*SPECIAL EVENTS*
"BUCKY" - a one-man performance
Saturday, Nov.13th at 8:30 pm
The Great Hall @ Cooper Union
7 E. 7th Street at 3rd Ave, NYC
Tickets: $10 at the door (only)
(sales begin at 6pm)
This New York premier is being featured in conjunction with the ARTSCI'99
Symposium and is a one-time only event.
Meet R. Buckminster Fuller, inventor, architect, engineer, mathematician,
businessman, poet and philosopher; clearly one of the most exciting minds
of our century. Brad Armstrong's characterization evokes the essence of
one of Bucky's infamous lecture/talks: congenial, entertaining, wide
ranging, humanistic and sharp-witted. Using colorful props and
projections, BUCKY takes the audience on a transformative journey into the
playful mind of a genius at work. Here is a man who set out to change the
course of history, not through politics but through invention. The
physical objects he created like the geodesic dome and Dymaxion map
deliberately and spontaneously re-orient us to reality. Bucky most
treasured human beings' unique ability to understand and participate in the
underlying patterns of the universe. It was his unshakable belief that
each of us here on "Spaceship Earth" has a singular contribution to make
toward bettering the whole planet's welfare - and that exactly that, and no
less, is the success for which mankind is designed.
Through the powerful universal principles that Buckminster Fuller
discovered and utilized during his lifetime, namely, Synergy, Precession,
Ephemeralization, and Acceleration of Acceleration, we can explain and
predict some of the fastest mutating, richest and most inclusive patterns
of behaviors operating throughout the universe. Learning and applying
Bucky's principles enables us to move forward in our stewardship of the
earth with extraordinary innovation, speed and integrity.
About The Playwright and Actor
Alice Wilson wrote BUCKY, her sixth script, in dialogue with it's actor
Brad Armstrong. Wilson has Seventeen years of theatre experience as the
Artistic Director of two professional theatre companies, both of which
received National Endowment For The Arts funding throughout her tenure.
Brad began acting in professional theater in Houston, Texas then took a
career detour to become a successful trial lawyer and entrepreneur. It was
his passion for Bucky's work that led him back onto the stage.
His writings, etc.-The Buckminster Fuller Institute -
http://www.bfi.org
Alice is on Panel#4 at the ARTSCI'99 Symposium.
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DIGITAL'99
November 1 - Dec. 15, 1999
ARTIST RECEPTION: Saturday, Nov. 13th (1:30 - 3pm)
JURIST: Therese Mulligan, Curator of Photography,
The George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.
The winners were selected from ASCI's second annual
international competition and includes works in two categories:
DIGITAL PRINT>>> Abigail Doan, Madge Gleeson, Jun-Ho Lee,
Marjan Moghaddam, and Heidi Nash-Siedlecki.
WEB ART >>>Carmin Karasic, Liz Miller, and Parkbench.org
(that will be unveiling a new interface design!)
LOCATION: The The Brooks Design Center Gallery is located in the Engineering Building at The Cooper Union, 51 Astor Place, NYC. (Take the "R" train to 8th Street and walk east one block on Astor Place; or "#6 train" to Astor Place and it's a low yellowish bldg. on the northeast corner. Call ASCI or visit the website for more information on the artists at
http://www.asci.org/digital99
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