Meet the Artist series features Troy Rogers and his Weaving the Mesh artist talk.
Monday, February 12, 8-9 pm EST on Zoom
With support from the FETA Foundation and a 2023 McKnight Composer Fellowship, Rogers recently completed a six-week artist residency in Miami. His artist talk, “Weaving the mesh” will touch upon various ways in which his work designs, fabricates, and tends to mesh networks of several types, from a 3d-printed body suit and interspecies music making with dolphins, both of which were aspects of his residency, to HEXAS (Hexagonal Exta-territorial Aquautonomous State), a standardized series of regular hexagonal floating platforms stitched together by community members to create a floating stage and platform for research in underwater music making—a subproject of the underwater music festival SubSuperior, which weaves together artistic communities in Duluth, Miami, Detroit, and beyond.
Join us and ask questions. Discover and engage!
Get your free ticket here:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/meet-the-artist-troy-rogers-tickets-827007731387
About Troy Rogers:
Troy Rogers (Duluth, MN) is deeply involved in the creation, performance, and dissemination of early 21st century semi-nomadic robot herder’s music. His Robot Rickshaw was a human-driven cart full of musical robots designed for all-terrain performance scenarios ranging from guerrilla drive-by rapid-fire black-MIDI-burst-spewing dadaist street interventions to extended duration post-human dronecore therapy sessions. His instruments and performances joyfully teeter between mind-bending wonder and catastrophic failure, underscoring both a skepticism for the chances of contemporary civilization surviving its technological adolescence, and yet an unwavering belief in the power and potential in humans as amplifiers of low probabilistic states.
More about Troy Rogers: https://www.instagram.com/robotrickshaw/
Feta Foundation: https://www.fetafoundation.com/
Poster Photo credit: Paul Lundgren, Perfect Duluth Day
With the support of Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.