Urbanite Project!
TEAM 3: Karen Yasinsky and Max Mutchler
Karen Yasinsky is an artist working primarily with animation and drawing. Her video installations and drawings have been shown in many venues internationally including the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, P.S. 1 in New York, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and Kunst Werke in Berlin. Her animations have been screened worldwide at various venues and film festivals, including the Museum of Modern Art and the International Film Festival Rotterdam She is the recipient of a 2002 Guggenheim Foundation grant and teaches at Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute College of Art.
Max Mutchler is a scientist who has been working on the Hubble Space Telescope for the entire twenty-year mission, including the Space Shuttle servicing mission last May. As an expert on Hubble’s cameras, Max has been involved in observations of nearby solar system objects, distant galaxies, and many interesting things in between. He is also a member of the Hubble Heritage team that has produced many of the most iconic images from Hubble.
photo by Lisa Van Horn
Extraordinary Voyages
In “Les Voyages Extraordinaires,” Jules Verne presaged spacecraft transporting people to the moon and imagined submarines encountering strange undersea creatures. His well-known series of novels and stories seeded the minds of future generations who, through discovery and invention, went on to make real much of his creative vision. Less well known is that Verne himself was inspired by the “extraordinary stories” of Baltimore’s own Edgar Allan Poe. What extraordinary ideas could artists and scientists in Baltimore be inspiring in each other’s minds today, which could blossom into new 21st-century realities?
