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| Dec 14, 2009, 12:00 PM Winter Break | |
| The faculty, staff, and students of the UIC School of Art and Design wish you a happy holiday season. Winter break begins on December 14. Spring semester instruction begins on January 11, 2010. Pictured is Adieu, 2009, ceramic gas-fireplace logs for the ardent modernist by Associate Professor of Industrial Design, Stephanie Munson Tharp with Bruce Tharp and Greg Bethel.
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| Dec 04, 2009, 6:00 PM Plaines Project Aspect Ratio Exhibition of works by UIC MFA students | |
| During the fall 2009 semester of AD502, a graduate interdisciplinary seminar taught by Professor Silvia Malagrino, students wrestled with the questions of narrative, time and space in the context of readings, screenings and discussions in physics, anthropology, sociology, literary criticism and art theory to name a few. Armed with courage and inspiration an exhibition was created. Aspect Ratio. Non linear narratives -- the geography of time on the screen and beyond. Plaines Project 1822 S. Desplaines Street Chicago, IL Opening Reception: Friday December 4th 6 -9 PM
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| Dec 02, 2009, 2:00 PM Office of the School of Art and Design MFA Information Session and School Tour | |
| If you are interested in graduate study in the UIC School of Art and Design and want to learn more, please join professor Jennifer Reeder, Director of Graduate Studies, and Erin Brady, Graduate Advisor, for an information session and tour of the studios of our graduate programs in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization. Please note the priority MFA application deadline (for consideration in the first round of Graduate College Fellowships) is December 15, 2009.
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| Nov 19, 2009, 7:00 PM UIC Art and Design Hall UIC Art MFA Open Studio | |
| Graduate students in the Art Programs in the UIC School of Art and Design invite you to an Open Studio event for the Fall 2009 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 Chicagos most exciting emerging artists. The UIC MFA Open Studios event is free and open to the public. Thursday, November 19, 2009 7:009:30pm UIC School of Art and Design Art and Design Hall 400 South Peoria Street Participating UIC Art MFA students: Claire Arctander Melina Ausikaitis Daniel Baird Rebecca Beachy Olivia Ciummo Michael Gibisser Rebecca Grady Nick Harvey Maria Jonsson Raquel Ladensack Erin Leland Mike Morris Paul Nelson Tim Nickodemus Orson Panetti Erik Peterson Christopher Meerdo Aay Preston-Myint Michael Radziewicz Michael Sirianni Min Song Raychael Stine Stephanie Tisza Kristen VanDeventer Nicholas Wylie Allison Yasukawa Latham Zearfoss
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| Nov 18, 2009, 2:00 PM Office of the School of Art and Design MFA Information Session and School Tour | |
| If you are interested in graduate study in the UIC School of Art and Design and want to learn more, please join professor Jennifer Reeder, Director of Graduate Studies, and Erin Brady, Graduate Advisor, for an information session and tour of the studios of our graduate programs in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization. An additional sessions will be held on Wednesday, December 2, 2009, at 2pm. Please note the priority MFA application deadline (for consideration in the first round of Graduate College Fellowships) is December 15, 2009.
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| Nov 18, 2009, 7:00 PM Gallery 400 The Hydroacoustic Show Film and video works curated by Ben Russell | |
| At 20,000 leagues below the sea everyone can hear you scream thats the nature of sound and water after all, and (maybe) thats why we call all those vibrations dazzling our skulls by the oceanic descriptor WAVEFORMS. Just ask Alex Halstead she was born into water, under water, knows wet and sound better than all of us combined. For the last month in Gallery 400 shes been humoring our earth-ears with her rhythmic pulses, and now its time to return the favor. And so, submitted for her approval: an aqua-opera in 8 stanzas, a capital-SEA-composition in as many verses. From that silent surface (Hutton) to the scratch and curl of the fevered deep (Gatten); betwixt a siren-spongebob-song (Best) and a flicker score for the Red Sea (Holthuis); with whale chorus (Clark), octo-electronica (Painleve), and gurgling pop tune (Rist) this is a kino-song* for the best Nigerian Elephant-nosed Fish well ever know. Heres To You, Alex. FEATURING: Study of A River by Peter Hutton (16:00, 16mm, 1996-97), What the Water Said Nos 4-7 by David Gatten (17:00, 16mm, 2007), Crank Dat Soulja Boy Spongebob by Masta Best (3:46, video, 2007), Amours de la pieuvre (Love Life of the Octopus) by Jean Painleve (14:00, 16mm on video, 1965), I'm a Victim of This Song by Pipilotti Rist (5:06, video, 1995), Marsa Abu Galawa by Gerard Holthuis (15:00, 35mm on video, 2004), Sound Over Water by Mary Helena Clark (6:00, 16mm, 2009)
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| Nov 11, 2009, 6:00 PM Great Space Bogen Cafe | |
| Please plan to join a free presentation (with food!) on digital photography in the Great Space, 5th floor, of Art and Design Hall at 6pm on Wednesday, November 11. On the next day, Thursday, November 12, Bogen staff members will join us in A+A for a portfolio review by Will Crockett and a demo of equipment that will be gifted to the Photography program of the School of Art and Design. Thank you Bogen!
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| Nov 10, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Talking Cure Artists, designers and architects working inside or outside institutions, whats the difference? | |
| Please come out to the second edition of Talking Cure, a new series initiated this fall by Tony Tasset, sculptor and UIC faculty member, along with Lorelei Stewart, director of Gallery 400, and Anthony Elms, assistant director, and now joined by UIC graduate student Tim Nickodemus. Four times this year, Talking Cure brings together UIC individuals as well as guests and friends from the city for informal discussions on topics in visual art, be they current issues, stereotypes, archetypes, common misconceptions, hard facts, or all of the above. Following on the heels of the October discussion on artists and anguish, we tackle working with institutions, or not. While the discussion will surely hit upon the politics of institutional engagement and the histories of institutional critique, it will also lay out the practical and strategic methods of working within or circumventing myriad institutions. We hope, too, that more general conceptions of public and private and autonomy will be shared and examined. Please come and contribute your thoughts to the conversation.
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| Nov 04, 2009, 2:00 PM Office of the School of Art and Design MFA Information Session and School Tour | |
| If you are interested in graduate study in the UIC School of Art and Design and want to learn more, please join professor Jennifer Reeder, Director of Graduate Studies, and Erin Brady, Graduate Advisor, for an information session and tour of the studios of our graduate programs in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization. Additional sessions will be held on the following Wednesdays at 2pm November 18 December 2 Please note the priority MFA application deadline (for consideration in the first round of Graduate College Fellowships) is December 15, 2009.
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| Oct 31, 2009, 12:00 PM Happy Halloween | |
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| Oct 21, 2009, 6:00 PM Gallery 400 M.C. Schmidt, Alex Halsted and David More Music Performance | |
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| Oct 20, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 M.C. Schmidt Voices Lecture Series | |
| M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel form the experimental electronic music duo Matmos. Using samplers, analogue keyboards, field recordings and guitars, Matmos make atmospheric, idiosyncratic electronica. In addition to incorporating chance operations into their sequencing environment, many songs are based upon a working methodology of conceptual restriction- songs are built entirely out of samples from a single sound source: field recordings, contact microphones on hair, even the sound of an amplified synapse from crayfish nerve tissue. In 1998, Matmos remixed the Bjrk single Alarm Call. Subsequently, Matmos worked with Bjrk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medlla (2004), as well as her Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours. In November 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as artists in residence, performing music with friends, musical guests and onlookers. Matmos recently composed the music for Daria Martins Minotaur, currently on view at the MCA, Chicago. Schmidt has been making experimental electronic music for many years, as the leader of avant-garde drone outfit X/I and industrial occultists Iaocore, in which he did time with current members of Amber Asylum and Tipsy. He has also served as a professor In the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Schmidt will be lecturing on Musique Concrete.
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| Oct 20, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 M.C. Schmidt Voices Lecture Series | |
| M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel form the experimental electronic music duo Matmos. Using samplers, analogue keyboards, field recordings and guitars, Matmos make atmospheric, idiosyncratic electronica. In addition to incorporating chance operations into their sequencing environment, many songs are based upon a working methodology of conceptual restriction- songs are built entirely out of samples from a single sound source: field recordings, contact microphones on hair, even the sound of an amplified synapse from crayfish nerve tissue. In 1998, Matmos remixed the Bjrk single Alarm Call. Subsequently, Matmos worked with Bjrk on her albums Vespertine (2001) and Medlla (2004), as well as her Vespertine and Greatest Hits tours. In November 2004, Matmos spent 97 hours in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts as artists in residence, performing music with friends, musical guests and onlookers. Matmos recently composed the music for Daria Martins Minotaur, currently on view at the MCA, Chicago. Schmidt has been making experimental electronic music for many years, as the leader of avant-garde drone outfit X/I and industrial occultists Iaocore, in which he did time with current members of Amber Asylum and Tipsy. He has also served as a professor In the New Genres Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Schmidt will be lecturing on Musique Concrete.
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| Oct 19, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Caroll Dunham Voices Lecture / Manilow Visiting Artist | |
| Ranging from cartoonish and grotesque to tight-lipped and brooding, Carroll Dunhams paintings and prints express the extremes of a frank psychological subjectivity. Drawing on abstraction, figuration, graffiti, pop, graphic arts, and surrealism, Dunham combines the smooth flatness of graphic arts with unexpected textures, comic book colors and painterly gestures. His works often include biomorphic figures, dream-like psychosexual themes, and an aggressive, often violent masculinity. Dunham has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions internationally including the Whitney Biennial (1995, 1991), Examining Pictures, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1999) and Urgent Painting, ARC, Muse dart moderne de la ville de Paris (2002). Solo exhibitions of his work have been held at Metro Pictures, NY; White Cube, London; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, LA; and Gladstone Gallery, NY. His 2002 mid-career retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY was one of the most highly regarded shows of that year. Dunham writes often for Artforum.
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| Oct 15, 2009, 7:00 PM Gallery 400 Alex Halsted and David More Gnathonemus Petersii | |
| Related events: Thursday, October 15, 7 pm Performance by Halsted, Mor, composer/performer Joe Grimm, and Berlin-based group Ige*Timer (Simon Berz - electronics, and Klaus Janek - double bass) Tuesday, November 03, 6 pm Performance and demonstration by Alex Halsted with Electronic Voice Phenomena specialist Michael Esposito Wednesday, November 18, 7 pm Film and video works curated by Ben Russell
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| Oct 14, 2009, 2:00 PM Office of the School of Art and Design MFA Information Session and School Tour | |
| If you are interested in graduate study in the UIC School of Art and Design and want to learn more, please join professor Jennifer Reeder, Director of Graduate Studies, and Erin Brady, Graduate Advisor, for an information session and tour of the studios of our graduate programs in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization. Additional sessions will be held on the following Wednesdays at 2pm November 4 November 18 December 2 Please note the priority MFA application deadline (for consideration in the first round of Graduate College Fellowships) is December 15, 2009.
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| Oct 01, 2009, 11:30 AM UIC Innovation Center UIC Design Forum | |
| Please plan to join this informal gathering open to all School of Art and Design faculty, staff and students. We will meet in the UIC Innovation Center from 11:30a-12:30p today to share information and provide opportunity for discussion on the school's design programs.
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| Sep 23, 2009, 2:00 PM Office of the School of Art and Design MFA Information Session and School Tour | |
| If you are interested in graduate study in the UIC School of Art and Design and want to learn more, please join professor Jennifer Reeder, Director of Graduate Studies, and Erin Brady, Graduate Advisor, for an information session and tour of the studios of our graduate programs in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization. Additional sessions will be held on the following Wednesdays at 2pm October 14 November 4 November 18 December 2 Please note the priority MFA application deadline (for consideration in the first round of Graduate College Fellowships) is December 15, 2009.
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| Sep 22, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Voices Lecture Series Michael Hall: The Disinterested Spectator | |
| Michael Hall is currently an independent curator based in Vienna, Austria. Hall was founder of Chicago Project Room in 1996, and Co-director (with Daniel Hug) from 1998-2000 in Chicago, and also Codirector of Chicagoprojectroom in Los Angeles from 2000-2002. Recent exhibitions curated by Hall include Waiting for the Ice Age (2002) at Georg Kargl, Vienna; Brutal Ornamental (2005) at Kosak Hall GmbH, Vienna; Autonomous Acts (2008-2009) KR (Art in Public Space), Vienna; and Miete Strom Gas oder Brasilien Wax (2009) at INSTITUT im Museumsquartier, Vienna. Hall received his M.F.A. in Photographic Theory from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Detroit, MI. He has had articles published in Camera Austria and Tema Celeste, and edited a publication for the De Appel Museum, Amsterdamn, NL.
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| Sep 15, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Voices Lecture Series Brian Ulrich, Photographer | |
| Brian Ulrich's photographs examine the complexities of theconsumer-dominated culture of the United States. His ongoing project Copia, begun 2002 and currently encompassing sections titled Retail, Thrift, Fair and Dark Stores, captures the everyday activities of shopping, as well as the economic, cultural, social, and political implications of commercialism and the position of the individual in a landscape of marketing and advertising. Ulrich is a Chicago-based artist whose photographs have been collected by major museums such as the Art Institute of Chicago; the Cleveland Museum of Art; the Museum of Fine Arts Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. Ulrich has had solo exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; the Julie Saul Gallery; and the Robert Koch Gallery among others. In 2009 he was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship.
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| Sep 11, 2009, 10:00 AM Meeting Room, AAB #2410 UIC School of Art + Design Faculty and Staff Meeting | |
| We will hold our first faculty and staff meeting of the 2009/10 academic year on Friday, September 11, in the graphic design area on the 2nd floor of the Art + Architecture building. All full-time faculty and staff are required to attend. Adjunct and Visiting Faculty are additionally invited.
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| Sep 10, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Hot Media Session 1: Consumerism and Entropy | |
| Hot Media at Gallery 400 is an experiment in collective curation. It is also a forum to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue on art/media topics relevant to many across the UIC campus and beyond. Thirdly, we aim to extend themes of Gallery 400 exhibitions beyond the gallery doors. We curate and present programs consisting of moving image works, interactive arts, visual arts, music, performance, scholarly talks and you name what else. It will be an informal yet engaging opportunity to hear, see, and discuss with like-minded culture enthusiasts. For our first session of the new school year we will screen moving image works, curated by the Hot Media Series Committee, and host guest speakers who will all tackle the overarching theme of "Consumerism and Entropy", to correspond with Michael Ruglio-Misurell's new installation Project #12 at Gallery 400. Talks: Maria Johnsson, Artist, UIC Maureen Ryan, Screen Cultures, Northwestern University Screening works: Waverly Films, Major Lazer, Studio Ekran, Das Racist, and more!
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| Aug 29, 2009, 2:00 PM Gallery 400 Mishael Ruglio-Misurell Artist Talk | |
| In Project #12 Ruglio-Misurell transforms UIC's Gallery 400 into a total environment evocative of a shopping mall food court that has endured an undetermined event, possibly a disaster, abandonment or human havoc. Built from found, painted and handmade objects, Project #12 fluctuates between disorder and artifice. Evidence of human activity, from pieces of used clothing to burrows within piles to gloryholes is scattered within the installation. In a conflation of the public and private, Ruglio-Misurell builds parts of the public food court from shower doors and transplants urinals into the eating area. Michael Ruglio-Misurell is an installation artist who has created and shown works in Chicago, Boston and New Jersey. He is a recipient of a 2009-10 Fulbright award to create a series of sculptural projects that explore monuments and ruins through the architecture of Berlin. He received an MFA in 2008 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Project #12 is supported in part by Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center and Recycling Systems Incorporated.
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| Aug 26, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Reflection: A video program Phyllis Baldino, Patricia Esquivias, Alex Hubbard, Glenn Ligon, and Andrea Zittel | |
| In Reflection video works by five artists are linked by their varying approaches to artistic agency. How do artists conceive of the work they do? How do they picture themselves? Is the proposition of artistic agency a proposition for individual agency, as well? In video works by Phyllis Baldino, Patricia Esquivias, Alex Hubbard, Glenn Ligon, and Andrea Zittel featuring the artist’s voice, activity, and milieu, the question of individual responsibility is variously addressed. Structure of the Exhibition: Exhibited as a recurrent weeklong program, the selected works are shown one artist per day. Each work is scheduled for a specific day of the week: Phyllis Baldino’s Gray Area is shown on Tuesday, Screens for Recalling the Black Out by Alex Hubbard on Wednesday, Glenn Ligon’s The Orange and Blue Feelings on Thursday, Andrea Zittel’s Small Liberties on Friday and Patricia Esquivias on Saturday. In structuring the program this way, visitors will have opportunity to see each body of work in full. [ more info ]
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| Aug 26, 2009, 5:00 PM Kay Rosen | |
| Rosen’s works concentrate on the slippery play between language’s visual and verbal structures and how that oscillation affects meaning. Evolving over three months, the exhibition includes selected collages, a video and a wall painting. The exhibition begins in August with a selection of collages and a rarely screened video. In October, a wall painting and accompanying essay will be added to the exhibition. The Rosen works in this exhibition have been selected as accompaniment to, and material for “Rebus,” a fall drawing class investigating the play between text and image taught in the School of Art and Design by painter and UIC faculty member Julia Fish. Rosen lives in Gary, IN and has a forthcoming monograph from Regency Arts Press and a solo exhibition in November at Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin. [ more info ]
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| Aug 26, 2009, 11:30 AM Great Space MFA Welcome | |
| Please join us in the Great Space of Art and Design Hall for an informal welcome for new and continuing MFA students, faculty, and staff. Wednesday, August 26, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm.
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| Aug 26, 2009, 5:00 PM Opening Reception Kay Rosen | |
| Rosen’s works concentrate on the slippery play between language’s visual and verbal structures and how that oscillation affects meaning. Evolving over three months, the Gallery 400 exhibition includes selected collages, a video and a wall painting. The exhibition begins in August with a selection of collages and a rarely screened video. In October, a wall painting will be added to the exhibition. The Rosen works in this exhibition have been selected as accompaniment to, and material for “Rebus,” a fall drawing class investigating the play between text and image taught in the School of Art and Design by painter and UIC faculty member Julia Fish. Rosen lives in Gary, IN and has a forthcoming monograph from Regency Arts Press and a solo exhibition in November at Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin.
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| Aug 26, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Opening Reception Glen Ligon | |
| In Reflection video works by five artists are linked by their varying approaches to artistic agency. How do artists conceive of the work they do? How do they picture themselves? Is the proposition of artistic agency a proposition for individual agency, as well? In video works by Phyllis Baldino, Patricia Esquivias, Alex Hubbard, Glenn Ligon, and Andrea Zittel featuring the artist’s voice, activity, and milieu, the question of individual responsibility is variously addressed. Structure of the Exhibition: Exhibited as a recurrent weeklong program, the selected works are shown one artist per day. Each work is scheduled for a specific day of the week: Phyllis Baldino’s Gray Area is shown on Tuesday, Screens for Recalling the Black Out by Alex Hubbard on Wednesday, Glenn Ligon’s The Orange and Blue Feelings on Thursday, Andrea Zittel’s Small Liberties on Friday and Patricia Esquivias on Saturday. In structuring the program this way, visitors will have opportunity to see each body of work in full. Pictured is a video still from "The orange and Blue Feelings", 2003, Glenn Ligon.
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| Aug 25, 2009, 5:00 PM Opening Reception Michael Ruglio-Misurell : Project #12 | |
| In Project #12 Ruglio-Misurell transforms UIC's Gallery 400 into a total environment evocative of a shopping mall food court that has endured an undetermined event, possibly a disaster, abandonment or human havoc. Built from found, painted and handmade objects, Project #12 fluctuates between disorder and artifice. Evidence of human activity, from pieces of used clothing to burrows within piles to gloryholes is scattered within the installation. In a conflation of the public and private, Ruglio-Misurell builds parts of the public food court from shower doors and transplants urinals into the eating area. Michael Ruglio-Misurell is an installation artist who has created and shown works in Chicago, Boston and New Jersey. He is a recipient of a 2009-10 Fulbright award to create a series of sculptural projects that explore monuments and ruins through the architecture of Berlin. He received an MFA in 2008 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Project #12 is supported in part by Westfield Old Orchard Shopping Center and Recycling Systems Incorporated [ more info ]
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| Aug 24, 2009, 9:00 AM HGK Basel: Visual Communication Institute HGK Basel : MFA in Graphic Design Thesis Presentations | |
| The first class of UIC MFA students studying in Basel, Switzerland, will present their final thesis projects to faculty on Monday, August 24. Participating faculty from Chicago include Philip Burton, Dean Kirshner, Director Lausen, and Joerg Becker; and from Basel include Michael Renner, Head of the Visual Communication Institute of the Basel School of Design, Gregory Vines, and Nicolaj van der Meulen. Presenting will be the UIC | HGK Basel MFA class of 2009: Pouya Ahmadi Jinsu Ahn Mano Ahn Zeynep Basay Ted Davis Gökhan Numanoglu Duru Gum Thomas Hibbard Luke Ragno Stephanie Smith
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| Jun 19, 2009, 8:00 PM Millennium Park Opening of UNStudio Burnham Pavilion in Millennium Park | |
| Experience the lighting program developed by Daniel Sauter, Assistant Professor of Electronic Visualization, at the public opening of UNStudio's Burnham Pavilion in Millennium Park. The Burnham pavilions, designed by Ben van Berkel (UNStudio, Amsterdam) and Zaha Hadid (London) represent the centerpieces of the Burnham Plan Centennial, installed from June 19 until October 31 2009 on the South Chase Promenade (next to the bridge leading into the Modern Wing of the Art Institute). "At night, UNStudio’s pavilion becomes a responsive architecture with LED lights that change color and pattern. These lights will be in constant flux as the number of visitors to the pavilion changes. Programmatically the pavilion invites people to gather, walk around and through the space—to explore and observe." Find more info at the Burnham Centennial website The Grant Park Symphony and Chorus will premier a new work composed by Michael Torke called Plans at the Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park, beginning at 6:30p. Join Pavilion architects for a symposium from 2:00 - 3:30 pm at the Art Institute (free admission, limited seating) Designing Architects: UNStudio of Amsterdam (Ben van Berkel, Caroline Bos with Christian Veddeler, Wouter de Jonge and Hans-Peter Nuenning, Iona Sulea) Architect of Record: Garofalo Arcitects, Inc. Fabricator: Third Coast Construction Interactive Lighting Concept: Daniel Sauter School of Architecture: University of Illinois at Chicago Structural Engineer: Rockey Structures [ more info ]
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| May 08, 2009, 6:30 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 6:30-9:00 on Friday, May 8th at the UIC Innovation Center :: 1240 W. Harrison Street. Please join us to celebrate the talented class of 2009.
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| Apr 25, 2009, 5:00 PM The Post Family Gallery UIC Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show | |
| Banan Al-Ansari Jungjin Kim Susannah Kim Anna Leithauser Students graduating from the UIC Graduate Program in Graphic Design will exhibit their thesis projects on Saturday, April 25th from 5-8p at the Post Family Gallery, 1821 W. Hubbard Street, Chicago. [ more info ]
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| Apr 21, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 UIC Design Lecture Series :: Paul Hatch Naked Design 2.0: Understanding the visual perception of objects | |
| Paul Hatch, director at TEAMS Design in Chicago, has a particular interest in visual brand language, design for international target markets and increasing value/perception ratios. He will discuss understanding the visual perception of objects and how this relates to the act of designing. TEAMS Design is an international industrial design firm with innovative product design processes that take concepts from research through development, into manufacture. [ more info ]
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| Apr 21, 2009, 9:00 AM IBHE Site Review | |
| UIC is honored to welcome five professors-representing several of the country's leading schools of art and design-who will be reviewing our programs on behalf of the UIC Office of Programs and Academic Assessment and the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE). Eric Anderson Associate Professor of Industrial Design School of Design Carnegie Mellon University www.design.cmu.edu Oscar Fernandez Associate Professor of Graphic Design School of Design University of Cincinnati www.daap.uc.edu Amy Hauft Professor and Chair of Sculpture Department School of the Arts Virginia Commonwealth University www.vcu.edu/arts David Raskin, PhD Associate Professor Department of Art History, Theory, and Criticism School of the Art Institute of Chicago www.saic.edu Christopher Vice Chair, Department of Visual Communications Herron School of Art and Design Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis www.herron.iupui.edu
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| Apr 17, 2009, 5:00 PM Great Space UIC Art BFA Show Studio Arts :: Moving Image :: Photography | |
| Students graduating from our BFA programs in Studio Arts, Moving Image, and Photography will hold their year-end exhibitions in the Great Space on the 5th Floor of Art and Design Hall (400 S. Peoria) from April 17 through April 22. The Opening Reception will be held from 5-8p on Friday, April 17th.
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| Apr 17, 2009, 1:00 PM CVRA, A&A #3304 Fabian Winkler Graduate Workshop: Light Modulators | |
| Light's exceptional opportunities for artistic expression lie in its potential to create new, artificial realities and to transform objects and environments visually and ideologically. This workshop is a laboratory for the experimental exploration of light and shadows. We will build light modulators, simple structures that modulate (i.e. reflect, absorb and diffuse) rays of light and observe their changing appearance in different light situations. The laboratory features two configurable lighting environments: one with an orbiting light source, the other one with additive color mixing possibilities. Furthermore, the workshop briefly introduces strategies for interactive lighting control using Max/MSP software and the DMX communication protocol. Fabian Winkler is an Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University. In his interactive installations and video works he explores the aesthetic potential and the cultural implications of seemingly well-known artifacts through the use of new technologies. Winkler's art practice is transdisciplinary, located at the intersections of the moving image, spatial structures and robotics. The workshop is open to graduate students from all areas within the School of Art + Design. Due to the limited amount of participants, please RSVP to Alejandro Borsani at aborsa2@uic.edu The workshop is hosted by the Electronic Visualization program. [ more info ]
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| Apr 16, 2009, 3:00 PM Reserve Reading Room: Richard J. Daley Library The Image of Research Awards Ceremony & Exhibition Opening Reception | |
| The Image of Research, an exhibit organized by the Graduate College and the University Library to showcase the breadth and diversity of graduate research at UIC, will open with an awards ceremony to honor competition winners. Winners and finalists from the School of Art and Design are MFA students Banan Al-Ansari (Graphic Design), Ted Davis (GD Basel), Adam Farcus (Studio Arts), Heejoo Kim (EV), Julio Obelleiro (EV), Zhen Xie (ID). Pictured is the 2nd place entry, Typographic Cities, by Banan Al-Ansari. Typographic Cities, relates to Al-Ansari's thesis research which explores the combination of Arabic and Latin typography. Her work seeks to define methods that visually harmonize and increase the communication efficiency of radically different typographic systems. [ more info ]
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| Apr 15, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions April 14-18 | |
| Charlie Deets Maria Gaspar Chris Tourre John-Paul Wolforth Reception on WED April 15 from 5-8pm at Gallery 400 Pictured (installation view) Rick Gribenas: Take Me In. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400, November - December 2006 We celebrate the brilliant life and achievement of our colleague Rick Gribenas, who died on March 17, 2009, after a long illness. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09079/956969-122.stm
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| Apr 08, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions April 7-11 | |
| Jeremiah Hulsebos-Spofford Jesse McLean Ryan Murray Reception on Wednesday, April 8, from 5-8pm at Gallery 400 Pictured (installation view) Rick Gribenas: Take Me In. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400, November - December 2006 We celebrate the brilliant life and achievement of our colleague Rick Gribenas, who died on March 17, 2009, after a long illness. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09079/956969-122.stm
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| Apr 01, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions March 31-April 4 | |
| Adam Farcus Nicholas Kashian Erica Moore Jose Velazco Reception on WED April 1 from 5-8pm at Gallery 400 Pictured (installation view) Rick Gribenas: Take Me In. MFA Thesis Exhibition, Gallery 400, November - December 2006 We celebrate the brilliant life and achievement of our colleague Rick Gribenas, who died on March 17, 2009, after a long illness. http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09079/956969-122.stm
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| Apr 01, 2009, 9:00 AM UIC Innovation Center Eyebeam Workshops | |
| Eyebeam is an art and technology center that provides a fertile context and state-of-the-art tools for digital research and experimentation. It is a lively incubator of creativity and thought, where artists and technologists actively engage with culture, addressing the issues and concerns of our time. Eyebeam challenges convention, celebrates the hack, educates the next generation, encourages collaboration, freely offers its contributions to the community, and invites the public to share in a spirit of openness: open source, open content and open distribution. The Eyebeam Roadshow is a collaboration between UIC Electronic Visualization and Columbia College. Introduction to Open Frameworks Wednesday, April 1st :: UIC Innovation Center 9a-1p OpenFrameworks is a C++ library for creative coding created by Eyebeam R and D fellow, Zachary Lieberman and Theo Watson. It has been used by artists such as Golan Levin, the Graffiti Research Lab, and Jonathan Harris, and is excellent for everything from sound synthesis to computer vision to 3D to physical computing projects. It has a very active and growing community of users and contributors and is quickly moving towards a 1.0 release. For more information about the library, check out http://www.openframeworks.cc/ and http://www.openframeworks.cc/documentation Instructors: Jeff Crouse and Friedrich Kirschner. Prerequisites: some knowledge of C++, Java, or Processing. Making Something Super Wednesday, April 1st :: UIC Innovation Center 9a-1p How do you create an art piece using technology? What's an arduino, why are infrared sensors used, how do you make something move? Ayah Bdeir will be leading a workshop where we take participants' ideas and develop them from idea to sketch to design to buying parts to reality. We will be looking at projects from wearable computing, interactive art, kinetic sculptures, robotic furniture, and discuss how they were made, and how to learn from them. Participants will then propose ideas for projects, and we will critique them and discussing old and new tools, machines and technologies that will help the participants making their projects happen. Instructor: Ayah Bdeir Prerequisites: participants are encouraged to bring project ideas to the workshop. iPhone Apps Wednesday, April 1st :: UIC Innovation Center 1:30-5p The Apple iPhone scooped up 11.6% of the smartphone market since it's introduction --that's 2.3 million US mobile subscribers. In the first 60 days of the App Store, 100 million apps were sold. It would just be ridiculous not to get in on this frighteningly high adoption rate, right? In this workshop, we will learn how to make iPhone apps using MobileFrameworks, an openFrameworks-based starter kit for iPhone. We will learn how to access the accelerometer and draw and animate on the screen. If we are lucky, we will even get a chance to transfer one of our creations to an actual iPhone. Instructor: Jeff Crouse. Prerequisites: some knowledge of C++, Java, or Processing. Urban Exploration and Prospecting Wednesday, April 1st :: UIC Innovation Center 1:30-5p Learn how to navigate through wild urban spaces, abandoned buildings, and how to get rich off industrial waste and pollution. In the process we'll redefine wilderness, and get your nature on. Led by an Alaskan wilderness guide and urban skeptic. Instructor: Jon Cors. Dirt Style Wednesday, April 1st :: UIC Innovation Center 1:30-5p Steve Lambert and Jeff Crouse will teach you to eschew flashy modern design tools in favor of a rougher, simpler aesthetic sensibility known as Dirt Style. Hands-on activities will include 1) making kick-ass animated GIFs; 2) re-learning HTML tags you thought were dead and buried; 3) exploring the myriad uses of explosions in video editing, web design, presentations, and just about anything else you can think of. Instructors: Jeff Crouse, Requirements: Laptop with Adobe Creative Suite. [ more info ]
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| Mar 18, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 MFA Thesis Exhibitions March 17-21 | |
| Adam Grossi Faheem Majeed Mary Robnett Steve Zieverink Reception on WED March 18 from 5-8pm at Gallery 400
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| Mar 17, 2009, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Public Lecture Charlie Cannon | |
| Charlie Cannon received a Masters of Architecture (MArch I) from Harvard University Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from Wesleyan University. As a Senior Design Critic at the Rhode Island School of Design, Cannon currently holds a joint appointment in Industrial Design and Landscape Architecture where he has taught in RISDs Innovation Studio series since its founding in 1999. Responsible for curriculum development and outreach, Cannons interdisciplinary studio was established to examine large-scale environmental and infrastructure problems. Open to students throughout the university, the program seeks to shift the attention of the design disciplines to present day concerns and to engage with a larger public. The Innovation Studio model involves projects that must first be defined in order to be solved. Before joining the RISD faculty, Cannon taught at Columbia University, Roger Williams University, and Boston Architectural Center. In 2008, he participated as Design Critic in the Harvard University Department of Landscape Architecture. Cannons research and practice activities center on energy, water, conservation, education, and economic development.
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| Mar 12, 2009, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Linda Pulik Public Lecture | |
| Linda Pulik received a Master of Design in Human-Centered Product Design from the Illinois Institute of Technology, Institute of Design; and a Bachelor of Science in Cellular, Molecular & Microbial Biology from the University of Calgary. With an interest in social impact work, Pulik founded Bao Design Lab, a nonprofit organization focused on designing affordable medical devices for clinics & hospitals in the developing world. Her activities in social impact work include design studies in Malawi, Uganda, and South Africa; a workshop with First Data/Western Union, Humana & Whirlpool Corporation that produced 39 new design concepts for emerging Mexican markets; and work with Ntl Progressive Health Network, Johannesburg, to develop health education material on HIC/ AIDs for people with limited English. Pulik has worked as a Design Consultant to Honeywell in Bangalore, India, and as Research Lead at PDT in Chicago. She currently teaches product design courses at the Institute of Design and she has presented research papers at Sustainable Design to Save the Earth, Bangkok; CII-NID Design Summit, Bangalore; MX Design, Mexico City; and About, With, and For, IIT ID, Chicago.
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| Mar 07, 2009, 8:00 AM Hotel InterContinental Chicago Future History 3 AIGA International Design Education Conference | |
| A project of AIGA, sponsored by Adobe Systems, and hosted by the UIC School of Art and Design, FH3 will explore global curricular challenges and innovations, and their relationship to traditional frameworks of design education. Conference chair: Associate Professor Linda Bracamontes Roeger, Programming Co-Chairs: Assistant Professor Joerg Becker and Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga. FutureHistory begins with a keynote address by WJT Mitchell, scholar and theorist of media, visual art, and literature and Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago. Mitchell is associated with the emergent fields of visual culture and iconology and editor of the interdisciplinary journal, Critical Inquiry, a quarterly devoted to critical theory in the arts and human sciences. Featured speakers include: Sheila Levrant de Bretteville, graphic designer, artist and educator and Director of the Yale Graduate Program in Graphic Design. Kenya Hara, representative to the Nippon Design Center Inc., Professor at Musashino Art University, author of Designing Design, and consultant to the Nagano Winter Olympic Games and Muji; Gerard Hadders, co-founder of the magazine and design group Hard Werken, and founder with Jan van Toorn of the design department of the Jan van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands; Ewan Lentjes, Associate Professor of Art, Culture & Economy, a shared initiative of the Municipality of Arnhem, HAN University of Applied Sciences, and the ArtEZ Institute of Arts; and Meredith Davis, Professor and Director of the Master of Graphic Design Program at North Carolina State University. Authors of papers selected for presentation on the subject of Design Research: Sean Bolan, University of Washington; Heidi Cies, Syracuse University; Kelly Costello, Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology; Stephanie Cunningham, Florida Atlantic University; Michael R. Gibson, University of North Texas; Michael Renner, The Basel School of Design; and Stacie Rohrbach, Carnegie Mellon University. Authors of projects selected for presentation on the subject of MFA Thesis: Karen Kwan, York University, Toronto; Valentina Miosuro, North Carolina State University; and Leilah Rampa, University of Illinois at Chicago. Authors of papers selected for presentation on the subject of Undergraduate Curriculum: Leslie Becker, California College of Arts; Michael Eppelheimer, Kansas City Art Institute; Lee Vander Kooi, Indiana University Herron School; John Luttropp and Anthony Inciong, Montclair State University; Ben Meyer and Renee Seward, University of Cincinnati; Terry Morris and William Rainey, Harper College; Angela Rodgers, St. Edward's University; Martha Scotford, North Carolina State University. [ more info ]
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| Mar 05, 2009, 6:00 PM UIC Innovation Center Alex Lobos Public Lecture | |
| Alex Lobos received his MFA in Industrial Design from the University of Notre Dame and his Bachelor of Industrial Design from Universidad Rafael Landivar in Guatemala City. He has worked as an Industrial Designer for General Electric in Louisville, Kentucky, where he worked in the Home Appliances division and in academic collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University. As a Design Advisor for the Instituto de Investigacion de Diseno in Guatemala City, Lobos formed a connection between the design community and the Guatemmalan Prison System whereby designers and inmates worked together in the developing and selling furniture products. Lobos is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor at UIUC where he teaches at all levels in the industrial design program. He also taught for 7 years at the Universidad Rafael Landivar where he was named professor of the Year in 2001. In 2002, Lobos was awarded a Fullbright Scholarship. He says of his academic research: "My current design research addresses a vartiation of user-centered design that focuses on the multiple contexts that users experience in their daily lives. I like to call this research context-adaptive design."
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| Feb 24, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Design Lecture Series Jonathan Shaun and Elizabeth Redmond | |
| Speaking on Design, Business and Sustainability, Jonathan Shaun of 3.Zero, and Elizabeth Redmond, independent sustainability consultant, discuss the goals and challenges of creating a sustainable Chicago. Shaun is one of Chicago's foremost designers and retailers of cutting edge, sustainable apparel, accessories, and furniture. His most recent project is Contact, a retail showroom and conscious event space in Wicker Park. Redmond, since spring 2007, has worked with a start-up company called Ecolect that helps professionals in design-influenced fields learn about and source sustainable materials. [ more info ]
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| Feb 17, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Voices Lecture Series C.E.B. Reas | |
| Media artist Reas makes both conceptually and perceptually driven works that explore process and abstraction. His installations, photographs, video and interactive works are informed by systems theory, biology, artificial life, and information patterns. In 2001, Reas and designer Ben Fry initiated Processing.org, an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. This ongoing project is documented in Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press). Reas has exhibited and screened his work internationally in galleries and museums including P.S.1, New York; Institute for Contemporary Art, London; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; Laboral, Gijon, Spain; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and the National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. He is associate professor and chair of Design | Media Arts at UCLA. His lecture is presented in collaboration with Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College. [ more info ]
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| Feb 03, 2009, 5:00 PM Gallery 400 Design Lecture Series Paul M. Murray | |
| 'The Power of One: How You Can Embrace and Communicate the Environmental Ethic' Paul M. Murray is the Director of Environmental Safety and Sustainability at Herman Miller, Inc., a leading voice for increasing corporate environmental responsibility. Herman Miller, Inc. exemplifies how good business and environmental stewardship can go hand-in-hand. Murray lectures nationwide, communicating the message of corporate environmental responsibility to business and academic audiences. [ more info ]
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| Jan 28, 2009, 2:00 PM Office of the School of Art and Design MFA Information Session and School Tour | |
| If you are interested in graduate study in the UIC School of Art and Design and want to learn more, please join professor Jennifer Reeder, Director of Graduate Studies, and Erin Brady, Graduate Advisor, for an information session and tour of the studios of our graduate programs in Studio Arts, Photography, Moving Image, Graphic Design, Industrial Design, and Electronic Visualization. Please meet at the Office of the School of Art an Design located at: 929 West Harrison Street in room 106 Jefferson Hall Chicago IL, 60607
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| Jan 16, 2009, 9:00 AM Erik Peterson: Project Snow Machine | |
| Project Snow Machine is an urban intervention that borrows from the typology of municipal forms (signposts, signpost anchors, and parking meters) and recodes them to build a new public space. Divorced from the bonds of bureaucratic functionality, however, the Snow Machines designate a slightly subversive space for play, or quite possibly, battle. Erik Peterson is a current graduate student at the School of Art and Design. Snow Machine locations: -UIC, one block east, and half-block north of Art and Design Hall (400 S. Peoria) -Wicker Park, on the corner of Haddon and Hermitage -Experimental Station, near the elementary school's playground
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| Jan 15, 2009, 9:00 AM Erik Peterson: Project Snow Machine | |
| Project Snow Machine is an urban intervention that borrows from the typology of municipal forms (signposts, signpost anchors, and parking meters) and recodes them to build a new public space. Divorced from the bonds of bureaucratic functionality, however, the Snow Machines designate a slightly subversive space for play, or quite possibly, battle. Erik Peterson is a current graduate student at the School of Art and Design. Snow Machine locations: -UIC, one block east, and half-block north of Art and Design Hall (400 S. Peoria) -Wicker Park, on the corner of Haddon and Hermitage -Experimental Station, near the elementary school's playground
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