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» NOW AVAILABLE! Airship Pirates 2013 Calendar - Grab a copy of our 2013 Airship Pirates calendar for yourself, or give one as a gift. Support the arts by supporting artists. » Florida State University - In Fall, 2013, MANDEM will be teaching Digital Foundations at FSU in Tallahassee, FL. If you'd like to learn programs like Photoshop and Illustrator from an experienced digital artist, this is a great opportunity. Contact us for course details. » Art Shows - Look for MANDEM at the Dragon*Con Art Show in Atlanta (Labor Day) and at the City Hall Art Gallery in Tallahassee (September-October). Learn more about upcoming shows. » Portfolio - Art by MANDEM, including works never before published on our website. » Shows - Information about art exhibits (current and past) and photos from events. Want to book us for a show? Start here. » About - Publications, qualifications, biographies, artist statement, awards, and studio information. » News - Blog, press, social networking, and other announcements. » Contact - Contact us! Then network with us: like us, follow us, tweet us, subscribe to us. » Shop - Support artists, buy art. Our shop has high quality art prints, postcards, greeting cards, calendars, and other goodies. Want to buy something you don't see listed? Interested in a limited edition giclée print? Just ask.
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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.