Douglas Repetto Obsessive Menagerie

on saturday, 18 october

special museum field trip to both view and honor Hartford's Old Pine, an ancient white pine renown both for its size and its beauty but also as a "courting tree". join us to learn the history of this noble tree. View it. Honor it. Hold hands around it—thats a town tradition. Its a pretty amazing tree that not too many people know about. bring your own poems to read, etc.

5 pm. 18th october. meet at main street museum, 58 bridge street. brief stop at the foodstop in hartford village to pick any travelers from the north at 5:10 and from there—caravan up the hill. the trip entails a walk through uneven, wooded ground of about 100 yards. free and open to the public!

• rain date 25th october, saturday, 4pm

and later that saturday, the 18th opening reception for douglas i repetto, curious pets. sculpture and bots at the museum

6 -- 8 pm. join us for wine and cheese, cupcakes and champagne! both of these saturday events are free! heres the low-down:

Douglas Repetto pr

Laser burning of wheels for the (rodent) brain. Douglas Repetto thanks Richard McMaster.

the main street museum is warmed to announce that it will be showing the assembled menagerie, zoo and fauna collection of artist, musician and thinker douglas irving repetto from october to january in its front gallery, in the reading room, and in any other rooms that his works might escape to...

Some of the Creatures exhbited will be:

Otter Theater, Sand Crab, Birdhouse, Bug Box, Fireflies, and the Diabetic Cat. and the Squirrel, (see below) What have we done? Weve let a menagerie loose in the Museum, most of them made out of wood, cardboard, string, antique hardware, motors, electronics. all of the animals on display date from 2008, c.e.

mr repetto is a former resident of the upper valley, and instructor at the electro-acoustic music department of nearby dartmouth college. he is now gathering grapes from the vineyard of learning at columbia university.

bio:

Douglas Irving Repetto is an artist and teacher. His work, including sculpture, installation, performance, recordings, and software is presented internationally. He is the founder of a number of art/community-oriented groups including Dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity, ArtBots: The Robot Talent Show, Organism: making art with living systems, and the music-dsp mailing list and website. Douglas is Director of Research at the Columbia University Computer Music Center and lives in New York City with his wife, writer Amy Benson; two cute/bad cats, Pokey and Sneezy; and many plants.

http://artbots.org

http://dorkbot.org

http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp

http://music.columbia.edu/organism

http://music.columbia.edu/~douglas

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Distributed Squirrel Cage for Parallel Processing. wood, glue, rubber bands, paper (2008)

Humans are invited to write obsessive thoughts on scraps of paper, deposit them in squirrel cages, and turn the crank, thus offloading the actual work of obsessing to the mechanism. This cutting-edge apparatus applies the latest techniques in distributed, massively parallel processing to the age-old problem of broken human minds.

The squirrel cage designs are based on photos I took in the eastern Upper Peninsula in Michigan. The sources are: a grape arbor made from saplings, an unidentified tentacle fossil, seed pods, a waterfall, flowers, unidentified footprints in sand, a coral fossil.

Special thanks to Richard McMaster for his tireless cutting, gluing, and staining of the squirrel cages.

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