‘Pseudo-scientific Fantasy’

David Hockney illustration for James Sellars’s film Haplomatics, in the show “David Hockney & James Sellars: Haplomatics,’’ at the New Britain (Conn.) Museum of American Art through Oct. 5

The museum says that the show “explores the wild realm of pseudo-scientific fantasy in the visual textual and musical collaboration between the artist David Hockney and the composer James Sellars.

“Their work together in the late 1980s became a synergy of art, technology, and music that resulted in a multi-media masterpiece, the animated film Haplomatics. The film introduces a genus of abstract beings called Haplomes, which come to life through Hockney’s prints and Sellars’s narration and innovative musical score.

“Haplomatics,’’ the exhibition, features Hockney’s innovations in printmaking with the thirty-five xerographic prints that were used to create the film’s visual effects.’’