Meet Krista Greathouse

 

 

 

Born and raised in Owensboro, KY.  Moved to Lexington in 1997.  Have two fabulous kids – Ben (age 10) and Madelyn (age 9).  Have had an interesting career including working for Mayor Newberry as the City’s WEG liaison and producer of the 17 day festival in downtown Lexington during WEG.  I started at UK in March 2014. 

 

 

 

Favorite

Broadway Musical - RENT
Book – American Sniper
Movie – Shawshank Redemption
 

Ambition/Goal for next year

finish my MBA and begin my PhD

I love ALL animals

I have one dog, two cats.  I rode horses until I became pregnant with Ben (my first child).  If my kids get their way – we will add a bunny and a hamster at Christmas.

Most interesting place I have been

Cologne Cathedral in Köln, Germany. 

Favorite food

can’t pick just one - my mom’s chicken & dumplings and porcupine meatballs

Katherine Behar: E-Waste

 

By Whitney Hale

(Nov. 3, 2014) – University of Kentucky's College of Arts and Sciences and School of Art and Visual Studies has welcomed Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist Katherine Behar to campus as part of a two-week campus residency. The public is invited to experience Behar's work as well through "E-Waste," a free public exhibition of new work from the artist presented in conjunction with her visit at UK’s Tuska Center for Contemporary Art, located in the Fine Arts Building. "E-Waste," which runs through Nov. 7, will have an opening reception beginning 5 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at Tuska.

"E-Waste" centers on a new series of sculptures inspired by a science fiction scenario in which commonplace USB devices continue working, long after the humans they were designed to serve have gone extinct. The gadgets are transformed into mutant fossils, encased in stone with lights blinking, speakers chirping, and fans spinning eternally. The exhibition also includes a video series, "Modeling Big Data," in which the artist inhabits an obese, over-grown data body, to humorous and poignant effect.

Behar’s work challenges digital culture’s intense escalation of productivity. Wavering between poetry and parody, her works elicit sympathy for the devices we exploit, suggesting that we ourselves are becoming increasingly device-like: ensnared in compulsory productivity, whether “working” in the traditional sense for our own gain, or generating value for distant corporations each time we search the web or click “like.” Combining machine-made, handmade and organic forms, including a “fossilized” 3D printer, "E-Waste" offers a physical parallel to the excesses of big data, highlighting the counterpart surplus of consumer media artifacts, and drawing attention to its environmental impact.

The "E-Waste" exhibition at UK is made possible with support from a PSC-CUNY Award, jointly funded by the Professional Staff Congress and the City University of New York.

In addition to the exhibition of her work, Behar has been busy on campus since Oct. 26 working with students, visiting classes and presenting a coffee chat for residents of WIRED, the living-learning community for the College of Arts and Sciences.

As an interdisciplinary artist, Behar has worked in several mediums including performance, interactive installation, video and writing about digital culture. Her work appears at festivals, galleries, performance spaces and art centers worldwide, including the Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Judson Church in New York; UNOACTU in Dresden, Germany; The Girls Club Collection in Miami; Feldman Gallery + Project Space in Portland, Oregon; De Balie Centre for Culture and Politics in Amsterdam; the Mediations Biennale in Poznan, Poland; the Chicago Cultural Center; the Swiss Institute in Rome; the National Museum of Art in Cluj-Napoca, Romania; and many others.

Behar is the recipient of fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, Art Journal and the Rubin Museum of Art, in New York City, and grants including the Franklin Furnace Fund; the U.S. Consulate in Leipzig, Germany; the Illinois Arts Council; and the Cleveland Performance Art Festival. Her ongoing projects include two collaborations, the performance art group Disorientalism with Marianne M. Kim, and the art and technology team Resynplement with Ben Chang and Silvia Ruzanka. Behar's writings on technology and culture have been published in Lateral, Media-N, Parsons Journal for Information Mapping, Visual Communication Quarterly and EXTENSIONS: The Online Journal for Embodied Technology. She is currently assistant professor of new media arts at Baruch College.

Artist in Residence – Oct. 26 – Nov. 7

  • Opening reception | Nov. 6 at 5 p.m.
  • Lecture | Nov. 7 – noon – 12:50 p.m. (102 White hall classroom bldg.)

http://www.katherinebehar.com

 

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Linguistics Seminar: "On the architecture of the left periphery in early Celtic and related matters"

While in verb-initial Old Irish, topicalization was achieved via left dislocation and focalization was achieved through clefting, the older Continental Celtic languages achieved such pragmatic information structuring through movement into the left periphery of the clause (though the right edge of the clause could also be a target for such purpose).  This paper commences with an inspection of relative clause syntax in Continental Celtic while outlining what we can tell about other movement mechanisms in the clause and then goes on to explore the architecture of the left periphery in these languages.  This exploration provides some insight into the prehistoric development of verb-initial clausal configuration in Insular Celtic.  Some comparative attention is also paid to the architecture of the left periphery in other Indo-European languages and it is found that the Continental Celtic languages have a role to play in determining the degree of articulation to be reconstructed for the left periphery of proto-Indo-European itself.

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Lexmark Room
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Compassionate Science: Edward Lo

Graduate student Edward Lo studies the sediment patterns and hydrology of a region in Brazil called the Pantanal, which is the world’s largest freshwater wetlands. Often American geologists base their research on a region within the U.S. One of the many things that makes Lo and his work unique is his commitment to research abroad.

Celebration of Mind

 

Have you heard of M.C. Escher? Origami?

The widespread popularity of these and many other intellectual staples of popular culture is largely due to one man: Martin Gardner.
 
He is said to have created more mathematicians than any other person in history, through his numerous books and long-running recreational math column in Scientific American. Widely revered among mathematicians, Gardner passed away in 2010. However his influence and legacy continue to inspire us to approach seemingly intractable problems from unconventional angles.
 
"Gardner's greatest skill was his ability to communicate complex mathematical ideas to the layperson," said math graduate student Cyrus Hettle. "His books and especially his long-running column in Scientific American are full of ideas that are central to modern mathematics, but Gardner – whose mathematical education never went beyond calculus – made them accessible to anyone with a high school mathematics education." 
 
"Gardner also presented mathematics in a truly multidisciplinary way. Not only did he explain mathematics using puzzles, games, and magic tricks, he found mathematics and mathematical ideas in poetry and art," Hettle explained.
 
The Celebration of Mind is an international celebration of Gardner, who would have turned 100 this year. "This is the fourth Celebration of Mind at UK, and I'm excited to be a part of this global event," said Hettle, who is heading up this year's festivities.
 
There are over 80 events worldwide, on every continent except Antarctica. UK's event will be on Monday, November 3, from 4:45 to 5:45 p.m. at the Math House. Refreshments will be served, as well as confections for the mind - all the mathematical games, puzzles, and magic tricks one can imagine to honor the contributions of Gardner.
 
Faculty, students, and all others with an interest in mathematics are invited to attend!
 
For more information, contact Cyrus Hettle at cyrus.h@uky.edu
 
Also check out the International Celebration of Mind website at celebrationofmind.org.
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Math House, 654 Maxwelton Ct
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Discrete CATS Seminar

Title:  The combinatorial structure behind the free Lie algebra

Abstract:  We explore a beautiful interaction between algebra and combinatorics in the heart of the free Lie algebra on n generators: The multilinear component of the free Lie algebra Lie(n) is isomorphic as a representation of the symmetric group to the top cohomology of the poset of partitions of an n-set tensored with the sign representation. Then we can understand the algebraic object Lie(n) by applying poset theoretic techniques to the poset of partitions whose description is purely combinatorial. We will show how this relation generalizes further in order to study  free Lie algebras with multiple compatible brackets.

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745 Patterson Office Tower
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