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This weekend revolutionary mind, Ben Fry will be in town speaking at the 2009 Flourish Open Source Conference.

from Flourish: Ben Fry is director of Seed Visualization and its Phyllotaxis Lab, a design studio in Cambridge, Massachusetts focused on understanding complex data. With Casey Reas of UCLA, he currently develops Processing, an open source programming environment used by tens of thousands of students, artists, engineers, and scientists every week. Fry received his doctorate degree from the Aesthetics + Computation Group at the MIT Media Laboratory, where his research focused on combining fields such as computer science, statistics, graphic design, and data visualization as a means for understanding information. At the end of 2007, he published “Visualizing Data” with O’Reilly.

On Saturday and Sunday, hear see new experiments in music by MALE,

Also on Saturday:
Creative Chicago Expo –
10 AM - 4 PM
Chicago Cultural Center
Admission Free | Bring a Friend

Plan to attend Chicago’s unique annual gathering of resources, spaces, services and expertise specifically for people in the arts. The Creative Chicago Expo brings the best of Chicago’s cultural community together under one roof for one day.

On Monday:
Artist of the Month: Stephanie Bassos
at the Coop, a Post Family Event
6:00pm – 9:00pm
more details here…

And don’t forgtet to check out the MFA Thesis Exhibitions, currently at Gallery 400