Invite

[rinue]

Next Friday (the 21st), I'm going to be presenting "The Origin of the Milky Way" at the Dallas Museum of Art as part of their Art Bytes program (which is itself part of Friday Late Nights). I'll be talking (briefly) about the intersections of old and new media, what can be accomplished with digital and analog methods, and the way 500 year old paintings can stay relevant and reach a greater audience. Some other artists will also be presenting, of varying ages and experience levels, but I'm not sure who they are yet. I think it runs from around 9:30-10:30. I'm not sure whether you have to pay to get into the museum. It's in the Tech Lab, which is in the Center for Creative Connections. (First floor, roughly opposite the center staircase. The bit of the building between the sculpture yard and the fountain.) I'd love to see you if you're interested and in town. And if you can't make it, I may be teaching some workshops later based on this same project.

Comments

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

I love that painting. Such a giggle. It's just so... so... multi-level mytho-allegorico-weirdo slightly-kinked full of stuff going off in different directions (not just the milk).

[rinue.livejournal.com]

Yeah! It was crazy because when I was making the film, I was able to access all these archives about the restoration work and exactly what the chemical composition of each paint was (from which I could figure out where the paint came from, because Italy was shipping stuff in from everywhere right then), and saw a low-quality mimeograph of a reproduction that surfaced in Germany in the 70s and then disappeared again, but which had the bottom half. It was like the ultimate excuse to geek out in a library.

[rinue.livejournal.com]

I got pretty obsessed with the peacocks.

[valancy.livejournal.com]

So damn excited. TEE!

[movingfinger.livejournal.com]

The peacocks would consider that proper and correct.

Have a blast at the talk!