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Ashley Pond will host amazing and intriguing outdoor exhibitors, delicious food vendors, the main stage, Event Information, Fractal Challenge Art poster sales, the QR Challenge, and the Einstein Look-Alike Contest.
The Community Building (at Ashley Pond) will host some incredible indoor exhibitors - a MUST SEE stop along your Festival tour!
The Community Building (at Ashley Pond) will host some incredible indoor exhibitors - a MUST SEE stop along your Festival tour!
Los Alamos' Mesa Public Library is the host to Ursonate by Jack Ox, a sound visualization painting and installation, on display at the Mesa Public Library Art Gallery from now until October 27, 2011.
What is Ursonate?
An ongoing exhibition of an intriguing intermedia work at Mesa Public Library Upstairs Art Gallery. Open 10-6 PM Friday, September 16 with opening reception from 4:00-5:30 PM and 10-5 PM Saturday September 17 with related performance by vocal artist Kristen Loree at the Bradbury Science Museum at 2:00 PM. Art and performance? Yes! This work is a visualization of 1930’s artist Kurt Schwitters’ original score entitled Ursonate, a phonetic sound poem in sonata form. Artist Jack Ox has created an 800 square foot painting that visually interprets Schwitters’ sound work. See it and hear it to understand it! 800 square foot painting that is a visualization of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate. Artists Jack Ox and Kristen Loree are artists in residence for this year's Next Big Idea Festival.
Following your visit to Mesa Public Library to view Jack Ox's visualization of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate, be sure to make your way to the Bradbury Science Museum for the 2:00pm live performance component of the artwork ... a sonata in primal sounds by vocalist Kristen Loree with visual projections by Jack Ox. Admission is free and general admission registration can be obtained online by clicking here.
What is Ursonate?
An ongoing exhibition of an intriguing intermedia work at Mesa Public Library Upstairs Art Gallery. Open 10-6 PM Friday, September 16 with opening reception from 4:00-5:30 PM and 10-5 PM Saturday September 17 with related performance by vocal artist Kristen Loree at the Bradbury Science Museum at 2:00 PM. Art and performance? Yes! This work is a visualization of 1930’s artist Kurt Schwitters’ original score entitled Ursonate, a phonetic sound poem in sonata form. Artist Jack Ox has created an 800 square foot painting that visually interprets Schwitters’ sound work. See it and hear it to understand it! 800 square foot painting that is a visualization of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate. Artists Jack Ox and Kristen Loree are artists in residence for this year's Next Big Idea Festival.
Following your visit to Mesa Public Library to view Jack Ox's visualization of Kurt Schwitter's Ursonate, be sure to make your way to the Bradbury Science Museum for the 2:00pm live performance component of the artwork ... a sonata in primal sounds by vocalist Kristen Loree with visual projections by Jack Ox. Admission is free and general admission registration can be obtained online by clicking here.
The Historical Museum
Only one Nobel Prize medal has been awarded for work done at Los Alamos National Laboratory. It went to Fred Reines in 1995 for his work on neutrinos. You can see the display Nobel Prize medal as well as some other “Next Big Idea” items from the Museum Collection, like a homemade “foosball” table that was created by scientists working on the first man-made nuclear reaction in Chicago or a tray for poker chips made out of leftovers from a lab experiment.
The Romero Cabin
What was the Next Big Idea 100 years ago? A tank on the wood stove to heat water? A corn drier? Visit with our living history docents to learn what life was like on the Pajarito Plateau at the beginning of the 20th Century – and see how many Big Ideas have changed our lives today.
The historic Fuller Lodge will be host to even more MUST SEE exhibitors and events. Upon entering, you will pass through a live side-walk chalk art exhibit in which artists will be using their incredible skills to create beautiful artworks using just chalk and the walkway. Upon entering the Lodge's Pajarito Room, you will see exhibitions and installations of this year's Science & Math-based Art (SMART) Contest, photographer Matt Wright's Photospheres, DarklingX's digital graffitti and Virtual LA Tour, and Honeycomb Musical Instrument - all interactive and visual stimulating exhibits.
At 12:00pm, the winners of Next Big Idea's international SMART contest will be announced at the Lodge. Come view the winning entries along with numerous other entries on a gigantic 20'x6' concave screen - visual eye candy!
At 12:00pm, the winners of Next Big Idea's international SMART contest will be announced at the Lodge. Come view the winning entries along with numerous other entries on a gigantic 20'x6' concave screen - visual eye candy!
