You are invited to
DetoitIRL, a web art
event at the Cass Cafe on Saturday 12 March 2005 - 7PM to ?? featuring projections
of Detroit images by Lowell with a backdrop of Detroit soul classics
by DJ Soulaholic.
So put down that mouse, turn
off that monitor and come out and meet real people In Real Life surrounded
by a Detroit mood environment.
Cyber
Tribal Gathering? Mass
Blind Date? Flash Mob? Fabulous Ruins Night 2?
SoulfulDetroit
Night 2? Yes, it is a little bit of all of those but mainly
it is an opportunity to hang out, meet, laugh, eat, drink
and be merry.
There
will be no speeches, no events, just a mellow Detroit environment
to gather and meet.
Warm regards, Lowell
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Special Thanks to Soulaholic [Brian Harkin-
DJ], Data Image
Systems [Don Tujaka - Projection Equipment], Cass
Café
[Diana May, Chuck Roy & Robin Summers Facilities and Art
Gallery] and AtDetroit, LLC [Susan Kramer - Art
Direction and PR] for their generous sponsorship of this
event. |
Cass
Café
The
Cass Café is well known as the gathering point for Detroit’s
creative community and has been host to exhibitions and
performance by many of Detroit’s most renowned artists and
musicians. It is located in the heart of Detroit’s cultural
center and art bohemia, just south of the corner of Cass and
Forest and a short distance south of the Detroit Art Institute
and Wayne State University campus.
IRL?
The driving force
behind the DetroitYES.com Web Artwork has been the effort to move from
virtual community to real community through IRL [in real life]
events such as the February 2001 "Fabulous
Ruins Night", the May 2003 SoulfulDetroit
Night, and spontaneous forum generated gatherings like
the FSC [Forum Social Club] and the SD45CC meet ups.
Detroit IRL
is web art portion of the
DETROIT360 painting
and web art exhibition by Lowell Boileau [details at the right].
The painting exhibition opened 22 Jan 2005 and features fine
art paintings and photographs. The exhibition continues until
April 9, 2005.
About
DetroitYES & SoulfulDetroit
DetroitYES.com
and SoulfulDetroit.com are attempts to use the web as an art
medium to paint a multidimensional portrait of the International
Metropolis of Detroit through images of the city and, particularly,
through the voices of those who care about Detroit as expressed
through the websites' forums.
The idea is
to create an audience authored artwork, one where the artist
poses the question and then becomes just another of the
participants in pursuit of answers, answers which enrich the
portrait with color and detail.
