We will be opening our new installation in The Whistler’s storefront window :
Plural’s site-specific interactive installation is a visual metaphor of The Whistler, consisting of two parts : – a catalog / inventory of all the objects in the bar to be displayed in the front window – an interactive light installation that will output different colors based on the average volume of the sound in the bar. Over the course of the night, the color will fluctuate, allowing passerby’s to see how active the bar is.
The first half of the video shows James doing a drawing start to finish. In the second part James is cycling through various previous drawings, created between 2004 and 2005.
For the last several years Rhonda has been shown in galleries, museums, festivals and conferences. We are excited to finally release this video online (about time!).
Even more exciting is that our good friends Zach Lieberman (openframeworks) and Zach Gage (synthpond) have just joined the Rhonda Team! With their help we’re creating stable releases of Rhonda for various platforms.
from Peter Margasak: Dave McDonnell’s name may not ring a bell, but he’s one of the more ubiquitous and multifaceted figures on Chicago’s sprawling musical map. Last week he played the Pitchfork Music Festival with his band Michael Columbia. A week earlier he was at the Hungry Brain with the superb postbop sextet Herculaneum. The DePaul grad was a founding member of Bablicon, he has a solo project called the Diminisher, and over the years he’s collaborated with the likes of Olivia Tremor Control, Need New Body, and Icy Demons.
In September he’s leaving town to pursue a doctorate in composition at the University of Cincinnati, though he says he’ll be back sporadically to play. He still has several gigs lined up before he leaves, but tomorrow night he’s giving a semiformal farewell to Chicago with a concert at Elastic featuring some of his most significant work. full story at ChicagoReader
from The WSJ: A Font Designer’s Growth Curve: Typeface Creator Drew Inspiration From a Surrealistby Dennis Nishi
Richard Kegler has Marcel Duchamp to thank for a career in typeface design. In graduate school, Mr. Kegler did an art installation based on Mr. Duchamp’s work and used some of the late artist’s handwriting; it inspired him to design a typeface. Today, Mr. Kegler owns a small Buffalo, N.Y., company called P22 that designs and distributes typefaces online. The fonts have been used for books, magazines and album covers, as well as the walls of Starbucks coffee shops.
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Q: What inspired your first font?
A: The Duchamp font began as a part of my thesis installation on Marcel Duchamp’s “Large Glass.” He’s a French artist known for his wicked sense of humor. I wanted his text to be part of the installation and planned to project it on the wall. He’s known for using found objects in his art, so I created a readymade [a found object] of his handwriting. Read full interview…
Programmed by Bingaman, designed by Plural. We’re super excited to launch the long-awaited new website for good friend and fellow, Brian Ulrich. We tried to keep it clean and consistent to the previous site, focusing mainly on the gallery navigation and fullscreen imagery. Check it out, let us know if there are any issues. Enjoy the work!
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Pamela Fraser, Carrie Gundersdorf, Steven Husby, Judy Ledgerwood
12 June – 31 July 2009
from MCA: Steven Husby explores the impossibility of achieving a totally abstract image. Using a computer to design his compositions, Husby employs acrylic on panel for the final paintings, which seduce the viewer with bold, hard-edged imagery realized with pristine craftsmanship.
