August 15 at Grotto 101
7pm
RSVP only
Celebrate my birthday with … an evening of Renaissance art, the awakening, the brilliant light of a generation…and in a time of great change, let’s celebrate beauty, precision, the fruits of artistic labor, and rebellion…human creativity is the key to our future…at least that’s the hope.
In pure antithetical fashion, the birthday will also couple as a gentle fundraiser for my upcoming devised production, Syntax Error: The Quickening of AI. Donations can be made in advance or on-site. Patronage for the arts is on the decline in this country and anti-human art is on the rise. What is this production I am creating with a group of crafty trickster-brilliant artists? It is a myth, a journey, a critique, a fantasy, from futures past…
The event will be catered with bespoke cocktails made by an illustrious genius…rotating visuals of immaculate artistry…singing bowls sound vibrations plus a live performance from Key Hole…and YOU, creating an exquisite corpse poem… life, death, rebirth ::: desire, art, manifestation. Please join me for an illuminating evening in the cool, cavernous comfort of Grotto 101.
Venus, the evening star, will be at her peak brightness this exact evening…binoculars will be provided…
An event activity will be a recording booth where you can rage, wonder, fantasize and contribute your thoughts about AI, LLMs, climate, and the future…
Please do RSVP — either in facesplat platform or in external link below — for food/drink calculations…
If you received an invite and you are outside Austin city limits, know that I miss you and will hopefully live stream some of the festivities. I would love to gather your thoughts.
More about event image here:
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/petrified-waters/
Donations for Syntax Error here:
https://www.syntaxerror2025.com/support/
Etching after Bernardo Buontalenti, depicting a chariot procession of Poseidon, held on May 28, 1589, for the wedding of Ferdinando I and Christine of Lorraine, intended to show “how the waters of the world had come to pay tribute to the new Grand Duchess” — Source.
