Eva Goetz: Think A Bot It
December 14th, 2019 — February 22, 2020
About The Show
Aided by an amazing team of engineers, Goetz’s Think A Bot It installation is a space for discussion and wonder. Large friendly robots demand our attention - waving to us with coded messages and signals asking us for HELP and to STOP, LOOK and LISTEN. Colorful and playful, the work is also a serious platform where deep questions are considered: Are we marching toward a future filled with health and well-being or are we on a destructive course, drunk and blinded with new creative ability? Are we fully considering the impact of innovations on society (democracy) and our planet?
Born in Texas with Mexico next door, Eva Goetz was influenced by the land: the bright and dusty colors found both within the landscape and in narrative folk paintings. Such colors punctuate Goetz’s robots in the form of dots. As the artist explains:
“Dots are both energy and form. As circles, dots can become windows into consciousness. As points, dots can punctuate beginnings and endings. Or perhaps dots are points of light or energetic origins or infinity itself. We all begin and end somewhere.”
Art Review: https://artnewengland.com/ed_review/eva-goetz/
The Think A Bot It Team:
Alan Lukas: Engineering & Programming
Ben Clay: Photography & Layout
David Sansoucy: Engineering & Development
David Schmoyer: Engineering & Development
David Talbot: Technical Writing & Development
Erik West: Carpentry & Development
Eva Rose Goetz: Director, Concept, Art & Development
Sarah Speare: Poetry & Development
Consulting: Robotics Club, University of Southern Maine
Baxter Academy, Portland, ME
Fiscal Sponsors: Creative Portland
The Candace & Jim Platz and Max Kagan Foundation
Born in Texas with Mexico next door, Eva Goetz was influenced by the land: the bright and dusty colors found both within the landscape and in the narrative folk paintings she so loved. Story telling and pattern making are as central to Mexican folk art as water is to myth, and both are central in Goetz’s work.