Mr. Clark Whittington, artistic impresario, grand poo-bah, chief-innovation-officer, head (TPB) supervisor of Artists-in-Cellophane, and the all-round creative spark behind the Art-o-mat will be “deconstructing” his invention at the Dallas Society of Visual Communication (DSVC) on May 6.

Clark will be discussing Art-o-mat to an audience of (ex-)fellow graphic designers at the CityPlace Convention Center in downtown Dallas. The event starts at 6pm.

In case you don’t know what an Art-o-mat is read on. Art-o-mat is a machine. It’s actually a retired and lovingly restored cigarette machine that’s been converted to vend art. In 1997, Clark Whittington used a recently-banned cigarette machine to create the first Art-o-mat. He used the machine to showcase his own black & white photographs which he sold for $1 each. The concept proved so popular with the host of the first machine and other artists that the project soon took on a life of its own. Art-o-mat, the organization, has now grown to around 90 Art-o-mat machines featuring over 400 contributing artists from 10 different countries. If you’re still not satified, check out Clark’s recent video interview with FLYP digital magazine, right here.

And, best of all we have a beautiful blue Art-o-mat machine right here at art251, in Keller. Remember, it only costs $5 to purchase an original work of art from the Art-o-mat. So, as Clark would say, “Don?t go ?round artless!”