Camp Firebelly ‣‣
Applications due May 4 / 2012
Astro Space Party
Astro Space Party curates one video horoscope each week. All videos are made by working artists and musicians, exclusively for Astro Space Party. Videos are posted on Tuesdays, and cover all twelve signs of the zodiac.
To crash the party, contact: party@astrospaceparty.info
Predictions for WO 3.27.12 with Jeremiah Chiu and Shannon Benine
Speechless
Video Screening: Speechless
Examining the techonological Limitations and Artistic Possibilities within the Medium of Video Art.
MoCP
February 29 / 6pm
600 S. Michigan Ave
Chicago, IL
With an increasing abundance of technology at our collective fingertips, the potential for creating and disseminating moving images seems almost endless. Curated by Eric Fleischauer, Speechless is a one-night public screening of video artwork examining the role of technology in shaping visual culture. The screening will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. on February 29 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography.
Screened in conjunction with the MoCP’s current exhibition, Limits of Photography, the artists featured in this screening locate the various immaterial and structural qualities present within the medium of video, subverting and usurping these qualities to tap a unique creative potential.
Featuring work from: Agnes Bolt, Phil Morton, Takeshi Murata, Monica Panzarino, Jon Satrom, John Smith, Scott Stark, Andrew Norman Wilson.
About the Curator: Eric Fleischauer is a Chicago-based artist whose work has been exhibited at institutions including threewalls, the Hyde Park Art Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Interstate Projects, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Videonale 12 at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, and the Santiago Bienal of Video + New Media. His curatorial projects have been presented at Roots & Culture Gallery, Rooftop Films andMMX Open Art Space in Berlin. He received hisMFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Currently, he teaches in the department of Film, Video, New Media, and Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Admission is free and open to the public. For more information about events taking place in conjunction with Limits of Photography, please visit the museum’s website.
MAS Context
This year, we are excited and honored to begin work on the new art direction for MAS Context. MAS Context, a quarterly journal created by MAS Studio, addresses issues that affect the urban context. Each issue delivers a comprehensive view of a single topic through the active participation of people from different fields and different perspectives who, together, instigate the debate.
…We are thrilled to announce that Plural, led by Jeremiah Chiu and Renata Graw, is the new art director of MAS Context. Having previously worked with them during MAS Context ANALOG, it is great to have the opportunity to establish an ongoing collaboration that addresses all the visual aspects of MAS Context. Read more here…
STA Archive 12
In addition to directing this years identity for The Society of Typographic Arts Archive 12, Renata has a short interview on their website.
….At Plural, we try to stay in tune with contemporary design, art, and music communities, which Chicago has quite a lot of. However, we are constantly looking at new work from all over. On the blog, our approach is to create more of a resource (for ourselves) than an editorial or curatorial voice. The things that we post follow two avenues, links to art/design/music/culture that inspires us, and local events. Locally, we keep up with people that we support. Some of them are… Read more.
Conversations at the Edge: 2012
from CATE: CATE returns to the big screen on February 9! Join us for the second half of our ten-year anniversary bash. We’re bringing in ten artists and curators over ten weeks, including Tirtza Even, Basma Alsharif, Steve Anker, Abina Manning,Laure Prouvost, Tomonari Nishikawa, Sara Ludy, Brent Green, Yvonne Rainer,and James Benning!
Visit our Current Season and keep checking back for more info!
Temperature 2012
Plural is proud to have designed Volume Gallery’s first publication—Temperature 2012—a diagnostic of contemporary American design. Released in collaboration with the Museum of Arts and Design.
Stop by at the release party at
Saturday / January 28
4:00–7:00 PM
At the Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W Washington Blvd
Sonnenzimmmer + Winterbureau
Sonnenzimmmer + Winterbureau Slimventory Sale
3605 N Damen / Rear Store
Chicago, IL 60618
February 11 / 2012
10:00 am - 5:00 pm
Chicago-based designers/print makers Sonnenzimmer and Winterbureau are opening the doors to their shared Roscoe Village studio for a one-day sale on screen printed posters, prints, and original artwork. For one day only, prices will be marked down to help make room for 2012’s new stock.
Contact: hello@winterbureau.com
SUPPORT
Hosted by the good folks at Chicago Artists’ Coalition and their HATCH Projects, Twelve Galleries Project presents Quarterly Site #9: Support curated by female design collective Quite Strong. The exhibition presents a visual interpretation of Chicago’s supportive community for artists and designers. Featuring HATCH Projects artists and Quite Strong Lust List designers.
Featuring:
Installations by HATCH Projects artists -
Amanda Greive / Brittany Ransom / David Wittig / Jim Zimpel / Marissa Lee Benedict / Renee Prisble
Art and Design Works by Quite Strong Lust List designers:
Alanna MacGowan / Cave Party Collective / Firebelly Design / Elaine Fong / José Scaglione / Julia Stotz / Linsey Burritt / Margot Harrington / Monina Velarde / Nancy A. Bernardo / Nancy McCabe / Nicole Lavelle / Renata Graw / Tinne Van Loon / Tonya Douraghy / Veronica Corzo-Duchardt / Veronika Burian / Zara Picken