Steampunk gallery show in Seattle: Anachrotechnofetishism

Anachrotechnofetishism, a new gallery show of 13 steampunk artists, opens tonight in Seattle at the Suite 100 Gallery:

Long before the age of the internet, and well before the cold efficiency of the assembly line, existed fantastic and terrible machines, run on hope, sweat, and steam. It was a time in which form and function lived in sin, and everyman was a revolutionary.
These are 13 American artists united by broad geography and narrow aesthetic.
Marrying narrative and nostalgia to design and technology, they imagine the triumphs of the past overriding the failures of the present to create from the ruins and detritus a dazzling future-perfect.

Anachrotechnofetishism (Thanks, Jake!)

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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I like “anachrotechnofetishism” better than “steampunk.”
jfrancis

The Flintstones were really leaders of this with their ‘Stonepunk’ technology aesthetic.
ElizaGauger

Thanks very much for posting about this, Cory. The art show is actually TONIGHT! Fancy tea and chocolates will abound, as will fine music and company.