Steampunk Across the Pond
October 13–February 21
Oxford University, Wellington Square Oxford, England OX1 2JD
With names like Dr. Grimm, Datamancer, and Mad Uncle Cliff working in media ranging from gas masks to brass goggles and hot-air engines, the artists of the Steampunk movement are bringing their mélange of past, future and fantasy to the Museum of the History of Science at Oxford University for a group exhibition. Under the curatorial direction of Art Donovan—who describes his illuminated sculptures as “electro-futurist”—the group of 18 artists will be showing jewelry, computer accessories, costumes, watches, kinetic sculptures and all things that represent the Steampunk aesthetic, which Donovan describes as “the steam of antique locomotion combined with the punk outsider, the lone wolf artist, the do-it-yourself craftsperson not beholden to any contemporary style or ideology.” Of all the marriages of old and new offered at the exhibition, Jesse Newhouse’s iPod gramophone promises to be among the most fitting manifestations of the genre that has gained so much attention of late. —Erika Heet
More info: mhs.ox.ac.uk
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