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Programming Schedules are now posted! Please see each day’s schedule for details.
We shall be offering the following Presentations, Panels and Workshops:
(Please note that programs, individual workshops times and compositions are subject to change.
Please check signage at the Exhibition for any last minute changes.)
AMERICAN DREADNOUGHT
Patrick McKercher presents a brief overview of early human powered submarines leading into Civil War ironclads (some of them ending up in South America). Coverage includes Colt, Verne, Holland, Tesla, Lincoln, Erikson, and Napoleon! Sunday, 10:00-11-15, East Room
CASTING & WORKING WITH RESINS, SILICONE & PLASTER
James Currie, Dave Nutty, Jade Falcon, Gwyan Rhabyt
Maker workshop – bring your own projects, see Expert demos & ask questions; in & out privileges throughout. Sunday, 10:00-11:45, Placer Room
COSTUMING IN CHARACTER, CHARACTER IN COSTUME
Sophia St. Clair (M), Ryan Galiotto, Jean Martin, Anders Hudson, Alexander Logan
Creating a persona to go with your attire, or attire to go with your persona. Sunday, 1:00-2:15, West Room Continue reading Programs, Presentations, and Workshop Listings
How does one write a review for a movie that has yet to happen? Can you do it?
I have just been introduced to The Marionette Unit. A fledgling project still only in the concept phases, and being produced in an innovative and “nonlinear” manner, this promises to be a profound and chilling film. The story is set in “an alternate Victorian England… where all creativity, art and individual expression is state-controlled”. But that description only hints at the extraordinary story about to be unleashed!
 The Marionette Unit - Concept Art by Raine Kuusi “In a world where steam instruments and power control our lives…
The Marionette Unit is a theatre show where machine and human have been fused together. A musical machine that resembles a twisted tortured church organ, run with valves, steam and electricity, is connected by a mass of electrical cables to three ballet dancers, who have the wires fused into their bodies. The dancers are controlled by the machine much to the amazement of the Victorian audience. Continue reading A Frightening and Powerful Alt History: The Marionette Unit
 This is, after all, a gathering based upon a genre of fiction (at the very heart), and it seems to me that it would be a particular crime to shirk our literary obligations. Our Author Guest of Honor, James Blaylock, has too many books under his belt to mention here… but you can (and should) take a look at this list of James’ writings.
Not being an expert myself, (though certainly a fan), I asked Steampunk author Gail Carriger for a list of books in the genre that she recommends. [You can see her recommended reading list here]. Gail will be speaking at Nova Albion alongside several other talented authors and editors, including J. Daniel Sawyer,Francesca Myman, Howard V. Hendrix and more. I was delighted to find that between Borderlands Books and Tachyon Publications (for new print), Studio Foglio (for graphic novels) and Books and Treasures (for antiquarian), we will have nearly every book on the list - and quite probably many, many more – in Nova Albion’s Traders’ Concourse!
Tor Books editor Liz Gorinsky will also be at the Exhibition. I (quite happily) hold her responsible for Tor’s Steampunk Month, launched last year! Click here for Liz’s recommended reading list.
And yes – I will confirm the rumor that we shall, in fact, have a written piece from G. D. Falksen (who I hear is working on a novel based on his Cities of Ether) in the event program!
Let there be books!
The dream of wireless printing telegraphy has at last been achieved!
The Aetheric Message Machine Company, Ltd., will be demonstrating its printing telegraph machine at the Exhibition. The Machine receives wireless messages sent to it, and automatically prints them.
According to John Nagle, from the Aetheric Message Machine Co, Ltd., “
The first printing telegraph was developed in 1841. By the 1870s, printing telegraphs, in the form of “stock tickers”, were in use in financial centers. These Victorian-era machines printed letters on a long, narrow paper tape.
Our message machine uses a somewhat later design, the Teletype Model 15, introduced in 1930. This is the most reliable of the early teletype machines. About 200,000 units were built, and thousands still exist. The elaborate machinery was usually hidden inside an opaque case, and we are enclosing it in a brass and glass case to give it a Victorian look and to show off the complexity of the machine, with its many moving parts.”
Continue reading Aetheric Messaging Delivery at Nova Albion!
 Dark Garden Dollymops by Russ Young In an exclusive steam-powered Fashion Show at Nova Albion’s Party at the Center of the Earth, Dark Garden Unique Corsetry will officially launch their fantastic new line: Dollymop for Dark Garden – a Steampunk Collection! The Dollymop Collection is a hot, neo-Victorian and steam culture-inspired collaboration between Dark Garden founder and fashion designer Autumn Adamme and accessories designer Kalico Delafay. Continue reading Dark Garden Corsetry Unleashes Dollymops on Unsuspecting Public!
The Nova Albion Steampunk Exhibition is proud to host the Maker’s Interactive Workshop & Evil Genius Activity Center.
Experts will be on hand both at different times during the day on Saturday & Sunday in a special area doing demonstrations but also eager to answer your questions and help you out with your special project.
Subjects will include:
- sewing, pattern drafting & modification
- engineering mechanical movements including a Tesla Coil demonstration
- knitting, embroidery, quick trims, and ribbon flower making
- casting & working with resins, silicon & plaster
- metal machining and manipulation
- basic tips for leather working
Also there will be a musical jam, hopefully including some homemade steampunk instruments.
Maker Guest of Honor Jon Sarriugarte will be firing up a vintage Hogan High Frequency Apparatus at the Steampunk Exhibition!
I did a little research, and it seems that this was a popular a medical device! There is a scan of a 1922 manual for the High Frequency Aparatus, explaining its many medical uses, background, design and set-up in the online library of the [Electrotherapy Museum site]. The manual cites that it was Nikola Tesla who, in 1891, originally suggested that high frequency could be used therapeutically. Vacuum Electrode Treatment for Sciatica seems to have been one of the more popular uses of the day… Continue reading Get a (Medical) Charge Out of Our Tesla Coil!
Girl Genius authors Kaja and Phil Foglio, along with a “hand-picked cast of several”, invite you to what they refer to as “an irreverent (and not especially canon) live radio theater presentation of the continuing adventures of Agatha Heterodyne: Girl Genius”!
From the [GirlGeniusOnline] site:
For the last few years, Studio Foglio has been performing Girl Genius “radio dramas” live at Science Fiction conventions and events in the Seattle area. These are done in the style of old-time radio productions, with all of us standing around the microphone doing our lines in front of an appreciative crowd.
Join the Professors Foglio as they perform and broadcast live from the Steampunk Exhibition! You can also listen two earlier GG Radio Theater Podcasts here: http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/radio/radio.php
Johnny Payphone is a self-proclaimed “Contraptor, metalworker, global activist, (and) steampunk”. He is a member of the Neverwas Haul crew and spends a good deal of his time, well… contrapting! Especially vehicles of the pedaled persuasion, of which he seems to have many.
Enter, the Pennyfakething.
Continue reading Delightful and Whimsical Pennyfakethings on the Way!
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