Farmingdale Resident Designs Millennium
Bug
David Byer-Tyre, a C.W. Post art major and Farmingdale resident,
has designed and painted the official "pace car" of
the Turning 2000 Millennium Conference at the C.W. Post Campus
of Long Island University in Brookville. Byer-Trye has painted
the 1974 Volkswagen Super Beetle in iridescent green and has
dressed it up in a bug, grass and computer-disc motif.
"What better way to kick off the new millennium than
with a new take on an old theme?" said Byer-Tyre, a graduate
student specializing in sculpture in C.W. Post's Master of Fine
Arts program. "The old Volkswagen Beetle is the ultimate
1960s car. I've transformed it into the car of the new millennium.
I can't think of a better way to demonstrate the conference theme
of 'reflections on where we've been, where we are and where we're
going.'"
Byer-Tyre painted the car the week of Sept. 20, 1999 at Frank's
110 Auto Collision on Route 110 in Farmingdale, N.Y. Frank's
Auto Collision donated the space.
The "C.W. Post Millennium Bug" will be raffled off
at the Turning 2000 Millennial Weekend at C.W. Post. The conference
will be held on October 15, 16 and 17, 1999. Prior to the conference,
the Millennium Bug will visit local schools and community events
where the driver will distribute information about the Turning
2000 conference and sell raffle tickets. Proceeds benefit the
activities of the Turning 2000 Millennial Weekend, which features
lectures, workshops and performances on technology, education,
evolution, literature, politics, health care and the environment.
For more information, call (516) 299-2700, e-mail turn2000@cwpost.liu.edu.
For more information call the C.W. Post
Public Relations Office at (516) 299-2333 or e-mail pr@cwpost.liu.edu or send
mail to: Long Island University, C.W. Post Campus, 720 Northern
Blvd., Brookville, New York 11548-1300.
