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3D Musical Expression
A visit to The New Interfaces in Musical Expression Conference 2014, London, UK Laetitia Sonami, a performer at NIME2014. Photo © Andre Hoekzema. Carving, according to Laban Movement Analysis, is a...
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Son of 70mm Fest at Music Box
Over the next two weeks, Chicago’s Music Box Theatre will be hosting the second edition of its 70mm film festival, celebrating the unprecedented beauty of 70mm cinema. With much of contemporary...
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The Sound of Flight and Fight
The Speed of Sound at the Farnborough Wind Tunnel In 1935, when the Q121 24 foot wind tunnel was built, it was the largest return-style aerodynamic testing tunnel in Europe. It remains so today. This...
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Attention Crash
The Barbican’s Digital Revolution is flashy, innovative, and tedious Digital Archaeology section, Barbican Centre, 3 July – 14 September 2014. © Matthew G Lloyd/Getty Images. #digitalrevolution The...
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Deliberately Casual
A review of Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works Raven Row - 56 Artillery Lane London E1 7LS, United Kingdom 11 July to 10 August 2014 Yvonne Rainer: Dance Works, Raven Row, 2014Diagonal (part of Terrain),...
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Pzzzt – The Buzz from Albania
A Platform for Contemporary Emerging Artists in Tirana The narrow mouth of a communist-era air-raid shelter beneath an apartment building is the home to Tirana’s independent artist-run gallery space....
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UIC’s Free Art School
Christine Sun Kim, a performance artist who is deaf, will lead a class on sound, silence and gesture. UIC’s Free Art School This summer UIC is offering free studio and art history classes in Chicago...
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Pixels And Drones
The New Aesthetic’s Infinite Tumblr Scroll Illustrations by Meghan Ryan Morris The twilight of a late March Thursday refracted a steely haze that made all of the skyscrapers of Chicago’s South Loop...
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SAIC Alumni and Faculty at Monique Meloche
Lillie Carré, eight weeks (in the sun), 2014. Photo by Patrick Reynolds. Monique Meloche gallery in Wicker Park is currently hosting an exhibition entitled My Hands are My Bite, featuring works from...
View ArticleDetroit Artist Residency
When Patti Smith received an honorary doctorate degree from SAIC in 2011, she called Detroit our era’s East Village. Detroit, Michigan, yes. Not in the sense that it is within one of the world’s great...
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Shepard Fairey’s Fair
The Provocateurs Sells Out The Provocateurs. All photographs by Jessica Barrett Sattell. The $15 admission price to The Provocateurs, the group art show organized by the Art Alliance and curated by...
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Exploring “Europe’s Most Expensive Chapel”
Lisbon’s Igreja de São Roque (Church of Saint Roch) sports a deceptively simple plain white facade, but the interior of the 17th-century building is home to some of the most prized (and allegedly...
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Command + P
Kenneth Goldsmith Shapes the Internet Into Crowdsourced Poetics Illustrations by Anna B Smylie In Düsseldorf, Germany, 250,000 pages of scientific treatises printed out from JSTOR, the paywall-blocked...
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Brunch Beasts
To most chefs, brunch elicits simultaneous emotions of horror and happiness thanks to the masses of people who patronize their restaurants for the meal. To a group of twenty-something women, brunch...
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Beneath the Spectacle of Interactive Art
INST-INT provides a place for prominent artists and designers to talk about their use of technology A visual strategist at NASA, a composer for Kronos Quartet and a Guggenheim fellow will be speaking...
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What’s in the Cards
SAIC Gets a Tarot Reading Sticking to a theme of “prophecy,” F Newsmagazine designer Meghan Ryan Morris sought out the prognostication talents of Daun Fields, a professional tarot reader and guest...
View ArticleArt and Street Culture: The Making of the Murals
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EDITION Chicago Is Back
Sarah and Joseph Belknap, “Fossil Fields” (2014) Special Edition for EDITION Chicago 2014. Photo Credits: CAC After a very successful launch last year, EDITION Chicago is back at Chicago Arts...
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Craftivism: The Art of Craft and Activism
A Conversation with Betsy Greer Author Betsy Greer. Image courtesy of Arsenal Pulp Press. Circa 2002, blogger, knitter and textile enthusiast Betsy Greer spearheaded the term “craftivism” with the help...
View ArticleIf You Go: What to Do at EXPO This Weekend
EXPO Chicago officially launches today, and for SAIC students, the weekend-long event and all of its associated programs will be available for free. In addition to the annual fair’s exposition space...
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