Jennifer Montgomery to be featured in 2008 Whitney Biennial
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Montgomery is an Assistant Professor of Moving Image at UIC.
Her film titles include Notes on the Death of Kodachrome (2006), Along the Highway (2005), Threads of Belonging (2004), Transitional Objects (2000), Troika (1998), Art For Teachers of Children (1995), I, a Lamb (1992), Age 12: Love With a Little L (1990), and Home Avenue (1989). These films range from experimental essays to experimental features, and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films, Women Make Movies, and Video Data Bank.
The curatorial team for the 2008 Whitney Biennial has selected 81 artists for the exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, on March 6, and runs through June 1, 2008. Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney’s signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today. The exhibition will occupy the entire Museum, with the exception of the fifth floor, which is devoted to the permanent collection.
Melanie Schiff to be featured in 2008 Whitney Biennial
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Schiff received her MFA from UIC in 2005 and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in our Photography program.
The curatorial team for the 2008 Whitney Biennial has selected 81 artists for the exhibition, which opens at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street, on March 6, and runs through June 1, 2008. Since its founding in 1932, the Biennial has evolved into the Whitney’s signature exhibition as well as the most important survey of the state of contemporary art in the United States today. The exhibition will occupy the entire Museum, with the exception of the fifth floor, which is devoted to the permanent collection.
 | 19 Oct 2007 Businessweek [ more information ] |
named UIC one of the world's best design schools in their October D-Schools Special Report. | |
 | 17 Oct 2007 Sabrina Raaf [ more information ] |
Assistant Professor of Electronic Visualization, has work on exhibition at Edith-RUb-Haus in Oldenburg, Germany. The exhibition "Ecomedia" presents projects revolving around the charting of data and rooted in the link between media technologies and natural systems. | |
Dori Tunstall
Associate Professor of Design Anthropology, will present at NeoCom East, “Designing Experiences of Civic Engagement: a Design Archaeology of American Governance.” The talk will explore the roles of designed artifacts and the built-environment in the practice of American democracy. It will focus on how design translates values (especially, democratic) into tangible experiences for diverse peoples
Dori Tunstall
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Associate Professor of Design Anthropology, will lead an affinity session presentation at Next: AIGA National Conference in Denver, CO. Her session is entitled, “The Yin Yang of Design and Anthropology: Anthrodesigners and the Evolution of Graphic Design.” Her talk explores complementary practices of the anthropology and design fields and how the synthesis of the two can positively effect business, government, and society.
 | 12 Oct 2007 No Better, no worse, no change [ more information ] |
Harold Mendez, UIC MFA 2007, has an exhibition this month at Polvo Chicago. Opening Friday, October 12th from 6-10pm, continuing through November 10th. Also this month at Polvo are mini-exhibits of the works of Brandon Alvendia and Derek Chan, both UIC MFAs from 2007. | |
 | 08 Oct 2007 Helen Mirra [ more information ] |
MFA 1996 lectures on Imi Knoebel at Dia in New York City. | |
 | 06 Oct 2007 Cut & Paste Chicago [ more information ] |
Linda Bracamontes, Associate Professor, Graphic Design will be a judge and Leilah Rampa, MFA student in Graphic Design will be a contestant in Cut & Paste 2007, an annual digital design tournament that takes place in cities across the country. | |
 | 01 Oct 2007 Joseph D. Jachna Photographs 1982-2007 [ more information ] |
Works of Emeritus Professor, Joseph Jachna, are on exhibition through Novemer 4th at at City Gallery in Chicago's Historic Water Tower, 806 North Michigan Avenue. City Gallery is a unique exhibition space dedicated to presenting Chicago-themed photographic work, and/or photo-based work by Chicago photographers and artists. Open 7 days a week, Monday-Saturday 10am-6:30pm, Sunday 10am-5pm. | |
Nothing Compares 2 U
UIC MFA candidate, Michael Robinson, will present 8 of his films and videos at the Gene Siskel Film Center: Conversations at the Edge. 6pm 164 N. State / 312-846-2600.
The films and videos of Michael Robinson are a deft mix of stunning beauty and nervy wit. He combines lush, often optically-printed imagery with the electric fuzz of video-games, old movie footage, and dusty magazine layouts in pop song–scored cine-ballads that are at once cynical and sincere.
A multiple prize-winner in festivals across North America and Europe, Robinson will premiere two new pieces: VICTORY OVER THE SUN (2007) and an as-of-yet untitled video.
The sitcom-perfect world of "Full House" devours itself in the demonic LIGHT IS WAITING (2007); National Geographic centerfolds unfurl into oblivion in YOU DON'T BRING ME FLOWERS (2005); and a radio tunes in karaoke transmissions from beyond in the elegiac AND WE ALL SHINE ON (2006). Also screening: THE GENERAL RETURNS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER (2006); TIDAL (2001); and CHIQUITITA AND THE SOFT ESCAPE (2003). 2001-07, USA, ca 75 min. (Amy Beste)
 | 25 Sep 2007 Pecha Kucha Night: Chicago Volume 2 |
Will feature Jack Fisher (MFA Graphic Design 2006) and Michael Serafin (BFA Industrial Design 2008). | |
Industrial Design Classroom Activities
Prof. Stephen Melamed took his AD326, Materials & Methods class of ID juniors up to Kohler, Wisconsin for a field trip to the Kohler manufacturing facilities, design studio, and design center. The students were given a welcome speech from Mary Reid, Vice President of Design, and were taken through both the porcelain casting facility as well as the cast iron foundry. Kohler industrial designers, Rob Wurm, Alex LeTourneau, and Shawn Booth shared their design and prototyping process and also conducted a portfolio review.
 | 25 Sep 2007 Studio Arts Classroom Activities |
Assistant Professor Dianna Frid took her "Drawing and Inter-materiality" class to the Art Institute to see the exhibit "Perpetual Glory: Medieval Ceramics form the Islamic World." | |
 | 20 Sep 2007 Dori Tunstall, Associate Professor, Design Anthropology |
will present the project, In Designo Nos Fidus | Design Policy at IFG Ulm as part of its Designing Politics promotional programme. As spokesperson for the international group of design policy experts, Dori will deliver a proposal for an edited book, conference, and website on “design and governance with people, business, and society.” The proposal features the graphic design work of Assistant Professor Joerg Becker, and MFA student Leilah Rampa. | |
Pamela Fraser, Assistant Professor, Studio Arts
Pamela Fraser was recently names a recipient of a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Dori Tunstall
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Associate Professor of Design Anthropology, is featured in the current issue of SEEdesign.
The SEEdesign Bulletin is the only periodical publication dedicated to the discussion of issues related to design support, promotion programmes and design policies worldwide. Every six months the SEEdesign partners publish and distribute a new issue including articles, interviews, case studies and news relevant to practitioners and researchers in this area. In some countries, the Bulletin’s articles have been translated to allow access for more readers. 1,200 copies have been printed of this September 2007 issue. Copies are sent to the partners, who distribute it locally and to a mailing list of around 700 people in 53 different countries.
This fifth issue opens with a research article by Dr Elizabeth Tunstall on mapping the design support landscape, outlining the different contexts in which design support policy is created and applied. Judith Thompson, Director of the Better by Design programme in New Zealand, is interviewed about the challenging targets set by the programme and its focus on export as a means to economic development for the country. The inspiring story of Antwerp's Design Center De Winkelhaak is told in the 'Design Support in Practice' section, together with an article on the UK Design Council's Designing Demand programme.
 | 30 Aug 2007 Julia Hechtman (MFA 2001) and Kara Braciale (MFA 2004) |
have opened Proof, a new gallery in Boston. Their first exhibition, opening in September will feature work of another alum: Jeff DeGolier (MFA 2004). | |
 | 16 Aug 2007 Michael Serafin [ more information ] |
One of our very talented undergraduate ID students, Michael Serafin, has won one of two nationally competitive IDSA scholarships. He will be honored at Connecting Congress: the IDSA/ICSID international conference in San Francisco in October. | |
 | 10 Aug 2007 Drew Browning [ more information ] |
Associate Professor of Electronic Visualization, Drew Browning, has a piece on exhibition at Polvo gallery: "Search Terms" is an interactive media installation, in ECHELON, an exhibit about surveillance. Through September 1st. | |
 | 04 Aug 2007 SIGGRAPH 2007 [ more information ] |
Daria Tsoupikova and Alex Hill presented VR art installation “Rutopia 2” at the SIGGRAPH 2007 Art Gallery on August 4-6th at the state-of-the-art facilities of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2) and the Center for Research in Computing and the Arts (CRCA) at the University of California, San Diego. | |
 | 07 Jul 2007 Drawing Room [ more information ] |
An exhibition featuring Rodney Carswell, UIC Professor Emeritus, with Renee DuBois and Scott Wolniak. "Drawing Room" opens Saturday, July 7 with an artists reception from 6-8 pm Michigan time. The show continues through July 29. Judith Racht Gallery is located on Prairie Road just off Red Arrow Highway in Harbert, MI. | |
 | 04 Jun 2007 Tony Tasset |
Professor of Studio Arts will have pieces, entitled "Darwin's Playground," installed at the Institute for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana. In his work, Tasset captured the child-like creativity of biologists and puts to form a radical view of the role modern biologists play in shaping, even creating life. | |
 | 04 Jun 2007 Masahiro Sugano [ more information ] |
School of Art and Design alumnus will screen his film SECOND MOON at the Gene Siskel Film Center in June. See him discuss his film on Chicago Tonight (WTTW Channel 11) this coming Monday, June 4 at 7PM. | |
Emeritus Faculty
Phyllis Bramson, Rodney Carswell, and Susan Sensemann have all been awarded emeritus facutly status in the UIC School of Art and Design. This distinction allows us to continue to recognize their important contributions and ongoing relationship to the UIC School of Art and Design and its distinctive Studio Arts program.
Stephen Melamed and Marcia Lausen
will be part of the Advisory Panel to review the best practices documentation established by AIGA Design for Democracy for the U.S. Elections Assistance Commission in New York City May 10th.
Drew Browning's Electronic Visualization Senior Projects
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Drew Browning's Electronic Visualization Senior Projects class has developed an installation for the Year End Show (May 11, 6-9) called Corpus Callosum. This responsive environment plays with "building behaviors" by sensing activity in the Architecture and Art building through wireless network traffic. Situated in the passageway that divides the sections of the building, Corpus Callosum (named for the fissure that divides the left and right sides of the brain) brings the academic programs within the building together on the same digital "canvas" through visual representations. Read more about the creation of this project in Chicago City Arts Review:
 | 06 May 2007 More or Less [ more information ] |
Devening Projects + Editions presents More or Less, an exhibition of recent work by Rodney Carswell and Zak Prekop, two painters similarly invigorated by the object conditions of painting. This exhibition pairs a Chicago artist significant in the lexicon of abstraction with a younger and emerging painter whose developing language has already reached a well-defined position. Since his last major solo exhibition in 2002, an important focus for Rodney Carswell has been drawing with an exploration defined by a limited set of abstract formal and material variables. More or Less will feature a new group of works on paper in addition to recent paintings. Zak Prekop, currently an MFA candidate at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, spent the last five years making music and showing his work in New York. His contribution to More or Less will be an installation of paintings that look at representation addressed directly through substantive nature of object. | |
Marisa Bueno
Graphic Design student Marisa Bueno underwent a thorough portfolio avaluation and lengthy selection process in consideration for an out-of-state summer internship program at Herman Miller. With support frmo Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga and Associate Professor Linda Bracamontes-Roeger, Marisa was granted the appointment.
Jessica Poser
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Jessica Poser will be presenting at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry being held at UIUC May 2-5. The paper is included on the panel: Photography and Video Methodology, Friday, May 4 at 4:00pm.
Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga
Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga, along with members of design firm Sandbox Studio, created presentation graphics for The String Theory Debate held at Washington, DC last month. This international event was sponsored by The Smithsonian Associates and the Department of Energy's Office of Science.
Drew Browning
Drew Browning had his work "Homeland Insecurity" accepted in WEB3DART 2007, an annual competition showcasing the best 3D web based works of the year. In addition to being displayed on-line at the organization's web site, the work was on exhibit at the 12th International Conference on 3D Web Technology, April 15-18, 2007 University of Perugia, Umbria, Italy. "Homeland Insecurity" will also be on exhibit from May 9-11, 2007, in Takeaway Festival 2007, Dana Centre Science and Art Museum, London, UK.
Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga
Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga and Sandbox Studio, the new identity of the International Linear Collider was unveiled, accompanied by the launch of ILC Newsline Q, an ILC publication. The ILC is an organization dedicated to building the next revolutionary particle collider. It will focus the efforts of hundreds of accelerator scientists and particle physicists in North America, Europe and Asia and it will be funded, managed and operated as a fully international scientific project.
ID5
ID5 studio under the direction of Prof. Melamed will be making presentations of compact consumer fitness equipment to the top management of Life Fitness Corporation on April 26th.
Stephen Melamed
Stephen Melamed was selected as part of an international peer review panel for the ConnectED International Design Education Conference in Sydney, Australia.
Stephanie Munson Tharp
Stephanie Munson Tharp co-chaired the IDSA Midwest Conference in Kohler, Wisconsin this past weekend (April 20-22). Stephanie was responsible for all student-related activities at the conference, and helped to create and launch a new award entitled Midwest Honors. This award celebrates one outstanding Design Practitioner and one outstanding Design Educator from the Midwest.
Sara Rockwell
Industrial Design Senior Sara Rockwell, UIC's Merit Award Winner, presented her work in Kohler, Wisconsin at the IDSA Midwest Conference.
A competition by the UIC Undergraduate Research Symposium Steering Committee was facilitated by Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga, Clinical Professor Stephen Melamed and Mukesh Anand, IPD and Mechanical Engineering student. The UIC URS is a platform for undergraduate students to showcase their research in a professional setting. The abstracts of the students' research are published annually in a booklet. Graphic Design foreign exchange student Ruben Lara Turrubiartes won the competition and his work appeared on the booklet cover and symposium t-shirts.
IPD (Interdisciplinary Product Development)
Due to the continued success of the IPD (Interdisciplinary Product Development) program, Motorola has decided to sponsor another section of the course for the academic year 2007-08. IPD had previously announced that next year's course will be sponsored by Elkay Manufacturing. This fall will be the first time that two sections of IPD will be offered.
A competition by the UIC Undergraduate Research Symposium Steering Committee
was facilitated by Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga, Clinical Associate Professor Stephen Melamed and Mukesh Anand, IPD and Mechanical Engineering student. The UIC URS is a platform for undergraduate students to showcase their research in a professional setting. The abstracts of the students' research are published annually in a booklet. Graphic Design foreign exchange student Ruben Lara Turrubiartes won the competition and his work appeared on the booklet cover and symposium t-shirts.
Dori Tunstall
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Dori Tunstall's project with Ken Friedman, In Disegno Nos Fidus, is shortlisted for the International Design Forum (IFG) promotional programme "Designing politics: the politics of design". Fifty-four applicants from 26 different nations applied for the second annual programme for a grant sum of 50,000 Euro. As one of the eight semi-finalists, Dori will go to Germany in September to present her project which proposes to collect and disseminate global knowledge of the theoretical and practical issues of national design policy (formal and informal) for governance through an international conference, edited publication, and related website.
Leilah Rampa
Graphic Design MFA Student, Leilah Rampa receives UIC Dean's Scholar Award.
Maral Tabrizi is to present at the UIC Graduate Research Forum
Industrial Design Student, Maral Tabrizi is to present at the UIC Graduate Research Forum on April 20, 2007. The only participant from the School of Art and Design, Maral will present her thesis project, tentatively entitled,“Enhancing face-to-face relationships.” It is a multi-sensory exploration of product design memories and triggers for intimacy with close friends based on in the Café environment.
 | 14 Apr 2007 ID Senior Sara Rockwell was selected by a panel of ID professionals as the UIC IDSA Merit Award winner. |
Sara will represent UIC at the IDSA Midwest District Conference in Kohler, Wisconsin. The professional panel consisted of all UIC ID alumni: | |
CROSSMEDIALE 2
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Drew Browning, Associate Professor of Electronic Visualization, Silvia Malagrino, Professor of Photography, and Susan Sensemann, Emeritus Professor of Studio Arts, are featured artists in this group exhibition of American and International art in new media curated by Gosia Koscielak.
Daria Tsoupikova, Assistant Professor of Electronic Visualization
has had her virtual reality piece "Rutopia 2" accepted for exhibition at SIGGRAPH Art Gallery. SIGGRAPH 2007, the 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, will take place in San Diego in August.
Melanie Schiff featured in "Chicago" and "ArtUS"
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Adjuct Assistant Professor of Photography and UIC MFA, Melanie Schiff, is featured in the current issues of "Chicago" and "ArtUS" magazines. One of her photographs is featured on the cover of ArtUS, which also includes a review of her recent solo exhibition at Kavi Gupta Gallery.
JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: NOTES ON THE DEATH OF KODACHROME
Thursday, April 12 at 6:00 pm at the Gene Siskel Film Center (164 N. State / 312-846-2600), Conversations at the Edge presents:
JENNIFER MONTGOMERY: NOTES ON THE DEATH OF KODACHROME
Jennifer Montgomery in person!
At its start, Notes on the Death of Kodachrome pretends to be about the
discontinuation of the much-beloved Super-8 film stock, Kodachrome, and with it, the possible demise of small-gauge filmmaking. The premise is simple; director Jennifer Montgomery tracks down three old friends--the writer Joe Westmoreland and directors Lisa Cholodenko and Todd Haynes--who once borrowed but never returned her Super-8 equipment. As each encounter unfolds, the film reveals new layers and its true subjects: the political character of filmmaking, the nature of friendship, and personal reckoning.
With Montgomery's 1990 Super-8 film, Age 12: Love with a Little L.
(1990-2006, Jennifer Montgomery, US, ca. 80 min, various formats)
Tickets to films are $9 ($5 for Film Center members), $7 for all students, and $4 for student, faculty, and staff of the School and Art Institute of Chicago.
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CONVERSATIONS AT THE EDGE
Thursdays, 6:00 pm
Gene Siskel Film Center (162 N. State / 312-846-2600)
http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/
http://www.myspace.com/conversationsattheedge
"Burnt Oranges" film screening, reception and Q&A with director
Event Date: April 11, 2007
Event Time: 7PM
Event Location: Facets Cinémathèque. 1517 W. Fullerton. 773.281.4114
Event Description: BURNT ORANGES is an experimental documentary, 90 minutes
long, about the long-term effects and repercussions, personal and social, of
Argentina's 1970's state terrorism. The film is timely. It has strong
humanitarian content and establishes links between the struggles of the
Argentine people, to recover social principles and communal ties, with
today's necessity to defend human rights, preserve human dignity, and
democratic values.
Dori Tunstall helps establish Design & Anthropology special interest group within the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA). Approved by the NAPA executive council last week, the Design & Anthropology Interest Group (D&A IG)'s mission is to increase the perceived value of the design and anthropological theories, methodologies, and artifacts to global business, government, and society. Under the institutional structure of the NAPA, the group will attempt to develop cross-institutional collaborations with the professional design associations and "design" related divisions within the American Anthropological Association (ex. visual anthropology, contemporary archaeology, and museum studies) to amplify the message of Design & Anthropology's value.
AD321 ID5 - Prof. Stephen Melamed
Has kicked off a class room project with Life Fitness Corporation to create designs for compact consumer oriented fitness equipment.
Prof. Stephen Melamed
The ID Dept./Prof. Stephen Melamed has initiated an internship program with RC2 Corporation, for students to gain exposure to the area of toy design.
ID Senior Sara Rockwell was selected by a panel of ID professionals as the UIC IDSA Merit Award winner.
Sara will represent UIC at the IDSA Midwest District Conference at Kohler, in Kohler, Wisconsin. The professional panel consisted of all UIC ID alumni:
Radmond Arceta - Life Fitness, Inc.
Tim Copeland - L&P Studio, Inc.
Scott Cain - L&P Studio, Inc.
Chris Cunningham - Acco Brands, Inc.
Timothy Janda - Whirlpool Corporation
Eric Schultz - Kaleidoscope, Inc.
Corey McCorkle, MFA 1995
Corey McCorkle, MFA 1995
Wes Kline
A recent MFA grad has been hired on tenure track at the University of Florida at Gainsville.
 | 30 Mar 2007 Recent works by Professor Julia Fish exhibited in Rome |
Julia Fish, Aaron Pilat, Sarah Zwerling | |
CONVERSATIONS ON ART - Bryan Crockett and Sabrina Raaf
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Thursday, March 29, 6:30 pm
Levitt Auditorium
FREE admission; reservations required
Bryan Crockett’s exquisitely made sculptures explore the scientific
and ethical implications of genetic testing. His work does not
necessarily take a stand on either side of the debate, but instead
“forces us to come to terms with the metaphysical meaning of science.”
Among the topics Sabrina Raaf investigates in her art are how people
adapt to new situations, what is routine, and how it becomes that
way. Her photographs imagine a world where ordinary people have
assimilated to some extraordinary environmental changes or have
incorporated new processes into their daily lives. Each artist will
deliver an illustrated lecture about his or her respective bodies of
work.
IPD
Six student teams presented their product/platform concepts for wireless mobile devices/systems to top Motorola management.
ID5 - Life Fitness
The ID5 studio will be taking a field trip to Life Fitness Corporation and work with their product development group on a class project concerning compact fitness equipment for home use.
SolidWorks Workshop
The third and final SolidWorks Workshop concentrated on 3D surfacing of complex geometry. Througout the three workshops, over 60 people attended (students and professionals) for live demos and hands-on training. CATI (Computer Aided Technology, Inc.) has already agreed to conduct another series of workshops next year.
Design Defined
Four teams of ID students roamed McCormick Place during the International Housewares Show to identify and recognize good design and innovation. The students designed a digital presentation of the honorees that became part of the show's exhibition entitled, Design Defined.
ConnectED
Stephen Melamed will present (publish) the paper, Launching an Interdisciplinary Product Development Curriculum, at the International Symposium on Design Education, ConnectED, in Sydney, Austrailia this summer.
Jessica Poser to present research paper
Jessica Poser has been invited to present her research paper "Meaningful Things: Popular Consumer Culture in the Social LIves of Children" at Teachers College, Columbia University as part of the conference Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teach, Think, Play, March 24-25
Daria Tsoupikova Virtual Reality Project
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Prof. Tsoupikova's video about Virtual reality project will be presented at IEEE Virtual Reality 2007, March 10-14 in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA The brightest minds, the most innovative research, the leading companies, and the most stimulating discussions in the fields of virtual environments, augmented reality, and 3D user interfaces.
Daria Tsoupikova at GRAPP International Conference
Daria Tsoupikova will present the paper .Development of Rutopia 2 VR Artwork Using New Ygdrasil Features. and the poster at the GRAPP International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. The GRAPP Conference will be held on March 8 - 11, 2007, in Barcelona, Spain. It is the Second International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP) that aims at becoming a major point of contact between researchers, engineers and practitioners in Computer Graphics. The main topic is Interactive and Virtual Environments for Computer Graphics.
Sharon Oiga's AD411 course
Earlier this month, Mary Odell Butler, PhD, President Elect of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, traveled from the Nation's capital to be interviewed by the students of Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga's AD411 course (Graphic Design Professional
Practice). As part of a wider Anthropology Rebranding Project, the students are working on the redesign of NAPA's identity. Associate Professor Elizabeth Tunstall, PhD, a member of NAPA, also lectured on previous anthropology rebranding projects and will be assisting the class.
Dori Tunstall participates in Schools of Thought III, AIGA's Design Education Conference
Dori Tunstall participates in Schools of Thought III, AIGA's Design Education Conference, held March 9-11, 2007 in Pasadena, CA. She presents "An Anthropologist in our Midst: Graphic Design, Research, and Emerging Anthrodesigners" on the panel: Models for Cross-, Trans-, Multi- Disciplinary Practice. Lance Carlson of the Alberta College of Art and Design moderates the panel, which includes Diane Gromala and Jack Sam of Simon Frasier University and Hugh Dubberly of DDO
Jessica Poser
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Jessica Poser, Assistant Professor of Art Education, will present "Framing Meaning: Representation, Discourse and Images-in-use" at the Institute for Education and Social Research at Manchester Metropolitan University in the UK as part of an international interdisciplinary conference on Discourse studies, held March 25-27.
Prof. Daria Tsoupikova presents paper
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Daria Tsoupikova, Helen Nikole Kostis (MFA EV 2006), Brenda Lopes-Silva (MFA EV 2005) presented research papers at the IS&T/SPIE International Symposium on Electronic Imaging on January 31st, 2007 in San Jose, California. The conference Engineering Reality of Virtual Reality 2007 is a major event for the imaging community, focusing on the complete range of applied and academic research in VR, visualization and computer graphics.
SESSION 14 Virtual Environments: The Experience
.Passing excellence., D. Tsoupikova
.CytoViz: an artistic mapping of network measurements as living organisms
in a VR application,. B. A. Lopez Silva, L. Renambot
.Skin: an interactive hyperstereoscopic electro installation., H. N.
Kostis, R. L. Kooima, J. Kannenberg
Prof. Munson selected as member of DWR jury
Prof. Munson was selected as a member of the DWR jury last Thursday (15th) night to select the winners of DWR's 3rd annual Modern+Design+Function: Chicago Furniture Now competition
Elizabeth Tunstall, Associate Professor of Design Anthropology, was named by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs to serve on its AdHoc Committee on Young Adults and Emerging Leaders. The committee includes council board members, and those engaged with young professionals and emerging leaders in their work.
Prof. Stephen Melamed
Tres Design Group (Prof. Stephen Melamed, Principal) worked together with Segway to design and develop the second generation controls and graphical user interface for the new Segway Human Transporter, i2, now in production and recently released to the marketplace.
Interview with Drew Browning and Annette Barber
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Interview with Drew Browning and Annette Barber in the current issue of Chicago City Arts Review: Cultures of Collaboration
"Us and Our Katamari"
Lisa Boyle Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition "Us and Our Katamari," beginning February 3rd (no opening reception), closing with a reception March 3.
"Us and Our Katamari" was inspired by the Japanese video game Katamari Damacy, designed by Keita Takahashi. Seven artists have been invited to the gallery to play Katamari and create work on-site over the next month based on their experience with the game.
Katamari (roughly translated, the word means "clump of souls") is a game of explore and conquer that employs subverted roles of control and violence, cleverly cloaked in a saccharine visual vocabulary. Through the actions of a small avatar named the Little Prince, players are set to the task of re-creating the universe. By rolling around a highly adhesive ball (called a katamari) that collects everything small enough to stick to it, the player is charged with increasing the mass of their katamari, enabling larger and larger items in its path to be picked up. The goal of the game is to create a katamari big enough to replace the missing stars in the sky (which were inadvertently destroyed in a drunken black-out by the avatar's father, the King of All Cosmos).
To create an opportunity to make art that parallels the general objectives of discovery-oriented video gaming, the artists are asked to spend time playing Katamari Damacy in the gallery while they are producing work in the space. Considering themes found in the game's conceptual architecture - chaos vs. order, macrocosm and microcosm, and imperialism, to name a few - the artists' progress with the game will be mirrored in their work. There will also be a gaming night open to the public, in which several gaming stations will be available for playing Katamari Damacy, as well as a closing reception for exhibition of all the finished work, which will no doubt encompass a broad range of media.
Participating artists include: Scott Anderson, Amelia Black, EC Brown, Dianna Frid, Brian Getnick, Mican Morgan, Andrea Myers and Sumakshi Singh.
Exhibition dates are as follows:
February 3: Exhibition/installation in progress and open to the public
February 10: Gaming Night Event. Come to the gallery and get or give a lesson in Katamari strategy! 6-9 pm
March 3: Closing Reception, 6-9 pm
Lisa Boyle Gallery
1821 West Hubbard Street
Chicago Illinois 60622
Gallery phone: 773.655.5475
ljboyle@mac.com
www.boylegallery.com
 | 28 Jan 2007 Tony Tasset featured this week in Crain's Chicago Business [ more information ] |
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New School of Art + Design website launched!
It is my pleasure to announce the launch of the new UIC School of Art + Design website, featuring a digital archive of student and faculty work, events calendar, as well as admission and course information. The URL is:
http://ad.aa.uic.edu.
Members of the UIC community are encouraged to submit their works by choosing “login” from the gallery menu or by going directly to http://ad.aa.uic.edu/login. After authenticating, a custom developed content management system allows submission of images, movie clips, sounds, and writing projects for all coursework developed within the last 3 years and in the future. You’ll find help and media specifications
after logging into the system. There are no limitations in regards to the quantity of submissions. The maximum file size for media is 100 MB. It is recommended to upload movie clips from within the UIC network, because it is significantly faster than Cable/DSL.
All submitted course work needs approval from the faculty member who taught the course. The faulty member will be automatically notified after submitting the project. Please allow up to 36 hours for this process. After approval, the project appears in the respective gallery on the website.
Please begin to add samples and descriptions of your work and encourage your students to do the same!
If you have questions or would like to report a bug, please send an email to adadmin@uic.edu.
This project was initiated and led by
Daniel Sauter, Assistant Professor, Electronic Visualization
and made possible by the tireless effort of:
Brandon Passley, Graphic Design
Jack Fisher, Graphic Design
Santi Vitayaudom, Electronic Visualization
Gene Parcellano, Graphic Design
Camille Mankus, Graphic Design
Anna Trzyna, Electronic Visualization
A special thanks also to Alex Stern and his team for their efforts in these recent weeks incorporating the College and University resources. The following URLs are activated now:
http://ad.aa.uic.edu -> School of Art + Design
http://sa.aa.uic.edu -> Studio Arts
http://ph.aa.uic.edu -> Photography
http://mi.aa.uic.edu -> Moving Image
http://id.aa.uic.edu -> Industrial Design
http://gd.aa.uic.edu -> Graphic Design
http://ev.aa.uic.edu -> Electronic Visualization
http://ae.aa.uic.edu -> Art Education
Christa Donner to display work in "Joined At The Hip"
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Next up is a show at Country Club Chicago, an occasional artspace run by graphic designers at 1100 N. Damen. Stevie Greco curates this exhibition on artistic accessibility and DIY culture, making connections between drawings, zines, silkscreened posters, and independent rock music. The show’s set up like a living room, with artist-made publications splayed out on a coffee table, drawings and screenprinted posters on the walls, a coloring book (made by me) to color creatively, and live music by good bands to ensure the collapse of any lingering art-world pretensions in the room. The party’s on from 7-11pm, and also features work by Mat Daly, Terrence Hannum, Jonathan Krohn, and Marissa Yelnick, with live performances by local bands Male and Sharks & Seals starting at 8.
Oslo Art Academy: Pamela Fraser
Fraser will additionally be participating in a group show called "Forest Assembly" at GAD in Oslo, Norway opening January 19th. The show is curated by Marianne Hurum; a 2006 exchange student of ours from Malmo.
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