Video: Fun with Interactive Art @ The Chrysler

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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011 at 9:56 am

When I heard that the next Norfology Nights was going to be at The Chrysler,

I was excited for three reasons:

Fun with art.

1. I love The Chrysler. I try to go there once a week, or at least twice a month. I think it might be the best thing about Hampton Roads. That AltDaily gets to partner with an institution like The Chrysler is tops in my book. If we can help get a few people to check it out for the first time, man, what a victory. That’s our mission in action right there.

2. I love Seamonster, the musical act. I think he might be my favorite local musical act in Hampton Roads (with apologies to Long Division and Phil Roebuck). Check out his stuff here. Like The Chrysler, Seamonster is world class talent. Watching him play is Huber Court is going to be unreal. It’ll be like a great one-night stand between great art, music, and architecture.

3. More than anything, though, I cannot wait for more people to check out Daniel Rozin’s interactive art exhibit, now at the museum. Here’s an interview we did with Rozin a while back. But words can not do this experience justice. I’ve visited it about ten times now. It is breathtaking. It is inspiring. Most of all, it’s just plain fun.

A museum visitor was nice enough to allow me to take a video of her playing with one of Daniel Rozin’s installations. Watch this and tell me you don’t want to go and check it out:

Our party is Thursday 6-9 at The Chrysler. Come play.

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Jesse is the editor in chief of AltDaily, and he's going to take this bio seriously, but not so seriously that he's going to continue in the third person. I've been involved with a bunch of local projects and civic groups in various roles, including: Hampton Roads, The Canvas; Art | Everywhere, Street Performance in Norfolk; Survive Norfolk; Hampton Roads Pride/Out in the Park; Bike Norfolk; re:Vision Norfolk, and such. I originally came to Norfolk as a Perry Morgan fellow in ODU's creative writing program. Before that I bummed around quite a bit, writing stacks of books that never got published, hitchhiking, couchsurfing, riding the Greyhound up down and back across this country. Some of my favorite jobs and volunteer gigs have included working on organic farms in Ireland; being first mate on an old sail boat in Holland; working at a long-term home for young men in South Africa; being a journalist and high school teacher in New York and California; washing dishes in Yosemite National Park; teaching English in DC and swimming in Florida; and interning at ESPN in Bristol, which was much less cool that you'd want it to be. My career highlights have been having three of my op-eds run in the New York Times, and being the executive producer of a six-part docu-drama on BET. Because school is cool I have three master's degrees (ODU for MFA, NYU for magazine journalism, University of Connecticut for secondary English education). I live in Norfolk because I believe in its potential. Email your ideas or nicely couched criticism to jesse@altdaily.com.
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