Join us for an artist talk with Sasha Petrenko, Tyler Calkin and Sudeep Chandra Thursday July 17^th 6:00 pm.

Tahoe Co-Lab

During the summer, the Tahoe Gallery is transformed into an experimental collaborative research residency. Artist Sasha Petrenko from Western Washington University, Tyler Calkin from University of Nevada, Reno and Limnologist Sudeep Chandra from the University of Nevada, Reno, have been selected to collaboratively research, create, collaborate, and perform. This collaboration is an exploration of visual art, sound and the Tahoe Basin. The Tahoe Gallery is activated as a research space, studio, collaboration lab, and ultimately an exhibition venue. The way this unfolds is dictated by the trio and the experimentation and research they are conducting together, without presupposing the outcome. The collaborators explore the themes of place and space, of the lake and the atmosphere, of humans and nature while deeply engaging with the Tahoe basin. This space is experimental, and this program is designed to be flexible and interdisciplinary.

Sasha Petrenko- Interdisciplinary visual and sound artist.  Sasha is Associate Professor of Sculpture and Expanded Media at Western Washington University in Bellingham. www.sashapetrenko.org

Tyler Calkin - Is an Interdisciplinary artist using objects, performance, video, augmented and virtual reality, machine learning, and motion capture, often in recursive combination. Calkin is an Associate Professor and Head of Digital Media at the University of Nevada, Reno where he teaches critical theory and experimental practices in video, immersive and interactive media, and digital fabrication. https://tylercalkin.com

Sudeep Chandra- Professor of Limnology in the Biology Department at the University of Nevada, Reno (USA), Sudeep Chandra serves as Director of the University’s Global Water Center: Solutions for Sustainability, the Ozmen Institute for Global Studies. www.unr.edu/biology/people/sudeep-chandra