It’s Wednesday, which means that tonight is Wednesday Night Social and you are invited. We’ll be joined once again by our friends MAW, who will be working with artists Janaki Ranpura and Karen Haselmann to present a special interactive performance about health.
You can read more about it and RSVP here. We hope to see you at or after 8pm!
-Shanai
“University Professor Ali Momeni displays a light projection Wednesday at the West Bank Social Center. Momeni teaches Art on Wheels, a class and research initiative that lets students display art from bike-mobilized media disseminators.”
Photo via Jason Kopp at Minnesota Daily.
Minneapolis Art on Wheels, a group of University of Minnesota students who roam the city on homemade mobile contraptions and project art onto large-scale backdrops, is beefing up its program this year with weekly performances and new software that allows audiences to participate using iPods.
Since its conception in the spring of 2008, the program has had students traveling throughout the United States to places like Montana, Nevada, California and Iowa as well as internationally to countries including Hungary, the Czech Republic, China and Turkey.
The projections are never lacking in originality, and have included countless illuminated sketches, shadow puppets, live musicians, actors and word art.
Each Wednesday at dusk, the group will meet in the new West Bank Social Center headquarters — located above the Nomad World Pub — and project their creations from the windows onto a large wall below…
We said we didn’t know what would happen when we let Minneapolis Art on Wheels run our Wednesday night social. They are currently manipulating some moldy lemonade (forgotten and found on a dusty WBSC shelf) with a magnet and projecting the image onto the building next door.
We’ve also just fashioned a Wheel of (Mis)fortune from cardboard for this Friday’s Speakeasy.
Earlier this month Minneapolis Art on Wheels paid a visit to WBSC and temporarily transformed the space into a media laboratory. Click the link above to see a video they made documenting the evening.
Tonight MAW returns for the first in an ongoing series of Wednesday night happenings. We are not sure what will happen, but suspect that it will be a good time.
WBSC will be open from 7pm to Midnight tonight and on Wednesday nights from here onward. All are invited to stop by.
