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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, pyrotechnic robotic cacophany.
NEXT STOP! : HOME AUTOMATION, the one and only pyrotechnic paranoid robotic theatre, will arrive at the Austin Enchanted Forest for the ART OUTSIDE INTERNATIONAL ART AND MUSIC FESTIVAL.
Austin, TX - March 6th-16th
ART OUTSIDE FESTIVAL ONLINE
HOME AUTOMATION AT THE BONNAROO FESTIVAL '07/'08
'Home Automation' took the stage in America's largest
Art and Music Festival
... The Bonnaroo Festival,
June 14th-17th in Manchester, TN
If you were by chance one of the 90,000 people
traveling to the Bonnaroo Festival ...
you may have experienced 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 added something completely new. Karave states,
"We added an extra touch ... the robot family's heads burst into circuit breaking flames as the family reached their most color code disturbed state."
The Such N Such Artists Collective
PLANS ARE FOR A RETURN TO BONNAROO IN JUNE OF 2008!
HOME AUTOMATION AT THE DELTA AXIS POWERHOUSE, MEMPHIS, TN
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"
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 artifact liberation.
As well, we had 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.
The very talented Adrienne Nadeau performed 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 YBOR CIGAR THEATER - Tampa's new hope for an arts community
The Cigar Theater On Myspace
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! Create ART AGAINST FEAR.
Current Terror Alert Level
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 Home Automation and they include producer Sophie Thouin, Video artist Christopher Payne, RoboMechanics on Wrist Motion & Catapulting Couch Denis Petrushin, Foundry artists Josh Dow and Lauren Holmgron, Graphic/Web Designer Jeff Hill and Kevin Pez, Programmers Christopher Payne, David karave and Alex Swanson, Robotic Art Advisers Simon Laroche and Martin Peach, Pneumatics Control Box Creation also by Martin Peach, Sound by Alex Swanson and Elana Ruth, Sound editor Nikola Markovik, Original music Helen Hall, Moulding artist Chang Wan, Wax Cast Assistants Genevieve Ayotte, Mykhailo Himka, Owen Eric Wood, Jean-Sebastian Gauthier, Vera-Maria Zissis, Dree, Denis Petrushin, Sian Madoc Jones and Vigrinia Preston, Master Carpenter Marc-André Roy, Robotic Family's Voices by David karave, Christopher Payne, Doug Price, Valerie Politis and Jack Burke, and Photographer Marlène Gélineau-PayetteThe robotic installation art work "Home Automation", created by famed robotics artist David Karave, is a volatile mixture of cinema, theatre, violent robotics, and sculpture.
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David Karave is currently booking shows in Florida for the first three weeks of April.
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