Nov 30th, 9:00 AM

Wednesday, November 15th 9:00 a.m. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Dedication ceremony for public art installation by Professor Tony Tasset “Magnolias for Pittsburgh” consists of two sculptures of a flowering magnolia tree. Measuring 22' high by 24' wide, cast in bronze from one hand-sculpted replica and realistically hand-painted in urethane enamel, each tree contains approximately 800 flowers. The bronze trees are located in a setting with five real magnolia trees at Seventh Street and Penn Avenue Parklet in Pittsburgh.

Nov 9th, 6:00 AM

Thursday November 9th 6-8p GBU Callery: 400 S. Preoria 5th Floor Exhibited works by School of Art and Design BFA students: Kirby Salvador, Greta Bach, Laura Boban, Raphael Barontini, Tazim Salik, Frank Van Duerm, Kimberly Montiel, Christina Gowrylow, Kathryn Ziemba, Carissa Zill, and Derek Dietrich-Miller.

Nov 29th, 6:00 AM

Thursday November 9th 6-8p GBU Callery: 400 S. Preoria 5th Floor Exhibited works by School of Art and Design BFA students: Kirby Salvador, Greta Bach, Laura Boban, Raphael Barontini, Tazim Salik, Frank Van Duerm, Kimberly Montiel, Christina Gowrylow, Kathryn Ziemba, Carissa Zill, and Derek Dietrich-Miller.

Nov 30th, 12:00 PM

Phyllis Bramson "The so-called progress of love (even after)" Exhibition continuing through December 31 Carl Hammer Gallery 740 North Wells Street

Dec 1st, 6:00 AM

The Great Space Art and Design Hall, 400 N Peoria, 5th floor Please plan to attend what promises to be an excellent and varied show celebrating the work of our new interdisciplinary BFA art curriculum.

Dec 29th, 12:00 PM

On Wednesday, December 29, 2006, Dori Tunstall will give a guest lecture, “The Yin Yang of Design and Anthropology” at Wayne State University and the College of Creative Studies in Detroit, MI. The lecture is part of Wayne State’s effort to create a concentration in Design Anthropology within its Business Anthropology curriculum. Dori is a member of the advisory board for the concentration.

Sep 7th, 9:00 AM

All faculty and staff are invited to attend. Coffee and camaraderie at 9:00. Meeting starts promtly at 9:30. Please join us to meet new colleagues, share accomplishments, discuss pertinent issues, etc.

Aug 29th, 11:30 AM

Please join us in the Great Space of Art and Design Hall for an informal welcome for new and continuing MFA students, faculty, and staff. Wednesday, August 29, 11:30 am to 1:00 pm. Refreshments will be served.

Dec 14th, 12:00 PM

In the suite of projects presented, Peterman launches a speculative ecological dialogue that links a diverse set of materials, processes and references. For example, a wood framed recreation of a Han dynasty funerary object entitled Pigsty/Latrine explores a 2,000 year old model of sanitation and nutrient conservation while simultaneously referencing the contemporary marketing of western wood frame housing to China’s growing middle class.

Jan 16th, 5:00 AM

Artists, Participants, and Exhibition Materials: Angelo Chicago County Fair David F. Stephanie Diamond Friends Beyond the Wall Lucky Pierre Mary Patten Phonograph records recorded by inmates and/or in prisons Prison Blues® Prison products designed for inmate use LJ Reynolds Risk-Takers Ltd. S.O. Work Group Stop Prisoner Rape Robert Stroud (“The Birdman of Alcatraz”) An exhibition of artwork, cultural products and industrial design created by, for, about, or in collaboration with people who are imprisoned. From music and spoken word records, drawings, video projects, photographs, posters, written correspondence, movies and stills, to mass produced toothbrushes, jumpsuits, sneakers, and mattresses designed for prisoners, Captive Audience allows visitors to the exhibition to experience the material conditions of prisoners’ lives and review artwork made in, for or about prison life.

Jan 11th, 6:00 AM

Tony Tasset: Recent Works Price Auditorium, The Art Institute of Chicago (free to students with a valid i.d.)

Jan 11th, 6:00 PM

The Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago features the very best in international contemporary art in dialogue withthe museum's rich and varied art-historical legacies. The SCA promotes a better understanding and appreciation of contemporary art through a series of lectures and meetings each year. This lecture by Tony Tasset, UIC Professor of Studio Arts, will provide a thrilling look at his most recent projects. Pictured here is Tasset's sculpture Paul, a larger than life recreation of Paul Bunyan, recently unveiled at the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Garden at Governors State University.

Jan 11th, 6:00 PM

Pamela Fraser, Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, has a solo exhibition featuring a new series of gouache and acrylic works opening in New York on January 11th continuing through February 10th.

Jan 13th, 8:00 PM

Paul Dickenson, Moving Image Teaching Associate, will be exhibiting at Hallworks Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, New York from February 13th-17th. Three small wooden crates, fitted with visible air vents, sit in the gallery alongside a transformer and stereo speakers. Within each crate are hundreds of red worms wallowing in compost. The interior of each crate is fitted with microphones and infrared cameras, broadcasting visual and audio information to the “outside world.”

Feb 5th, 5:00 PM

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 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. For more information: Lauren Trinker <mailto:lacs@northwestern.edu> (847-491-4793)

Jan 28th, 5:00 PM

Since her solo debut at this gallery, photographer Melanie Schiff (UIC MFA 2002) has moved out of the studio and into the world, trading fussily arranged, evenly lit still lifes for more casual, serendipitous compositions of everyday objects. These photos are hymns to natural light, and the presence of rainbows, beer cans, and a Neil Young LP cover tempts one to characterize her gaze as a stoner’s glassy-eyed fixation.

Jan 27th, 6:00 PM

Fraction Workspace, a small non profit public arts space noted in NewCity as one of the top five alternative art spaces to see in 2007, is directed by UIC MFA student Clare Britt. The closing reception for Chris Walla "Ha Ha" will be held on January 27th.

Feb 21st, 6:00 PM

An investigation of the emotional temperature of the body politic through screenings, public interventions, lectures and on-site creation of works in the gallery.

Feb 7th, 7:00 PM

Featuring: Three Legged by John Wood & John Harrison Dipping Sauce by Luther Price Hillbilly Hoose-Gow feat by Tom Emerson The Magic Kingdom by Jim Trainor Trauma Victim by Rob Todd Everyday Bad Dream by Fred Worden Blick by Emily Richardson Mexican Jail Footage by Gordon Ball Exercise #3 by Eva Dransholt Admission is Free.

Feb 15th, 12:00 AM

546 W. 29th Street NYC

Mar 9th, 6:00 PM

Lecture Title: Design Stories - Making a difference in a country, an industry, and a community. 3 examples of using design to drive development in emerging economies. Friday, March 9th 6:00pm UIC A+A Rm. 1100

Feb 21st, 6:00 PM

Stephen Melamed will be giving a guest lecture entitled The Power of Design at the University of Chicago, College of Business, Wed. Feb. 21st

Feb 22nd, 6:30 PM

Co-sponsored by UIC, IDSA, and CATI (Computer Aided Technology, Inc.), and hosted by UIC, Prof. Melamed has arranged to have Ed Honda, Senior Engineer and Technical Advisor for CATI to conduct three workshops for hands-on training on this robust 3D CAD solid modeling tool. Workshop #1: Introduction to the tool Thursday, February 22nd Workshop #2: Intermediate problems Thursday, March 8th Workshop #3: Complex geometry Thursday, March 22nd All workshops will be held in A+A, Industrial Design Dept., Room 3320, 6:30 - 8:00pm.

Apr 4th, 5:00 PM

April 3-7 Reception: Wednesday, April 4, 5-8 pm Through elaborate and arcane sculptural procedures, Trevor Gainer explores the problematics of breaching private and public territories. Using narratives of enchantment, Irena Knezevic's installation evokes a seafaring expedition in which the esoteric and the precise serve as sole navigation tools. In wall drawings and sculptural installations that focus on a melancholy of place, as well as a desire for legibility and distance, Harold Mendez looks for nowhere... as far as he can see. In Michael Robinson’s short new experimental film, futurism and failure consort on the grounds of past World’s Fairs.

Dianna Frid Public Lecture, Department of Fiber and Material Studies, SAIC Wednesday February 28, 2007 Noon Room 903, Sharp Building, 37 South Wabash

Mar 21st, 5:00 PM

March 20-24 Reception: Wednesday, March 21, 5-8 pm Through image and text, Basma Al-Sharif's work recontextualizes political documents to explore the sustainability of the right of return. In Isak Berbic’s textual, photographic and video works, sardonic gestures interrogate the artifice of national collective memory that poses as meaningful history. Hugo Michel Hernandez's text-based painting, drawings, and installation work alludes to issues of personal history, displacement, language, fantasy, and erasure. Built on strategies of repetition and exhaustion, Dennis Hodges’ sculpture and video work interrogates the formal devices used to construct meaning and impel belief.

Feb 2nd, 12:00 AM

Meet the New You Des Moines Art Center February 2 – May 2, 2007 Organized by Laura Burkhalter, assistant curator How will our everyday lives be different in 10, 20, or 50 years? The four artists in Meet the New You offer challenging meditations on this question, each presenting his or her unique version of a brave new world. Some works refer to specific scientific advances, while others deal more abstractly with the concepts of progress and perfection. Society’s constant struggle for perfection, for better or worse, is a major theme of the show. Runaway body parts, perfect athletes struggling against unseen forces, and the abstract notion of “paradise” can all be found in Magnus Wallin’s dynamic and disconcerting videos. Photographer Ruud van Empel uses cutting-edge photography and computer technology to populate strangely flawless landscapes with even more strangely flawless children. Another photographer, Sabrina Raaf, creates a world almost exactly like ours—if it weren’t for those changes in gravity. Finally, sculptor Bryan Crockett makes works of haunting beauty that reference classical sculpture as well as scientific advancements. Artists: Bryan Crockett, Ruud van Empel, Sabrina Raaf, and Magnus Wallin

Mar 14th, 5:00 PM

March 13-17, 2007 Reception: Wednesday, March 14, 5-8 pm Brandon Alvendia's installation of modified salvaged living room furniture extracted from an interaction with a cable television production team explores notions of displacement, authorship and functionality. Derek Chan‚s ephemeral and fluid paintings challenge conventions of representation and abstraction while investigating constructs of place as tied to the self. In an effort to bridge a gap between the past and the future, Kenyatta Forbes explores issues of race and gender in performative video works destabilize social archetypes. Resulting from a collaborative process that yields serendipitous effects, Selina Trepp‚s video installation explores absorption and desire.

Apr 11th, 5:00 PM

April 10-14 Reception: Wednesday, April 11, 5-8 pm In photography and video installation Shannon Benine negotiates the politics of mediation and the private domestic life of people caught in the geographies of war. Kirsten Leenars’ video installation reflects on the frailty of human bonds, the feeling of insecurity that frailty inspires and the desire to be loved. Turning the camera on herself and the gaps, collisions, and complications of her immediate relations, Marie M. Martino explores love, neuroses, and queer identity in a ruminative single-channel video diptych. Straddling abstraction and representation Justin Witte's paintings depict a world where color, surface and pattern serve as visual barriers to hidden narratives.

Apr 7th, 8:00 PM

UIC School of Art and Design MFA Film and Video Screening at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark Street, 2nd Floor Supervillian, Dennis Hodges, 7min, mini-dv, 2006 Appropriated video that creates an unstable narrative of guilt and condemnation, that repeats and collapses in its portrayal of a nameless perpetrator. Bedouins, Basma Al-Sharif , 11min, mini-dv, 2007 A structuralist video that narrates the story of two girls who disappear off an unnamed shore to find themselves in a kind of pre-apocalyptic village. The Magic Lie, Irena Knezevic, 1min, mini-dv, 2006 A simple spell in the theatre of occult gymnastics: a shadow attempts flight for the first time. Strip, Marie Martino, 15min, mini-dv, 2007 When routine choreographies fail, one must improvise. Disconnect, collision, and entanglement abound in queer and familial love. The Phonological Loop and the Visuospatial Sketchpad, Brandon Alvendia, 5 seconds, mini-dv, 2007 A brief exploration of memory. Coronach, Irena Knezevic, 15 min, mini-dv, 2007 An endless mesmeric seafaring dirge. Last call for all who embark to the Underground Forest where all you know is true and music has no mercy. Interlude, Kirsten Leenaars, 5min, 16mm color with optical sound, 2004 An intimate portrait of the artist’s ninety two year old grandmother who is slowly beginning to loose her grip on time, drifting from one world into another. Moth, Shannon Benine, 2min, HD video, 2006 A negotiation of the politics of mediation and the private domestic life of people caught in the geographies of war. Light is Waiting, Michael Robinson, 11min, mini-dv, 2007 A special episode of television’s Full House devours itself from the inside out, excavating a hypnotic nightmare of a culture lost at sea. With additional works by Isak Berbic, Kenyatta Forbes, Trevor Gainer, and Selina Trepp. Running time: approximately 100min

Mar 20th, 2:00 PM

Graduate Workshop Tuesday, March 20, 2-5:30 pm + Wed, March 21, 2-5:30 pm Light’s exceptional opportunities for artistic expression lie in its potential to create new, artificial realities and to transform objects and environments visually and ideologically. This workshop is a laboratory for the experimental exploration of light and shadows. We will build light modulators, simple structures that modulate (i.e. reflect, absorb and diffuse) rays of light and observe their changing appearance in different light situations. The laboratory features two configurable lighting environments: one with an orbiting light source, the other one with additive color mixing possibilities. Furthermore, the workshop briefly introduces strategies for interactive lighting control using Max/MSP software and the DMX communication protocol. The workshop is open to graduate students from all areas within the School of Art + Design. Due to the limited amount of participants, please RSVP to Daniel Sauter, dsauter7@uic.edu Tuesday, March 20, 2 pm CVRA, A+A 3304 Graduate Seminar Lecture: “Light as Inter-Medium” We still do not know what exactly light is. It appears immaterial to the human eye, yet it renders our world visible. This lecture investigates the highly ambiguous nature of electric light in different fields: fine art, design, architecture, theater, performance and film. Rather than looking at the use of light in each of the above-mentioned areas separately, I will focus on the mix of practices across different disciplines toward an understanding of light as "inter-medium". Select examples of creative work are used to illustrate some of light’s basic properties and strategies for lighting control, which we will explore experimentally in the following workshop.

Mar 23rd, 9:00 AM

This lecture proposes new practices for looking at familiar objects and spaces around us and suggests critical, surprising and sometimes humorous ways to reinterpret and transform them. I will show examples of my own art practice including interactive systems, robotics and site-specific installation. In these works I’ll address issues of audience participation, poly-sensorial immersion, technology’s impact on society and the excavation of forgotten media utopias.

Mar 19th, 6:00 PM

Fisher’s work “aims to investigate individuals versus context; I have been intrigued by the idea of historical tradition as context, especially the notion of identification through individual and societal legacy.” A recent series has traced the locations in and around those sites where the Washington D.C. snipers, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Malvo, committed their crimes. As Fisher writes, “In these often seemingly empty, banal, and ubiquitous spaces, consisting mostly of strip malls and gas stations, a sense of dislocation and alienation is pervasive. Instead of making images merely documenting the sites where the shootings occurred, the work attempts to deconstruct the space consisting of elements left out and existing on the periphery.” Joel Fisher received an MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and a Teaching Certification from Brown University in 2006. He earned a BA with double majors in English and Psychology from the University of New Hampshire in 1997. He is currently completing work and research in Germany, supported by a 2006 Fulbright Fellowship. His photographic work has been exhibited in group shows in Chicago, Boston, and Providence.

Mar 22nd, 6:00 PM

Melanie Schiff has written that her work is "simultaneously an analytical and contemplative reconsideration of the history of still life and self-portraiture in photography" and that "the moments these works address are quiet and waver on the edge of a constructed poetic narrative and an instant found by chance." Schiff's work in photography has been presented in solo exhibitions in Chicago and Germany and in group shows in Chicago, New York, Miami, Germany and Switzerland. In 2006, she received an Artadia Jury award and was a Resident Fellow at the Atlantic Center the Arts. Schiff received her MFA from UIC in 2002 and her BFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts in 1999 and is currently teaching as an Adjunct faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Northwestern University.

Apr 1st, 4:30 AM

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Apr 6th, 7:00 PM

Please join us this Friday evening, April 6th, at 7pm in the Art + Architecture building, Room 1100 for the MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibition. The thesis candidates and their topics will be: Laura Ferrario Enough of Saudade Dave C. Pabellon Immersing into "the Avenue" Jessica Schnepf The German Influence in Chicago

Apr 4th, 6:00 PM

Hasan M. Elahi’s current work “engages questions of surveillance, privacy and ownership.” He writes, “the focus of my creative practice has been at the intersection of art and information technology, integrating image databases and other forms of electronic information. I juxtapose the tangible aspects of traditional art practice with the electronic elements of current and developing technologies in order to blur the distinctions between the two realms.” Elahi’s work has been included in solo and curated group exhibitions in New York, Germany, England, and Russia. He has received funding and grant support from The Ford Foundation /Philip Morris, Creative Capital Foundation, DuPont Industries, the West Virginia Cultural Center and the Asociación Artetik Berrikuntzara in Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain. Elahi is currently Assistant Professor at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, and previously taught at the University of South Florida, West Virginia University, and Wanganui School of Design, New Zealand.

Apr 5th, 6:00 PM

Claire Sherman writes of her work: “With interests ranging from Edmund Burke’s writings on the sublime, to B-horror movie sets, such as Children of the Corn, I use landscape as a vehicle for painting. Image beckons entrance into the world of landscape; paint is used to seduce. Mark serves to exaggerate; color, to attract and entice. At the same time, these fundamentals are executed with a flaw. Image is disrupted by paint.” Sherman’s work has been presented in solo and group gallery exhibitions in Chicago and London. She received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, after completing the BA, Summa Cum Laude, at the University of Pennsylvania. Sherman is currently Assistant Professor at Knox College in Galesburg.

Apr 13th, 5:00 PM

UIC BFA students graduating from our programs in Photography, Moving Image, and Studio Arts will exhibit their works in the Great Space and GBU Galleries on the 5th floor of Art and Design Hall, 400 S. Peoria Street, on Friday April 13th from 5-9pm with viewing hours on Saturday, April 14th from noon to 6pm.

Apr 9th, 6:00 PM

In describing his work in painting and drawing, Conor McGrady writes: “All of the work that I produce relates to social issues, in particular the nature of power and its impact on the individual and on urban and domestic space. ...The impetus for my practice as a whole is based on situations of violence and military control, largely drawing on, but not confined to, my experience growing up in Northern Ireland.” McGrady’s paintings and works on paper have been presented in solo and group curated gallery and museum exhibitions in Atlanta, San Francisco, Chicago, and New York and internationally in the UK, Italy, Australia, and Ireland. McGrady has received funded support for residencies at Ragdale Foundation and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He is a writer and currently serves on the Editorial Collective of Radical History Review, published by Duke University Press. McGrady received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a BA from the University of Northumbria, UK. He has held Visiting Artist and Instructor appointments at Northwestern University, School of Visual Arts, NY, California College of the Arts, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Apr 30th, 6:00 PM

Craig S. Stehle received his Masters of Industrial Design from North Carolina State University and his BFA in Communication Arts from East Carolina University. His current practice, Stehle Research and Design, consults on the development of products and services for consumer products, medical devices, and rehabilitation and assistive technology. He has also worked as a designer for Gravity Tank in Chicago, Center for Universal Design in Raleigh and Signal Design in Durham North Carolina. Stehle is currently an adjunct faculty member and professional affiliate of the Institute for Design Engineering and Applications (IDEA) of Northwestern University. His role within the engineering-based IDEA program has been to infuse the curriculum with methods used in industrial design. He developed the first industrial design course offered by Northwestern. He says of his teaching: “My teaching philosophies and materials reflect my diverse experience as a design professional [particularly as it relates] to interdisciplinary projects and human-centered product development.”

Apr 12th, 6:00 PM

Kevin Wolff references the figure in his work as a painter; he writes that he is “compelled to employ the processes of realism—looking, translating, and transforming—in an attempt to locate and manipulate the line between the figurative and the abstract.” Using both photography and sculpture in his process, Wolff writes that “a system of abstraction is revealed through the digestion of the representational—forming a dialogue between the photographic memory of an instant and the accumulative processes and structures of sculpture, painting, and drawing.” Wolff’s paintings and works on paper have been presented in solo and group curated gallery and museum exhibitions in Chicago, New York, Saratoga Springs, Buffalo, Cincinnati, St. Louis, Los Angeles; and in Cologne, Frankfurt, Ghent, Rotterdam, and Montreal. He has received grants and awards from the Illinois Arts Council, Penny McCall Foundation, Art Matters, NY, and the McDowell Colony /residency. Wolff received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and BFA from Rochester Institute of Technology. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the SAIC, and previously taught at Herron School of Art, and as Visiting Artist at Tyler School of Art and Northwestern University.

Apr 16th, 6:00 PM

Kevin Henry writes on the role of theory in industrial design: “Theory… guides decision making in complex situations and is based on one’s ability to grasp, digest, and internalize ideas into a structured and synchronous belief system. While the public is quick to recognize and celebrate the haptic side of the industrial design profession (sketching, rendering, form giving) as the ultimate sign of creativity, they often fail to realize that it remains subservient to critical thinking. And while the fruits of those hard skills may be most noticeable in the final product, without the soft skills, the product or service would be a shallow exercise in styling.” Kevin Henry is currently a member of the full-time faculty and coordinator of the product design program at Columbia College in Chicago. He has been teaching either as adjunct or full time faculty for over 18 years and presented at IDSA National Educators Conference in 2005. He holds an MFA in Industrial Design from UIC, and an MFA in Sculpture and Time Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is the winner of the Born Digital Competition sponsored by the Institute for the Future of the Book.

Apr 10th, 6:00 PM

Currently an Associate Professor of Industrial Design at Georgia Institute of Technology, Kevin Reeder has taught Industrial Design at the college level for more than 15 years. He has taught at Columbus College of Art and Design, Ohio State University, Stanford University, and California College of the Arts. He was bestowed with the Outstanding Teacher Award of 2005 at Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Master of Arts from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from Ohio State University. Reeder has been a design consultant since 1987 working with clients such as Apple Computer, Discovery Toys, Lunar Design, Raychem Corporation, Wedge Innovations, and Zephyr Design. He writes of the relationship of design education and practice: “My varied experiences as a practitioner dictate my approach to the classroom. As a practitioner, I have to understand the importance of the user, the development of the budget, the social interactions of the members of the design team, and the physical and emotional demands of the users. Consequently, in the classroom, I construct projects with and overview of reality…discussing with the students the need to understand how products are actually developed and how students need to be self-motivated and willing to communicate their ideas to clients, engineers, and, ultimately the user.”

Apr 11th, 6:00 PM

With regard to his recent project, Domestic Observations and Occurrences, Cecil McDonald has written: “The images in this body of work represent an extended look at the moments and relationships that occur within the domestic environment. ...I’ve constructed the photographs as tableau vivant in order to re-examine the embodiment of the everyday moment. ...This method relocates the reading of the photograph, linking an objective document to an autobiographically infused performance, a staged retelling, privileged by a patriarchal analysis and sensibility.” McDonald’s photographic work has been included in curated group exhibitions in Chicago, New York and Philadelphia, and will be exhibited in the Netherlands this year. He received an Artadia Award in 2006, and was selected for the Joyce Foundation “Midwest Voices & Visions” residency, 2007. He received an MFA from Columbia College Chicago. McDonald currently teaches at Trinity Christian College and is also a Teaching Artist through the Arts Integration Mentorship in partnership with the Center for Community Arts Program, Chicago.

Apr 18th, 6:00 AM

“The subject of my current work in painting is color itself; especially color as a linguistic vehicle for social exchange,” writes Pamela Fraser. “My new paintings utilize color interaction or relationships to underscore the legibility and logic of color systems with their various associations, themes, and rules of use. These works initially developed from my ongoing interest in comparative color theory and in particular from Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Color.” Fraser’s paintings and works on paper have been presented in solo and curated group gallery and museum exhibitions nationally—New York, Buffalo, Chicago, Los Angeles—as well as internationally in Cologne, Venice, London, Oslo, Berlin, Stuttgart, Munster, among others. She is the recipient of a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award. Fraser received an MFA in New Genres from UCLA and a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. She currently holds an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design, UIC, and taught previously at Ohio State University and Northwestern University.

Apr 19th, 6:00 PM

Ed Osborn works primarily in sound installation, and has also worked with video, performance and developed works for on-line access. He writes that his work “falls between established genres”… “the sound installations usually include a combination of motion and sound that appears organic in nature and has a tangible physical presence.” In in several projects “the sculptural objects generate sound concurrently, their actions driven by a system of internal logic.” Osborn’s work has been presented in solo and curated group exhibitions and performances in the U.S, Canada, Austria, Australia, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Israel, England, South Africa, and New Zealand. He also works with electronic and improvised music, as a soloist and in collaboration with other artists and music ensembles. As a writer, his essays and projects have been included in critical journals, internationally. Grants and awards include: Guggenheim Foundation, Lannan Foundation, Creative Work Fund, and research grants from University of California, Santa Cruz; he held the DAAD Artist-in-Residence, Berlin in 2000. He received an MFA from Mills College, CA and a BA from Wesleyan University, Middleton, CT. He is currently Assistant Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz, and has taught as Guest Lecturer /Visiting Artist at California College of the Arts, University of California, Davis, and Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany.

Apr 17th, 12:00 AM

Closing party on Thursday, April 19 from 4:00 - 6:00pm

Apr 25th, 6:00 PM

Dianna Frid has written that her works in sculpture, installation, collages and artist-books, “are material responses to existing images, shapes, and things in the world. In making objects, I stress the relationship of two-dimensional representation to the concreteness of sculpture and hybrid things. I explore this concreteness through a physicality that relies on process as a means to expand and hone a technique, and that fuses the hand-made with formal and thematic concerns.” Frid’s work has been presented in solo and curated group gallery and museum exhibitions in New York, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Washington, DC and Chicago, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, BC, São Paolo, Ghent, Turin, and Mexico City. She has received an Artadia Award, as well as grants from The Canada Council, The Banff Centre for the Arts, The City of Chicago, and the State of Illinois Arts in Education Program. Frid completed MFA and BFA Degrees at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, following undergraduate course work at Hampshire College. She taught previously at the University of Chicago, and currently holds an appointment as Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Art and Design, UIC.

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Apr 23rd, 6:00 PM

Beate Geissler works as a photographer as well as producing performances, installations and video in collaboration with Oliver Sann as “Geissler & Sann.” She has written that her work “is formed by reflections on simulation and representation of this world. The transition from pictorial reality to mise-en-scene has characterized my approach to photography from the very beginning.” Her interests are to be found in “the border between what has happened and what could have happened in order to understand pictures. ...I’m not interested in manipulating pictures; all of the imagery is completely rooted in the visible world.” Geissler is the recipient of the Gunther-Schroff-Stipendium from Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe. Her work has been presented in solo and group gallery and museum exhibitions, in partnership with Oliver Sann, in Munich, Cologne, Dortmund, Berlin, Winterthur, Graz, Basel, London, and Taipei, among other venues. She has taught photography at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung , Karsruhe where she also completed the Degree in photography, following study at the Staatliche Fachakadmie für Fotodesign in Munich.

May 11th, 6:00 PM

Students graduating from our BFA programs in A+A will hold their year-end exhibitions from 6:00-9:00 on Friday, May 11th. Please join us to celebrate the talented class of 2007!

Apr 26th, 5:00 PM

Sumakshi Singh has written of her interest in “art that arrives quietly in unexpected places, that nags at you because of its refusal to reveal immediately, that makes you re-investigate territories taken for granted; ...Using the history and physicality of spaces as a springboard, my work involves interventions that I find or create in and around architectural elements. ...to navigate the lines of tension created between the idea of a space set aside for witnessing cultural activity and its material reality.” Singh’s sculpture and site-specific projects have been presented in solo and curated group gallery and museum exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and Charleston, Texas, Illinois, and Connecticut. She was awarded a Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Award and held a Curatorial Internship in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago. Singh received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from Maharaja Sayajiro University, Baroda, India. She has taught in SAIC’s First Year BFA Program, and the Early College Program; she has also taught at Harold Washington College, Chicago.

May 4th, 1:00 PM

As part of the AD502 Design and Governmentality course, art and design students were exposed to the role of designing in public policy formation and implementation for everyday people. Students have now created government policies based on their areas of interest and the role of design. City officials, professors in policy at UIC, and members of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs have been invited. To attend RSVP by by April 27th to etunst (at) uic.edu.

Mar 12th, 4:00 PM

Aaron Marcus has published, lectured, tutored, and consulted internationally for more than 30 years and has been an invited keynote/plenary speaker at conferences of ACM/SIGCHI, ACMSIGGRAPH, Usability Professionals Association (UPA), and the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, as well as conferences internationally. He is a visionary thinker, designer, and writer, well-respected in international professional communities associated with Web, user interface, human factors, graphic design, publishing, and desktop software application development. The UIC Innovation Center is a strategic alliance between the UIC colleges of Art and Architecture, Business Administration, and Engineering and corporate sponsors. Space is limited to only 120 people, so RSVP your attendance before March 5th to: uicmoto.innovation@gmail.com

Jul 19th, 6:00 PM

The UIC College of Architecture and the Arts invites you to celebrate and support our talented student architects, artists, designers, performers and scholars. All Benefit funds are dedicated solely to student scholarships and fellowships.

Performance Artist and author Chris Roberts (www.manuallabor.org/chrisroberts.html) will be signing his new book, P.A.D. Professional Artist Development, at GBU gallery on the UIC campus. Please join him for the first stop on his book signing tour, followed by a brief Q & A. A limited number of complimentary copies will be available. Chris Roberts is a Chicago artist whose work includes performance, text, and conceptual art theories and practices. *This project is supported by a Community Arts Assistance Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Sep 27th, 7:00 PM

Join us to celebrate the "worst" of our undergraduate art programs: any media is accepted. Nothing is too bad!

Nov 30th, 10:00 AM

The School of Art and Design is hosting information days and tours for prospective undergraduate applicants. This is an opportunity to learn about the BFA degrees, tour the studios, computer labs and workshops and ask questions about the majors. No reservation is necessary.

Oct 26th, 10:00 AM

The School of Art and Design is hosting information days and tours for prospective undergraduate applicants. This is an opportunity to learn about the BFA degrees, tour the studios, computer labs and workshops and ask questions about the majors. No reservation is necessary.

Dec 10th, 9:30 AM

Final graduate critiques for students in Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design will be held in the Center for Virtual Reality in the Arts, in the Art and Architecture Building from 9:30-6:15 on Monday, December 10th.

Dec 13th, 9:00 AM

Final graduate critiques for students in Studio Arts, Moving Image and Photography will be held in the Art and Design Hall, 400 S Peoria, from 9:00-4:30 from Tuesday, December 11th through Friday, December 14th. Guest critics: Tuesday, painter Anne Harris; Wednesday, art historian, Lori Waxman; Thursday, curator Nicholas Frank; Friday, video artist Steve Reinke.

Dec 12th, 9:00 AM

Final graduate critiques for students in Graphic Design will be held in room 2410 of the Art and Architecture Building from 9:00-5:00 on Tuesday, December 12th, and Wednesday, December 13th.

Oct 24th, 5:00 PM

If you are considering graduate study in art and design, are a friend or graduate of the UIC School of Art and Design, or are simply interested in seeing the work of our programs, please join us for a gathering of alumni, students, faculty and staff at our annual MFA Open Studio. Tour the facilities and meet the faculty and students of our MFA programs in electronic visualization, graphic design, industrial design, moving image, photography, and studio arts. Wed., October 24th from 5:00-10pm Art + Design Hall is located at 400 S Peoria Street Just north of the Halsted/UIC CTA stop. The A+A Building is located at 845 W. Harrison Street Just south of the Halsted/UIC CTA stop. Parking is available in UIC Lot 9 at the corner of Harrison and Morgan streets.

Apr 1st, 5:00 PM

Opening Reception Wednesday April 2

Apr 8th, 5:00 PM

Opening Reception Wednesday April 9

Feb 25th, 6:00 PM

This workshop will review the art of both circuit bending and building to create and manipulate electronic sounds and interactive installations. A hands-on introduction to the hacking of existing hardware circuits will be provided. New circuits will also be built to integrate both sound and light sensor inputs. Workshops are open to students, faculty, and staff. Class seats are limited, so please RSVP to Tesia (tkosma2@uic.edu) by February 23th. The instructor, Michael Una, is a Chicago-based artist that integrates traditional musical instruments, handbuilt analog electronics, video processes, digital synthesis, and repurposed objects to build harmonic wave patterns. His work investigates the creation of audiophysical experiences through the relationship of energy, human consciousness and physical space. The Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) is a shared high-tech computational studio operating under the Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design programs. The 2007/08 DVL Workshop series is organized by Tesia Kosmalski (MFA candidate, EV).

Oct 22nd, 12:00 AM

Opening reception: Wednesday October 24 from 4 to 7pm. For this exhibition the members of the GBU's committee are creating a gallery large Exquisite Corpse that will be reveled in full to the public and the members themselves during the opening reception.

Mar 18th, 5:00 PM

Opening Reception Wednesday March 19

Nov 8th, 6:30 PM

About the show: Participants collaborate in five small teams to create wall and floor drawings in the space. These five on-site drawings are created within a given area along a floor/wall perimeter of the GBU space. Using only lines and/or silhouettes, each team creates a separate thematic/material composition that incorporates the interstitial space of one group's work and the next. The project is nomadic in nature: knowing where we start (space) and what we start with (materials and themes), without knowing precisely where we will arrive. Please come to see the final stages of this experimental work before it comes down on Thursday, November 8, at night.

Dec 11th, 9:00 AM

Final graduate critiques for students in Studio Arts, Moving Image and Photography will be held in the Art and Design Hall, 400 S Peoria, from 9:00-4:30 from Tuesday, December 11th through Friday, December 14th. Guest critics: Tuesday, painter Anne Harris; Wednesday, art historian, Lori Waxman; Thursday, curator Nicholas Frank; Friday, video artist Steve Reinke.

NetWorking (http://knittingnetworking.blogspot.com/) is an ongoing knitting installation/performance art piece originally created by Nyok-Mei Wong & Anni Holm in 2006. The NetWorking project is an attempt to physically demonstrate how a network is constructed and constantly changing. The viewers are invited to sit down and knit with the artist, and through dialogue develop their own networks beyond the boundaries of the piece.

Nov 13th, 5:30 PM

This workshop will review general engine design concepts with a simple yet powerful product, <a href="http://www.blitzbasic.com/Products/blitz3d.php">Blitz 3D</a>. You will learn how independent games are developed and view other examples of gaming engines like Source Engine, Unreal 2003 and Torque. The workshop is limited to 10 people, so please RSVP to Tesia Kosmalski (<a href="mailto:tesiak@gmail.com">tkosma2@uic.com</a>) by November 10th to secure your spot. Attendees should also <a href="http://www.blitzbasic.com/Products/_index_.php">download</a> the demo before class. Attendance is also free. More about Lindsay Grace: He is a full-time professor in Information Technology disciplines. He teaches at the Digital Media Production, Web Design, Game Design, and Information Technology at the <a href="http://ilic.aii.edu/">Illinois Institute of Art</a> in Chicago IL. He has also taught at <http://itt-tech.edu/>ITT Technical schools and completed course design for <a href="http://www.aiuonline.edu/">American Intercontinental University</a> online. The Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) is a shared high-tech computational studio operating under the Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design programs.

Jan 1st, 12:00 PM

The faculty staff and students of the UIC School of Art and Design wish you a happy holiday season. Our winter break begins on Monday December, 17th. Instruction begins again on Monday, January, 14th 2008. Snowlake greeting by Cliff Krapfl, Adjucnt Assistant Professor in Graphic Design, and Tara Kennedy, UIC BFA 1999.

Dec 17th, 9:00 AM

The faculty, staff, and students of the UIC School of Art and Design wish you a happy holiday season. Our semester break begins on Monday December, 17th and continues through January 11th. Instruction begins again on Monday, January, 14th 2008. Snowflake greeting by Cliff Krapfl, Adjunct Assistant Professor in Industrial Design, and Tara Kennedy, UIC BFA in Graphic Design, 1999.

Jan 18th, 11:00 AM

Jan 17th, 5:00 PM

Jan 25th, 5:00 PM

Join us for the opening reception for Drive By, an exhibition featuring video works by MFA students at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Design. This exhibition is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery. The works selected are by Jeremiah Chiu, Christopher Kalis, Jonathan Sangster, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Westbrook, Eric Fleischauer, Jesse McLean, Gretchen Schulfer, Sara Bassick, Renata Graw, Michael Ruberto , Steve Zieverink, Philip Matesic, and H. Weldon. Admission to the Art Center is free and open to the public.

Feb 3rd, 3:00 PM

Join us for a reception for Hyde Park Art Center's current exhibitions: Drive-By, Kariann Fuqua: On Unstable Ground, Soft Life, Chuck Walker: Through a Glass Darkly. Meet the artists and explore the shows. Drive-By is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery. The works selected are by Jeremiah Chiu, Christopher Kalis, Jonathan Sangster, Adam Trowbridge, Jessica Westbrook, Eric Fleischauer, Jesse McLean, Gretchen Schulfer, Sara Bassick, Renata Graw, Michael Ruberto , Steve Zieverink, Philip Matesic, and H. Weldon. Admission to the Art Center is free and open to the public.

Jan 28th, 5:00 PM

Chicago's train lines all lead to the same destination, the Loop. With all the trains heading to the same destination, most of its passengers only experience one view of Chicago from their particular train line. "In Motion" is a video installation on a public building that re-directs attention back to the buildings and people that make up Chicago. By juxtaposing views from five of the different train lines, a moving portrait of the city is created; offering the viewer a unique view of the city. 'In Motion' is part of Drive-By, an exhibition featuring video works by MFA students at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Design. This exhibition is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.

Feb 11th, 5:00 PM

'You Can be Famous on the Internet' features Internet videos pulled from the Web and submitted by ordinary and extraordinary people. The piece considers several perspectives: the concepts of famous, infamous or popular in the Internet realm; how Internet video relates to home movies, home video and snapshots; and how some Internet videos function as folk or outsider art. The phrase "famous on the Internet" denotes the possibility of being famous to a relatively small group while, at the same time, pointing out how ridiculous it is to be "famous" in a medium so filled with absurd channels of communication. 'You Can be Famous on the Internet' is part of Drive-By, an exhibition featuring video works by MFA students at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Design. This exhibition is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.

Feb 25th, 5:00 PM

'D R I F T' mixes unique and exciting visuals with historically relevant information. Wireless video cameras attached to weather balloons were employed to transmit an expanding view of significant Hyde Park locations, acknowledging the rich, diverse and sometimes hidden history embedded within this neighborhood. 'D R I F T' is part of Drive-By, an exhibition featuring video works by MFA students at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Design. This exhibition is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.

Mar 10th, 5:00 PM

'Newsworthy' is an attempt to transform the official news monologue into a community dialogue. Contemporary society is experiencing an information overload from official news sources. Interactive media provide numerous ways for people to express their opinions, but what if that commentary could be expanded on an enormous scale, making everyone really see the voices of the people around them, in real time? Newsworthy gives members of the Hyde Park community, visitors to the Hyde Park Art Center and the general public the chance to have a visual voice and express, in a unique way, what's on their minds. 'Newsworthy' is part of Drive-By, an exhibition featuring video works by MFA students at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Design. This exhibition is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.

Mar 24th, 5:00 PM

'Phase Pattern' is a site-specific, architectural composition for the Hyde Park Art Center. The work references and juxtaposes classical ideologies of spirituality and space with modern aesthetics and composition in a projection for the HPAC facade. Utilizing cutting edge technology, the project creates a slowed down, contemplative space for an aural and visual experience both on the interior and exterior of the Hyde Park Art Center. 'Phase Pattern' is part of Drive-By, an exhibition featuring video works by MFA students at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Design. This exhibition is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.

Apr 7th, 5:00 PM

'Tesseraction' is a visualization of time expressed as space. Of the four dimensions which control our existence, time is the only one which we cannot perceive with our senses. In this work HPAC has been converted into a a sequence of tesseractic translations deconstructing time and space into it's most basic forms. 'Tesseraction' is part of Drive-By, an exhibition featuring video works by MFA students at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Art and Design. This exhibition is a collaboration between the HPAC and UIC, and is the culmination of a 2007 seminar course that explored media projection and technology, recent developments in public art, and the relationship between art and location. Led by professor and artist Daniel Sauter, the students created digital works specifically for the Art Center's Jackman Goldwasser Catwalk Gallery.

Mar 10th, 6:00 PM

This workshop will introduce how computer vision techniques can be used to create interactive artistic installations. It will cover different interactive techniques with artificial vision using video cameras, motion detection, and position tracking. Attendees will use processing to develop sound and image examples that include real-time manipulation. Workshops are open to students, faculty, and staff. Class seats are limited, so please RSVP to Tesia (tkosma2@uic.edu) by March 8th. Please bring a laptop and, if possible, a video camera. Any type of programming experience is also beneficial. The instructor, Julio Obelleiro, is pursuing a Ph.D. in the Electronic Visualization Laboratory at UIC. He is currently researching new means of interaction based on computer vision and has been working for the last three years as an artificial intelligence programmer. His works have been exhibited in venues such as the Ars Electronica Festival (Austria), 10Years_After (Korea) and La Noche en Blanco (Spain). The Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) is a shared high-tech computational studio operating under the Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design programs. The 2007/08 DVL Workshop series is organized by Tesia Kosmalski (MFA candidate, EV).

Nov 30th, 2:30 PM

This workshop will introduce basic robotic concepts using legos as the instrument of instruction. It will provide an understanding of how these mechanics can be used in artistic contexts. Workshops are open to students, faculty, and staff. But class size is limited, so RSVP to Tesia (tkosma2@uic.edu) to let us know you're coming. Workshop supplies will be provided and attendance is free of charge. The instructor, Kevin O'Neill, is a student at UIC who has an extensive background in artificial intelligence and computer science. He currently teaches robotics at After School Matters (ASM) which is a project of Chicago Public Schools (CPS). The Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) is a shared high-tech computational studio operating under the Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design programs.

Feb 11th, 6:00 PM

This workshop will summarize how to integrate multiple audio, visual and circuit based inputs into final compositions and real-time performances. Attendees will be exposed to Max's visual programming environment and create works with both computer-based and externally produced audio data. Workshops are open to students, faculty, and staff. Class seats are limited, so RSVP to Tesia Kosmalski (tkosma2@uic.edu) by February 9th. A laptop with a free promotional copy of Max/MSP is required (see http://cycling74.com). The instructor, Benjamin Thorp, is pursuing his MFA in Electronic Visualization at UIC. His background includes working with generative systems, creating interactive and responsive sound installations and scoring experimental videos. The Design Visualization Laboratory (DVL) is a shared high-tech computational studio operating under the Electronic Visualization and Industrial Design programs. The 2007/08 DVL Workshop series is organized by Tesia Kosmalski (MFA candidate, EV).

Mar 11th, 9:00 AM

School of Art & Design faculty, Dori Tunstall and Sharon Oiga, and students Leilah Rampa, Sara Bassick, Marisa Bueno, and Pang Siu, with assistance of Banan Al-Ansari deliver the final designs for the Cook County Bureau of Health Services’ (CCBHS) Patient Billing and Payment Policy Information System. Sponsored by a Sappi: Ideas that Matter Grant, the complex information design system consists of: 1 Patient Billing and Payment information sign in trilingual English, Spanish, and Polish, 3 Common Hospital Rates signs in trilingual English, Spanish, and Polish, 4 Financial Assistance Programs brochures in bilingual English/Spanish, English/Polish, English/Mandarin Chinese, and English/Arabic) 5 Self-Pay Payment Plan brochures in English, Spanish, Polish, Mandarin Chinese, and Arabic, 1 Limit of Liability application form 1 Limit of Liability ID card 3 Financial Screening Appointment Cards in English, Spanish, and Polish, and 3 Financial Eligibility Screening Questionnaires in English, Spanish, and Polish. Grounded in a patient-centered research process, the team conducted several sets of clinic and hospital site observations, two sets of stakeholder interviews, interview/concept testing with 15 CCBHS patients (including English and Spanish speakers), and usability evaluation testing with 10 CCBHS patients (including English, Spanish, and Polish speakers). Following Tuesday’s presentation to Bureau administrators, the team will assist in training CCBHS staff on the information system and evaluating the impact of the information on patient service satisfaction.

Mar 17th, 6:00 PM

Michael Rock is a founding partner and creative director at 2x4 and Professor of Design at the Yale University School of Art. At 2x4, he leads a wide range of projects including strategy for Prada and Condé Nast in collaboration with AMO/Rem Koolhaas. He leads environmental graphics and media design for the Prada New York Epicenter Store and was principal-in-charge of the IIT McCormick Tribune environmental graphics program and the Vitra Branding/New York Headquarters. Previously he was co-founder of Information Incorporated, in Boston. From 1984-91 he was Adjunct Professor of Graphic Design at the Rhode Island School of Design. In addition, he was a fellow at the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht, The Netherlands, and a contributing editor and graphic design journalist at I.D. Magazine in New York. His writing on design has appeared in a variety of publications in addition to I.D. including Print, AIGA Journal and the British journal Eye. He holds a B.A. in Humanities from Union College and a M.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design. He is the recipient of the 1999/2000 Rome Prize in Design from the American Academy in Rome.

Mar 24th, 9:00 AM

This week is spring break at UIC. Instruction resumes on Monday, March 31st. Pictured is a site specific work by Professor Tony Tasset. Installed in 2006, “Magnolias for Pittsburgh" consists of two sculptures of a flowering magnolia tree. Measuring 22' high by 24' wide, cast in bronze from one hand-sculpted replica and realistically hand-painted in urethane enamel, each tree contains approximately 800 flowers. The bronze trees are located in a setting with five real magnolia trees at Seventh Street and Penn Avenue Parklet in Pittsburgh where—for a few days each spring—they look exactly like their real counterparts.

Apr 2nd, 5:00 PM

APRIL 1-5 Dana Carter Vincent Dermody Eric Fleischauer Marivi Ortiz Reception on WED April 2 from 5 - 8pm at Gallery 400

May 14th, 7:00 PM

Apr 4th, 5:00 PM

Chiasmus is a responsive and dynamically reflective, volumetric projection surface that addresses phenomenological issues of perception, formation of images, and screen dynamics. Opening Reception - Friday April 4 5-9 PM Saturday 12-3

You Are Invited to Attend An Informational Meeting

You are invited to attend an informational meeting regarding the Studio Arts program in the School of Art + Design.

Apr 7th, 6:00 PM

Sara Bassick Jeremiah Chiu Dan Elliot Joyce Epolito Renata Graw Christopher Kalis Leilah Rampa Michael Ruberto Jonathan Sangster Gretchen Schulfer

You are invited to attend an informational meeting regarding the Studio Arts program in the School of Art + Design.

You are invited to attend an informational meeting regarding the Studio Arts program in the School of Art + Design.

Apr 18th, 5:00 PM

UIC BFA students graduating from our programs in Photography, Moving Image, and Studio Arts will exhibit their works on the 5th floor of Art and Design Hall, 400 S. Peoria Street, on Friday April 18th from 5-8pm with viewing hours April 18-23 from 11am to 5pm.

Apr 28th, 5:00 PM

Georg Elben studied art history, political science and literature in Bonn, Milan and Karlsruhe. Since 1993 he has worked as an art advisor for the German national KfW banking group in Bonn and Berlin building a collection of young German art (catalogue 1998). Since 1995 Elben has published many essays of contemporary art and contributions for catalogues. As a freelance curator he has designed thematically structured exhibitions as well as monographic ones, i.e. solo shows with Christian Jankowski (“Oops!... I did it again”) and Thomas Steffl (“Wer hat Bambi getötet” – “Who killed Bambi?”) at Kunstmuseum Bonn. Elben works as curator for “Edition Bewegte Bilder” at the Sammlung Rheingold in producing video works by David Zink Yi, Corinna Schnitt and Jeanne Faust (Jonathan Horowitz and Erik van Lieshout are upcoming next). They all are presented with a solo show at the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Since 2004 Georg Elben is the director of Videonale in Bonn and was responsible for "Videonale 10" in 2005 and „Videonale 11 – Festival for Contemporary Video Art “ in 2007 which took place in a specially designed exhibition architecture at Kunstmuseum Bonn and was accompanied by a symposium.

May 10th, 7:00 PM

Congratulations to the UIC School of Art and Design BFA and MFA class of 2008!

May 9th, 6:00 PM

Students graduating from our BFA programs in A+A will hold their year-end exhibitions from 6:00-9:00 on Friday, May 9th. Please join us to celebrate the talented class of 2008.

Jun 16th, 9:00 AM

Pictured: Yellow Interior, fabric installation in UIC's Art and Design Hall, by Philip Matesic: MFA Studio Arts 2008.

Nov 30th, 1:03 AM

Stephanie Munson Tharp Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Awarded by Interior Design Magazine &quot;Cubby&quot; designed by Stephanie Munson and her partner Bruce Tharp was selected as one of this year&#039;s Future Furniture winners by Interior Design magazine. Winners are featured in the November issue.

Nov 30th, 12:42 AM

Stephanie Munson Tharp Assistant Professor of Industrial Design Elected IDSA District Education Representative In this leadership role for design education, Stephanie will work with all IDSA student chapters in the midwest region, acting as district conference co-chair, organizing a student chapter orientation meeting, and working with other education council members to develop and implement program goals. Stephanie will meet with the other 4 IDSA regional representatives at an upcoming meeting in Washington DC.

Nov 30th, 12:41 AM

MFA students enrolled in Professor Tony Tasset&#039;s graduate seminar course traveled through 5 western states in 9 days to see (and make) art. Site visits included Las Vegas, Taliesen West, and Marfa, Texas. Please stand by for information on an exhibition of works created en route. All are pictured standing on the Spiral Jetty.

Nov 30th, 1:18 AM

Deb Stratman Assistant Professor of Moving Image Professor Stratman, currently in residence at the Wexner Center, recently screened &quot;From Hetty to Nancy&quot; at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and &quot;In Order Not to Be Here&quot; at the Takoma Park Film Festival.

Nov 30th, 1:17 AM

Daniel Sauter Assistant Professor of Electronic Visualization Microwave International Media Arts Festival 2006, Hong Kong &quot;Light Attack&quot; will be performed in the city and suburbs of Hong Kong and exhibited in the Hong Kong Museum of Art. In addition to the performance, Professor Sauter will participate in a panel discussion &ldquo;Strategies of Interactivities in Visual Culture&rdquo; together with the artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in the Hong Kong Museum of Art on Nov. 13.

Nov 30th, 12:46 AM

James Lee, MFA 2006, had his thesis work &quot;Pan&quot; awarded honorable mention in Digital Art Awards 2006 (DAA 2006), Japan. Presented by Keio Research Institute at SFC, DAA 2006 &quot;is designed toencourage, support, and promote digital content produced by creative students.&quot; Steve Cady, had his work from last semester accepted in the 1st Reno Interdisciplinary Festival of New Media (RIFNM 06).&quot;This show highlights an international selection of work by graduate and Phd students working with new digital technologies for the creation of art.&quot;

Jan 21st, 12:36 AM

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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 &amp; Seals starting at 8.

Jan 23rd, 4:31 PM

Be sure to pick up a copy of this week&#039;s Time Out Chicago which features 20 Chicagoans to watch in 2007 including Sabrina Raaf, Assistant Professor of Electronic Visualization, among others (like Barack Obama).

Jan 28th, 1:44 PM

Fraser will additionally be participating in a group show called &quot;Forest Assembly&quot; at GAD in Oslo, Norway opening January 19th. The show is curated by Marianne Hurum; a 2006 exchange student of ours from Malmo.

Jan 28th, 8:45 PM

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 &ldquo;login&rdquo; 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&rsquo;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 -&gt; School of Art + Design http://sa.aa.uic.edu -&gt; Studio Arts http://ph.aa.uic.edu -&gt; Photography http://mi.aa.uic.edu -&gt; Moving Image http://id.aa.uic.edu -&gt; Industrial Design http://gd.aa.uic.edu -&gt; Graphic Design http://ev.aa.uic.edu -&gt; Electronic Visualization http://ae.aa.uic.edu -&gt; Art Education

Feb 5th, 3:22 PM

Art mom would like: &quot;A 20-year veteran of the art world stops amusing only himself.&quot; by Sarah A. Klein

Feb 19th, 12:55 PM

Lisa Boyle Gallery is pleased to present the group exhibition &quot;Us and Our Katamari,&quot; beginning February 3rd (no opening reception), closing with a reception March 3. &quot;Us and Our Katamari&quot; 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 &quot;clump of souls&quot;) 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&#039;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&#039;s conceptual architecture - chaos vs. order, macrocosm and microcosm, and imperialism, to name a few - the artists&#039; 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

Feb 19th, 12:56 PM

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.

Feb 19th, 1:05 PM

Interview with Drew Browning and Annette Barber in the current issue of Chicago City Arts Review: Cultures of Collaboration

Feb 23rd, 7:30 PM

Daria Tsoupikova, Helen Nikole Kostis (MFA EV 2006), Brenda Lopes-Silva (MFA EV 2005) presented research papers at the IS&amp;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

Feb 20th, 9:59 AM

Prof. Munson was selected as a member of the DWR jury last Thursday (15th) night to select the winners of DWR&#039;s 3rd annual Modern+Design+Function: Chicago Furniture Now competition

Mar 21st, 8:27 AM

Jessica Poser has been invited to present her research paper &quot;Meaningful Things: Popular Consumer Culture in the Social LIves of Children&quot; at Teachers College, Columbia University as part of the conference Popular Culture in the Classroom: Teach, Think, Play, March 24-25

Feb 20th, 12:42 PM

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.

Feb 23rd, 7:26 PM

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.

Feb 23rd, 7:27 PM

Prof. Tsoupikova&#039;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.

Feb 26th, 11:56 AM

Dori Tunstall participates in Schools of Thought III, AIGA&#039;s Design Education Conference, held March 9-11, 2007 in Pasadena, CA. She presents &quot;An Anthropologist in our Midst: Graphic Design, Research, and Emerging Anthrodesigners&quot; 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

Mar 21st, 8:26 AM

Jessica Poser, Assistant Professor of Art Education, will present &quot;Framing Meaning: Representation, Discourse and Images-in-use&quot; 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.

Feb 27th, 9:41 AM

Earlier this month, Mary Odell Butler, PhD, President Elect of the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology, traveled from the Nation&#039;s capital to be interviewed by the students of Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga&#039;s AD411 course (Graphic Design Professional Practice). As part of a wider Anthropology Rebranding Project, the students are working on the redesign of NAPA&#039;s identity. Associate Professor Elizabeth Tunstall, PhD, a member of NAPA, also lectured on previous anthropology rebranding projects and will be assisting the class.

Mar 26th, 9:00 AM

Six student teams presented their product/platform concepts for wireless mobile devices/systems to top Motorola management.

Mar 26th, 9:01 AM

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.

Mar 6th, 12:38 PM

Thursday, March 29, 6:30 pm Levitt Auditorium FREE admission; reservations required Bryan Crockett&rsquo;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 &ldquo;forces us to come to terms with the metaphysical meaning of science.&rdquo; 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.

Mar 26th, 9:02 AM

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.

Mar 26th, 9:03 AM

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&#039;s exhibition entitled, Design Defined.

Mar 26th, 9:05 AM

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.

Mar 30th, 3:21 PM

Julia Fish, Aaron Pilat, Sarah Zwerling Work in progress / open studio 263, 236 Sunday, April 1st, 4:30-6:30pm American Academy in Rome Via Angelo Masina 5 00153 Roma ITALIA

Apr 2nd, 7:13 AM

Event Date: April 11, 2007 Event Time: 7PM Event Location: Facets Cin&eacute;math&egrave;que. 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&#039;s 1970&#039;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&#039;s necessity to defend human rights, preserve human dignity, and democratic values.

Apr 8th, 2:36 PM

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.

Apr 9th, 10:55 PM

has had her virtual reality piece &quot;Rutopia 2&quot; 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.

Apr 8th, 12:03 PM

Adjuct Assistant Professor of Photography and UIC MFA, Melanie Schiff, is featured in the current issues of &quot;Chicago&quot; and &quot;ArtUS&quot; 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.

Apr 10th, 3:28 PM

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&#039;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. **** 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

Apr 9th, 10:43 PM

Dori Tunstall helps establish Design &amp; Anthropology special interest group within the National Association for the Practice of Anthropology (NAPA). Approved by the NAPA executive council last week, the Design &amp; Anthropology Interest Group (D&amp;A IG)&#039;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 &quot;design&quot; related divisions within the American Anthropological Association (ex. visual anthropology, contemporary archaeology, and museum studies) to amplify the message of Design &amp; Anthropology&#039;s value.

Apr 9th, 1:02 PM

Has kicked off a class room project with Life Fitness Corporation to create designs for compact consumer oriented fitness equipment.

Apr 9th, 1:02 PM

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.

Apr 15th, 7:17 PM

Sara will represent UIC at the IDSA Midwest District Conference in Kohler, Wisconsin. The professional panel consisted of all UIC ID alumni: Radmond Arceta - Life Fitness, Inc. Tim Copeland - L&amp;P Studio, Inc. Scott Cain - L&amp;P Studio, Inc. Chris Cunningham - Acco Brands, Inc. Timothy Janda - Whirlpool Corporation Eric Schultz - Kaleidoscope, Inc.

Apr 9th, 1:03 PM

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&amp;P Studio, Inc. Scott Cain - L&amp;P Studio, Inc. Chris Cunningham - Acco Brands, Inc. Timothy Janda - Whirlpool Corporation Eric Schultz - Kaleidoscope, Inc.

Apr 9th, 1:04 PM

Apr 9th, 1:04 PM

Apr 9th, 1:05 PM

A recent MFA grad has been hired on tenure track at the University of Florida at Gainsville.

Apr 17th, 8:34 AM

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,&ldquo;Enhancing face-to-face relationships.&rdquo; &nbsp;It is a multi-sensory exploration of product design memories and triggers for intimacy with close friends based on in the Caf&eacute; environment.

Feb 6th, 11:15 AM

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.

Apr 23rd, 11:31 AM

Dori Tunstall&#039;s project with Ken Friedman, In Disegno Nos Fidus, is shortlisted for the International Design Forum (IFG) promotional programme &quot;Designing politics: the politics of design&quot;. 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.

Apr 23rd, 11:32 AM

Graphic Design MFA Student, Leilah Rampa receives UIC Dean&#039;s Scholar Award.

Apr 24th, 10:16 AM

Stephanie Munson Tharp co-chaired&nbsp;the IDSA Midwest&nbsp;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&nbsp;celebrates&nbsp;one outstanding Design Practitioner and one outstanding Design Educator&nbsp;from the Midwest.

Apr 24th, 10:17 AM

Industrial Design Senior Sara Rockwell, UIC&#039;s Merit Award Winner, presented her work&nbsp;in Kohler, Wisconsin at the IDSA Midwest Conference.

Apr 24th, 10:18 AM

A competition by the UIC Undergraduate Research Symposium Steering Committee was facilitated by Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga, Clinical Professor Stephen Melamed and&nbsp;Mukesh Anand,&nbsp;IPD and&nbsp;Mechanical Engineering student.&nbsp;The UIC URS is a platform for undergraduate&nbsp;students to showcase their research in a professional setting. The abstracts of the&nbsp;students&#039; research are published annually in a booklet. Graphic Design foreign exchange student&nbsp;Ruben Lara Turrubiartes won the competition and his work appeared on the booklet cover and symposium t-shirts.

Apr 24th, 10:19 AM

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.

Apr 24th, 10:19 AM

Stephen Melamed was selected as part of an international peer review panel for the ConnectED International Design Education Conference in Sydney, Australia.

Apr 24th, 11:55 AM

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.

Apr 27th, 8:12 AM

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&#039;s Office of Science.

Apr 24th, 10:20 AM

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&#039;s course will be sponsored by Elkay Manufacturing. This fall will be the first time that two sections of IPD will be offered.

Aug 25th, 3:45 PM

Professor of Studio Arts will have pieces, entitled &quot;Darwin&#039;s Playground,&quot; 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. The sculptures represent a major contribution to the fine arts on the UIUC campus. The work was funded by the Illinois Capital Development Board&#039;s Art-in-Architecture Program.

Apr 27th, 8:12 AM

Drew Browning had his work &quot;Homeland Insecurity&quot; 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&#039;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. &quot;Homeland Insecurity&quot; will also be on exhibit from May 9-11, 2007, in Takeaway Festival 2007, Dana Centre Science and Art Museum, London, UK.

Apr 24th, 12:16 PM

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&#039; 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.

Apr 27th, 8:13 AM

Assistant Professor Sharon Oiga and Sandbox Studio,&nbsp;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.

May 3rd, 10:26 AM

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.

May 15th, 12:26 PM

Drew Browning&#039;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 &quot;building behaviors&quot; 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 &quot;canvas&quot; through visual representations. Read more about the creation of this project in Chicago City Arts Review:

May 31st, 4:29 PM

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.

Aug 30th, 7:30 PM

have opened Proof, a new gallery in Boston. Their first exhibition, opening in September will feature work of another alum: Jeff DeGolier (MFA 2004). From Boston&#039;s weeklydig.com: &quot;I wanted to pick something that would continue with the Second Gallery&#039;s mission of installations and visual art, and with being a resource for the community in ways that are more than just shows,&quot; Gordon says. After a nationwide search, Gordon settled on Julia Hechtman, a visual artist from Chicago who works with photographs and videos, and Kara Braciale, a Worcester-based sculptor. Hechtman and Braciale have named their incarnation of the gallery Proof, and its first show in September will feature Jeff DeGolier, a Brooklyn-based artist who specializes in building and photographing &quot;eccentric kinetic sculptures of landscapes.&quot; Says Braciale: &quot;We are really excited about showing Jeff&#039;s work for our inaugural exhibition, as it&#039;s both conceptually compelling and aesthetically fresh, and typifies the kind of artistic vision and production we&#039;re invested in.&quot; jeffdegolier.com Proof, 516 East 2nd St., South Boston. 617.413.9395. secondgallery.org

Aug 25th, 3:45 PM

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.

Aug 24th, 12:43 PM

Daria Tsoupikova and Alex Hill presented VR art installation &ldquo;Rutopia 2&rdquo; 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.

Aug 24th, 12:50 PM

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.

Aug 25th, 3:46 PM

Associate Professor of Electronic Visualization, Drew Browning, has a piece on exhibition at Polvo gallery: &quot;Search Terms&quot; is an interactive media installation, in ECHELON, an exhibit about surveillance. Through September 1st.

Aug 24th, 8:29 PM

An exhibition featuring Rodney Carswell, UIC Professor Emeritus, with Renee DuBois and Scott Wolniak. &quot;Drawing Room&quot; 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.

Aug 24th, 8:49 PM

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.

Aug 25th, 3:44 PM

Will be a keynote speaker at Intent/Content AIGA Education Conference in Nashville. Intent/Content creates, fosters, and promotes dialog in design practice, teaching, theory, and writing. Participants will present current research and teaching methods in papers, panels, and exhibits. The aim is to raise the level of design-driven thinking in schools in the Southeast and across the country.

Sep 17th, 9:41 AM

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 &ldquo;design and governance with people, business, and society.&rdquo; The proposal features the graphic design work of Assistant Professor Joerg Becker, and MFA student Leilah Rampa.

Sep 17th, 1:07 PM

Will feature Jack Fisher (MFA Graphic Design 2006) and Michael Serafin (BFA Industrial Design 2008). Pecha Kucha is a designers&#039; show and tell presentation format originally devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein-Dytham Architecture (KDa) in Tokyo in 2003 as a place for designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. The format has spread virally to many cities across the world. The name derives from a Japanese term for the sound of conversation (&quot;chit-chat&quot;). Pecha Kucha is proud to announce the following presenters: Thorsten B&ouml;sch (traveler), Mike Bordinaro (writer), Tracey Dear (musician, lighting designer), Jack Fisher (Graphic Designer), Andy Hall (artist), Paula Kagan (PhD), Deborah Kang (architect), Anders Nereim (architect, educator), Krisann Rehbein (educator), Michael Serafin (industrial designer), Nat Soti (artist). Martyrs&#039; 3855 North Lincoln Avenue, Chicago promptly at 8:00pm Tickets: http://www.martyrslive.com

Sep 10th, 8:49 AM

Pamela Fraser was recently names a recipient of a Pollack-Krasner Foundation Grant.

Sep 4th, 12:47 PM

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&rsquo;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&#039;s Design Center De Winkelhaak is told in the &#039;Design Support in Practice&#039; section, together with an article on the UK Design Council&#039;s Designing Demand programme.

Sep 24th, 3:52 PM

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&ndash;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 &quot;Full House&quot; devours itself in the demonic LIGHT IS WAITING (2007); National Geographic centerfolds unfurl into oblivion in YOU DON&#039;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)

Sep 25th, 9:31 AM

Prof. Stephen Melamed took his AD326, Materials &amp; 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.

Sep 25th, 9:34 AM

Assistant Professor Dianna Frid took her &quot;Drawing and Inter-materiality&quot; class to the Art Institute to see the exhibit &quot;Perpetual Glory: Medieval Ceramics form the Islamic World.&quot;

Oct 2nd, 10:25 AM

Linda Bracamontes, Associate Professor, Graphic Design will be a judge and Leilah Rampa, MFA student in Graphic Design will be a contestant in Cut &amp; Paste 2007, an annual digital design tournament that takes place in cities across the country. Cut&amp;Paste was born in New York City back in November 2005 when 850 people came out to witness the first, live digital design tournament. Elbow to elbow, they packed the house with designers winding wrists, judges taking their positions, a crowd swelling with drinks, gadgets warming up, and an immense energy that ran through speakers and skin. Since then, Cut&amp;Paste is finding new faces and homes, making moves to continue its modus operandi. Saturday, October 6th, 2007 Doors open at 7PM. Competition from 8 - 11PM. After party from 11PM - 4AM Logan Square Auditorium, 2539 North Kedzie Blvd #15 Admission: $10 advanced tickets / $15 at the door (must be 21+) 773 252 6179

Oct 4th, 1:44 PM

MFA 1996 lectures on Imi Knoebel at Dia in New York City. Currently based in Boston, Helen Mirra was born in 1970 in Rochester, NY. Her solo exhibitions include presentations at Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe (2007); Daad Galerie, Berlin (2006); Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (2005); Dallas Museum of Art (2004); University of California, Berkeley Art Museum (2003); and the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2001). Imi Knoebel was born in Dessau, Germany, in 1940. He was a student of Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie D&uuml;sseldorf from 1964 to 1971. His first exhibition, &quot;IMI + IMI,&quot; with Imi Giese, a fellow student of Beuys&#039;s, was held in Copenhagen, in 1968. Knoebel has since exhib