A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Topic(s): Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science
Tags: steampunk steampunkworkshop comics art gears steam
Maker Main Stage (Fiesta) , Saturday 1:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Leading Steampunk practitioners will talk about "contrapting" techniques and the creative process, including the metalworking and finishing techniques they use in their widely acclaimed Steampunk tech projects (such as von Slatt's Steampunk keyboard and monitor, and Datamancer's key-wound Victorian laptop). They'll also talk a little bit about their design philosophy and how one can "steampunkify" modern gadgetry.
Richard "Doc" Nagy aka "Datamancer" is a rebel Maker, backyard fabricator, shadetree mechanic, propmaker, contraptor, steampunk computer modder, and all-around "jackass of all trades". Born in New Jersey, he recently moved to California to pursue a career in freelance custom fabrication for films and discerning collectors. His creations include a laptop made of wood and brass with a lid full of clockworks that starts with a clock-winding key and made-to-order computer keyboards that look like they were pulled out a Jules Vern novel.
Jake von Slatt is a maker, tinkerer, and junk yard sociologist living and creating just outside of Boston, Massachusetts. By day he is an IT Manger working for The Man, but this occupation does nothing to assuage his desire to Make, so late at night he toils in his workshop creating artifacts from a past that wasn't.
Libby Bulloff, dubbed "...the Annie Leibovitz of steampunk portraiture" by Gareth Branwyn of MAKE Magazine, is a digital photographer of "all things technolovely and neobeautiful". Libby recently co-curated and presented work in ANACHROTECHNOFETISHISM, a nationally-acclaimed 13-person all-American steampunk and retrotech show in Seattle. Libby has contributed to Businessweek Magazine, IEEE Spectrum Magazine, the Boston Phoenix, and a number of blogs such as WarrenEllis.com, MAKE, Wired.com, Etsy’s Storque, etc. She writes, edits, and illustrates aspects of Steampunk Magazine. She can be found online at http://exoskeletoncabaret.com.
Magpie is an editor for SteamPunk Magazine, as well as a notorious anarchist and the author of A SteamPunk's Guide to the Apocalypse.
Molly Friedrich is a freelance designer and wearable artist. Says Libby Bulloff of Friedrich: “Molly’s artwork is actually Molly herself. She’s a fully-automated diesel-powered crafting machine, spouting philosophies and plans, and is constantly decked out in lavish handmade garb and ray guns.”
Members of the premier steampunk rock band Abney Park, who will headline Saturday night's Steampunk Spectacular program, will also be on-hand in the Contraptor Lounge.
