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  1. Geodesic dome construction on the mudflats, Michael de Courcy, Glenn Lewis, 1970
Item Details

Title: Geodesic Dome construction on the mudflats

Pictured: Gerry Gilbert

Pictured: Dennis Vance

Pictured: Glenn Lewis

Artist: Michael de Courcy

Date: March 31, 1970

Format: Photograph [fibre based gelatin silver print]

Location: The Michael de Courcy Archive

Size: 12.70 × 10.20 cm

More Information: The Dome Show was Intermedia’s third and final exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The unifying structure of the Dome Show was Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic dome. Each intermedia member who was interested was invited to build domes individually or communally for the exhibition. Before the exhibition installation Intermedia members constructed their domes in a variety of public spaces, including the Maplewood Mud Flats, at 4th and Arbutus, Kitsilano Beach , in front of the Bentall Center in Downtown Vancouver and outside of the Vancouver planetarium. L-R: Gerry Gilbert, Dennis Vance, Glenn Lewis, Al Hewitt. Collection of the artist.

Further Research: The Intermedia Catalogue
  1. 09. Geodesic Dome construction on the mudflats
    Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
  2. 10. Box Prototypes
    Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
  3. 11. Box Prototypes
    Michael de Courcy (Photograph)
  4. 12. Dinner party at the New Era Social Club
    Michael de Courcy, Glenn Lewis, and Dennis Vance (Photograph)
  5. 13. Floating Mushroom
    Michael de Courcy, Gerry Gilbert, and Dennis Vance (Photograph)
  6. 14. Dome Show meeting at Intermedia
    Werner Aellen, Michael de Courcy, Gordon Payne, Dennis Vance, and Ed Varney (Photograph)
  7. 15. Intermedia meeting at the Vancouver Art Gallery
    Michael de Courcy, Maxine Gadd, Herb Gilbert, Glenn Lewis, and David Rimmer (Photograph)