will give a talk on "Fundamentals of Interior Product Design: Colors, Textures, and Materials" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, on Saturday, Nov 3, 3pm.

As part of the in-gallery conversation series centered on the exhibition Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec: Bivouac, this talk explores how the Bouroullecs’ work abounds with carefully chosen colors, high quality finishes, textural surfaces, and material used in honest and direct ways. Designers Stephanie and Bruce Tharp investigate the Bouroullecs’ use of color and materials and their effects upon the interior spaces their objects inhabit.

Stephanie and Bruce Tharp are award-winning, Chicago-based product designers and educators. Their practice includes licensing furniture, furnishings, and consumer product ideas to companies like Ligne Roset, Moet-Hennessy, Crate&Barrel, Kikkerland, and Design Ideas. They also self-produce their own commercial designs, as well as create critical, non-commercial work.

Stephanie is an engineering graduate of the University of Michigan and a MID graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design. Bruce has an engineering degree from Bucknell University, a MID from Pratt Institute, and a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from the University of Chicago. Stephanie and Bruce are both tenured professors in the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). Stephanie is the Program Chair of Industrial Design where she teaches graduate and undergraduate studios and seminars. Bruce is the Director of Graduate Studies and teaches design studios, design research, and design entrepreneurship. They have lectured, exhibited, and published internationally.

are to be featured in their third solo exhibition with Fiedler Taubert Contemporary gallery (FTC Berlin).

"You Won't Fool the Children of the Revolution," will open on Friday Nov. 2, 2012 and will be open until Jan 12, 2013. Opening reception will be held on Friday Nov. 2, 2012 at 6pm.

Comprised of two aesthetic tropes merged in the form of an assemblage of photography and sculpture, Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann continue their artistic investigation into the amelioration of the concept of lifeforms through technological developments.

Central to the exhibition is a capacious floor piece consisting of an expansive number of computer screen elements. The work re-frames the actuality of our screen life, which, according to Karin Knorr Cetina, can be described as follows: "The screen reality is a process, but it is not simply like a river flowing from one location to another as an identical mass of water. Rather, it is processual in the sense of an infinite succession of nonidentical matter projecting itself forward as a changing situation."

In dialogue with this embodiment of performative speculation as a mode of cognition, images of chrysalises (insect pupa) are presented which build a framework for questions concerning alternative concepts of existence and life itself. Here, the chrysalis, inactive and sessile, represents a cessation, analogous to Thomas Aquina's concept of the unmoved mover, derived from Aristotelian philosophy and one of five parts of his attempts to prove God's existence. The primary cause or "mover" of all the motion in the universe, is not itself moved by any prior action.

The complete standstill in the very epicenter of all motion is also the leitmotif of Oswald Wiener's influential text "the bio-adapter" from 1965. Wiener's fragmentary piece and appendix to The Improvement of Central Europe, which posits the complete dissolution and decomposition of the human body into the technological machine, is the inspirational background for Geissler and Sann's installation as made manifest in the metamorphosis of the chrysalis. Oswald Wiener writes, 'in its effect, the bio-adapter can be compared to a selectively bred uterus (»joy suit«) which, as a result of continual adaptation, is able to meet the most varied requirements of highly organized living creatures. it can be interpreted both as the hypertrophy of the modules of organs, a process which at first extends into the area of the physically external, and as the nervous structural complex of its owner, and from this point of view it is a converter of the pleasure impulses which human beings project onto their environment (»servo-narcissus«).'

A publication in English of Oswald Wiener's text, with an introduction by Siegfried Zielinski and Beate Geissler and Oliver Sann's work, is in preparation.

will conduct a lecture and workshop tour this Fall semester, giving artist talks and a series of master classes and workshops on creative coding for mobile devices:

Oct. 6, Workshop
School of Art and Design
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Oct. 8, Workshop
Design/Media Arts
University of California
Los Angeles, CA

Oct. 12, Artist Talk and Workshop
FabLab Shibuya
Tokyo, JP

Oct. 14, Artist Talk and Workshop
Videotage New Media Art Collective
Hong Kong, HK

Oct. 16, Artist Talk and Workshop
School of Art, Design and Media
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore, SG

Oct. 18, Artist Talk and Workshop
Media Lab
Lasalle College
Singapore, SG

Oct. 23, Artist Talk
Digitale Klasse
University of the Arts
Berlin, DE

Oct. 25, Artist Talk and Workshop
Processing Berlin
Berlin, DE

Nov. 3, Artist Talk
Mobile Processing Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Nov. 3+4, Workshop
Mobile Processing Conference
University of Illinois at Chicago
Chicago, IL

Nov. 14, Artist Talk and Workshop
ITP Tisch School of the Arts
New York University
New York, NY

will present "Imaginary Environments: Bending Technology to Shape New Experiences" at the Lincoln Park Apple Store on Wednesday, October 24, 7:00pm.

Studio Junglecat—the one-man operation of Matt Wizinsky—is a hub of exploratory design activities addressing broad social and media
interests. Join Matt as he presents recent projects that bend existing communication technologies to imagine new environments of experience, and learn how Apple technology plays a role in his work.

will be featured in a solo screening, Expressions of Self, at Columbia College on October 5th. For the event, presented by Chicago Filmmakers, Ischar will screen a collection of short experimental work including a World Premiere of his newly finished piece, Tristes Tarzan.

Expressions of Self: New films by Doug Ischar
Friday Oct. 5, 7:30 pm

Columbia College Media Building
623 S Wabash
Hokin Hall
$8 admission

will be present at the October 1st, dedication ceremony for a large sculpture that he has crated for Sony Pictures Entertainment in Culver City, California. The work will be a nine-story-high, 188-foot-long, metal rainbow structure installed near the studio's Madison Avenue entrance.

In a press release from Sony Studios, Tasset says that "this project presented a tremendous opportunity to connect present and past. A rainbow provides a bridge both physically--arching across a section of the lot--and symbolically through its connection to specific films like ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ shot on the lot....”

In addition to honoring its history, Tasset's sculpture supports the Sony's "Art in Public Places" program, which devotes one percent of new building development budgets to a public art component.

will participate in "Cittadellarte: Sharing Transformation" at the Kunsthaus Graz, in Graz Austria.

Inspired by the works of Michelangelo Pistoletto, to whom the Neue Galerie Graz will be devoting a solo exhibition showing a large portion of his work, the exhibition at the Kunsthaus Graz will follow the ideals of dialogue and participation as the starting point for an investigation into the conditions and aspirations of a model of participatory civil society. In addition to Peterman's installation, the exhibition features amorphous architecture by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier.

Opening:
29 September 2012, 1 pm

Curators:
Katrin Bucher Trantow, Juan Esteban Sandoval
Co-Curators:
Katia Huemer, Paolo Naldini

A co-production with the Cittadellarte, in cooperation with the steirischen herbst.

is featured as "Photographer of the Month," in the 33rd edition of the Online magazine "Cronopio" published from Bogota and Medellin, Colombia. "Cronopio" It is a magazine that combines the best virtues of journalism with cultural writings. 'Fun, fresh, young, cosmopolitan and of high literary and aesthetic standards.'

The magazine is named "cronopio" after a type of fictional person appearing in works by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. "Cronopios" are dealistic, disorganized, unconventional and sensitive creatures, who stand in contrast or in opposition to famas (fames) who are rigid, organized and judgemental, and esperanzas (hopes) who are plain, indolent, unimaginative and dull.

Daria Tsoupikova presents a collaborative paper titled "Media Arts in
Support of Science Education" at the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA) 2012 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

ISEA, explores the discourse of global proportions on the subject of art,
technology and nature. Daria leads four New Media Arts MFA alumni, who present their current projects from the Adler Planetarium, Chicago, IL; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, MD; The Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL; and UIC. They discuss how artists can cross disciplinary borders to collaborate in the development of innovative educational learning applications. This presentation examines the role of media arts in the development of interactive learning environments for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Julieta Aguilera, The Gravitational Simulator
Helen-Nicole Kostis, NASA Visualization Explorer App
Tina Shah, Create Your Own Mosaic
Brenda Lopez Silva, A Mile in My Paws

is featured in Bravin Lee's solo artist's book program during the opening of the art/fall season in New York. If you are in NYC between September 6 and October 13, please stop by. The books will be in a vitrine but they are meant to be taken out by request: don't hesitate to put on those white gloves and take a look!

Frid will be present at the opening on September 6 from 6pm to 8pm.

526 West 26th Street #211
New York, NY 10001
212 462 4404

Artist book program:
Dianna Frid
The Waves and The Comets
Opening: Thursday, September 6th, 6 - 8pm
September 6 - October 13, 2012

The Waves: canvas, cloth, embroidery floss,adhesives, paper, acrylic paint, cellophane
unique Book, 2011

participated in the Winterhouse Third Symposium on Design Education and Social Change at Yale University, August 19-21, 2012. Thought leaders from various disciplines (design, engineering, architecture, and business) convened from across the country to share ideas about the future of design education for social innovation.

Invited educational institutions include: Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, Rhode Island School of Design, Parson School for Design, Savanna College of Art and Design, Stanford University, University of Illinois at Chicago, University of Kentucky, University of Minnesota, and Yale University.

is a participant in Breaking Glass, an experimental summer seminar hosted by The Graham Foundation. Becker has been documenting the five-week process through the design of printed bulletins and will participate in the concluding evening of talks along with Irena Knezevic, and Jimenez Lai.

Jörg Becker: if. iffer. the iffest.
Irena Knezevic: World Without Art
Jimenez Lai: Sensibility vs. Convention in Graphics

Thursday, August 16
6:00p

Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, IL 60610

The Breaking Glass seminar encourages collaborative discourse and production between fourteen selected students and practitioners of art, architecture and design. Led by artist Irena Knezevic, architect Jimenez Lai, and artist Daniel Bauer, the students use the Graham Foundation as a site for multi-disciplinary research, production, and critique. In addition to discussions and presentations of work, seminar sessions are augmented by visits from invited guests from a range of disciplines. Each week of the seminar is documented through printed bulletins designed by Jörg Becker.

is included in Orbit(film), a traveling program of short films about our solar system. Screening at Adler After Dark is professor Stratman's film "These Blazing Stars!"

Universe Theater
Adler Planetarium
1300 S. Lake Shore Drive
7:30pm

Admission: $10
Presented by the Chicago Filmmakers Association and co-sponsored by the Adler Planetarium.

Associate Professors of Industrial Design and partners of Materious, have reached their Kickstarter funding goal for "Cubby", a prototype coat hook and storage unit which has been awarded by Design Within Reach, Interior Design, Chicago Furniture Now, and Future Furniture.

It's not too late to become a backer: funding continues through Saturday, May 5, at 4:30pm EDT.

is a recipient of the Silver Circle Award for Teaching Excellence.
Photo: “Dianna Frid with BFA candidate Jackson Elliott and his work during the BFA Thesis exhibition.

is participating in the Sketch Book Project - a touring library of sketch books from around the world.

May 3rd, 3-7pm
May 4th-5th, 12-4pm

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
Artist book # 146.21-8

Associate Professors of Industrial Design and partners of Materious have just launched 'Puzzle Tray' a limited edition tray for Newton Vineyard.

Reflecting the Chinese and British heritage of the vineyard’s founders, the tray’s basic shape is a golden rectangle--a traditional Western conception of harmony and proportion. The asymmetrical, intersecting lines on the tray’s top is based upon an historic Asian motif, which creates negative spaces that mirror the division of Newton’s properties into vineyard blocks, on which different varietals are grown and harvested.

The “terraced” edges of the coasters/trays, evoke the slopes of Spring Mountain and its unique terracing that conserves water and retains natural soil nutrients.

A “hidden cave,” a recess beneath a coaster/tray that extends into the tray’s leg, holds a corkscrew and references the Chardonnay cellar built into Spring Mountain to conserve energy and harness the earth’s natural temperature regulation.

The coasters/trays can be removed from the tray, reminiscent of a puzzle, and a nod to Newton Vineyard’s icon wine, “The Puzzle,” which is created by blending the best grapes of the season’s five-varietal harvest. Puzzle Tray is numbered and imprinted with the designers’ insignia FSC Certified Walnut Wood.

will participate in a gallery conversation in the context of "The End is Near This Will Have Been: Art Love and Politics in the 1980" at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

1980s Gallery Talk
Tony Tasset on The End is Near
Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 3-4 pm

Photo: Tom Van Eynde

will participate in the exhibition "Tropicomania: the social life of plants" at Bétonsalon, 9 esplanade Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Rez-de-Chaussée de la Halle aux Farines, 13th district in Paris from 20 April– 21 July 2012. Opening: Friday 20 April 2012, 6pm-9pm

is a recipient of a Project Grant from the Canada Council of the Arts. The project will consist of a site-specific exhibition centering on a drawing/installation that spans three floors of an architectural landmark: the Wall House 2, designed by the late John Hejduk. The project will open to the public in the summer of 2013 at the Wall House in Groningen, The Netherlands.

is exhibiting a topographical installation drawing upon the ecological effects of vibration and the history of sonic warfare at Mercer Union, Toronto, ON. The tessellated architectural surface is both landscape and speaker. In the back gallery are Stratman's drawings and video ("Village, silenced" 2012, 7 min)

April 14, 2012 - May 19, 2012
Tactical Uses of a Belief in the Unseen (2)
Mercer Union, Toronto, ON

premiered her new short film at the Ann Arbor Film Festival and will go on to screen at the 2012 Athens International Film + Video Festival at Ohio University, April 13-19, and at the 58th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, April 26-May 5.

will speak at the IDSA Midwest District Conference in Chicago on Friday, April 13th. Melamed will give an introduction to the principles and practice of Lego® Serious Play (LSP) through a combination of presentation and hands-on interactions. LSP is a collaborative, participatory method for identifying and solving complex problems. LSP has been effectively used by NASA, MIT Media Lab, Microsoft as well as many other companies and institutions around the world.

IDSA Midwest District Conference
April 13-14
Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 East Wacker Drive

will participate in a panel discussion: Time Travel: Production in the Midwest at the Sam Fox School of Art, University of Washington St. Louis.

Friday, April 13
2:45p
Kemp Auditorium, Givens Hall

MODERATOR: Irena Knezevic
PANELISTS: Joerg Becker, David Hartt, Jimenez Lai, and Patricia Olynyk

Artists have always had two possibilities for success: to thrive under immense competition and economic difficulty in the art metropolis, or to thrive despite invisibility and inconsequence on the art periphery. Either way, to quote Franz Kafka, “From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.” When that point is reached, the art periphery can become a transitional site for great talent, a catalyst, where exceptional art is made while nobody is watching.

The peripheral art practice that sustained itself against all odds must travel to gain recognition, testing its grounds against the contemporary art market. In her book One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity, Miwon Kwon proposes the successful contemporary artist is someone who accumulates air miles in pursuit of career opportunities. In that sense, the Midwest can be a great hub for gold membership status. If recognized, chances are the artist is headed elsewhere. This panel addresses the paradox of the
Midwestern contemporary art practice, a practice that must leave to stay.

is interviewed in Cheap and Plastique #10 (Published in both print and the web). To access the interview and images visit:

are featured in a solo exhibition "horses" at the Second Street
Gallery, Charlottesville, VA, April 6 - May 26, 2012. In the series "Horses", the artists tap into the visual and cultural traditions that these animals have historically been party to. As dual symbols of both freedom and conquest, the horses of these photographs are rendered portrait-style: faces cropped against a stark black background. Humanized, then fetishized, the equine subjects of the works are stripped of all naturalness and physicality.

Pictured is "BRIGHT INDIAN DREAM", 2002

and her collaborators at the UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory and the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago (RIC) have developed a virtual reality environment to aid the recovery of stroke patients.

Advances in stroke therapy are rapidly evolving with virtual reality techniques. Tsoupikova, along with Derek Kamper, the principal investigator, Dr. Nikolay Stoykov, a biomedical engineer, Randy Vick, an art therapist, Yu Li, an art research assistant and a group of occupational therapists and engineers from the RIC Hand Rehabilitation Laboratory, collaborated to develop a virtual reality environment to assist stroke patients with hand rehabilitation.

will give a screening and talk at the Hyde Park Kunstverein (HPK)
on Saturday, March 31, 4-5:30 p.m. at S.H.O.P. (5638 S. Woodlawn). Peterman will discuss his installation Archive (southside) and screen a related short film, Chant du Styrene by Alain Renais, 1958.

in collaboration with artist Steven Badgett, is exhibiting "Polygonal Address System" as part of a public art exhibition produced by the DC Commission for the Arts. PA System was part of "Suspension of Disbelief", curated by Steve Rowell.

A monumental, floating, polygonal platform (approximately 25 feet per side), situated in District of Columbia waters directly adjacent to the Pentagon. The structure slowly rotates, propelled by small electric motors, and is equipped with an on-board sound system that plays an edited program of contemporary and historic audio recordings highlighting instances of public address and free speech in the District. Audio sources were researched and compiled from the National Archives.

March 20 - April 29, 2012
Polygonal Address System
Washington DC

have been invited to participate in the group exhibition "Several
Silences" at the Knoxville Museum of Art, TN, March16 - May 20, 2012.

Several Silences is a group exhibition exploring various kinds of silence – meditative, ambient, memorial, etc. – calling attention to the rarity of the absence of sound in our growing “culture of distraction.” Works range from Ryan Gander’s 100 laser-etched glass spheres to Gran Fury’s neon sculpture to Troy Brauntuch’s shadowy drawings on cotton. Organized by the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago.

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

received a Creative Capital Grant in Film/Video for the production of "The Illinois Parables" (in progress), 16mm, 40 - 60 minutes.

What, if anything, can belief teach us about nationhood? This experimental documentary combines a series of regional narratives questioning the role doubt and mysticism play in social ideology. Mythic histories of violence, atomic breakthrough, pre-teen telekinesis, failed utopias and vigilante justice comprise a suite of Midwestern parables.

and his colleagues at Tres Design Group have received a prestigious international RedDot Design Award.

The RedDot design award dates back to 1955 and is now one of the world’s largest and most distinguished design competitions. In 2012, 1,800 entries from 58 countries entered works in the product design category. Melamed was recognized for the design of the Swingline SmartTouch Stapler.

is featured in the current issue of ArtForum with a review of his recent show, Sleepless, at Golden Gallery, NYC.

Sleepless is an exhibition drawn from Ischar’s institutional exhibition history from 1993-1995. Two large bodies of work, Orderly and Wake - presented at The List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Mercer Union, Toronto; and SITE Santa Fe, among others – emerged at a moment when the exploration of media, and cross-disciplinary practices, were critical actions further complicating the then-peculiar state of semiotics. The current exhibition presents the opportunity for the artist, and the public, to re-approach selected components from those early 90s installations, nearly two decades from their original conception and exhibition. Ischar’s editing of moving image and static objects continues to address the practical and visual boundaries for definitions of masculinity, sexuality, violence and secrecy.

Golden Gallery, Inc.
120 Elizabeth St., Ground Floor, NY NY 10013
3319 N Broadway St., Chicago IL 60657
773-251-1083

Image: Untitled (San Francisco, 1987), 2012, Archival inkjet print, 13.5 x 20 inches, Edition of 2.

appears in this month's Art in America with a review of her recent show at Devening Projects & Editions. Also this week an interview with Frid will be published in Cheap and Plastique to coincide with the Armory Art Fairs.

Image: Page views from The Comets, Canvas, cloth, embroidery floss, aluminum, adhesives, paper, acrylic paint, Unique Book, 2011, Closed 11.25 x 6 inches; Open 11.25 x 11.75 inches.

is reviewed in the international magazineArt in America for her exhibition “Evidence of the Material World. The article is available for download from the attached link

is featured in Dan Peterman, Archive (Southside) at Hyde Park Kunstverein (HPK), a community museum focusing on local artists and citizens and their work.

will participate in the ongoing group exhibition l’Institut des archives sauvages at Villa Arson in Nice, France

Galerie Carrée - Galeries du patio et des Cyprès
Feb 17th - May 28th, 2012
Opening, Feb. 16, 2012, 6pm

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. As part of the festival, Sauter and Winkler will also teach a master class, participate in a round table discussion, and hold a public lecture.

has work included in the exhibition "Anagram City" at Golden Gallery, Chicago through March 3.

"Taking its title from an Amazon.com review by Kevin Killian (The Time Traveler’s Wife ), the artists in this exhibition use strategies of representation to present a different recording of the world around us --and our perception of it." (press excerpt).

Exhibition also includes work by Joseph Cassan, Kevin Killian, Jessica Labatte, John Neff, and B. Wurtz. Kevin Killian will read recently published essays and poetry in dialogue with the exhibition at the gallery on Thursday, March 1, 7pm.

Golden Gallery
Saturday, 12 – 6pm, or by appointment
3319 N. Broadway, Chicago, IL 60657

Image: Julia Fish, Study - Fragments from Entry and Floret, 1999 / gouache on paper / 22 x 30 inches

Was recently interviewed on Bad at Sports about her work and art practice. Click on "more information" above to link to the interview, "The Link to Reality Stretches but Doesn’t Break."

McLean will also be in attendance at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January where her latest video, Remote, will be screening.

has received a Creative Capital grant in support of her project The Illinois Parables.

Creative Capital is a national nonprofit organization that provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in all disciplines.

The Illinois Parables is an experimental documentary combining a series of regional narratives questioning the roles that doubt and mysticism play in social ideology. Mythic histories of violence, atomic breakthrough, utopias and vigilante justice comprise a suite of Midwestern parables. This film gathers sites and events that evoke the spiritual vis-à-vis the political. The locations under investigation are those where the boundaries between the rational world and the supernatural becomes tenuous. Throughout the film, trajectories of faith and technology intermingle, suggesting linkages between scientific and religious abstraction.

is currently featured in Sleepless, a solo exhibition at Golden Gallery, and in a group screening at Participant, Inc. both in New York City.

Sleepless is an exhibition drawn from Ischar’s institutional exhibition history from 1993 - 1995. Two large bodies of work, Orderly and Wake - presented at The List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge; Museo de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; Mercer Union, Toronto; and SITE Santa Fe, among others – emerged at a moment when the exploration of media, and cross-disciplinary practices, were critical actions further complicating the then-peculiar state of semiotics. The current exhibition presents the opportunity for the artist, and the public, to re-approach selected components from those early 90s installations, nearly two decades from their original conception and exhibition. Ischar’s editing of moving image and static objects continues to address the practical and visual boundaries for definitions of masculinity, sexuality, violence and secrecy.

Golden Gallery, Inc. is proud to present a public screening Sunday, January 8, 2012, 8 - 9:30pm with a reception to follow. Gregg Bordowitz, Doug Ischar and Tom Kalin each address personal engagements with literature, poetic spectatorship, and the erotics of voyeurism. This program is graciously being hosted by Participant Inc., 253 E Houston, New York.