POSTED December 23rd:
Through This Coming Week! ----------
Your last chance to see MASSIVE CHANGE at the MCA
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Massive Change: the Future of Global Design
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Ave.
On view through December 31
Conceived by the internationally renowned designer Bruce Mau, this exhibition invites viewers to consider innovations in design fields such as medical technology, genetic engineering, transportation, information design, revolutionary material and more.
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Call for Entries: Design a Nano-Hazard Symbol
ETC Group announces International Graphic Design Competition CALL FOR ENTRIES Biotechnology, nuclear power, toxic chemicals, electromagnetic radiation -- each of these technological hazards has a universally recognized warning symbol associated with it. So why not nanotechnology -- the world's most powerful (and
potentially dangerous) technology? Concerned citizens everywhere are invited to submit their designs for a universal Nanotechnology Hazard Symbol at: http://www.etcgroup.org/nanohazard Entries will be judged by a panel of eminent judges convened by the ETC Group (Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration, www.etcgroup.org). These judges include Dr. Vyvyan Howard (Editor of the Journal of Nanotoxicity), Dr. Gregor Wolbring (The Canadian Advisory Commitee on Nanotech Standardisation), Chee Yoke Ling (Third World Network), Claire Pentecost (Associate Professor and Chair of the Photography Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago), Rory O'Neill (Editor of Hazards magazine) and Dr. Alexis Vlandas (Nanotechnology Spokesperson for International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility). Entries will also be judged by participants at the World Social Forum, Nairobi, Kenya, 20-25 January 2007. The winning entry will be submitted to international standard-setting bodies responsible for hazard characterisation, to international governmental organisations and to national governments as a proposed symbol for nanotechnology hazards. Closing date: 8 January 2007 A gallery of entries submitted will be available at http://www.etcgroup.org
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Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
Betty Rymer Gallery
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive
November 17, 2006 - January 5, 2007
Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
invites a diverse community to take a deep dive into the subject of how
a city is best sustained.
Interactive sessions, workshops and installations by leading
thinkers—global and local—will focus on Chicago as a site for
sustainable urban practices. Refreshments from local green eateries, an
expert-guided bus tour of sustainable initiatives and projects
throughout Chicago and the ability to make your voice heard through
Open Mic, makes this first-time event one that is not to be missed.
FREE to the public. Space is limited. Call 312-443-3711 for
reservations.
Ongoing----------------------------------
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“Her Tongue: corporal and textual examinations” an exhibit by Catherine Jacobi
“Hospital” an exhibit by Mary Farmilant
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
November 3, 2006–January 19, 2007
These two Chicago artists incorporate the principles of scientific observation into their artistic visions, noting changes in their subjects over time as if analyzing the life cycles of fruit flies.
“Her Tongue” features Jacobi’s recent sculptural work in two distinct media—glycerin and found materials. Referencing antique anatomical models of teeth, hair follicles, and the tongue, the sculptures created from found materials represent the biological process of conception, through which “family history,” both in terms of genetic material and biographical narrative, is recombined into a new form. Jacobi says that these works play with “the idea of what we are made of—wood, our language, our histories, and our mothers,” and concludes that “the history of objects is a history of us.”
“Hospital” comprises ten large-scale color photographs of the former Columbus Hospital in Chicago, taken between 2002 and 2005 while the building was awaiting demolition to make way for the construction of luxury condos. Farmilant’s photographs, alluding to the clinical documentary tradition within their medium, record the deteriorating condition of the hospital building, itself the setting of innumerable life stories’ beginnings and ends.
[][]
Civil Twilight: Six Degrees Below Horizon
An installation by Don Lambert and Mathew Jinks
Drawing inspiration from found airspace maps, Lambert and Jinks examine the phenomenon and aesthetics of flight and its relationship to the human body.
Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave.
Opens Friday October 20, 8PM - Midnight
[][]The Universal Condition: Enduring and Alleviating Pain
International Museum of Surgical Science
This exhibition examines issues in the perception of pain and medicine’s quest to relieve it, from the ancient use of psychoactive plants to contemporary laser therapy, focusing on milestones such as the discovery of anesthesia.
The Museum has also partnered with the Hektoen Institute of Medicine to present the lecture series Understanding Pain. This medical humanities lecture series will examine the human experience of pain from clinical, historical, and social perspectives. Lectures will be presented by health and medical professionals, and scholars who focus on pain management. Check ,a href="http://www.hektoen.org/programs_understandpain.htm">online schedule for locations, dates, and times.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.The Hektoen Institute of Medicine is located at 2100 W. Harrison 
[][]Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496(312) 922-9410
September 15, 2006 – April 1, 2007
Gregor Mendel’s story is remarkable: A 19th-century friar and high school science teacher, he designed a brilliant experiment with ordinary peas that revealed the laws of heredity.
This dramatic story and the power of genetics to tell us about the natural world are presented in the fascinating Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics at The Field Museum. Original manuscripts, photographs, and scientific instruments evoke the world of scientists in the 1800s and early 1900s. You’ll see most of the remaining artifacts from the life of this great scientist. Trace Mendel’s influence on the rise of genetics and meet modern Mendels—scientists on the cutting edge of the field today. Five videos and ten hands-on activities make the fundamentals of genetics accessible to everyone. Visitors can recreate Mendel’s experiment in six easy steps, compare what scientists saw through microscopes in different eras and use DNA to create a bird family tree.
In a unique blending of art and science, the exhibition also integrates contemporary works of art that explore the subject of genetics. These works reflect the spirit of curiosity and creativity that inspires scientific research as well as art.
This exhibition and its North American tour were developed by The Field Museum, Chicago, in partnership with The Vereinigung zur Förderung der Genomforschung, Vienna, Austria, and The Mendel Museum, Brno, Czech Republic.
Right image: Lingua Franca by Catherine Jacobi)
POSTED December 5th:
This Week! ----------------------------------
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Vision of the Artist
Presented by: Louise A. Sclafani, O.D.,
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, University of Chicago
sponsored by Hektoen Institute of Medicine 2100 West Harrison
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Tuesday, December 6th, 2006
5:30PM-6:15PM Reception
6:15PM-7:15PM Presentation
The masters have been affected by ocular disease throughout the ages. This lecture describes how ocular disease can effect perception and utilizes ophthalmic and physical optics to demonstrate this. This lecture can be enjoyed by both medical and non-medical audiences.
Cost of this event is $15.00
Free parking, entrance on Hoyne Avenue.
Or call Phyllis Wheeler at (312) 948-2520
[][] Lost Sounds and Found Films -science films Mash-Up Caro D'Offay GallerySaturday, December 9th, 8pmLocal production company 137 Films loves big ideas and the mavericks who chase them. Its second Lost Sounds and Found Films fundraiser — a benefit for Atom Smashers, its forthcoming documentary about the search for subatomic particles — gleefully blurs the boundaries between art and science. The highlight is the Experimental Instrument Orchestra, a trio that performs bluegrass-tinged, improvised songs on homemade instruments constructed from found junk. Sets by fellow folkies Paulina Hollers and the I Ching Quartet, along with a preview of Atom Smashers and a mashup of vintage science-film clips, round out the sublime evening's entertainment. (Flavorpill)
admission: $12Ongoing----------------------------------
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Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
Betty Rymer Gallery
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive
Reception: Friday, November 17, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. with artists' discussion at 4:00 p.m. and curator remarks at 6:30 p.m. Reception will conclude with an Open Mic by Collective Inferno.
November 17, 2006 - January 5, 2007
Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
invites a diverse community to take a deep dive into the subject of how
a city is best sustained.
Interactive sessions, workshops and installations by leading
thinkers—global and local—will focus on Chicago as a site for
sustainable urban practices. Refreshments from local green eateries, an
expert-guided bus tour of sustainable initiatives and projects
throughout Chicago and the ability to make your voice heard through
Open Mic, makes this first-time event one that is not to be missed.
FREE to the public. Space is limited. Call 312-443-3711 for
reservations.
[][]
“Her Tongue: corporal and textual examinations” an exhibit by Catherine Jacobi
“Hospital” an exhibit by Mary Farmilant
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
November 3, 2006–January 19, 2007
These two Chicago artists incorporate the principles of scientific observation into their artistic visions, noting changes in their subjects over time as if analyzing the life cycles of fruit flies.
“Her Tongue” features Jacobi’s recent sculptural work in two distinct media—glycerin and found materials. Referencing antique anatomical models of teeth, hair follicles, and the tongue, the sculptures created from found materials represent the biological process of conception, through which “family history,” both in terms of genetic material and biographical narrative, is recombined into a new form. Jacobi says that these works play with “the idea of what we are made of—wood, our language, our histories, and our mothers,” and concludes that “the history of objects is a history of us.”
“Hospital” comprises ten large-scale color photographs of the former Columbus Hospital in Chicago, taken between 2002 and 2005 while the building was awaiting demolition to make way for the construction of luxury condos. Farmilant’s photographs, alluding to the clinical documentary tradition within their medium, record the deteriorating condition of the hospital building, itself the setting of innumerable life stories’ beginnings and ends.
[][]
Civil Twilight: Six Degrees Below Horizon
An installation by Don Lambert and Mathew Jinks
Drawing inspiration from found airspace maps, Lambert and Jinks examine the phenomenon and aesthetics of flight and its relationship to the human body.
Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave.
Opens Friday October 20, 8PM - Midnight
[][]The Universal Condition: Enduring and Alleviating Pain
International Museum of Surgical Science
This exhibition examines issues in the perception of pain and medicine’s quest to relieve it, from the ancient use of psychoactive plants to contemporary laser therapy, focusing on milestones such as the discovery of anesthesia.
The Museum has also partnered with the Hektoen Institute of Medicine to present the lecture series Understanding Pain. This medical humanities lecture series will examine the human experience of pain from clinical, historical, and social perspectives. Lectures will be presented by health and medical professionals, and scholars who focus on pain management. Check ,a href="http://www.hektoen.org/programs_understandpain.htm">online schedule for locations, dates, and times.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.The Hektoen Institute of Medicine is located at 2100 W. Harrison
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Massive Change: the Future of Global Design
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Ave.
On view through December 31
Conceived by the internationally renowned designer Bruce Mau, this exhibition invites viewers to consider innovations in design fields such as medical technology, genetic engineering, transportation, information design, revolutionary material and more.
[][]Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496(312) 922-9410
September 15, 2006 – April 1, 2007
Gregor Mendel’s story is remarkable: A 19th-century friar and high school science teacher, he designed a brilliant experiment with ordinary peas that revealed the laws of heredity.
This dramatic story and the power of genetics to tell us about the natural world are presented in the fascinating Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics at The Field Museum. Original manuscripts, photographs, and scientific instruments evoke the world of scientists in the 1800s and early 1900s. You’ll see most of the remaining artifacts from the life of this great scientist. Trace Mendel’s influence on the rise of genetics and meet modern Mendels—scientists on the cutting edge of the field today. Five videos and ten hands-on activities make the fundamentals of genetics accessible to everyone. Visitors can recreate Mendel’s experiment in six easy steps, compare what scientists saw through microscopes in different eras and use DNA to create a bird family tree.
In a unique blending of art and science, the exhibition also integrates contemporary works of art that explore the subject of genetics. These works reflect the spirit of curiosity and creativity that inspires scientific research as well as art.
This exhibition and its North American tour were developed by The Field Museum, Chicago, in partnership with The Vereinigung zur Förderung der Genomforschung, Vienna, Austria, and The Mendel Museum, Brno, Czech Republic.
right image: Lingua Franca by Catherine Jacobi)
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POSTED November 21th:
Upcoming----------------------------------
Vision of the Artist
Presented by: Louise A. Sclafani, O.D.,
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology & Visual Science, University of Chicago
sponsored by Hektoen Institute of Medicine 2100 West Harrison
Chicago, Illinois 60612
Tuesday, December 6th, 2006
5:30PM-6:15PM Reception
6:15PM-7:15PM Presentation
The masters have been affected by ocular disease throughout the ages. This lecture describes how ocular disease can effect perception and utilizes ophthalmic and physical optics to demonstrate this. This lecture can be enjoyed by both medical and non-medical audiences.
Cost of this event is $15.00
Free parking, entrance on Hoyne Avenue.
Or call Phyllis Wheeler at (312) 948-2520
Ongoing----------------------------------
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Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
Betty Rymer Gallery
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive
Reception: Friday, November 17, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. with artists' discussion at 4:00 p.m. and curator remarks at 6:30 p.m. Reception will conclude with an Open Mic by Collective Inferno.
November 17, 2006 - January 5, 2007
Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
invites a diverse community to take a deep dive into the subject of how
a city is best sustained.
Interactive sessions, workshops and installations by leading
thinkers—global and local—will focus on Chicago as a site for
sustainable urban practices. Refreshments from local green eateries, an
expert-guided bus tour of sustainable initiatives and projects
throughout Chicago and the ability to make your voice heard through
Open Mic, makes this first-time event one that is not to be missed.
FREE to the public. Space is limited. Call 312-443-3711 for
reservations.
[][]
“Her Tongue: corporal and textual examinations” an exhibit by Catherine Jacobi
“Hospital” an exhibit by Mary Farmilant
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
November 3, 2006–January 19, 2007
These two Chicago artists incorporate the principles of scientific observation into their artistic visions, noting changes in their subjects over time as if analyzing the life cycles of fruit flies.
“Her Tongue” features Jacobi’s recent sculptural work in two distinct media—glycerin and found materials. Referencing antique anatomical models of teeth, hair follicles, and the tongue, the sculptures created from found materials represent the biological process of conception, through which “family history,” both in terms of genetic material and biographical narrative, is recombined into a new form. Jacobi says that these works play with “the idea of what we are made of—wood, our language, our histories, and our mothers,” and concludes that “the history of objects is a history of us.”
“Hospital” comprises ten large-scale color photographs of the former Columbus Hospital in Chicago, taken between 2002 and 2005 while the building was awaiting demolition to make way for the construction of luxury condos. Farmilant’s photographs, alluding to the clinical documentary tradition within their medium, record the deteriorating condition of the hospital building, itself the setting of innumerable life stories’ beginnings and ends.
[][]
Civil Twilight: Six Degrees Below Horizon
An installation by Don Lambert and Mathew Jinks
Drawing inspiration from found airspace maps, Lambert and Jinks examine the phenomenon and aesthetics of flight and its relationship to the human body.
Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave.
Opens Friday October 20, 8PM - Midnight
[][]The Universal Condition: Enduring and Alleviating Pain
International Museum of Surgical Science
This exhibition examines issues in the perception of pain and medicine’s quest to relieve it, from the ancient use of psychoactive plants to contemporary laser therapy, focusing on milestones such as the discovery of anesthesia.
The Museum has also partnered with the Hektoen Institute of Medicine to present the lecture series Understanding Pain. This medical humanities lecture series will examine the human experience of pain from clinical, historical, and social perspectives. Lectures will be presented by health and medical professionals, and scholars who focus on pain management. Check ,a href="http://www.hektoen.org/programs_understandpain.htm">online schedule for locations, dates, and times.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.The Hektoen Institute of Medicine is located at 2100 W. Harrison
[][]
Massive Change: the Future of Global Design
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Ave.
On view through December 31
Conceived by the internationally renowned designer Bruce Mau, this exhibition invites viewers to consider innovations in design fields such as medical technology, genetic engineering, transportation, information design, revolutionary material and more.
[][]Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496(312) 922-9410
September 15, 2006 – April 1, 2007
Gregor Mendel’s story is remarkable: A 19th-century friar and high school science teacher, he designed a brilliant experiment with ordinary peas that revealed the laws of heredity.
This dramatic story and the power of genetics to tell us about the natural world are presented in the fascinating Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics at The Field Museum. Original manuscripts, photographs, and scientific instruments evoke the world of scientists in the 1800s and early 1900s. You’ll see most of the remaining artifacts from the life of this great scientist. Trace Mendel’s influence on the rise of genetics and meet modern Mendels—scientists on the cutting edge of the field today. Five videos and ten hands-on activities make the fundamentals of genetics accessible to everyone. Visitors can recreate Mendel’s experiment in six easy steps, compare what scientists saw through microscopes in different eras and use DNA to create a bird family tree.
In a unique blending of art and science, the exhibition also integrates contemporary works of art that explore the subject of genetics. These works reflect the spirit of curiosity and creativity that inspires scientific research as well as art.
This exhibition and its North American tour were developed by The Field Museum, Chicago, in partnership with The Vereinigung zur Förderung der Genomforschung, Vienna, Austria, and The Mendel Museum, Brno, Czech Republic.
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POSTED November 15th:
Today!----------------------------------
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An Aesthetic Of Corporeal Representation and Research Practices
with SONIA BÃEZ-HERNANDEZ
and Terri Kapsalis (respondent)
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave.
November 15, 2006, 4.15pm, Michigan Building 315
What is visual studies and, in particular, what is it at SAIC? Maker
and scholar Sonia Baez-Hernandez will be provocateur when she offers a
brief survey of her work and then connects her making to her
researching and analyzing.
Describing herself as "Puerto-Dominican" (born in the Dominican
Republic and raised in Puerto Rico), Baez-Hernandez primarily works
through painting, drawing, and fiber, though she is comfortable with
performance, video, and poetry. Much of her work centers the body as
the body becomes "a crossroads to an esthetic embellishment,
sensuality, death, and enhancement of life." The body takes on a
particular edge in Baez-Hernandezâ•˙ work as she relates her
experiences
with breast cancer and breast reconstruction.
Baez-Hernandez exemplifies the creative possibilities when bounds
between making, researching, and analyzing are breeched.
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SITE UNSEEN
a musical perfromance by PLASTICENE
Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street
Chicago, IL 60601
FREE
6:00—9:00 p.m., Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Plasticene performs "Com-pen-dium" in this one-night-only event at the Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Julie Laffin. This one-night-only event includes site-based performances and installations by prominent Chicago artists throughout the entire building.
This week!----------------------------------
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Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
Betty Rymer Gallery
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
280 S. Columbus Drive
Reception: Friday, November 17, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m. with artists' discussion at 4:00 p.m. and curator remarks at 6:30 p.m. Reception will conclude with an Open Mic by Collective Inferno.
November 17, 2006 - January 5, 2007
Negotiated Localities: Artists, Designers and Citizens in a Green City
invites a diverse community to take a deep dive into the subject of how
a city is best sustained.
Interactive sessions, workshops and installations by leading
thinkers—global and local—will focus on Chicago as a site for
sustainable urban practices. Refreshments from local green eateries, an
expert-guided bus tour of sustainable initiatives and projects
throughout Chicago and the ability to make your voice heard through
Open Mic, makes this first-time event one that is not to be missed.
FREE to the public. Space is limited. Call 312-443-3711 for
reservations.
[][]
Massive Change and the City: Global Visionaries Symposium
Held at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance, Millennium Park
Tickets $100, MCA members $75
Available at the Harris Theater Box Office at 312.334.7777
Ongoing----------------------------------
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“Her Tongue: corporal and textual examinations” an exhibit by Catherine Jacobi
“Hospital” an exhibit by Mary Farmilant
International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
November 3, 2006–January 19, 2007
These two Chicago artists incorporate the principles of scientific observation into their artistic visions, noting changes in their subjects over time as if analyzing the life cycles of fruit flies.
“Her Tongue” features Jacobi’s recent sculptural work in two distinct media—glycerin and found materials. Referencing antique anatomical models of teeth, hair follicles, and the tongue, the sculptures created from found materials represent the biological process of conception, through which “family history,” both in terms of genetic material and biographical narrative, is recombined into a new form. Jacobi says that these works play with “the idea of what we are made of—wood, our language, our histories, and our mothers,” and concludes that “the history of objects is a history of us.”
“Hospital” comprises ten large-scale color photographs of the former Columbus Hospital in Chicago, taken between 2002 and 2005 while the building was awaiting demolition to make way for the construction of luxury condos. Farmilant’s photographs, alluding to the clinical documentary tradition within their medium, record the deteriorating condition of the hospital building, itself the setting of innumerable life stories’ beginnings and ends.
[][]
Civil Twilight: Six Degrees Below Horizon
An installation by Don Lambert and Mathew Jinks
Drawing inspiration from found airspace maps, Lambert and Jinks examine the phenomenon and aesthetics of flight and its relationship to the human body.
Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave.
Opens Friday October 20, 8PM - Midnight
[][]The Universal Condition: Enduring and Alleviating Pain
International Museum of Surgical Science
This exhibition examines issues in the perception of pain and medicine’s quest to relieve it, from the ancient use of psychoactive plants to contemporary laser therapy, focusing on milestones such as the discovery of anesthesia.
The Museum has also partnered with the Hektoen Institute of Medicine to present the lecture series Understanding Pain. This medical humanities lecture series will examine the human experience of pain from clinical, historical, and social perspectives. Lectures will be presented by health and medical professionals, and scholars who focus on pain management. Check ,a href="http://www.hektoen.org/programs_understandpain.htm">online schedule for locations, dates, and times.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.The Hektoen Institute of Medicine is located at 2100 W. Harrison
[][]
Massive Change: the Future of Global Design
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Ave.
On view through December 31
Conceived by the internationally renowned designer Bruce Mau, this exhibition invites viewers to consider innovations in design fields such as medical technology, genetic engineering, transportation, information design, revolutionary material and more.
[][]Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics
The Field Museum
1400 S. Lake Shore Drive
Chicago, IL 60605-2496(312) 922-9410
September 15, 2006 – April 1, 2007
Gregor Mendel’s story is remarkable: A 19th-century friar and high school science teacher, he designed a brilliant experiment with ordinary peas that revealed the laws of heredity.
This dramatic story and the power of genetics to tell us about the natural world are presented in the fascinating Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics at The Field Museum. Original manuscripts, photographs, and scientific instruments evoke the world of scientists in the 1800s and early 1900s. You’ll see most of the remaining artifacts from the life of this great scientist. Trace Mendel’s influence on the rise of genetics and meet modern Mendels—scientists on the cutting edge of the field today. Five videos and ten hands-on activities make the fundamentals of genetics accessible to everyone. Visitors can recreate Mendel’s experiment in six easy steps, compare what scientists saw through microscopes in different eras and use DNA to create a bird family tree.
In a unique blending of art and science, the exhibition also integrates contemporary works of art that explore the subject of genetics. These works reflect the spirit of curiosity and creativity that inspires scientific research as well as art.
This exhibition and its North American tour were developed by The Field Museum, Chicago, in partnership with The Vereinigung zur Förderung der Genomforschung, Vienna, Austria, and The Mendel Museum, Brno, Czech Republic.
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POSTED October 26th:
Today!----------------------------------
Lecture: Introduction to Pain & Pain Management
by
Silvio Glusman, MD, PhD,
IMSS 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60610 USA 312.642.6502 fax 312.642.9516Thursday, October 26, 2006, 6:15 p.m.
($5 suggested donation)
Silvio Glusman, MD, PhD, Associate Chairman, Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Management, and Director of the Pain Management Center, John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, will address multidisciplinary concepts of pain, its mechanism, and how pain may be perceived differently in various cultures.
This week!----------------------------------
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CORPUS DELICTI: JUST DESSERTS
presented by Local Infinities Visual Theater
University of Illinois at Chicago Medical Center
Neuropsychiatric Institute, Operating Theater, 7th floor
912 S. Wood St., Chicago, IL
Saturday - Tuesday October 28 - 31, 8 p.m.
($15)
Corpus Delicti begins as an investigation of the art and science of anatomy, as practiced in Holland during the Age of Enlightenment. As the audience peers down from steeply raked seats in the operating theater, Dr. Nicolaes Tulp (Larry Underwood) guides them through the taboo territory of the body's interior. His anatomy lesson is interrupted by Suster Luyt (Meghan Strell) who challenges the ethics of this emerging field of research. Suster Luyt (pronounced LIGHT), the first woman to be condemned to death and public dissection in Amsterdam, reveals her identity as the flayed skin hanging on the wall of Dr. Tulp's anatomical theater. Dr. Tulp defends his consuming passion for knowledge, and in the ensuing debate, both the living and the dead reexamine their relationship to the human corpse. The anatomy lesson is accompanied by Kennedy Greenrod, whose darkly humorous accordion tunes
entertain while reminding us of our own mortality. Sage Reed, production designer, sets the stage with period costumes, elegant set pieces and illuminating projections.
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The Kinematics of Flying Snakes
Dr. Jake Socha
Research Fellow
Argonne National Laboratory
Monday, October 30th, 4:15pm4:15pm 4:15pm School of the Art Institute of Chicago
112 S. Michigan Ave., Rm. 707A talk by Dr. Jake Socha, Research fellow, Argonne National Laboratories. Dr. Socha has been studying the biomechanics of tree gliding snakes of SE Asia using a number of high speed video, photographic and 3-D analysis techniques to understand their remarkable movement. His research and images have been highlighted in Nature, National Geographic, Natural History and Seed magazines, among others. A unique opportunity.
Ongoing----------------------------------
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Propagation: curated by Sabrina Raaf Polvo, 1458 W. 18th Street, entrance on Laflin
Opening Reception Friday, October 13, 6-10 p.m. Exhibition continues Saturdays and by appointment through November 4th.
“Propagation” is an exhibition curated by new media artist Sabrina Raaf, focusing on cultural makers who bypass traditional exhibition systems (eg. galleries, museums, magazines, etc.) by creating their own methods and systems for distributing their art or message. The show includes work by several artists who merge sound and visual art with science and technology, including Andrea Polli, Sub Rosa, and Industry of the Ordinary.
Also on view at Polvo is "Alternative Anatomies," a mini-exhibition by Christa Donner featuring photographs, drawings, and small-press zines from Donner's recent project on illness, physical sensation, and body image made in collaboration with rural Illinois teenagers.
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Civil Twilight: Six Degrees Below Horizon
An installation by Don Lambert and Mathew Jinks
Drawing inspiration from found airspace maps, Lambert and Jinks examine the phenomenon and aesthetics of flight and its relationship to the human body.
Deadtech, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave.
Opens Friday October 20, 8PM - Midnight
[][]
The Universal Condition: Enduring and Alleviating Pain
International Museum of Surgical Science Begins Tuesday, October 11, 4-7 p.m.
This exhibition examines issues in the perception of pain and medicine’s quest to relieve it, from the ancient use of psychoactive plants to contemporary laser therapy, focusing on milestones such as the discovery of anesthesia.
The Museum has also partnered with the Hektoen Institute of Medicine to present the lecture series Understanding Pain. This medical humanities lecture series will examine the human experience of pain from clinical, historical, and social perspectives. Lectures will be presented by health and medical professionals, and scholars who focus on pain management. Check ,a href="http://www.hektoen.org/programs_understandpain.htm">online schedule for locations, dates, and times.
The International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.The Hektoen Institute of Medicine is located at 2100 W. Harrison
[][]
Massive Change: the Future of Global Design
Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Ave.
On view through December 31
Conceived by the internationally renowned designer Bruce Mau, this exhibition invites viewers to consider innovations in design fields such as medical technology, genetic engineering, transportation, information design, revolutionary material and more.
[][]the Probability of Certainty-Suminagashi paintingpaintings by Amy Lee SegamiIITKemper Room Art GalleryPaul V. Galvin Library 35 West 33rd Street Chicago, ILSeptember 21 through November 4, 2006
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POSTED September 19th:
Today!----------------------------------[][]Thinking about Visualizations of Trauma in Art -free!
a lecture by Kristine Stiles UIC Theater, Room L-285, 1044 W. Harrison Street5pm, September 19thNow Running----------------------------------
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The 1953 Electronic Abstractions Exhibit: Restaged & Remixed
- the photographs of Ben Laposky
The Kemper Room Art Gallery, IIT
Through Sept. 16th
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Florasonic: BIRA
-a nine-part composition by Douglas R. Ewart
Chicago Park District and the Experimental Sound Studio
Lincoln Park Conservatory, 2391 N. Stockton Dr.
Through September 30
Upcoming Soon ---------------------------------
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Why Should We Care About Genetics?
The Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) is proud to announce the kick-off event for Future Perfect: Conversations on the Meaning of the Genetics Revolution...
Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA)Theater, 220 East Chicago Avenue
Tuesday, September 26, 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Free and open to the public; reservations required.
Make reservations on-line, by phone 312.422.5580, or via email .
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Natalie Jaremijenko- engineer / digital media & technology artist
"Art and Environmental Consciousness" Lecture Series
Visiting Artists Program , SAIC
SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive
Wednesday, September 27, 6 p.m. ($5)
A design engineer and techno-artist, Natalie Jeremijenko explores the
interstices between art, social theory, and technology in projects that have
garnered international recognition˜from her robotic toy dogs wired to sniff out
toxic industrial waste to her One Trees project, in which genetically identical
cloned trees planted around San Francisco take on unique characteristics in
their various environments.
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Biocultures Seminar: "Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia"Jonathan Metzl, Professor of Medicine and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor presents his paper on medicalization of race and schizophrenia.
University of Illinois at Chicago, University Hall (at Harrison and Morgan), Room 2028
Thursday, Sept 28th, 4:00-6:00 PM
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Beth Coleman - Environmental sound installations
"Art and Environmental Consciousness" Lecture Series
Visiting Artists Program , SAIC
SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive
Wednesday, October 4, 6 p.m.
($5)
Beth Coleman is co-founder of the SoundLab Cultural Alchemy project, a nomadic
multimedia event that has created environmental sound installations using all
forms of new media and technology. Working also under the name M. Singe,
Coleman takes on multiple forms and genres in her work, creating electronic
architectural interfaces that combine sound, text, media sculpture,
installation, and site mappings. She is an assistant professor of Writing and
New Media at MIT.
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Mel Chin - environmental artist
"Art and Environmental Consciousness" Lecture Series
Visiting Artists Program , SAIC
SAIC Auditorium, 280 S. Columbus Drive
Wednesday, October 11, 6 p.m.
($5)
Mel Chin's poetic and politically committed art sits at the intersection between
conceptual sculpture, science, and social awareness. Long engaged in the
practice of environmental art, Chin created the ongoing Revival Field
ecological restoration project (1989–present), a series of sculptures in which
hyperaccumulator plants thatdraw heavy metals from the soil are planted in toxic
landfills to create a living, poetic process of transformation and restoration.
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POSTED September 2nd:
This Week:
>> Last Chance to see:
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
through, Monday September 4th
>>Image & Meaning 2.2 Workshop, Chicago
Taking place at IIT, September 7th and 8th
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Now Running:
>>>The 1953 Electronic Abstractions Exhibit: Restaged & Remixed
- the photographs of Ben Laposky
At: the Kemper Room Art Gallery, IIT
Through Sept. 16th
>>>"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
through September 4th
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Upcoming:
Biocultures Seminar: "Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia"
Thursday, Sept 28th, 4:00-6:00 PM
Jonathan Metzl, Professor of Medicine and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor presents his paper on medicalization of race and schizophrenia. University of Illinois at Chicago, University Hall (at Harrison and Morgan), Room 2028
[][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]POSTED August 22nd:
This Week:
>> Faith Wilding of subRosa hosts a presentation of Giovanna Chesler's "Period: The End of Menstruation?" Ann Severson's film “Near the Big Chakra” (1972), and subRosa's "Vulva De/ReConstructa”. The screenings will be followed by a discussion with Faith and Terri Kapsalis (representing the Chicago Women's Health Center)
Saturday 8/26 at 7 pm
AT: Mess Hall 6932 N Glenwood, Chicago just northwest of MORSE on the Red Line (773) 465-4033
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Upcoming:
>> A Sculpture of the Universe - Artist & Scientist Collaborative Talk at the Adler Planetarium
(Prof. David Weinberg & artist Josiah McElheny)
September 1st, 7pm
The Big Bang is not an explosion of material into space; it is the origin of space and time itself. How can any static object represent this mind-bending event? Professor David Weinberg, a theoretical cosmologist at Ohio State University and project spokesperson of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, will describe his collaboration with artist Josiah McElheny on the design of An End to Modernity, McElheny's monumental sculpture that depicts the Big Bang and the expanding, evolving cosmos that emerged from it, incorporating up-to-date astronomical knowledge about the cosmic microwave background, the growth, transformation, and clustering of galaxies, and the rise and fall of quasars.
Along the way, this lecture will present a crash course in recent cosmological discoveries, including results from ongoing surveys of the local and distant universe from telescopes around the globe(and in orbit).
Prof. Weinberg will also describe his collaboration with McElheny on The Last Scattering Surface, a new cosmological sculpture that will be exhibited in October at the Donald Young Gallery in Chicago.
The lecture is included free with Admission to "Far Out Friday" at the Planetarium. For more Information on directions and admission click HERE
>>Image & Meaning 2.2 Workshop, Chicago
Taking place at IIT, September 7th and 8th
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Now Running:
>>>"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
through September 4th
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POSTED July 14th:
This Week:
>>> krista hoefle : "my corpse is not yet quite up to scratch"
July 7-29, 2006
Opening Reception--Friday, July 14, 2006 from 7-10
Vespine Gallery
1907 South Halsted
"My corpse is not yet quite up to scratch, a new exhibition for Vespine
Gallery, explores the (feminist) character-type known as the monstrous
feminine--an archetype that is, ultimately, about failure. Monsters fail to
live up to, or radically depart from, societal expectations regarding
morality, sexuality, and physical appearance, to name a few. Like their male
counterparts, the monstrous-feminine is typically defined as something
compounded from elements of two or more forms. They have defective or
excessive bodily growths, and/or partial or complete doubling of the body on
one of its axes."
Now Running:
>>>Alison Hiltner: "We Will Rebuild You"
>>>Lee Tracy: "Negative to Positive"
until July 21 at: International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
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>>> Exhibit on gardens of every sort, including that of Charles Jencks
Millenium Park
East of the Crown Fountain
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>>>Science Idol
Cartooning for Scientific Integrity!
The Union of Concerned Scientists are running a cartooning competition satirizing the the Bush Administration's manipulation and mis-use of scietific datato particular political ends
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>>>"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius"
at: Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
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Upcoming:
>>> Leslie A. Speicher & Lauren Niimi
"These artists both survey the geography of their own bodies, but they do so from opposite sides of the skin."
from August 4 to October 20, 2006.
Free reception for the artists on Friday, August 4, from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m!!
at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
info@imss.org
>> Join Xunesis at University Theater at the University of Chicago on
Saturday, August 12 at 8pm, for a glimpse into "Dottern", our play-in-
progress based on August Strindberg's classic "The Father". For more
information on the project please visit http://www.beta.xunesis.org/
xunesisnews_august2006.html
The short performance and informal reception will mark the conclusion
of our two-week workshop as a part of the University of Chicago
Summer Inc 2006 residency program designed to promote and develop the
creation of new work.
There is no cost for admission, but your financial support in helping
Xunesis further its mission — creating stories to spark imagination
and stimulate learning to transform lives — will be gladly accepted
at the event.
Xunesis: A Glimpse into Dottern
Saturday, August 12 at 8pm
University Theater
Reynolds Club, First Floor Theater
The University of Chicago
5706 S University Ave
Chicago, IL 60637
Maps: http://ut.uchicago.edu/mapsandlocations.shtml
Directions: http://ut.uchicago.edu/contactinformation.shtml
For more information send email to robertmorrison@xunesis.org or call
312.498.2612
http://www.beta.xunesis.org/xunesisnews_august2006.html
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Now Running
>>> Nick Cave: "Sound Suits"
{anthropology, meets fashion and found objects}
>>> Jeanne Dunning: "Study After Untitled"
{pick your biologic analogy! -- skin-clothing, organs-fruit flesh, limbs-landscapes}
both until July 9th!
at:
Chicago Cultural Center
Sidney R. Yates Gallery
78 E. Washington Street, Chicago
Free!
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>>>Alison Hiltner: "We Will Rebuild You"
>>>Lee Tracy: "Negative to Positive"
until July 21 at: International Museum of Surgical Science
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
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>>> Exhibit on gardens of every sort, including that of Charles Jencks
Millenium Park
East of the Crown Fountain
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>>>"Green Chicago" at DWR
Green design projects on display at the Studio through June 25.
10 East Ohio
(at N. State Street)
Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: 312.280.4677
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>>>Science Idol
Cartooning for Scientific Integrity!
The Union of Concerned Scientists are running a cartooning competition satirizing the the Bush Administration's manipulation and mis-use of scietific datato particular political ends
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>>>“Unpaving Paradise": Environmental photography by three Chicago Photographers, Jin Lee, Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder.”
April 21 – July 3, 2006
An exhibition at three venues:
The City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, 806 N. Michigan Ave.
(Jin Lee, Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder)
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Cannon Drive at Fullerton in Lincoln Park (Jin Lee, Prairie series)
The Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento Boulevard
(Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder)
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>>>"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius"
at: Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
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POSTED June 3rd:
THIS WEEK:
>>"Relics from the 20th Century" at Mode Reality
- Permutations, Combinations, and Perversions of Photographs, Holograms, and Kinetic Sculpture!
the art-tech work of Ed Wesly OPENING: Friday, June 9th, 6:00-11:00pm
Mode Reality
818 West 18th Street, Chicago, IL
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| >>"Lonberg-Holm - Leonardson duo" at Elastro
part of the Elastro Electro-Acoustic Series 9:30PM, Tuesday, June 6
ELASTIC ARTS FOUNDATION
2830 N. Milwaukee Ave, 2nd Floor
Chicago, IL 60618
(773) 772-3616
Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello)
Eric Leonardson (springboard, electronics)
Fred's blog: www.fredsgigs.blogspot.com Also performing: "Abe Gibson / Paul Gialorenzo / Brian Labycz trio" The new Elastic space is located 1 block northwest of Diversey
(2800 north) and Kimball (3400 west), above the Friendship Chinese restaurant.
>>"Curtis-Genetti-Leonardson trio" at Enemy
Thursday, June 8
Enemy
1550 N. Milwaukee Ave., 3rd floor
Chicago, IL 60622 Trio 1: Richard Curtis (voice)
Carol Genetti (voice)
Eric Leonardson (springboard, electronics)
Trio 2: Fred Lonberg-Holm (cello)
Michael Colligan (dry ice, invented instruments)
Michael Zerang (drums)
Check the Enemy website for more info and updates. |
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NOW RUNNING:
“Unpaving Paradise": Environmental photography by three Chicago Photographers, Jin Lee, Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder.”
April 21 – July 3, 2006
An exhibition at three venues:
The City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, 806 N. Michigan Ave.
(Jin Lee, Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder)
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Cannon Drive at Fullerton in Lincoln Park (Jin Lee, Prairie series)
The Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento Boulevard
(Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder)
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" >> Opened April 14th!
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
"Through the Skin" - Ruth Chambers >>International Museum of Surgical Science
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POSTED May 15:
THIS WEEK:
> Till May 19th
"Narratives, Sequences, Characters,"
opening at Dogmatic Gallery, Butcher Shop artist's space at 1319 Lake St, 3rd Floor
Including new Epidemic-informed work by Christa Donner
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NOW RUNNING:
“Unpaving Paradise": Environmental photography by three Chicago Photographers, Jin Lee, Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder.”
April 21 – July 3, 2006
An exhibition at three venues:
The City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, 806 N. Michigan Ave.
(Jin Lee, Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder)
The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, Cannon Drive at Fullerton in Lincoln Park (Jin Lee, Prairie series)
The Chicago Center for Green Technology, 445 N. Sacramento Boulevard
(Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder)
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" >> Opened April 14th!
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
"Through the Skin" - Ruth Chambers >>International Museum of Surgical Science
----------------------UPCOMING:
>May 23rd, 5:30pm
Artist Talk:
Part of “Unpaving Paradise: Environmental photography by three Chicago Photographers (Jin Lee, Alexis Petroff, Chase Browder)
At: The City Gallery in the Historic Water Tower, 806 N. Michigan Ave.
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POSTED May 11:
> Saturday, May 13th.
"Narratives, Sequences, Characters,"
opening at Dogmatic Gallery, Butcher Shop artist's space at 1319 Lake St, 3rd Floor
Including new Epidemic-informed work by Christa Donner
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>Monday, May 15th
"Art? Science Fiction? Talking About the “Creative” Potential of Genes"
Talk by Andy Yang as part of Northwestern University's Genetics Lecture Series
8:00-9:00am, Wieboldt Hall, 339 East Chicago Avenue, 4th floor, room 421
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POSTED May 5:
THIS WEEK:
New Music Sunday at THE GREEN MILL
2:00—5:00 p.m., Sunday, May 7
4802 N Broadway
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 878-5552
Cover: $5
Directions: The Green Mill is located at the corner of Broadway and Lawrence (Lawrence stop on the Red Line). This show is 21 and over.
Carol Genetti and Eric Leonardson perform their new work for voice, Springboard, and electronics.
Works to be performed also include:
World Premieres:
"A Suggestion of Northern Lights" (2006) by George Flynn
"Rhapsody for solo cello, in microtones" (2006) by Bjorn Berkhout
"Dog of Glass" by Charlie Williams
Chicago Premieres:
"Rubi(co)n (2006) 100 notes for solo clarinet"
"Eternal Escape" (2003)
"Silent Sea (2003) for clarinet and percussion" all by Dai Fujikura
Katharine A. Young Group
A performance piece by Environmental Encroachment
For more information please visit: www.georgeflynn.net and www.greenmilljazz.com
Visit my "what's page" for more upcoming performances. Sorry if you have received this message more than once.
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NOW RUNNING:
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" >> Opened April 14th!
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
Biocultures Film Series - organized by the Biocultures group at UIC
"Through the Skin" - Ruth Chambers >>International Museum of Surgical Science
Versionfest 6 >> April 20- May 6th. Lots to do and see.
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POSTED April 26:
THIS WEEK:
"Creative Move" Reopening of the Hyde Park Arts Center!
36 hours of free art and events!
>>9am ,Saturday, April 29 – 9pm Sunday, April 30. 5020 S. Cornell Avenue, Chicago
This includes the unveiling of the Art-Science collaborative multimedia piece "Random Sky" by Mark Hereld from Argonne Nat'l Laboratories and Inigo Manglano-Ovalle & (ArtSci member) Rick Gribenas from UIC!
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"Hysterical Alphabet" - performance by ArtSci member Terri Kapsalis and Co. >> Friday- Sunday April 28-30. Links Hall
3435 N. Sheffield, Chicago.
Reservations: 773-281-0824
$12 Suggested Donation, More if you've got it, free if you're broke.
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"Natural History" - performance by Theater Oobleck >> April 28-30.
Oobleck’s Dave Buchen teams up with the Argentinean puppeteer-musician Sebastian Paz to compress 37 volumes of Pliny the Elder’s manuscripts on the workings of the universe into a box of interactive scrolls and songs. Featuring
eleven original songs (sung in Spanish with English supertitles) from bolero to flamenco, and covering topics from insects to god to iron. The terrific band is made up of Sebastian Paz, Chris Schoen, and Karyn Forman.
And also!:
Tuesday, May 2, 7:30pm, at the Hideout
1354 W. Wabansia, Chicago.
773-227-4433 (No Reservations, just show up)
$10 suggested donation, more if you've got it, free if you're broke
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"Entorno: Grass grows greener on the other side" at POLVO
Friday, April 28:
explores an united response to "environment" by re-examining Chicago's
architectural and physical spaces, public policies, political referendums
and urban culture, moreover it tackles the dynamics of Chicago's race and class
structures. Artists,community activists and scholars will use different formats:
installation, sculpture, video, photography, mixed media and painting. From comical
satires to specific cultural examinations, the artistic responses have
agency expressing the opinion and voice of exhibiting artists. This
exhibition is coordinated by Polvo's founders: Elvia Rodriguez-Ochoa, Miguel
Cortez and Jesus Macarena-Avila.
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"The Disciplines and the Arts"
>> 4-6pm, April 29th, Saturday, Swift Hall, . 1025 East 58th Street. University of Chicago
--Helen Mirra, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
--"Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture" > W.J.T. Mitchell, English and Art History, University of Chicago
--"Counting" > Bill Brown, English, Visual Arts and History of Culture, University of Chicago
--Moderator: Laura Letinsky, Visual Arts, University of Chicago
Part of : "The Fate of Disciplines" Conference
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"Voice + Vision"
>> April 26-29th, Society for the Arts in Healthcare, Wyndham Chicago.
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NOW RUNNING:
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" >> Opened April 14th!
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
Biocultures Film Series - organized by the Biocultures group at UIC
"Through the Skin" - Ruth Chambers >>International Museum of Surgical Science
Versionfest 6 >> April 20- May 6th. Lots to do and see.
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POSTED April 17:
THS WEEK!:
Versionfest 6 >> April 20- May 6th. Lots to do and see, including:
ArtSci Member, Chris Landau, presenting (see botom of linked page) his online multimedia book, The Flocking Party
"GNARGOYLE":
A live one hour sound performance webcast by students of Eric Leonardson's Introduction to Sound course at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Streaming from Free Radio SAIC Thursday, April 20 2:00—3:00 PM
On-air studio telephone: 312.345.3805
UPCOMING:
"The Disciplines and the Arts"
>> 4-6pm, April 29th, Saturday, Swift Hall, . 1025 East 58th Street. University of Chicago
--Helen Mirra, Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
--"Interdisciplinarity and Visual Culture" > W.J.T. Mitchell, English and Art History, University of Chicago
--"Counting" > Bill Brown, English, Visual Arts and History of Culture, University of Chicago
--Moderator: Laura Letinsky, Visual Arts, University of Chicago
Part of : "The Fate of Disciplines" Conference
"Hysterical Alphabet" - performance by ArtSci member Terri Kapsalis and Co. >> April 29,30. Links Hall
"Natural History" - performance by Theater Oobleck >> April 28-30.
Oobleck’s Dave Buchen teams up with the Argentinean puppeteer-musician Sebastian Paz to compress 37 volumes of Pliny the Elder’s manuscripts on the workings of the universe into a box of interactive scrolls and songs. Featuring
eleven original songs (sung in Spanish with English supertitles) from bolero to flamenco, and covering topics from insects to god to iron. The terrific band is made up of Sebastian Paz, Chris Schoen, and Karyn Forman.NOW
RUNNING:
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" >> Opens April 14th!
Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago
Biocultures Film Series - organized by the Biocultures group at UIC
"Through the Skin" - Ruth Chambers >>International Museum of Surgical Science
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THIS WEEK -- FEBRUARY 17-24:
"Nature Art For Kids" North Park Nature Village, Chicago
"Nature Art For Adults" North Park Nature Village, Chicago
NOW RUNNING:
"Anatomy of Gender" [Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University]
"Through the Skin" - Ruth Chambers [International Museum of Surgical Science]
"Florasonic" - Bob Synder {Lincoln Park Conservatory]
UPCOMING:
"Leonardo Da Vinci: Man, Inventor, Genius" [Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago]
“Facing Pain: Davy, Freud, & Early Anesthesia” a talk by George Bause (MD, MPH, FCPP, FICS, FRSM, FRI !)
