Otherwise, we look forward to this year’s events and re-organizing for next year’s main exhibit! If you have been working on a project for Automata 2012, please do contact us, as we are still working out the details. We will continue to post updates about all the exciting developments in the Robot Parade and the re-workings of the exhibit at Barrister’s Gallery. The Models and Miniatures exhibit at Barrister’s Gallery is also transformed! Several Automata artists will participate, but the focus of the exhibit has changed, and so has the name- it is now called Volatilia, and still runs from November 10 through December 3. If you would like to participate or get more information, please add your name and contact to our Robot Parade spreadsheet under the “I am interested” category, or via this blog.īe sure to add our facebook page, Automata New Orleans, and twitter feed for more frequent news updates!ĭue to difficulties in fund-raising this year, we will have to postpone the main Automata exhibit at the Ironworks, and our preview at the Ogden’s Library.Īutomata remains a sponsor of the Robot Parade on November 18th (including the Krewe of Spy vs. Roch neighborhood, with several great neighborhood partnerships in the works. The parade is still projected for mid-November, likely in the St.
Cole Wiley is coordinating the parade, and hosting workshops in his upper 9th ward studio. No longer just flying robots, but a slew of as many varieties a krewe can manage. Please click here to view the working list of artists, and visit Barrister’s Gallery for more information in the coming weeks.
AUTOMATA MECHANICAL TRIAL
A variation on this title occurs in Notebook 56, which bears the title ‘Volatilia or Day-book for bird-liming Small Thoughts, impounding Stray Thoughts, and holding for trial doubtful Thoughts’ With self-deprecating humour, Coleridge alluded to the impossibility of pinning down anything as elusive as a thought by calling his later notebooks ‘Fly-catchers’: the notebook pages function like fly paper, trapping the living thoughts or ‘winged words’ and preserving them for all time, but at the cost of that very living quality which made them worth preserving. Volatilia is also the title of one of Coleridge’s notebooks:
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