Spend Weekend With Amelia Earhart's Talking Brain
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Check out the Amelia Earhart Navigation System this weekend. It uses an Art Deco-style radio, a trumpet and a brain in a jar topped with an aviator cap and goggles.
Ever heard of the Steampunk art genre? No? You're probably not alone. But now is your chance to check it out. If you like things that are a little odd, it might be right up your alley.
The MAC 650 Artspace Gallery in Middletown is hosting an exhibit called Steampunk Bizarre.
"Come and see a time that never happened," the Middletown Artist Cooperative writes on its Web site.
Interested yet? OK, here's some more. Steampunk Bizarre features two independent artists, as well as a team from a Middletown company called Steam Gear Labs, which makes custom-built creatures and props for horror movies.
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"It's science meets Victorian, late 1800s meets technology," Steam Gear Labs co-owner Joey Marsocci tells the Middletown Press.
Artist Noel Coonce-Ewing has several pieces in the show.
"It’s about taking technology and applying it to another time," Coonce-Ewing told the newspaper.
One of the pieces in the show, the Amelia Earhart Navigation System, uses an Art Deco-style radio, a trumpet and a brain in a jar topped with an aviator cap and goggles to create a paranormal trip through the last days of Earhart’s mysterious life. The radio plays a recorded story of her disappearance, as if her brain is talking.
“Steampunk is finding junk and pulling it together,” Coonce-Ewing she told the newspaper. “Props throughout history are made from junk.”
Another item, the Eye-Pod Victrola, takes the iPod back t the Victorian era. A victrola serves as a docking station, and instead of the wheel to scroll through songs, it has an eyeball.
The MAC 650 Artspace Gallery is hosting a closing party for the exhibit tonight from 7 to 10 p.m.
Steampunk Bizarre will also be open Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. to noon.
The gallery is located at 650 Main St. in Middletown.
Posted Sunday, Jul 19, 2009 - 10:17 PM EST
