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Monday, July 21
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Friday, February 29
TWENTY YEAR RETROSPECTIVE works in oil by Wendy Jane Bantam
Opening Reception March 30th, 2008 Doane College Crete, Nebraska ~~~~ Public Lecture April 10th, 2008 4pm Doane College Campus Crete, Nebraska
Monday, March 14
BUDDY RICH VS. ANIMAL...Drum Kit EXTRAVAGANZA!!!
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Wednesday, December 1
German opera composer Richard Wagner believed that the future of music, music theater, and all the arts, lay in an embrace of Gesamtkunstwerk or total artwork, a fusion of the arts that had not been attempted on this scale since the classic Greeks. In 1849, Wagner wrote the essay, The Art-work of the Future, defining the synthesis of the arts in which opera served as a vehicle for the unification of all the arts into a single medium of artistic expression.
The Festpielhaus (Festival House) Theater opened in 1876 in Bayreuth, Germany, where Wagner applied his theatrical innovations including: darkening the house, surround-sound reverberance, and the revitalization of the Greek amphitheatrical seating to focus audience attention on stage. This approach to opera foreshadowed the experience of virtual reality, immersing the audience in the imaginary world of the stage.
*I am presently working on research exploring problem solving and the creative mind. Specifially regarding how artists synthesize information and the benefits of using multi media to create extra sensory work using sound, light, and movement in animated installation. Wagner was one of the first documented artists to explore this. I will begin, however, with William Burroughs and Laurie Anderson (presently a NASA artist in residence) and finish with Matthew Barney http://cremaster.net (Married to Bjork and influenced by the music of SLAYER) as examples of the natural progression of extra sensory exploration in the arts and sciences.
Saturday, November 13
WRITINGS AND RESEARCH
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