FLIK Movie Festival and Interactive Exhibition

Posted by: David Lawrence, Production & Design Consultant Aug 01, 2008 1 Comments

How has society been changed by technology? For better? For worse? Has the rise of technology been about beauty and improvement? Is technology’s influence even relevant to society today? The Art Whino Gallery and Art Outlet teamed up this year to create the FLIK Movie Festival & Interactive Exhibit to bring up these questions.

Some of the artists you’ll see in the FLIK exhibit are part of the DC Poster Collective, a group of designers and graphic artists who come together to produce poster exhibitions and events. I’ve been a part of the group for several years now; I started with posters that were showcased at Artomatic, which is a month-long multimedia arts event that brings together work from artists, musicians, and performers.

Artomatic is where I first met Henrik Sundqvist, a fellow graphic designer who heads both the DC Poster Collective and Art Outlet and who helped get me involved in the graphic design/print end of Artomatic. Rock Creek has actually printed the designers’ posters for a few of these poster-showing events.

My poster for the FLIK exhibit is designed to inspire people to pick up a paintbrush, pen, pencil, or whatever medium it may be that moves you to become more involved in a fun, hands-on, old school experience, rather than a computer-generated design. Ironically, my poster design, although hand drawn in its concept stages, was brought to completion on a computer.

You can see all the posters at Art Outlet. One of my favorites was done by my good friend Paul Campanella. His poster depicts the classic Mona Lisa made up entirely of large pixels in the year 2008 and showcases a bold theme: technology ruining a painting.

In their own way, each poster is a message to turn off your computer screen and go to a museum or gallery and interact with art in person, with other people. See art how it’s meant to be seen.

The FLIK Interactive Exhibition will be showcased at Art Whino Gallery until August 29. To learn more about the exhibit, visit CultureCapital.com

Art Whino Gallery is located at the National Harbor (173 Waterfront Street, National Harbor, MD 20745).

David Lawrence

Production & Design Consultant

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