"MARINIANA: The Interrupted Wave"
MARINIANA: The Interrupted Wave, illuminating Ocean Mysteries through Myth and Science
An exhibition of Techspressionist Moving Images by Karen LaFleur and Renata Janiszewska
Cape Cod Museum of Art
60 Hope Lane, Dennis, MA
www.CCMoA.org
November 21, 2024 – February 9, 2025
Reception Dec 12, 3-5 pm
MARINIANA: The Interrupted Wave debuts at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis, MA. This is the Museum’s (and Cape Cod’s) first Techspressionism exhibition.
Mariniana features the moving images of two artists: Karen LaFleur and Renata Janiszewska who are both are actively involved in the Techspressionism worldwide community of artists. Although all of the images created for this exhibition relate to the Ocean, each artist sought their own inspiration from very different sources: LaFleur from Science and Janiszewska from Myth.
SCIENCE
Karen LaFleur collaborated with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientist Lukas Taenzer, through the Rhode Island Art League Synergy Program. LaFleur fills her Techspressionist moving image works with invented sea-creatures and swirling water movements to visually interpret Taenzer's scientific studies on how the coastal and open ocean intermingle and mix with one another by using data based on ocean salinity, temperature, and currents. Nancy Tucker created original music for LaFleur's moving images.
MYTH
Renata Janiszewska’s moving images express the ocean in Myth. Her readings of early maritime narratives colour the subjective content of her works in Mariniana. From Inuit tales of Sedna to Mermaids to the Sirens of Greek and Roman mythology, she captures human responses to the drama and unknowns of the sea, through curious movements, colours and sounds. Music for her moving images is composed, recorded and produced by Janiszewska in her studio.
TECHSPRESSIONISM
Techspressionism is an artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience. It introduces a new art-historical term to distinguish expressive fine art created with technology from other genres such as animated mainstream movies and video games.
