Festival on art, science and production for immersive digital theater comes to LodeStar Astronomy Center
Imagine art, nature, science data, computer code and experimental digital works filling your eyes, ears and mind through a 5,000 square-foot immersive digital dome screen. Imagine these works coming from around the world and from a diversity of people from master artists to leading scientists to college students. What you’re imagining is DomeFest, the international festival for digital dome theaters and planetariums produced and hosted by the LodeStar Astronomy Center at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science.
The festival runs July 16-17 and includes a juried show of the best and boldest immersive experiences from the arts, sciences, entertainment and educational programs.
The 40-minute show includes 15 pieces created in Italy, Germany, Australia, and around the U.S., including four from New Mexico. The festival will also include two world premieres of new shows, a special screening of another show, and talks. This is the third annual DomeFest and visitors are expected from Europe, Australia, Canada and around the U.S.
Immediately preceding DomeFest, on July 15, will be the world premiere of Gronk’s BrainFlame, a 14-minute immersive art piece created by Los Angeles-based master artist Gronk and the University of New Mexico’s Digital Pueblo Project.
There are two tracks to the festival: Special premieres and talks for registered DomeFest participants and public screenings. Registered festival participants will have access to all the premieres, talks and special screenings. Registration is available at: DomeFest 2005.
There will also be public screenings of each show. With the exception of Gronk’s BrainFlame, these are offered on a ‘pay as you can’ basis, with suggested donation of $8 for the Juried Show and $5 for the other DomeFest screenings. Gronk’s BrainFlame is free but requires a reservation by logging on at: http://artslab.unm.edu/rsvp.html
The festival will continue each Friday night until Sept. 9 with screenings of the 2005 Juried Show and Gronk’s BrainFlame as a double feature at LodeStar.
LodeStar is a world-leader in immersive digital theater production and education. LodeStar is a University of New Mexico project located at and operated in partnership with the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. DomeFest is produced with the support of UNM’s Art, Research, Technology & Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab).
For more information contact David Beining, DomeFest chair / LodeStar director at: (505) 362-2614.
Contact: Steve Carr, (505) 277-1821
Posted by scarr at July 11, 2005 05:52 PM