Mariniana: The Interrupted Wave Opening Reception

Mariniana: The Interrupted Wave

An exhibition of Techspressionist Moving Images by Karen LaFleur and Renata Janiszewska

November 21, 2024 – February 9, 2025

Opening Reception, Thursday, December 12, from 3:00 – 5:00 pm. 

​Free and open to the public. RSVPs appreciated!

Mariniana: The Interrupted Wave will debut at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis, MA in November. This is the Museum’s (and Cape Cod’s) first Techspressionism exhibition. Techspressionism is an artistic approach in which technology is utilized as a means to express emotional experience. It introduces a new art-historical term to distinguish expressive fine art created with technology from other genres such as animated mainstream movies and video games. Learn more at https://techspressionism.com

Mariniana features the moving images of two artists: Renata Janiszewska and Karen LaFleur who both are actively involved in the "Techspressionism" worldwide community of artists. Although all of the images created for this exhibition relate to the Ocean, each artist sought their own inspiration from very different sources: LaFleur from Science and Janiszewska from Myth.

SCIENCE: Karen LaFleur collaborated with Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute scientist Lukas Taenzer, through the Rhode Island Art League Synergy Program. LaFleur fills her Techspressionist moving image works with invented sea-creatures and swirling water movements to visually interpret Taenzer's scientific studies on how the coastal and open ocean intermingle and mix with one another by using data based on ocean salinity, temperature, and currents.

MYTH: Renata Janiszewska’s moving images express the ocean in Myth. Her readings of early maritime narratives colour the subjective content of her works in Mariniana. From Inuit tales of Sedna to Mermaids to the Sirens of Greek and Roman mythology, she captures human responses to the drama and unknowns of the sea, through curious movements, colours and sounds.

This exhibition of moving images will be shown on a continuous loop in the Cape Cod Museum of Art’s D’Alessandro Auditorium. Viewers may watch Mariniana in its entirety, or view it in smaller segments at different times, just as one would look at paintings in a gallery.