Comments and direct messages on social media rained down, bringing links to YouTube videos with promises of my awakening and epithets like 'globecuck,' 'globehead' and 'globetard.' If anything on this round Earth deserves a few curse words and hard smackdown, it's this.Ī surprising number of people disagreed. The story listed a series of basic scientific proofs loaded with smart-ass comments and riffs about how things like 'The Goddamn Moon' and 'Fucking Shadows' show the curve of the Earth. I learned in June that the Flat Earth International Conference would be in DFW toward the end of the year and instead of writing a basic story about the conference's pending arrival, I took it a step further. How does one of the most famous globe deniers in the FE community know my name and face? Let's back up a bit. 'Your articles sounds as stupid as you look!! Just another brainwashed globetard!!! Get an education globetard!!' – a non-fan tweet this This would be the bar I'd have to limbo under for the next two days. I put on a friendly face and say, 'Actually, it was more of a sledgehammer.' Courtesy of the artist.Danny Gallagher 'That's Danny Gallagher,' Weiss says. Image: Jonny Niesche, new artwork commission, Cement Fondu 2019, printed Myla balloon. Through sculptural objects and digital aesthetics, painting on canvas and new site-specific installations, live dance and online interactive 3D experiences, the artists disrupt how we engage with visual culture and question our capacity to believe in what we see. Reflecting this moment in which truth and reality seem increasingly malleable, and erroneous ideas and misleading images flourish online, the exhibition offers deceptively simple yet seductive works that intelligently engage trompe l’oeil, conflate 2- and 3- dimensions, confuse the handmade and digital, and blur what is on- or off-line. The theory has regained traction in recent years thanks to exposure on YouTube and Twitter. The show’s title riffs on the Flat Earth Society – a conspiracy theory group that believes the world exists on a giant, flat plane. From the flat plane of canvas to the flat-screens of daily life, the artists consider how technology has shifted the possibilities of painting and infused the way we experience and frame our realities. Flat Earth Society is a group exhibition of interdisciplinary artists working at the intersection of abstraction and screen-based culture.

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