From robotics artist DAVID KARAVE...
an intense combination of theatre, violent robotic art
& cinema ... Mesmerize yourself ... in the world of an anxious family of animatronic crash test
dummies
as they begin to musically smash into themselves...the family reacting to
disintegrating color code threat
alerts on their home TV...In 'Home Automation'...the robotic
family's own self destruction becomes musical rhythmic metal..The sound of desperate robots...and
the paradoxically beautiful music that the family creates ... is a testament to the intense,
multi-layered nature of this controversial robotic art work. ...
It is as if the robotic family's dying spirits break away from their bodies as music.
You will find a short video and biography, towards the end of this page...
HOME AUTOMATION COMES TO BONNAROO 2007
'Home Automation' will take the stage in America's largest Art and Music Festival
... The Bonnaroo Festival, June 14th-17th in Manchester, TN
If you are by chance one of the 90,000 people
traveling to the Bonnaroo Festival ... experience David Karave's robotic art,
along with America's greatest Fire and Sculpture Artists, as part of the
Artists Collective of 'Such N Such'.
For Bonnaroo, David Karave will also be adding something completely new. Karave states,
"We are adding an extra touch ... the robot family's heads will burst into circuit breaking
flames as they reach their most color code disturbed state."
The Such N Such Artists Collective
HOME AUTOMATION AT THE DELTA AXIS POWERHOUSE, MEMPHIS, TN
The Most recent Show of David Karave's 'HOME AUTOMATION'
Took Place at Memphis' internationally known gallery, The Delta Axis
Powerhouse, on Saturday, May 19th, 2007, 'Home Automation' was
transformed into an interactive installation
Proceeds supported Indie Memphis,
Power House & Delta Axis
Delta Axis Powerhouse Online
The Tampa SHOW WAS A GREAT SUCCESS ! :
Friday the 13th, and Saturday the 14th of April, Tampa's new hope for an arts community,
The Ybor Cigar Theater, presented a collection of art and performances by dozens
of Florida Artists for Peace across many disciplines, all creating 'Art Against Fear'.
The Tampa Tribune hailed "David Karave ... is a rising star in the Art World"
David Karave presented a live performance of a family of robotic crash test dummies
that violently and musically self-destruct in reaction to the disintegrating color code
threat alerts on their projected home TV. The robotic family moves into symphonies of
musical anxiety, as they resort to rhythmically destroying themselves.
Also in the show, curated by David Karave ... Beth Elkin presented 'Homeland Buffoonery',
workshops and performances of protest with fellow clown Derek Baxter, under a new form of
activism : clowning and calling for peace while costumed in army and clown gear.
The great pianist Alex Gendron brought us his paranoid futuristic keyboard
rhapsodies first in collaboration with David Karave, and then once again in a
solo performance.
N.O. Bonzo gave us a showcase of her color drenched apocalyptic
neopsychedelic paintings.
Also, presenting at the show were Rachel Bishop's 'Silent Burning', a performance
of video projection and spoken word on themes of censorship, Erik Zimmerman's
deranged wooden robots, Mark Runge's beautiful and astounding collages on fear
and innocence, and Desiree D'Alessandro's installations/sculptures of pharmaceutical
artifact liberation. As well, we will have Angela Dickerson's paintings of color colliding
peace bearing trees, Digital 3D artist Anthony Cartagena's portraits of his inhuman army,
and Samuel A. Warmack's minimalist ghostlike worlds of children, loss, and light.
Adrienne Nadeau, Jeff Brian Land and the Cigar Theater Spoken Word Crew will perform
spoken word poetry against fear. Painter Mary Martinez presented a child's call for peace,
amongst many other artists including two massive stories of open studios, showcasing
the Cigar Theater's many ongoing artworks.
The schedule was as follows
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Friday the 13th of April 6pm-11pm
7pm-8pm Blake Emory and The Cigar Theater Crew with the great fire sword dance
8pm-8:30pm David Karave's Cinematic Self Destructing Fearful robots
8:30pm-9pm Alex Gendron paranoid futuristic keyboard rhapsodies
9pm-9:15pm Rachel Bishop 'Silent Burning'?
Art Against Fear Spoken Word - throughout the night
Homeland Buffoonery clowning performances/interventions - throughout the night
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Saturday the 14th of April 10am-11pm
10am-1pm 'Homeland Buffoonery' Clowning Workshop with Beth Elkins, pls RSVP
2pm-2:30pm David Karave's Cinematic Self Destructing Fearful Robots
4pm-7pm 'Homeland Buffoonery' Clowning Workshop with Beth Elkins, pls RSVP
7:30pm-8:30pm Blake Emory & The Cigar Theater Crew with the great fire sword dance
8:30-9pm David Karave's Cinematic Self Destructing Fearful Robots
8:30-9pm Alex Gendron's paranoid futuristic keyboard rhapsodies / featured musicians
9pm-9:15pm Rachel Bishop 'Silent Burning'
Art Against Fear Spoken Word - throughout the night
Homeland Buffoonery Clown performances/interventions - throughout the night
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THE YBOR CIGAR THEATER - Tampa's new hope for an arts community
The Cigar Theater On Myspace
Experience Home Automation here :
Click here for Photos >>>
Click here to Step into the Home Automation Living Room (6min. video 8MB)
(Format Quicktime MOV)
Information for promoters /collaborators:
WWW.MYSPACE.COM/CRASHINGART
MEDIA LINKS :
Lecture for Dorkbot NYC
Interview by Rocketboom NYC
Podcast from Science and the City
Experience crash art.
Here you will find a video, pictures and a biography for the cinematic-self-destructing-robotic-art works of David Karave.
I am now exploring collaborations with musicans, artists and activists in any venue. I am also looking into the possible creation of a touring festival of art and music in '08 called THE ART AGAINST FEAR FESTIVAL' If you feel that you create art against fear, and you would like to join the festival, please contact me- musicians, artists and activists.
About the art work 'Home Automation' : In a walk-in installation, a robotic crash test dummy family reacts in violent musical seizures, to the color code threat alerts they experience on their home TV. As the color code threats rise, the self destructing anxiety of the robotic family cascades into a crashing, musical, cinematic, robotic cacophany.
The idea for a robotic cinema ... In 2003, after a year of searching, Karave received a loan of a crash test dummy from the US de-fense department. Karave used the dummy as a prototype to eventually create a robotic installation- the final result - a crash test dummy family that violently reacts in musical seizures, to the color code threat alerts they experience on their home TV. The art project called 'Home Automation' was born.
In Home Automation, the robotic family's own self destruction becomes musical, rhythmic metal. The sound of desperate robots, and the paradoxically beautiful music that the family creates, is a testament to the intense, multi-layered nature of this controversial art work. It is as if the robotic family's dying spirits break away from their bodies as music.
About David Karave :
David Karave was born in 1977 in Providence, RI. He studied theatre during his undergaduate years at Bennington College, VT and the BADA Acting Conservatory, London, England. In 2000 he partnered with Spooky World Haunted Amusement Parks where he began to combine theatre with animatronics, sound and robotic art. Karave was a part of the team that designed the robotic scares at the massive Spooky World Haunt-Amusement park. Karave went on to receive his master's degree in Fine arts(Robotic Art and Cinema) from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. In Montreal Karave collaborated with many great artists including Christopher Payne, Josh Dow, Chan Wan Wee, and Denis Petrushin.
Following a very succesful first show at the renowned 'Society for Art and Technology gallery', production in Montreal, 'Home Automation' continued on, received by audiences in Rhode Island, New York and Baltimore. In September and October 2006 the 'Home Automation' project was supported by legendary playwright Edward Albee and his foundation in New York.
Paradoxically, the de-fense department had helped create a project that denounces the color code threat alert system. The department of de-fense had supported the call for peace.
The Home-land Secu-rity Depart-ment's color code threat alert system is an aggression against the beauty of color itself. Painters everywhere rise up! All artists rise up! We can create ART AGAINST FEAR.
Current Terror Alert Level
You now Feel warm and wholesome, instead of numb and paranoid. (courtesy of the patriot geeks for peace at http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/)
While we understand that our leaders need a system of communication, we contest its experiment on the civillian population. We simply have no use for the color codes other than as an object of our fears. Roughly FORTY ARTISTS have collaborated on the 'Home Automation' project and they include :
Here you will find a video, pictures and a biography for the cinematic-self-destructing-robotic-art works of David Karave.
I am now exploring collaborations with musicans, artists and activists in any venue. I am also looking into the possible creation of a touring festival of art and music in '08 called THE ART AGAINST FEAR FESTIVAL' If you feel that you create art against fear, and you would like to join the festival, please contact me- musicians, artists and activists.
About the art work 'Home Automation' : In a walk-in installation, a robotic crash test dummy family reacts in violent musical seizures, to the color code threat alerts they experience on their home TV. As the color code threats rise, the self destructing anxiety of the robotic family cascades into a crashing, musical, cinematic, robotic cacophany.
The idea for a robotic cinema ... In 2003, after a year of searching, Karave received a loan of a crash test dummy from the US de-fense department. Karave used the dummy as a prototype to eventually create a robotic installation- the final result - a crash test dummy family that violently reacts in musical seizures, to the color code threat alerts they experience on their home TV. The art project called 'Home Automation' was born.
In Home Automation, the robotic family's own self destruction becomes musical, rhythmic metal. The sound of desperate robots, and the paradoxically beautiful music that the family creates, is a testament to the intense, multi-layered nature of this controversial art work. It is as if the robotic family's dying spirits break away from their bodies as music.
About David Karave :
David Karave was born in 1977 in Providence, RI. He studied theatre during his undergaduate years at Bennington College, VT and the BADA Acting Conservatory, London, England. In 2000 he partnered with Spooky World Haunted Amusement Parks where he began to combine theatre with animatronics, sound and robotic art. Karave was a part of the team that designed the robotic scares at the massive Spooky World Haunt-Amusement park. Karave went on to receive his master's degree in Fine arts(Robotic Art and Cinema) from Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec. In Montreal Karave collaborated with many great artists including Christopher Payne, Josh Dow, Chan Wan Wee, and Denis Petrushin.
Following a very succesful first show at the renowned 'Society for Art and Technology gallery', production in Montreal, 'Home Automation' continued on, received by audiences in Rhode Island, New York and Baltimore. In September and October 2006 the 'Home Automation' project was supported by legendary playwright Edward Albee and his foundation in New York.
Paradoxically, the de-fense department had helped create a project that denounces the color code threat alert system. The department of de-fense had supported the call for peace.
The Home-land Secu-rity Depart-ment's color code threat alert system is an aggression against the beauty of color itself. Painters everywhere rise up! All artists rise up! We can create ART AGAINST FEAR.
Ernie: All commercial flights
Bert: Everything else
You now Feel warm and wholesome, instead of numb and paranoid. (courtesy of the patriot geeks for peace at http://www.geekandproud.net/terror/)
While we understand that our leaders need a system of communication, we contest its experiment on the civillian population. We simply have no use for the color codes other than as an object of our fears. Roughly FORTY ARTISTS have collaborated on the 'Home Automation' project and they include :
Creator David Karave Créateur
Producer of the Montreal debut Sophie Thouin Productrice
Video artist Christopher Payne Artiste vidéaste
RoboMechanics on Wrist Motion & Catapulting Couch Denis Petrushin Mouvement poignet robo-mecanique et divan catapultant
Foundry artists Josh Dow Artistes de fonderie
Lauren Holmgron
Graphic/Web Designer Jeffrey Hill Designer graphique/web
Kevin Pesenecker
Programmers David karave Programmeurs
Christopher Payne
Alex Swanson
Robotic Art Advisers Simon Laroche Conseillers en art robotique
Martin Peach
Sound Alex Swanson Son
Elana Ruth
Sound editor Nikola Markovic Montage sonore
Original music Helen Hall Musique originale
Moulding artist Chang Wan Wee Artiste de moulure
Wax Cast Assistants Genevieve Ayotte Assistants de moulure
Mykhailo Himka
Owen Eric Wood
Jean-Sebastian Gauthier
Vera-Maria Zissis
Dree
Vigrinia Preston
Master Carpenter Marc-André Roy Construction du décor
Voices David karave Voix
Christopher Payne
Doug Price
Valerie Politis
Jack Burke
Photographer Marlène Gélineau-Payette Photographe