Sara and I have been working on a piece that we’re calling Lolspace, which will eventually live on the web at lolspace.org and hopefully will have a temporary installation as a blog in the Myhren Gallery here at DU. We’ve both been spending some time looking at old space music LP covers and have become interested in a subversive critique of the “space fuck” imagery (check out the Vonnegut story) that ranges from nude women laying across the cosmos to men riding rockets into the void of space. A parallel interest has been the Lolcats, or Caturday phenomenon, in which Internet users take cute pictures of cats (and other animals), which have a history of polluting Internet space in the minds of some people, and create simple parody of the pictures by attaching meaning to them through lolspeak.

Here’s one example. We hope to have a set of 16 in the end, but that could change depending on how we feel once we start posting to our blog.