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Updated at 8:59 a.m., Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Final lap nears for 'Robot Tea Party' art event

Advertiser Staff

The "Robot Tea Party" art event at Gallery 'Iolani, Windward Community College, ends Friday.

Members of an artists' collective calling itself the AV Club of Honolulu have spent five months modifying remote-control cars, replacing the vehicles' tires with crayon casts. Visitors who attend this special interactive installation make the art.

At Robot Tea Party, visitors control a car on a giant sheet of paper, leaving colorful track marks in its wake, for the performance piece "Title Track."

This is the fifth installment in a series of interactive art events the AV Club of Honolulu has held since it formed in 2006. The artists are Duncan Dempster, Vince Hazen, Alan Konishi, Mat Kubo and Michael Sweitzer.

The art collective's last project was a collaboration with students from McKinley High School at the Hawaii State Art Museum. The two groups modified the tires of bicycles so that when they were ridden on a 20-foot-long canvas, they left printed images behind. That canvas, along with other products and video from other past AV Club events are part of Robot Tea Party.

Information: 236-9155; http://gallery.wcc.hawaii.edu.