is to be featured at the Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts from November 28, 2009, through May 16, 2010. On exhibition is Manglano-Ovalle's video, Juggernaut, filmed in the Vizcaino Biosphere Reserve in Baja Sur, Mexico.

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is interested in linking the enormity of our modern industrial presence with our surroundings. In this new video, the pristine, gleaming white salt flats of the El Vizcaíno Biosphere Reserve are disturbed by the menacing and thundering sounds of human intervention.

Manglano-Ovalle, is currently creating a newly commissioned work at MASS MoCA, opening December 12, 2009.

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Juggernaut
Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, Massachusetts
November 28, 2009 – May 16, 2010

Curated by John Stomberg

will be featured in a solo exhibition at FTC Fiedler Taubert Contemporary gallery in Berlin, Germany. Geissler & Sann: The Real Estate will open on November 20, 2009 and continue through January.

will present in Madrid Spain at the International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation (ICERI 2009) November 17-18, 2009.

"Three Dimensional Inspiration for Two Dimensional Innovation: Letterform Objects and Experimental Typography" discusses the process and outcome of using a three dimensional form-making in the study of typography.

The third dimension is unchartered territory for most graphic design students as well as many professionals and, accordingly, is often considered an uneasy direction for graphic designers to explore. In her teaching, Oiga transforms fears and unfamiliarity with dimensionality into fresh perspectives and unexpected results.

Her presentation details a newly developed UIC Design course in which students first create physical, three dimensional letterform objects. Content and materials are selected by the students, based on their individual interests. Students develop creative skills (thinking and making) in three dimensions while building upon their knowledge of typography. Then the project moves beyond the construction of these letterform objects through the making of contextual pieces and other support collateral such as process diagrams and charts, fonts, specimen posters and, in one case, storyboard and animation. The letterform objects are not just the final pieces, but a resource for print design, typeface design, and moving image.

Among the diverse materials used to create the letterform objects are: tonic water and a black lightbulb, highlighter ink, sugar, flora, curled paper, wire hangers, seashells, nylons, mirrors, a laser and fog machine, and rubberbands. The resulting projects are inventive, strongly compelling, and educationally transformative.

and Annette Barbier will participate in DisABLING Conditions: Site Sensitive Works for one night only at the Chicago Cultural Center. Curated by Julie Laffin with Clover Morell, the sixth annual edition is a site-specific performance event featuring theater, dance, music, and visual art by individual artists and ensembles of local and international acclaim. The performances, installations, and video works will all consider issues around disability and will be created specifically for the rooms and architecture of the Chicago Cultural Center.

will present TRYPPS 1-6 at the Viennale, Vienna, Austria, October 22-November 4.

Using a fabricated Old English term as its guiding principle, this ongoing series of (mostly) 16mm films is conceptually organized around the possible meanings that its title elicits – physical voyages, psychedelic journeys, and a phenomenological experience of the world. Begun in 2005 in a somewhat vain attempt to hold cinema up as a mirror to the live and fully embodied reception of the crazy noise music scene in Providence, Rhode Island, the TRYPPS films quickly expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance a la Jean Rouch. While the form of these works varies radically from one to the next, when taken as a whole they can be seen to enunciate what their maker calls ‘psychedelic ethnography’ – a practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end.
Featuring: BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER ONE (2005, 6.5 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent), BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER TWO (2006, 8 minutes, 16mm, b&w, silent), BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER THREE (2007, 12 minutes, 35mm, color, sound), BLACK AND WHITE TRYPPS NUMBER FOUR (2008, 10.5 minutes, 16mm, b&w, sound), TRYPPS #5 (DUBAI) (2008, 3 minutes, 16mm, color, silent), TRYPPS #6 (MALOBI) (2009, 12 minutes, 16mm, color, sound)

will give a talk "[Home] Work: Images in Context" as part of Artists Now! Guest Lecture Series: Wednesday, October 21, 7pm. Peck School of the Arts, Department of Visual Art University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Admission is free.

Arts Center Lecture Hall
2400 E. Kenwood Blvd
information: (414) 229-6052 or arts.uwm.edu/visual art

Fish will present and discuss an overview of studio and site-specific projects, in addition to examples of historical and contemporary art and architecture that have been influential in the development of her work as a painter.

will be celebrating the DVD release of her film "Burnt Oranges" with a screening at Millenium Film Workshop: 66 E 4th St New York City on Saturday, October 17, 2009 at 7:30pm.

Burnt Oranges (2005) is an award-winning poetic documentary, the first of its kind in the U.S. - created by a woman in exile from her native country, Argentina. Director Silvia Malagrino examines the long-term effects and repercussions of Argentina's 1970s state terrorism through a combination of intimate witness narration, interviews, documentary, and re-created footage. The film is a personal and artistic portrayal of a country's struggles to confront its painful past, and a reminder of the global necessity to defend human rights and democratic values.

is currently participating in two exhibitions:

Abnormal Formal, at Kunz, Vis, Gonzales, Chicago, October 11–31 (then traveling to Amsterdam and New York)

Because the Night, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, California, curated by Sabina Ott. Opening October 19 and continuing through November 13.

Fraser has additionally curated an exhibition of drawings by Caroll Dunham, at her gallery, He Said, She Said, in Oak Park IL:

Carroll Dunham has been making paintings since the 1970’s that draw on the Abstract, Surrealist, and Pop traditions. His works over time have involved tremendous formal experimentation while figurative and quasi-narrative elements have developed at an incremental pace. When seen in a continuum, one can imagine a single long and unfolding tale. Dunham’s work is comic at times but equally lurid, often revealing an especially male psychosexual subject. These blunt pictures are often disturbing, aggressive, and anxious while also hysterically funny in their juvenile styling and blobby cartooniness. I admire their bad manners, their tough beauty, and their faith in their own candor.

Dunham has exhibited extensively, including the 1991 and 1995 Whitney Biennials, Examining Pictures at Whitechapel Art Gallery in London and The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Urgent Painting at the Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, MAM/ARC. His work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York in 2002.

both current MFA students presented with Associate Professor Dori Tunstall (now an Associate Dean at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia) at MAKE THINK, the AIGA national design conference held in Memphis October 8-11.

Xie Zhen also recently co-authored an article published by a Chinese Art Journal. "How to Interpret Chinese Design" by Xie Zhen and Zhu Shuai appeared in Observation: Volume 168, August 2009.

will appear in person with the NYC premiere of the complete "TRYPPS" on October 5, 2009 at 9:15p at Anthology Film Archives: Walking Picture Palace, 32 2nd Avenue, New York City.

Using a fabricated Old English term as its guiding principle, this ongoing series of (mostly) 16mm films is conceptually organized around the possible meanings that its title elicits – physical voyages, psychedelic journeys, and a phenomenological experience of the world. Begun in 2005 in a somewhat vain attempt to hold cinema up as a mirror to the live and fully embodied reception of the crazy noise music scene in Providence, Rhode Island, the TRYPPS films quickly expanded their formal and critical language to include the various poles of action painting, avant-garde cinema, portraiture, stand-up comedy, global capitalism, and trance-dance a la Jean Rouch. While the form of these works varies radically from one to the next, when taken as a whole they can be seen to enunciate what their maker calls ‘psychedelic ethnography’ – a practice whose aim is a knowledge of the Self/self, a movement towards understanding in which the trip is both the means and the end.


On the following evening, October 6, also at Anthology Film Archives, Russell will present the USA premier of "Let Each One Go Where He May".

Beginning in the ghetto squats just outside of Paramaribo, Suriname, and ending in the rapids that lie just past the last occupied Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River, this film follows two unnamed brothers as they make the long journey upriver, tracing the footsteps of their ancestors who escaped from slavery 300 years prior. As members of the 20,000-strong Saramaccan Maroon tribe living in the South American jungle interior, the film’s silent protagonists travel through the frontlines in the battle between tradition and global capitalism, one in which any sort of movement forward necessitates a continual re-engagement with the past.

Shot on 16mm and consisting of 13 ten-minute-long tracking shots, [the film] operates in the uncanny space(s) between documentary and fiction, history and mythology, record and re-enactment. From wooden cities to gold mines to death rituals to rainforest clear-cutting, this film is as much a dynamic map of Saramaccan culture in flux as it is a metaphor for our global condition. Throughout it all, the sun flares and the lights glitter as a quiet reminder that the gods are with us, pointing towards that forever journey as the only vehicle by which we’ll ever arrive. (2009, Suriname/USA, 16mm, 135 min.)

are currently dominated by UIC. All four Chicago reviews feature solo exhibitions of UIC School of Art and Design alums and faculty:

DOUG ISCHAR
Associate Professor of Photography
"Marginal Waters"
GOLDEN GALLERY
816 W. Newport
through October 25
www.golden-gallery.org

PHILIP VON ZWECK
UIC MFA 2004
"The Fortieth Anniversary of the First Anniversary of May '68 (in September)"
THREEWALLS
119 N. Peoria St. 2D
through October 10
www.three-walls.org

JULIA HECHTMAN
UIC MFA 2001
"Irrationalism"
DEVENING PROJECTS + EDITIONS
3039 W. Carroll, 3rd floor
through October 10
www.deveningprojects.com

MELANIE SCHIFF
UIC MFA 2002
"The Mirror"
KAVI GUPTA GALLERY
835 W. Washington
through October 24
www.kavigupta.com

along with Chicago artist Alex Valentine, will present the local art collective No Coast at the New York Art Book Fair at P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary art in New York from October 2-4. No Coast is a multi-use space, art studio, and consignment store in the Pilsen neighborhood on Chicago’s south side. The collective, who believe that "the products and processes of creative practice should be accessible to whomever is interested in them," will be showcasing prints, artists books, independent music and handmade apparel from their own studios, the midwest and around the world.

will be showing a new artist book, "Reversal," with Bravin Lee Programs at the NY Art Book Fair

Friday, October 2 -4
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
22-25 Jackson Ave
Long Island City, NY 11101

Contemporary Artists' books situated on the third floor.

will be featured in this week's MCA First Friday event, which will mark the opening of her 12x12 exhibition at the MCA. She will discuss her work an ideas during an informal gallery talk on Tuesday, October 13, at 6pm.

Maria Gaspar's performance, Oblation for a Parade, is inspired by how the artist feels her Mexican heritage has become commodified. She, along with other circus-like performers and musicians, lead a funerary procession throughout the museum during the October First Fridays, collecting people to join them along the way. During the collaborative march, the artist parades a brown, sculptural shell, reminiscent of a burial mound. This shell, which the artist feels represents the draining of authentic culture from society, particularly from persons who are brown, remains in the gallery for the month. Other remnants of the parade, including flowers and confetti, are left in the gallery and naturally decompose to brown, exposing and challenging the ability of symbols to signify a culture.

Pictured is Maria Gaspar, Oblation for Another Parade, 2009.

and her Studio/lab colleagues have been awarded an IDEA Silver Award for the architectural graphics program designed for Krueck + Sexton Architects for the new Spertus Institute.

The IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) program is an international competition honoring design excellence in products, ecodesign, interaction design, environments, packaging and graphics, strategy, research and concepts. Winning entries are announced on BusinessWeek.com and receive coverage in hundreds of print and broadcast media networks around the world. IDSA has been honoring design excellence via the IDEA Awards since 1980.

The concept for the Spertus Institute wayfinding system emerged from "Let there be Light," the mantra of this Jewish educational and cultural institution in Chicago. The key design element is a typographic system that integrates a modern sans-serif font with a traditional serif font. Placed on both sides of the many interior glass surfaces, the two fonts combine to create a single flickering typeface, an allusion to the Spertus symbol, the flame of a candle.

will participate in a group exhibition, Learning Modern, curated by Mary Jane Jacob at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Opening Reception:
Friday, September 25, 2009, 4:30-7:00p
Sullivan Galleries
33 South State Street, 7th Floor
Chicago

Exhibition continues through January 9, 2010

Building on the legacy of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, who carried Bauhaus principles to Chicago, SAIC and the Mies Society at IIT are organizing exhibitions and programs now through 2010 that probe the presence of the Modern today. Marking the Bauhaus at 90 years, it coincides with Burnham Plan at 100 and opening of the Art Institute's Modern Wing. The "Living Modern Chicago" program will tell the Chicago chapter in the international story of modernism at a time of the modern's reappraisal, looking at modernism's continuing ideals of inter-disciplinary innovative creative work intended to make a better world, and the legacy of the modern as a way of teaching and learning in both the academy and public realm.

Manglano-Ovalle will show "Always After (The Glass House)", 2006, a Super 16mm film transferred to high-definition digital video, 9 minute 41 second continuous loop.

The UIC IPD program is featured this week in BusinessWeek in an article by Michael Arndt.

Interdisciplinary Product Development is a year-long course that brings together students and faculty from three UIC colleges who study design, business, and engineering. All senior BFA and first year MFA students in UIC's Industrial Design program participate in this course. They work in cross-disciplinary teams to develop new product concepts with a corporate sponsor.

The course is held in the new UIC Innovation Center, a collaboration space designed specifically for IPD instruction as well as for interdisciplinary research between the academy and industry. The UIC Innovation Center includes facilities for physical and virtual prototyping and market research testing.

Dell is the current corporate sponsor of IPD. Past industry participants include Motorola, Cobra Electronics, Pactiv, Elkay Manufacturing, Rehco, Copco, and Whirlpool.

will be featured in "Walls, Floors & Ceilings" installations by 16 artists at Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati Ohio.

Opening Reception
Thursday, September 17
424 Findlay Street
Cincinnati, Ohio 45214
513 621 0069

will exhibit "Marginal Waters" a body of photographs from 1985, never before seen in its entirety, taken on the now defunct Belmont Rocks on the Chicago lakefront, and a new single channel video work. An exhibition catalog is forthcoming: text by David Getsy, Steve Reinke, and an interview by John Neff.

Opening Reception
Saturday, September 12, 2009
6 - 9p
Marginal Waters continues through October 17, 2009

Golden Gallery
816 W. Newport, Chicago

Will screen "Tjüba Tën/The Wet Season", a medium-length experimental documentary shot in Suriname and co-directed by Brigid McCaffrey, and "Let Each One Go Where He May, a feature film debut, at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Toronto International Film Festival
9:00p
Saturday, September 12
Jackman Hall

will exhibit "In the Line of Sight" at the 2009 Ars Electronica Festival.

In the Line of Sight is an artistic exploration of the aesthetic potential of extreme low-resolution video projections with a projection device that is integral part of the installation itself. It explores electronic images not as simulations of reality but as objects, anchored in and defined by the physical space.

A collaboration between Sauter and Fabian Winkler, In the Line of Sight is a light installation that uses 100 computer-controlled tactical flashlights to project low-resolution video footage of moving persons into the exhibition space. Each flashlight projects a light spot - similar to a pixel - on the wall. All flashlights combined create 10 x 10 pixel representations of the source footage.

Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for everyone who uses the computer as a universal medium for implementing and designing their creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. The event calls for entries in eight categories, including a youth competition. And since internationally renowned artists from over 70 countries also participate in the Prix Ars Electronica, it has established itself as a barometer for trends in contemporary media art. With over 40.617 entries since 1987 and prize money in 2009 totalling 122,500 euros, the competition offers the largest cash purse for cyberarts worldwide. Each year, six Golden Nicas, twelve Awards of Distinction and approximately 70 Honorary Mentions as well as a grant for the category [the next idea] and the Media.Art.Research Award are presented to participants. Since media art is such a highly dynamic field, criteria for the categories have to be constantly modified and adjusted to societal and technological developments, and so updated to meet new demands.

has been named Associate Director of the School of Art and Design. In this role, he will work with in partnership with Director Marcia Lausen to provide visionary and administrative leadership for the Art Programs of the School.

is on leave for the fall 2009 semester, participating in an artist-in-residency program in Denmark. The residency is a cooperation between Robocluster, RobotFestival, and Giben Scandinavia A/S, a company that offers large special purpose CNC-controlled machines and robots in flexible solutions.

Pictured is Raaf's "Translator II: Grower" a robotics project supported by a Creative Capital grant and exhibited internationally 2004-2006.

is featured in the New York Times for his special edition vinyl recording "Favorite Recorded Scream", an audio catalog of scream snippets chosen by employees ad various record stores in Manhattan.

Pictured is a photo by Michael Nagle for the New York Times is Stevens at Tropicalia Furs, and East Village record store that participated in the project.

and his wife Naoko are proud to announce the arrival of Sachi Jennings born on August 10th at 4:11p. Please help to spread this good news.

will present Passing “Place for Games” at the Information Aesthetics Showcase at SIGGRAPH 2009.

ACM SIGGRAPH Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Graphics and Interactive Techniques is the premier conference for computer graphics, digital art and interactive techniques. SIGGRAPH 2009 will be held in New Orleans on August 3-7th, 2009.

The emergent field of information aesthetics combines a rich variety of technical and artistic disciplines. Designers and new media artists are joining scientific visualization, informatics, and medical imaging specialists to create purposive, predictive, and creative representations of information. SIGGRAPH 2009 is highlighting this field in recognition of the increasingly prominent role that information visualization and data graphics are assuming in our digitally mediated culture. The Information Aesthetics Showcase includes 2D and 3D prints, interactive and presentational screen-based works, multimodal installation environments, and physical objects that reveal information.

Tsoupikova's Passing “Place for Games” is a high-resolution 3D art visualization that presents a detailed reconstruction of the world famous Russian heritage site ‘Kizhi’ developed using latest concepts in real-time graphics, including complex illumination with dynamic irradiance environment mapping, shadow mapping, and complex materials containing normal and gloss mapping. The piece will be exhibited in the form of an interactive high-resolution application controlled by the user along with a series of high-resolution digital renderings of the environment.

presented two papers: "Three Dimensional Letterform Objects" on the main stage and "The Page: Prose by Georges Perec as Inspiration for Experimental Typography" in the education forum at TypeCon2009, an international conference of the Society of Typographic Aficionados.

Both presentations feature the results of innovative typography courses in UIC's undergraduate curriculum in graphic design.

presented a paper "Type in 20:Queen Typo, Her Courtyard, and the Throng" in a main stage session of TypeCon2009, an international conference of the Society of Typographic Aficionados in Atlanta, July 14-19.

is included in one of two group shows that open concurrently at The Center for Book Arts, in New York City. LEAK and GENEALOGY, two of Frid's artist's books are part of the exhibition. Pictured is a spread from LEAK, cloth and thread 7x20", 1999. The exhibition opens on July 8 and continues through September 12.

The Center for Book Arts
28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
New York City
Monday to Friday, 10am-6pm
Saturday, 10am-4pm
(212) 481-0295
Admission to the galleries is free.

will be facing off on dueling deep fat fryers at the Hyde Park Art Center: Friday, June 27 from 5-8pm.

Will "Frivalry 3" finally settle the score between vegetarians and meat-lovers? Bring something to fry and join Jennings and Von Zweck as they participate in Artists Run Chicago at the Hyde Park Art Center. In their words, the event consists of “two deep fat fryers (one vegetarian, one meatetarian) you bring it, we fry it, you eat it.”

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago 60615

will participate in a panel discussion, Public Art in the Digital Era, on Thursday, June 25 at the Hyde Park Art Center.

In the past few decades there has been increased intersection between public art and digital technology.The Art Center’s own digital catwalk facade acts as both public art display and an interactive use of digital technology.

But where is this all headed? Where did it begin?

Join us as our panel discusses the growing relationship between technology and public art. Our panel consisting of artists and arts administrators will talk about the ways in which technology has changed public art, has it become a burden or a blessing, and where will the public art go next?

In addition to Sauter, the panel moderated by Nathan Mason, Curator of Special Events for the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs’ Public Art Program, includes Hamza Walker, Director of Education for The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago; and Tiffany Holmes, Artist and Associate Professor of Art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Admission is free.

has developed the interactive lighting program for UNStudio's Burnham Pavilion in Millennium Park. The public opening for the pavilion is Friday, June 19th at 8:00p.

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 6:30 pm.
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

is announcing the launch of Tree Theory Bags. Harvested from the Urban Landscape, Tree Theory bags are made of materials salvaged from the waste stream, finished with high quality stainless steel hardware. Each is fully recyclable, repairable, and entirely manufactured and assembled in Chicago.

Join the celebration on Friday, June 19th from 6-10p at 1008 W. Randolph Street in the Strand Design Showroom.

is currently exhibiting works at the Gahlberg Gallery at College of DuPage. Frid's solo exhibition, "The Forces That Shape Them" opens on Thursday, June 4, and continues through August 8.

Dianna Frid makes works that stem from existing images, diagrams and places. These existing things are submitted to vivid material and formal shifts that allow for new empirical experiences of the familiar. For her project in the gallery, Frid made works that acknowledge the existing glass panes that separate the gallery from the lobby by making the space a penetrable vitrine that positions itself within a larger atrium.

and Fabian Winkler, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University, have been awarded a Honorary Mention at the 2009 Prix Ars Electronica for their work “In the Line of Sight” (2009). Since 1987, the Prix Ars Electronica has served as an interdisciplinary platform for creative projects at the interface of art, technology and society. In 2009, a total of 5,029 participants from 68 countries entered the competition.

has been invited to speak at a social design congress in Florence, Italy. Piú Design Puó (More Design Can) revisits recent and significant experiences--organized by various types of institutions, associations, and universities--that aim, though visual communication design, to provide a substantial step forward in terms of information and participative quality.

Piú Design Puó:
Il disgno della democrazia, della societá e della cittá.
SocialDesignZine Talks, 2009
Organized by Andrea Rauch and Gianni Sinni

22-23 May 2009
Palazzo Medici Ricardi
Florence

has received a Fullbright Scholarship to Palermo, Italy. Seeking to combine an interest in aesthetic research with direct civic service, Hulsebos-Spofford will study Sicilian boat craft and conduct weekly art workshops for disadvantaged children. He also intends to make a large-scale sculpture that engages children from the workshops, while also using visual vocabulary from his research.

The Fulbright Program is the flagship international educational exchange program sponsored by the U.S. government and is designed to “increase mutual understanding between the people of the United States and the people of other countries.” With this goal as a starting point, the Fulbright Program has provided almost 300,000 participants—chosen for their academic merit and leadership potential — with the opportunity to study, teach and conduct research, exchange ideas and contribute to finding solutions to shared international concerns.

has been named a 2009 Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Guggenheim Fellows are appointed on the basis of stellar achievement and exceptional promise for continued accomplishment.

The UIC School of Art and Design now boasts four Guggenheim Fellows on its faculty: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, 2009; Ben Russell, 2008; Tony Tasset, 2006; and Deborah Stratman, 2003.

Congratulations Iñigo!

Pictured is Manglano-Ovalle installing "Phantom Truck", replica of fictional Iraqi Mobile Biological Weapons Lab, at Dominican Church, Osnabrück, Germany, March 24, 2009.

were selected to participate in New Insight at Art Chicago. New Insight, an exhibition of top MFA students from some of the country's most influential graduate art programs, is curated by Susanne Ghez, director of the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. New Insight is a platform for new talent and innovative ideas. It provides the opportunity to view work by some of the brightest young minds working in diverse graduate programs across the country.

Art Chicago, the international fair of contemporary and modern art, opens on May 1, 2009, with an opening preview on April 30. Art Chicago continues through May 4th at the Merchandise Mart, Chicago.

and Bruce Tharp are representing the US at Tuttobene’s international group exhibition in Tortona (Via Savona 6) during Milan Design Week. They are presenting eight new projects that address social, psychological, and ideological issues represented by thinkers such as Marx, Gandhi, Freud, Darwin, and Franklin.

Two of the projects being exhibited are Adieu, a set of ceramic gas-fireplace logs for the ardent modernist—a torrid farewell to our stylistic past, and Piggy, a ceramic piggy bank designed to teach and inspire people to give to charity.

are featured in "Several Silences" at the The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, April 26 – June 7, 2009.

Titled after an essay by the late philosopher and literary theoretician Jean-Francois Lyotard, Several Silences is a group exhibition exploring various kinds of silence. As a discourse, the aesthetic of silence has been thoroughly domesticated within the visual arts. Although silence as a discourse in art arose out of conditions calling for the negation of art, it has subsequently become familiar subject matter no longer operating as the avant-garde ideal it once was. This is not to say silence has lost significance. If anything, it has become a more potent antidote to a culture of distraction. Silence, however, is not the absence of communication. It is dialectically opposed to communication, so that one sustains and supports the other. Inextricably bound to communication, which it tacitly evokes, silence itself is a form of communication with many meanings. There are voluntary and involuntary silences--some comfortable, others not. There is Cage's silence, which calls for the distinction between clinical and ambient silences. There is silence as conscious omission or redaction. And then there is memorial silence.

Pictured is PERSONAL KILL, #1, 2007, by Beate Geissler & Oliver Sann.

are featured in Response: Art and the Art of Criticism an exhibition at I-space Gallery in Chicago.

Opening Reception:
April 24th 5-7p
I space
230 West Superior Street, Second Floor

Related Event:
May 4
1-2:30 p
The Chicago Art Critics Association and I space present a panel discussion at Art Chicago located in the Merchandise Mart Conference Center.

I space will stay open until 8p on Saturday May 2 along with other River North galleries in conjunction with Art Chicago.

"Response" pairs nine artists with nine critics in an effort to investigate the critical process. Each critic presents an essay about the selected artist and the act of criticism that is followed by a response from the artist. This exchange will be presented in the gallery in print and audio formats alongside the artists’ work. Featured artists and critics include:

Fred Camper and Adelheid Mers
Janina Cziezadlo and Silvia Malagrino
Alicia Eler and Carrie Schneider
Jason Foumberg and Carol Jackson
Claire Wolf Krantz and Claire Prussian
Corey Postiglione and Duncan MacKenzie
Lane Relyea and Conrad Bakker
Polly Ullrich and Christopher Meerdo
Lori Waxman and Dianna Frid

Pictured is a still from Malagrino's video: Where are you between two thoughts.

will unveil "Curtain Wall" a large scale, permanent installation commissioned by the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority (MPEA). Curtain Wall is part of a series of site-specific, contemporary art commissions for the new McCormick Place Building.

Opening reception: Friday, April 17, 5:30 - 8p
The "Diagonal Box" space, McCormick Place West
Entrance on Martin Luther King S Drive
(opposite the main entrance/ plaza of the McCormick East Bldg)
Chicago, IL 60616

Park on S. Indiana between Cermak and 24th St. or in Parking Lot A of the McCormick Place West.

Curtain Wall is a sculptural and interactive video piece which references the architectural tradition of the “curtain wall” or “glass curtain” facade in Chicago. This style of edge-to-edge glass facade was popularized by architect Mies Van Der Rohe in the mid 20th century and remains a distinctive element of Chicago’s skyline today. Inspired by the metaphor of the glass curtain, the Curtain Wall hanging sculpture is a two-thirds scale, steel replica of the facade structure of the McCormick Building. The sculpture structure is torqued and twisted into the form of a billowing curtain, captured is if blowing in the wind. In the video portion of the piece, a virtual ‘glass curtain’ building facade is made to bow, ripple and float according to the pitch and volume of visitors' voices in the space.

is currently exhibiting in the artist's book program at Bravin Lee programs in New York. Featured are two of Frid's books.

Stardeath (2009)
In 1572 Tycho Brahe discovered a new star in the constellation Cassiopea. What he had seen was in fact the explosion and subsequent expiry of a dying star that faded from view within months. In Stardeath (2009), a one of a kind cloth book, Frid alludes to this event in a twofold way. First, she establishes an intricately stitched sequence in which a densely sewn astral pattern gradually breaks down into the simple structure of lines underlying the star shapes. Above the pattern, using sewn and collage elements, Frid reveals a second sequence of events: the transformation of a dot into a blast, and a blast into a void.

The Ascents (2001)
An earlier artist book also made of cloth, operates as both a theater of memory and an investigation of the inconsistencies inherent in paying collective tribute to particular human achievements.

Dianna Frid's books are one-of-a-kind or small multiple editions that are accumulations of sequential moments that operate as vessels of time. Very often the most rudimentary qualities of the materials chosen, mainly cloth and thread, but also paper, photocopies and photographs are used to conjure a layered space within a sequence.

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April 3 - June 6, 2009
Tuesday-Friday, 10a-5p
Saturday 11a-5p

is the 2nd place winner in UIC's Image of Research annual interdisciplinary competition and exhibition designed to showcase the breadth and diversity of research at UIC. Each year, students enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal created by the student along with a brief précis of how the image relates to the student’s overall research. A multi-disciplinary jury reviews the submissions and awards prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and three honorable mentions.

Al-Ansari's entry, Typographic Cities, relates to her 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.

Her processes includes in depth study of both alphabets to gain an understanding of their essences. In one exercise, Al-Ansari typeset a paragraph, once in Latin and again in Arabic. She then abstracted the typography by drawing rectangles on the letters. This exposes differences as well as shared principle. When the abstracted Latin typography is juxtaposed over an aerial photo of Chicago and the abstracted Arabic typography over Marrakech, these observations extend into the built environment. Just as a city can impart a certain identity to its citizens, so can a script lend a particular identity to a language and to a culture’s cherished heritage.

An awards ceremony organized by the Graduate College and the University Library honoring the winners of the Image of Research competition will be held Thursday, April 16, 2009, 3-5p, in the Reserve Reading Room, UIC Richard J. Daley Library.<br>

An exhibit featuring the winners and the finalists will be displayed in the lobby of the Daley Library and as well as the Library of Health Sciences, and a selection of the images is featured on banners around campus.<br>

is a finalist in UIC's Image of Research annual interdisciplinary competition and exhibition designed to showcase the breadth and diversity of research at UIC. Each year, students enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal created by the student along with a brief précis of how the image relates to the student’s overall research. A multi-disciplinary jury reviews the submissions and awards prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and three honorable mentions.

Davis's entry, Research is an Infinite Loop, speaks with a metaphorical tone to his observation of research as a whole. Originally created as a self initiated visualization of the concept 'Inquiry by Design' -- Davis created a short slideshow of his quest to fill the holes of a piece of Swiss Cheese. In the end, the perfect match was an olive, which upon closer examination also has holes in it, thus leading to a new problem which holds an answer through research. An infinite loop of exploration, if one is so curious.

An awards ceremony organized by the Graduate College and the University Library honoring the winners of the Image of Research competition will be held Thursday, April 16, 2009, 3-5p, in the Reserve Reading Room, UIC Richard J. Daley Library.

An exhibit featuring the winners and the finalists will be displayed in the lobby of the Daley Library and as well as the Library of Health Sciences, and a selection of the images is featured on banners around campus.

received honorable mention in UIC's Image of Research annual interdisciplinary competition and exhibition designed to showcase the breadth and diversity of research at UIC. Each year, students enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal created by the student along with a brief précis of how the image relates to the student’s overall research. A multi-disciplinary jury reviews the submissions and awards prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and three honorable mentions.

Obelleiro's entry is a close up of his interactive installation, The Viewer, which seeks to invert the relationship between artwork and observer. With a virtual viewer situated in front of a real viewer, the piece watches the audience, making them become aware of their own behavior.

An awards ceremony organized by the Graduate College and the University Library honoring the winners of the Image of Research competition will be held Thursday, April 16, 2009, 3-5p, in the Reserve Reading Room, UIC Richard J. Daley Library.

An exhibit featuring the winners and the finalists will be displayed in the lobby of the Daley Library and as well as the Library of Health Sciences, and a selection of the images is featured on banners around campus.

is a finalist in UIC's Image of Research annual interdisciplinary competition and exhibition designed to showcase the breadth and diversity of research at UIC. Each year, students enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal created by the student along with a brief précis of how the image relates to the student’s overall research. A multi-disciplinary jury reviews the submissions and awards prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and three honorable mentions.

Farcus was raised in a rural middle class family, and his creative work reflects middle class mentalities. Subjects and materials taken from the artist's life are used in a way that transforms them from the normal and everyday into the magical, mystical, sincere and poetic. Like other works, Farcus's entry, Owl, needs to be humble and ephemeral: it is imperfect. Faults lie in the construction and materials. The pieces will fall apart and the colors will fade. Everything has a life span: pop culture, objects, art, human life and the universe. Farcus embraces and celebrates this part of life. Owl is an elusive and mysterious predator/protector. Owl is not a rendering of an actual owl, but a simulacrum of the mental and magical space that is this epic creature.

An awards ceremony organized by the Graduate College and the University Library honoring the winners of the Image of Research competition will be held Thursday, April 16, 2009, 3-5p, in the Reserve Reading Room, UIC Richard J. Daley Library.

An exhibit featuring the winners and the finalists will be displayed in the lobby of the Daley Library and as well as the Library of Health Sciences, and a selection of the images is featured on banners around campus.

s a finalist in UIC's Image of Research annual interdisciplinary competition and exhibition designed to showcase the breadth and diversity of research at UIC. Each year, students enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal created by the student along with a brief précis of how the image relates to the student’s overall research. A multi-disciplinary jury reviews the submissions and awards prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and three honorable mentions.

Xie's entry, Wall of Post-Its, is a photograph of her research documentation taken in the UIC Innovation Center. Post-its are often regarded as a fundamental research tool, commonly used to color code research findings, yet people seldom find the beauty of the post-it notes themselves. Her image shows that data gathering and sorting can be enjoyable and attractive. Xie's research about Chinese Design Identity rethinks the relationship between national identity, traditional culture elements and design.

An awards ceremony organized by the Graduate College and the University Library honoring the winners of the Image of Research competition will be held Thursday, April 16, 2009, 3-5p, in the Reserve Reading Room, UIC Richard J. Daley Library.

An exhibit featuring the winners and the finalists will be displayed in the lobby of the Daley Library and as well as the Library of Health Sciences, and a selection of the images is featured on banners around campus.

is a finalist in UIC's Image of Research annual interdisciplinary competition and exhibition designed to showcase the breadth and diversity of research at UIC. Each year, students enrolled in a graduate or professional degree program at UIC are invited to submit an image with aesthetic appeal created by the student along with a brief précis of how the image relates to the student’s overall research. A multi-disciplinary jury reviews the submissions and awards prizes to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners and three honorable mentions.

Kim's entry, The Tight Room, s a screen capture of a 3D animation constructed on the concept and background of corsets. This temporal and spatial dimension reflects how we perceive past and future meanings of corsets physically as well as psychologically. In the Victorian age the thinner the female waist, the more attractive a figure was considered. Girls of the era aspired to marry before 21 with a waist measurement less than the years of her age. In pursuit of this passion of being thinner, corsets caused obvious physical and mental health problems. They were frequently laced so tightly that women often fainted due to numbness of lower body and legs. Even though the actual corset itself is disappearing, the concept behind it has been internalized in contemporary times through extreme diet and plastic surgery.

An awards ceremony organized by the Graduate College and the University Library honoring the winners of the Image of Research competition will be held Thursday, April 16, 2009, 3-5p, in the Reserve Reading Room, UIC Richard J. Daley Library.

An exhibit featuring the winners and the finalists will be displayed in the lobby of the Daley Library and as well as the Library of Health Sciences, and a selection of the images is featured on banners around campus.

is presenting a solo exhibition, The High Mayors of Chicago, at Second Bedroom Project Space on Saturday, April 18th from 7-11pm. The show exhibits a body of work that conflates the political power of the two mayor Daleys and the mythology of the High Kings of Ireland.

Second Bedroom Project Space is a gallery in Bridgeport founded and directed by UIC BFA students Chris Smith and Irene Pérez. 3216 S. Morgan Street 4R, Bridgeport.



The attachment and postcard show a piece called The Mandate Stone.

is featured in the April 2009 issue of Sculpture Magazine. "Chicago: Sculpture Town" by Polly Ulrich addresses the role of contemporary, monumental, non-memorial public sculptures in the City of Chicago.

Pictured is Tasset's "Paul", 2006, fiberglass over steel frame. 360 x 252 x 176 in.

were selected as winners in the Sony World Photography awards student competition. Their images will be exhibited with the other semi-finalists at the Sony World Photography Festival in Cannes, France on April 14th - 19th. Their work is also up currently on the Sony World Photography website.

Pictured is the winning entry by Elizabeth Gadelha.

will be a Visiting Artist at Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, February 11-13. Fraser will be giving two lectures; "Pamela Fraser" on her painting practice and "Color Problems and Considerations."

has been recognized by the Type Directors Club for her UIC MFA Thesis Project: "Designing a Typeface for the Chicago 2016 Olympics". Graw's work will be published in the Annual TDC, Typography 30 and will be shown at the 55th awards exhibition in New York, in the summer of 2009. It will also be featured in a traveling exhibition.

will screen her recent film, "O'er the Land" (2008, 52 minutes) on Friday February 6th at 7pm for free at Northwestern's Block Cinema.

Fresh from its premiere at the 2008 Sundance festival, O’er the Land is a meditation on role of technology in American myth and history. This collage is interrupted by the story of Col. William Rankin, who in 1959 ejected from his fighter jet at 48,000 feet only to be trapped for 45 minutes in the up and down drafts of a massive thunderstorm. (Amazingly, he survived.) Deborah Stratman is a Chicago-based artist and filmmaker whose work in various media plies the territory between experimental and documentary genres, whether it is set in Xinjiang China or rural Iceland.

Proceeded by The Paranormal Trilogy (Stratman, 2005–7, 11 minutes, video and 16mm). Co-sponsored by Block Cinema and the Northwestern University Department of Art Theory & Practice.

Block Cinema
Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art
40 Arts Circle Drive
Evanston, IL 60208-2410
Phone: 847-491-4000

will be exhibiting a work completed in collaboration with Fabian Winkler, Assistant Professor of Visual and Performing Arts at Purdue University.

In the Line of Sight opens at the Elaine L. Jacob Gallery of Wayne State University, 480 W. Hancock Street, Detroit, Michigan on Friday, January 30th. The exhibit continues through April 3rd with an artist talk on Thursday, April 2nd at 7p in the DeRoy Auditorium.

In the Line of Sight is a light installation that uses 100 computer-controlled tactical flashlights to project low-resolution video footage of moving persons into the exhibition space. Each flashlight projects a light spot – similar to a pixel - on the wall. All flashlights combined create 10 x 10 pixel representations of the source footage. Instead of projections onto flat walls, we imagine the images being projected onto multiple surfaces, i.e. corners, floors, ceilings, using the architectural elements that are specific to the site. In the Line of Sight is an artistic exploration of the aesthetic potential of extreme low-resolution video projections with a projection device that is integral part of the installation itself. It explores electronic images not as simulations of reality but as objects, anchored in and defined by the physical space. The projected video content is also directly linked to the sculptural elements of the projector: tactical flashlights. Flashlights are often used in situations where it is hard to see clearly. Consequently the images created by In the Line of Sight are difficult to decipher, deliberately vague, making the audience wonder what exactly the projected persons are doing. The installation creates uncannily ambiguous images that reference the elusiveness of visual representation delivered by: viral media, surveillance, or tactical images. In the context of law enforcement and intelligence, images taken under difficult circumstances (i.e. at night, from a distance, at low resolution, in passing), are constant subject to analysis, debate, and scrutiny to interpret their actual meaning. Misinterpretations have been the basis for at times wrong decisions with severe consequences. By walking between the light source and the projected images, the role of the visitor changes from observer to subject – with 100 flashlights pointed at them. A video monitor in a separate part of the gallery shows re-enactments of iconic film scenes that focus on the actors’ gestures and movements (e.g. running, walking, dancing, climbing, etc.), representing the actual source material for the projections. This video footage includes the original film soundtrack, allowing the visitors to relate the re-enactments to the original film scenes.

has been honored for his work for the UIC College of Architecture and the Arts 2007 Scholarship Benefit. Becker's work was awarded and published by Print Magazine in its 2008 Regional Design Annual.

is featured in the book Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism by Nato Thompson and Independent Curators International (Melville House Publishing).

On Thursday, January 15th, Stop Smiling magazine is hosting a book release party for Experimental Geography: 8-10pm, 1371 N. Milwaukee Avenue.

will be exhibiting at ThreeWalls Gallery in Chicago from January 9th through February 13th. Donner's recent works examine fertility, biology and identity through a series of works on paper, multiple wall installations, an interview-based zine, and an animated film made in collaboration with biologist / artist extraordinaire Andrew Yang.

Opening Reception 6-9p
Friday, January 9th

Public Lecture 7p
Thursday, January 29th

ThreeWalls Gallery
119 N. Peoria #2d
Chicago IL 60607
312.432.3972