Enlightenment . . . one party at a time

Artist Steve Brower will speak at Lucid NYC on May 26th.

Steve’s BPL-003, Moranic Mission recently landed at EKG en-route to Montana. He used the layover to spend some time in Philadelphia and launch a kickstarter.com campaign where he raised over $2000 — which should be enough to get him to Big Sky country.

Here’s how [...]

Springtime on Mars

BPL’s Moranic Mission to Montana is being de-installed this week. The 1970′s Viking mission to Mars is one of several events that inspire Steven Brower’s ongoing work. We find it fitting that NASA recently posted this  image and a few observations  about  Springtime on Mars

“Mad Men” meets “Flash Gordon”

Megan Prelinger’s ( Prelinger Library ) new book, “Another Science Fiction: Advertising the Space Race 1957-1962” is due out on May 25 by Blast Books.

Prelinger’s book is inspired by a unique and potent period of space age art and graphic design featured in magazine ad campaigns of the 1950′s and 60′s and is very relevant to the current [...]

Norse Mythology and the current EKG exhibit

The below photo was taken using a remote php script by the MUNIN camera at the current EKG exhibit.  240 images are stitched together here. The newest wrinkle in the ever evolving project we know at EKG as ‘The Moranic Mission to Montana.”  And did you know two crows from Norse mythology were named Hugin and [...]

EKG exhibit reviewed in CityPaper

Above, a worms-eye view of one of Steve Brower’s models currently on exhibit at EKG … and Steve Brower, as quoted in this week’s CityPaper review: “All Brower Propulsion Laboratory products are hand-made by one idiot, [...]

Public Event this Saturday, Jan 30th

“What does a 19TH Century American Painter have to do with Space Exploration?”

Join us for an artist talk and demonstration at EKG:

Time    1:00pm – 4:00pm @ 3600 Market Street

Steven Brower of Brower Propulsion Laboratory will discuss the organization and its projects, focusing on their upcoming mission and current exhibition [...]

From Russia with Love...

Steve Brower’s installation BPL-003, Moranic Mission to Montana is up and running at EKG. The dual reception celebrating it and the official opening of NextFab Studio was a great success. Over 200 people came out for the evening with a steady flow of traffic crossing Market Street to visit both venues. The first round of event photos are posted here [...]

Munin Collector Head Camera

The Brower Propulsion Laboratory Moranic Mission to Montana lander (Steve Brower’s painstakingly reproduced, working version of NASA’s Viking Lander from the 1970′s mission to Mars) has landed in the Esther Klein Gallery!

One of the many functional components of the lander is the Munin Collector Head Camera which provides a live visual feed of the lander’s surroundings.

Control [...]