Visionary Artists Resources Including Other Unique Services
First Installation of an Artists Resource Center (Creativity Cafe)

Serving the Public for Four FutureWorld Expo Days May 5-8, 1983

- the last of which graced us with capturing some of the last footage of Buckminster Fuller! -


With V.A.R.I.O.U.S. Membership at its peak as an organization, our membership created the first visualization/installation of Creativity Cafe; a "New School for the Next Millennium" after negotiating 3000 Sq. Ft. of space at the FutureWorld Expo enterance of the Los Angeles Convention Center. There were no printed programs. People were directed to our installation for show orientation. All exhibitors were listed in our electronic interest finder and floor maps were shown for locating the booth(s) befitting a persons interests.

We exhibited the first Compendium of Creativity featuring our memberships talent and protfolio in a searchable visual database. We would like to reconnect with that disk, thought to be amongst the treasures of a Panasonic (OMDR) executive? The disc has 10,000 frames of still and video images from our exhibit and visitors to our booth. It is the rarest of treasures in our history of community service. Please advise if you have a clue to its whereabouts?

FEATURES:
Sixty-five people manned the ARC and served the public with educational entertainment:

  • Video Studio featuring large display screen: Offered live interviews with community leaders, artists and performers being asked "What solutions have you found for healing personal and planatary ills?" This living legend and archieve remains unviewed since those days. EXPERTS TO ENABLE TRANSFER to stable media, please step forward to save these images? We are readying a short Quicktime Movie culled from over 12 hours of the video we shot (digitized from the only VHS copy) including a last interview with Buckminster Fuller; a month before his passing. We are seeking sponsors to save this analog footage shot on 3/4 inch tape...viewed only once since created (so many years ago).

  • Image Storage and Retrieval System: Demo Compendium of Art and Creativity

  • Computer Graphics Hands On - Public training on three computer graphic systems including one state-of-the-art ChromaGraphics manned by Jim Squires.

  • Songs For Humanity features Sound Healer and Gongmaster; Don Conreaux

  • Massage and Healing Area

  • Exhibitor Directory

    • As time permits more resources and description of this historic exhibition will be added to this page. Please feel free to view movies from those days.

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