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Inside the Press Press Features

These are articles, interviews, and other press features about MANDEM.

» MANDEM Wins Award at City Hall Exhibit, FSU Department of Art News (April 8, 2013)
» The Amazing Art of MANDEM, Carpe Nocturne Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 (Spring, 2013)
» CVATD a Hit at FSU Digitech 2013!, FSU College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance News (April 8, 2013)
» Art Student MANDEM in Creative Tallahassee Exhibit at City Hall, FSU College of Visual Arts, Theatre and Dance News (March 8, 2013)

» MANDEM Going to Valdosta National 2013, FSU Department of Art News (December 13, 2012)
» Artist Spotlight and Interview with MANDEM, The Weekenders Magazine, Issue 3 (November, 2012)
» New Publications Featuring MANDEM, FSU Department of Art News (November 20, 2012)
» Fermentation Lounge presents MANDEM, FSU Department of Art News (August 17, 2012)
» Interview with MANDEM, Penduline Press, Issue 5 (Spring, 2012)
» Art Majors at FSU Digitech 2012, FSU Department of Art News (April 2, 2012)
» Airship Pirates: Behind the Scenes of an RPG, Irregular Magazine (January, 2012)
» MANDEM Talks the Talk, 1stAngel Arts Magazine (October, 2011)
» MANDEM, TotusMel's Wunderkammer September, 2011)
» Artist at Work, Tallahassee Democrat (August 25, 2011)

Airship Pirates Press

While these articles don't mention us by name, they do discuss or display our artwork from Airship Pirates.

» Lancaster Game Designers Win Top Award, Virtual Lancaster (February 8, 2012)
» Review: Ruined Empires, Stargazer's World (February, 2012)
» Comentando y Recomendando: Airship Pirate, En la Antesala al Portal Oscuro (February, 2012)
» Tabletop Review: Ruined Empires, Diehard GameFAN (December, 2011)
» Threatened Empires, Reviews from R'lyeh (December, 2011)
» Review: Airship Pirates, Postmortem Studios (November, 2011)
» Tabletop Review: Abney Park's Airship Pirates, Diehard GameFAN ( September, 2011)
» Designer's Diary: Cakebread & Walton - Airship Pirates, Roleplayers Chronicle (July, 2011)

The Crüxshadows Press

These articles also don't mention us by name, but they do discuss or display artwork we've done for releases by The Crüxshadows. (Our collection of articles related to our work with The Crüxshadows was lost. If you have press discussing DreamCypher or the re-issues of Telemetry of a Fallen Angel and Ethernaut, please contact us.)

» The Crüxshadows: DreamCypher, Neurozine (2007)
» DreamCypher by The Crüxshadows, Gothronic (2007)
» Interview with Rogue of The Crüxshadows, Neurozine (2007)

 

MANDEM is a symbiotic pair of transdigital -punk artists, Maize Arendsee and Moco Steinman, working in both digital art and traditional art mediums such as oil painting, mische technique, mixed media, and acrylics. Our themes include: mythpunk and mythology; steampunk and alternative history; cyberpunk and human-animal-machine hybrids; gothic, horror, and dark fantasy; monsters and chimeras; and queer feminist art. Important visual influences include German Expressionism; influential sci-fi fantasy artists such as Brom and Giger, and traditional painters such as Maxfield Parrish, John Atkins Grimshaw, and the surrealist and visionary movements. Other influences include James Barrie (Peter Pan), Lewis Carroll, Lovecraft and other Gothic Victorian writers; Bertolt Brecht and epic theater (also theater of cruelty and theater of the absurd); Robert Graves, Mircea Eliade, and the great mythographers of the Gilded Age; Jungian philosophy; the ancient Greek and Roman poets — especially Euripides and Ovid; and epic modern myth-makers such as Tolkein, Clive Barker, Guillermo del Toro, George Romero, and Neil Gaiman. Our work has appeared in gallery shows and we have designed album or book art for the Cruxshadows ("Dreamcypher" and "Ethernaut"), Michael Schulman ("Home"), Abney Park ("Airship Pirates" RPG), and we designed the promotional art for the Dragon*Con 2012 Horror/Dark Fantasy Track.


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