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| Oct 29, 2010, 6:00 PM UIC Art and Design Hall MFA Open Studios | |
| Graduate students in the Art Programs in the UIC School of Art and Design invite you to an Open Studio event for the Fall 2010 semester. UIC Art MFA students will present works within their personal studios as well as screen video, film and media based work. Artists will be on hand to speak with visitors. This is a rare opportunity for the public to engage with UIC Art MFA students in their studios and to view work from some of Chicagoʼs most exciting emerging artists. The UIC MFA Open Studios event is free and open to the public. Friday, October 29, 2010 6:00–9:00pm UIC School of Art and Design Art and Design Hall 400 South Peoria Street Participating UIC Art MFA students: Mark Aguhar Sebastian Aguirre Claire Arctander Melina Ausikaitis Daniel Baird Nina Barnett Rebecca Beachy Jeremy Bolen Jon Chambers P Paul Cowan Jesus Duran Chaz Evans Tiffany Funk Michael Gibisser Mary Helena Clark Kasia Houlihan Mark Kent Tony Koerner Raquel Ladensack Andrew Mausert-Mooney Brendan Meara Marianna Milhorat Paul Nelson Tim Nickodemus Christopher Meerdo Joe Pankowski JD Pirtle Aay Preston-Myint Michael Radziewicz Brittany Ransom Nicholas Rummler Min Song Stephanie Tisza Neal Vandenbergh Latham Zearfoss Gwendolyn Zabicki
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| Oct 13, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Bruce Tharp Research + theory + making | |
| A free public lecture by ID faculty member Bruce Tharp will be held in Gallery 400 on Wednesday at 5:00p. We are proud to welcome Bruce Tharp to the UIC faculty as an Associate Professor of Industrial Design. He joins us most recently from the Designed Objects program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has also taught design at Pratt Institute. Tharp received a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bucknell University, a MID (Masters of Industrial Design) from Pratt Institute, and a PhD in Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Chicago. Tharp is a principal of Materious, a professional practice that creates and licenses furniture, furnishings and other self-initiated designed objects “for the domestic sphere.” Materious works have been exhibited at the Milan Furniture Fair, International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF New York), Cologne Furniture Fair, Maison et Object (Paris), Brussels Furniture Fair, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, Design Within Reach, and HauteGreen (New York); and featured in Chicago Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, L'Arca Magazine (Italy), RES Magazine, Chicago Tribune, and TenbyTen. In addition to undergraduate instruction in the UIC design programs and the UIC Innovation Center, Tharp will lead our growing graduate program in Industrial Design. [ more info ]
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| Oct 03, 2010, 11:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Jer Thorp: Processing: From Mac to Mobile | |
| In this wide-ranging presentation, Jer will show a variety of work built in Processing. These projects, built over the last two years, cover a strange terrain - from evolutionary computing to text analysis to interactive toys. He’ll also sneak-peak some new data visualization work from the New York Times R&D Lab, and will discuss the challenges and opportunities that arise from building for a mobile environment with Processing for Android. Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada. A former geneticist, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, BusinessWeek and the CBC. Jer is a contributing editor for Wired UK, and a frequent lecturer at the conferences and universities around the world. He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times. Related Workshop: Jer Thorp: Processing.Android for Beginners [ more info ]
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| Oct 03, 2010, 10:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Sjoukje van der Meulen: A Plea for a Critical Approach toward (new) Media in the US | |
| This presentation will discuss the work of the Czech media theorist Vilém Flusser (1920–91). While hardly known in the United States, Flusser's work is of crucial importance for all critical theory - and practice - of media. Flusser both continues the Marxist tradition of German media theory (Walter Benjamin and others) and upgrades that legacy to contemporary media conditions in the footsteps of a Marshall McLuhan. This talk is based on the essay, "Between Benjamin and McLuhan: Vilém Flusser's Media Theory," recently published in the New German Critique (Summer 2010). Sjoukje van der Meulen is an art historian, theorist and critic. She received her Ph.D in modern architectural history and theory from Columbia University (Fall 2009) after the defense of her dissertation "The Problem of Media in Contemporary Art Theory (1960-1990)." Van der Meulen is currently a Visiting Assisting Professor of Modern Art History and Theory in the Department of Art History at UIC. [ more info ]
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| Oct 03, 2010, 1:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Andres Colubri: Fast 3D graphics in Processing for Android [Workshop] | |
| The goal of this workshop is to introduce the new 3D renderer of Processing for Android, A3D. This renderer provides all the basic functionality required for three-dimensional graphics (camera, lights, texturing, etc.), following the API found in earlier versions of Processing. A3D also offers many advanced drawing capabilities on Android devices supporting OpenGL ES 1.1, such as offscreen rendering, Vertex Buffer Objects (VBOs), and 3D text. Level: intermediate to advanced. BYOA is highly recomended. Andres Colubri is a programmer, researcher, and artist. His interests range from algorithmic modeling of complex systems to creative use of computer code for subjective expression and experimentation. He originally studied mathematics in Argentina, then did research in the area of computational biology at the University of Chicago, and recently obtained an MFA degree in Design|Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is involved in several open source projects focused in the use of real-time graphics and video, among them the ongoing OpenGL integration in Processing. Currently a professor at Jeju National University in South Korea, and visiting lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Related Presentation: Andres Colubri: The Future of OpenGL in Processing [ more info ]
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| Oct 03, 2010, 3:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Julio Obelleiro + Jorge Cano + Shawn Roske: Introducing Cing: Simplifying Advanced Capabilities for Creative Coders [Workshop] | |
| This workshop will introduce the first steps to creating Cing applications. Cing is an open source library for creative programming which bridges the elegant and intuitive syntax of Processing with the power and flexibility of C++. The workshop will showcase how Cing facilitates the use of advanced capabilities through cutting-edge libraries such as: 3D & 2D graphics, Physics Simulation, Computer Vision, Advanced Interactivity, 3D worlds & animations, MIDI and 3D Sound, among others Julio Obelleiro is an artist and engineer focused on the creation of interactive installations and large-scale projections that address the alteration of the viewer’s perception. His interdisciplinary work has been exhibited in festivals and venues such as Ars Electronica (Austria), File (Brazil), 10YearsAfter Festival (Seoul), The White Night (Madrid), Looptopia (Chicago), Urban Art Festival (Bucharest), etc. He has been recipient of the grants Fulbright and Torres Quevedo and has contributed to the publication AI Game Programming Wisdom (Charles River Media). Obelleiro currently teaches in the New Media Arts program at UIC and in the Art and Technology Studies at SAIC. In 2007 he co-founded the open source tool Cing with Jorge Cano. Jorge Cano is a designer and digital artist who is currently working in human computer interaction and data visualization. In recent years, his body of work has been focused on researching the use of new media, mainly interactive video and audio systems, in order to study new ways of communicating with the viewers. In 2007 he co-founded the open source tool Cing with Julio Obelleiro. Shawn Roske is an interaction designer and software engineer that recently joined the Cing team. For the past 12 years he has created web experiences, mobile applications and permanent interactive installations for company and clients. His current interests are focused on developing and exploring the capabilities of all the major mobile device platforms. Related Presentation: Julio Obelleiro + Jorge Cano + Shawn Roske: Cing, Creative coding bridging Processing and C++ [ more info ]
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| Oct 03, 2010, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open Source for Mobile Innovation Round Table Discussion, moderated by Susan M. Fullman and Daniel Sauter | |
| Participants: Susan M. Fullman, Daniel Sauter, Leon Chism, Ben Fry, Casey Reas, Jer Thorp, Andres Colubri, Julio Obelleiro, Jorge Cano, Tiffany Funk, JD Pirtle, Chaz Evans, Jeremy Tubbs, Cameron Brand This round table discussion investigates whether a public university, such as UIC, with a mission that encompasses teaching, research, service and economic development should capitalize on open source platforms as a means to increase cooperation and collaboration with its surrounding community. [ more info ]
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| Oct 02, 2010, 10:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Casey Reas: Coding with Processing as a Design Practice | |
| Projects created with Processing, an open-source programming environment for visual designers and artists, are used to show the potential of writing custom software as a design methodology. Examples range from dynamic information visualization to art installations to object fabrication. Casey Reas is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA and a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory. Reas’ software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United Projects created with Processing, an open-source programming environment for visual designers and artists, are used to show the potential of writing custom software as a design methodology. Examples range from dynamic information visualization to art installations to object fabrication. Related Presentation: Casey Reas: Introduction to Processing for Programmers [ more info ]
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| Oct 02, 2010, 1:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Introduction to Processing for Programmers [Workshop] | |
| This workshop for intermediate-level programmers (and up) is a brief introduction to using the Processing graphics library and environment. We'll cover how to code 2D and 3D interactive graphics and how to use libraries to extend the base software into other domains. This workshop covers the basics of Processing and assumes the participant understands programming fundamentals from variables to object-oriented techniques. Casey Reas is a professor in the Department of Design Media Arts at UCLA and a graduate of the MIT Media Laboratory. Reas’ software has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums and galleries in the United Projects created with Processing, an open-source programming environment for visual designers and artists, are used to show the potential of writing custom software as a design methodology. Examples range from dynamic information visualization to art installations to object fabrication. Related Presentation: Casey Reas: Coding with Processing as a Design Practice [ more info ]
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| Oct 02, 2010, 11:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Daniel Sauter + Jesus Duran: Ketai in Motion | |
| The variety of sensors built in 4th generation mobile devices offer new ways to interact with applications and services. Focusing on motion detection and image processing, Ketai in Motion is a research project that aims at capturing, processing, and interpreting multiple streams or sensory data. The presentation will feature the first release of the Ketai library for processing, and outline future development. Daniel Sauter is an artist who creates interactive installations and site-specific interventions dealing with the cultural and social implications of emergent technologies. His work spans a variety of disciplines, Electronic art, Performance art, Robotic art, Sound art, Interactive Sculpture, and Software art. While technology plays an important role in his work, it is not foregrounded. He uses technology as artistic material, embedded in larger social and cultural contexts. Sauter is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media Arts and Program Coordinator at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design. Jesus Duran is an artist and technologist currently pursuing a Master’s of Fine Art in the New Media Arts program at UIC. His primary interests lie in exploring the impact that technology has on relationships between individuals, media and the sense of self. These themes often manifest themselves as Software Art, Interactive Installations, various media and anonymous releases. Related Workshop: Daniel Sauter + Jesus Duran: Mobile Devices as Universal Sensors [ more info ]
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| Oct 02, 2010, 3:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Daniel Sauter + Jesus Duran: Mobile Devices as Universal Sensors [Workshop] | |
| This workshop focuses on using the Ketai library for processing, allowing to register the native sensors supported by the Android platform. The workshop covers data capture, processing and export via Ketai Motion, and introduces image capture via Ketai Vision. Bring or share your Android device to take full advantage of your mobile phone as universal sensor. Daniel Sauter is an artist who creates interactive installations and site-specific interventions dealing with the cultural and social implications of emergent technologies. His work spans a variety of disciplines, Electronic art, Performance art, Robotic art, Sound art, Interactive Sculpture, and Software art. While technology plays an important role in his work, it is not foregrounded. He uses technology as artistic material, embedded in larger social and cultural contexts. Sauter is currently an Assistant Professor of New Media Arts and Program Coordinator at the University of Illinois at Chicago, School of Art and Design. Jesus Duran is an artist and technologist currently pursuing a Master’s of Fine Art in the New Media Arts program at UIC. His primary interests lie in exploring the impact that technology has on relationships between individuals, media and the sense of self. These themes often manifest themselves as Software Art, Interactive Installations, various media and anonymous releases. Related Presentation: Daniel Sauter + Jesus Duran: Ketai in Motion [ more info ]
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| Oct 02, 2010, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Julio Obelleiro + Jorge Cano + Shawn Roske: Cing, Creative coding bridging Processing and C++ | |
| This presentation will introduce Cing, an open source library for creative programming which bridges the elegant and intuitive syntax of Processing with the power and flexibility of C++. Cing allows innovative and accessible experimentation with advanced capabilities such as 3D, Physics or Computer Vision. Cing is being developed for use on desktop platforms and it is currently on its first steps towards mobile platforms like the iPhone. Cing is developed by Julio Obelleiro, Jorge Cano and Shawn Roske. Julio Obelleiro is an artist and engineer focused on the creation of interactive installations and large-scale projections that address the alteration of the viewer’s perception. His interdisciplinary work has been exhibited in festivals and venues such as Ars Electronica (Austria), File (Brazil), 10YearsAfter Festival (Seoul), The White Night (Madrid), Looptopia (Chicago), Urban Art Festival (Bucharest), etc. He has been recipient of the grants Fulbright and Torres Quevedo and has contributed to the publication AI Game Programming Wisdom (Charles River Media). Obelleiro currently teaches in the New Media Arts program at UIC and in the Art and Technology Studies at SAIC. In 2007 he co-founded the open source tool Cing with Jorge Cano. Jorge Cano is a designer and digital artist who is currently working in human computer interaction and data visualization. In recent years, his body of work has been focused on researching the use of new media, mainly interactive video and audio systems, in order to study new ways of communicating with the viewers. In 2007 he co-founded the open source tool Cing with Julio Obelleiro. Shawn Roske is an interaction designer and software engineer that recently joined the Cing team. For the past 12 years he has created web experiences, mobile applications and permanent interactive installations for company and clients. His current interests are focused on developing and exploring the capabilities of all the major mobile device platforms. Related Workshop: Julio Obelleiro + Jorge Cano + Shawn Roske: Introducing Cing: Simplifying Advanced Capabilities for Creative Coders [ more info ]
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| Oct 01, 2010, 10:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android Open-Source for Mobile Innovation | |
The symposium brings together internationally recognized innovators from the open source software community, Chicago based startup companies, and students and academics from the areas of Art and Design, Computer Science, and Information Sciences. Keynote speakers Ben Fry and Casey Reas present the latest edition of Processing targeting Android devices, designed to simplify and streamline prototyping and development for mobile platforms. Processing is used by tens of thousands of students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. Join us for the first public summit to hold Processing.Android workshops, presentations, and panel discussions. The event is free and open to the public. Workshops require prior registration. PRESENTATIONS Casey Reas: Coding with Processing as a Design Practice Organizer:
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| Oct 01, 2010, 1:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Jer Thorp: Processing.Android for Beginners | |
| One of the key selling points for Processing for Android is ease-of-use. In this workshop, we’ll learn how to quickly produce applications for Android devices. We’ll walk through the basics of setting up Processing to develop for Android, and will create our own interactive sketches to run on devices. BYOA (Bring your own Android). Jer Thorp is an artist and educator from Vancouver, Canada. A former geneticist, his digital art practice explores the many-folded boundaries between science and art. Recently, his work has been featured by The New York Times, The Guardian, BusinessWeek and the CBC. Jer is a contributing editor for Wired UK, and a frequent lecturer at the conferences and universities around the world. He is currently Data Artist in Residence at the New York Times. Related Presentation: Jer Thorp: Processing: From Mac to Mobile [ more info ]
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| Oct 01, 2010, 3:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Ben Fry: Introduction to Processing for Android | |
| This workshop is for people who are familiar with Processing and want to write programs for Android devices with the new Processing for Android. Bring your Android device to get up and running during the workshop. The differences between standard Processing and Processing for Android will be discussed as well as the future of project. With Casey Reas, Ben Fry started the Processing project in 2001, which seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away from their usual tools and into the world of programming and computation. Similarly, the project is designed to turn engineers and computer scientists to less gainful employment as artists and designers. Ben is principal of Fathom, a design firm based in Boston that focuses on understanding complex data through information graphics and interactive tools, delivered via the web, software-based installation works, mobile devices, or in print. Related Presentation: Ben Fry: Introduction to Processing for Android [ more info ]
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| Oct 01, 2010, 11:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Ben Fry: Introduction to Processing for Android | |
| The latest edition of the Processing project targets Android devices. Like the desktop version, it's designed for rapid iteration and to streamline how you develop and prototype. In addition, it provides a simple platform for building applications that make use of the affordances of mobile devices — touch input, location and tilt sensors, always-on network access, and portable, high-resolution screens. With Casey Reas, Ben Fry started the Processing project in 2001, which seeks to ruin the careers of talented designers by tempting them away from their usual tools and into the world of programming and computation. Similarly, the project is designed to turn engineers and computer scientists to less gainful employment as artists and designers. Ben is principal of Fathom, a design firm based in Boston that focuses on understanding complex data through information graphics and interactive tools, delivered via the web, software-based installation works, mobile devices, or in print. Related Workshop: Ben Fry: Introduction to Processing for Android [ more info ]
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| Oct 01, 2010, 10:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Malcolm McCullough: Situated Technologies Too | |
| Mobile communication applications can increase participation in locales. In the what is now called “augmented city,” the dynamics of socially-produced cultural tagging need not be reduced to wayshowing. Fixed accumulations of information often complement mobile technology in this regard. Locative media often increase the importance of others but sometimes make it ambiguous who is a user. At a cognitive level, the workings of attention suggest much more technological emphasis on context. This talk thus invites a broad perspective on embodiment, architecture and the city as complementary counterparts to the fascinations of the personal handheld device. Malcolm McCullough studies tacit knowledge in media environments. His books Abstracting Craft (1996) and Digital Ground (2004) both became standards on human-centered design practices. McCullough teaches architecture and information design at the University of Michigan, and has previously served on the faculty at Harvard and Carnegie Mellon. Thirty years ago he was a pioneer in digital media at Autodesk. In the last decade he has given invited talks in a dozen countries. Currently he is writing a book about ambient information. [ more info ]
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| Oct 01, 2010, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Processing.Android: Open-Source for Mobile Innovation Andres Colubri: The Future of OpenGL in Processing | |
| OpenGL is a fundamental technology in the generation of real-time graphics. Recent developments in OpenGL (vertex buffer objects, shading programming, OpenCL) are bringing exciting possibilities such as manipulation of massively complex geometries, interactive non-photorealistic rendering and real-time HD image/video processing. Many of these features are currently being integrated into Processing, both on the Android and PC/Mac platforms. These ongoing developments will be discussed during the presentation. Andres Colubri is a programmer, researcher, and artist. His interests range from algorithmic modeling of complex systems to creative use of computer code for subjective expression and experimentation. He originally studied mathematics in Argentina, then did research in the area of computational biology at the University of Chicago, and recently obtained an MFA degree in Design|Media Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is involved in several open source projects focused in the use of real-time graphics and video, among them the ongoing OpenGL integration in Processing. Currently a professor at Jeju National University in South Korea, and visiting lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Related Workshop: Andres Colubri: Fast 3D graphics in Processing for Android [ more info ]
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| Jul 07, 2010, 10:00 AM Pritzker Park Unveiling: Tony Tasset, EYE | |
| Please join us in celebrating the unveiling of EYE, a new public art installation by Tony Tasset, Professor of Studio Arts and Associate Director of the School of Art and Design. Sponsored by the Chicago Loop Alliance, EYE is a 30 ft. replica of the artist's eye. In Tasset's words: "the image of an eye is one of the most utilized symbols found throughout history and across cultures. It sometimes means a higher power or a portal to an inner conciseness, as in the eyes are the windows to the soul. The sculpture will undoubtedly be interpreted in many different ways, but for me the eye is a basic image of humanity and all that it entails, be it physically, emotionally or spiritually. EYE is meant to be experiential, funny and democratic." [ more info ]
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| May 07, 2010, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center UIC Design MFA Show | |
| Students graduating from the UIC Graduate Programs in Graphic Design and Industrial Design will exhibit their thesis projects on Friday, May 7th from 6-9p at the UIC Innovation Center, 1240 West Harrison Street Chicago.
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| May 07, 2010, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center UIC Design BFA Show Graphic Design :: Industrial Design :: Electronic Visualization | |
| Students graduating from our BFA programs in Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization will hold their year-end exhibitions from 7:00-9:00 on Friday, May 8th at the UIC Innovation Center :: 1240 W. Harrison Street. Please join us to celebrate the talented class of 2010
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| Apr 14, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Art Program Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception | |
| Rebecca Grady, Nick Harvey, Erik Peterson, Benjamin Thorp
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| Apr 07, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Art Program Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception | |
| Olivia Ciummo, Julio Obelleiro, Nicholas Wylie, Allison Yasukawa
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| Apr 07, 2010, 5:00 PM Great Space MFA Art Program Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception | |
| Joe Baldwin, Heejoo Kim, Tesia Kosmalski, Andrew Oleksiuk, Arunan Rabindran,
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| Mar 31, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Art Program Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception | |
| Alejandro Borsani, Maria Jonsson, Orson Panetti, Raychael Stine
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| Mar 30, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Stephanie Syjuco: Artist Lecture | |
| Stephanie Syjuco’s recent work uses the tactics of bootlegging, reappropriation, and fictional fabrications to address issues of cultural biography, labor, and economic globalization. Working primarily in sculpture and installation, her objects mistranslate and misappropriate iconic symbols, creating frictions between high ideals and everyday materials. This has included re-creating several 1950s Modernist furniture pieces by French designer Charlotte Perriand using cast-off material and rubbish in Beijing, China; starting a global collaborative project with crochet crafters to counterfeit high-end consumer goods; and searching for fragments of the Berlin Wall in her immediate surroundings in an attempt to revisit the moment of capitalism's supposed global triumph. Born in the Philippines, Syjuco currently lives and works in San Francisco. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; The New Museum; SFMOMA; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; The San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art; and the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, among others. Throughout 2007 she led counterfeiting workshops at art venues in Istanbul, Turkey; Beijing, China; and Manila, Philippines. In October 2009 she presented a parasitic art counterfeiting event, "COPYSTAND: An Autonomous Manufacturing Zone" in Frieze Projects, London; and contributed proxy sculptures for P.S.1/MoMA's joint exhibition, "1969." She is a recipient of numerous awards, including a 2009 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Award.
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| Mar 17, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Art Program Thesis Exhibition Opening Reception | |
| Erin Leland, Michael Morris, Michael Sirianni, Jeremy Tubbs
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| Mar 09, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Hannah Feldman: art historian 'In Plain Sight' | |
| Organized by the Lectures and Events Committee (Art History Department, UIC) This lecture focuses on a series of clandestine photographs taken by photojournalists during the violent police suppression of an Algerian march that took place in Paris near the end of the Algerian War of Independence. Known now by the date of 17 October 1961, this manifestation and its repression have come to assume a central place in the history of both French police culture and the Algerian advance to national sovereignty. Little attention, however, has been paid to the mechanics of how the Algerians' claims to representability were articulated visually, either by those who organized the march or those who marched. Attending to the manifestation through these specific visual traces enables us to theorize a counter-politics of picturing in a period now understood, at least in art historical terms, as assimilated into the hegemonic ascendance of spectacle. Against this characterization, the photographic documents produced on the night of 17 October 1961 demonstrate how models of appropriative imagistic practice engineered a public sphere organized "in plain sight,” which is to say around the refusal of invisibility and in view of a subject dislocated from the false strictures of a singular national subjectivity. Hannah Feldman is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Northwestern University. Having received her PhD in 2004 from Columbia University, she is currently completing a book about decolonization and the aesthetic underpinnings of representational practices in France during the 1950s and 1960s. In 2008-2009 she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute and in 2006 the lead investigator for a Fulbright Fellowship involving collaboration and exchange with the Islamic World. Her essay on the French-Algerian artist Kader Attia is forthcoming in nka, and an essay about décollage will soon appear in conjunction with a major exhibition on the art of the 1960s at the Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofîa in Madrid. Other writings about art and war in both France and Lebanon have appeared in journals including Third Text, October, and Art Journal, where she is also Chair of the Editorial Board. Feldman is also an active art critic and contributor to Artforum and Frieze. [ more info ]
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| Mar 02, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 John Miller- Artist, Writer Voices Lecture | |
| John Miller is an artist, writer and musician based in New York and Berlin. Among other things, his work considers questions of production, reception, and value as it relates to the making and circulation of art. Using deadpan humor, in combination with everyday debris, fake gold leaf, brown paint, and genre tableau, Miller creates sculpture, photography, painting, and writing that confound the distinctions in the spectacular, the exploitative, the everyday, and the value of craftsmanship. As a critic he is keenly interested in the role of aesthetics within mass culture. Miller exhibits his work internationally and is an Associate Professor in Barnard College’s Art History Department. A collection of his essays was published in 2000, The Price Club: Selected Writings, 1977 – 1996. Other recent publications include Shooting Log, a book focused on Miller’s ongoing photo project, “The Middle of the Day” and XXX Macarena a 33-1/3 LP of Miller performing with Tony Conrad and Jutta Koether. A survey exhibition of his art was organized by the Kunsthalle Zurich, in 2009. A catalog is forthcoming. [ more info ]
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| Feb 15, 2010, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Nicolas Lampert Organize! What the Artists’ Union & the American Artists’ Congress Can Teach Us Today | |
| Lampert (Justseeds Artists' Cooperative) will provide an overview of the Artists' Union and the American Artists' Congress, two leading voices for radical artists during the 1930s. Both organizations responded to the Great Depression and the rise of fascism with collective action, purposefully aligning themselves with working class labor movements. The lecture will segue into an open discussion about how artists are addressing the present-day economic crisis. Presented in conjunction with Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor and Economics by Temporary Services and collaborators, on view at Gallery 400 until March 6.
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| Feb 11, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 CAA Reception + MFA Open Studios | |
| The UIC School of Art & Design, Department of Art History, and College of Architecture + the Arts invite you to a reception at Gallery 400 in conjunction with the upcoming College Art Association Conference. Enjoy refreshments; tour studios of the MFA students in Studio Arts, Photography and Moving Image throughout Art & Design Hall; meet faculty; and visit Gallery 400’s current exhibitions.
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| Jan 30, 2010, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 Art Work introduction & discussion by Temporary Services | |
| Temporary Services (Brett Bloom, Salem Collo-Julin and Marc Fischer) discuss the process and impetus behind Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor and Economics a newspaper and website (artandwork.us) that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. Art Work: A National Conversation About Art, Labor and Economics is on view at Gallery 400 until March 6. [ more info ]
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| Jan 20, 2010, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Gallery 400 Information Session Free Pizza Night | |
| Gallery 400 will be hosting a Free Pizza Night on Wednesday, January 20th at 5pm for students, TAs, and Faculty of the School of Art and Design and the department of Art History. Please join us to learn more about Gallery 400's programs including: -Exhibitions: Like the upcoming Free Store where you can give or take away items. - Voices Lecture Series: Talks by established and emerging artists, art historians and art critics. - Hot Media Series: Organized by students. Learn how you can participate. As with all Gallery 400 events, the Pizza Night is FREE and open to everyone. Gallery 400 College of Architecture and the Arts University of Illinois at Chicago 400 South Peoria Street (MC 034) Chicago, IL 60607 312-996-6114 TAs and Faculty, please encourage your students to attend! The event to open to everyone especially undergraduate and graduate students. [ more info ]
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