delicious snacks.
The event will kick-off with this month's Drink Salon Community Curators, Amanda Zhang and Kit Cali.
Community Curators: Amanda Zhang and Kit Cali
Speakers: Dan Chen, Katey Lesneski, Saraswathi Jones (Tanya Palit) & Jo Paladino
We'll have some light snacks and drinks (boozy & non-boozy) for you as well!
RSVP is required for entrance. 21+ event. Bring your ID.
Seating is limited to 60 guests.
Suggested donation: $8 or pay what you can at door.
Your donations at the door go directly to help cover the drinks and food, and support the community that makes Drink Salon possible!
Dan Chen is a designer & engineer. He worked as a Research Assistant at MIT. He completed his MFA in digital media at the RISD and BFA in communication design at UConn. He has over 7 years of design experience, working at IDEO as a Senior Designer, The Economist group as a product designer, and Morningstar Inc. as a designer and developer. His work has been featured in media such as CNet, Huffington Post, theverge, Engadget and Dailymail.
Working in the realms of robotics, communication design, interaction design and product design, Dan explores the new ways of communication and human experience through mix medium, inviting a reflective evaluation and implication.
Boston University Deptartment of Biology
Katey Lesneski is a rising 4th year Marine Biology PhD student at Boston University. She is passionate about Caribbean reef conservation and restoration. She uses laboratory and field approaches to study the biology of the endangered staghorn coral and partners with the non-profit Coral Restoration Foundation in Florida and the Belizean Fisheries Department. Her work aims to understand variation in heat stress tolerance and wound healing in this critical reef-building organism and to provide sound science to stakeholders involved in reef restoration.
While not teaching undergraduates at BU or working in the field or the lab, Katey can be found using her skills as a Divemaster at a local dive shop, hiking in the White Mountains, paddleboarding around New England, or playing with her golden retriever Sadie.
aka Tanya Palit
Saraswathi Jones is a singer/songwriter, multi instrumentalist and purveyor of postcolonial pop. She released her first solo EP Lingua Franca in 2013 and is currently working on her second. She is the front woman of Boston Bollywood punk band Awaaz Do, a co-founder of Hindie Rock Fest (an annual music festival in Cambridge) and a Board Member of Girls Rock Camp Boston.
By day, she is Executive Assistant to surgeon and journalist Atul Gawande, whose most recent NYT bestselling book Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End is changing public conversations around death and dying.
Jo Paladino, MD – Dr. Paladino is the Assistant Director of Implementation in the Serious Illness Care Program at Ariadne Labs. Dr. Paladino is a Palliative Care physician on faculty at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. She earned her B.A. from Boston University and M.D from Weill Medical College of Cornell University.
In her current role, Dr. Paladino coordinates the implementation efforts for the Serious Illness Care randomized trial in ten disease centers and two satellite locations at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. In addition, her work on implementation and strategy supports the expansion of the Serious Illness Care Program to achieve successful spread to additional healthcare settings. She also works on curriculum development to train colleagues of all disciplines in serious illness communication.
Dr. Paladino completed her internship and residency training in Primary Care and Population Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed her fellowship training in Palliative Care at Harvard’s Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Fellowship at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.
GrandTen Distilling is inspired by new and interesting flavors, but also takes pride in producing high quality classic spirits. Their flagship product, Wire Works American Gin, celebrates the history of the famous South Boston iron foundry that occupied the space where GrandTen Distilling now stands. GrandTen Distilling is owned and operated by Matthew Nuernberger and Spencer McMinn. All of their products are produced in very small batches and distilled in copper. Every step, from choosing the raw ingredients to bottling and labeling, is done by hand.
Lychee
Lychee's goal is to use music as a tool to build a distinct atmosphere and to create connections amidst dancers over shared emotional experience. She loves to bring glimmers of sentimentality into a harsher musical narrative, blending hints of melody and vocals into raw techno assaults as moments of light and reprieve.
