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Eyeworks Experimental Animation Festival
November 5/6
@DePaul University CDM Theater
247 S. State (basement)

It was a pleasure to participate in the day long Chicago conference, MAS CONTEXT:ANALOG, hosted by MAS CONTEXT.

The 12 hour event was host to 16 speakers from 4 different design sectors: architecture/urban planning, photography, fine art, and graphic design. The entire event was a very necessary critical dialogue that brought together ideas and approaches amongst different disciplines.

In addition to speaking about our process and sharing new interactive work, we used the exhibition space to showcase some of our new work, free for people to interact with and even take home with them. Previous to the conference, I met with Stephen Killon to talk more in depth about the studio and share some insight into our development as a studio practice over the past 3 years.  You can find that interview here. Below you can see some images of the exhibition.

Extreme thanks to Iker Gil and his team for making this all happen.

We’re excited to be amongst a great line-up of speakers at this years SEEK Conference at NIU November 12, 2011.
Speakers include Danny Yount, Sean Adams, Debbie Millman, John Pobojewski, Robert Zolina, Bob Faust, The Post Family, and Nick Lo Blue.

Paul Theobald and Company
Lauren Anderson, Robin Cameron and Paul Stoelting

October 28, 2011 - November 30, 2011
Opening October 28, 2011 6-9pm

from GA: Golden Age is pleased to announce our final exhibition, Paul Theobald and Company, featuring painting, photography and sculpture from Lauren Anderson, Robin Cameron and Paul Stoelting—three young artists hinged together by an interest in anachronism.

The exhibition takes its name from the forgotten art bookshop cum gallery cum publisher located in downtown Chicago from 1936 to 1988. Paul Theobald and Company Publishers began during World War II when the supply of European art books was severed due to the ongoing international conflict. In response, Paul Theobald and Lolita Cruz Theobald began to publish works from the now-legendary artists, architects and thinkers that frequented their shop.

We invoke the legacy of Paul and Lolita Theobald, the New Bauhaus émigrés they championed–Moholy-Nagy, Kepes, Hilberseimer, Gropius, and Malevich–and the distinctly American modernism they celebrated. While Chicago can claim this history, most of the creative community would prefer that it die. Golden Age proudly adopts this legacy because death—in the way that painting is “dead” or books are “dying”—is decidedly more interesting than novelty.

With tradition, datelessness and the “anti-novel” in mind, the artists in Paul Theobald and Company use dead forms stripped of time, technique and function to communicate the experience of living in the present moment. Cameron considers the truth of presentation with palpably modern marks that conjure a sense of beauty similar to Alma Thomas, Hans Hoffman and Stuart Davis. Anderson presents a series of sandblasted glass drawings that recall the paintings of Ray Eames while resisting any easy classification. Finally, Stoelting directly links 1945 to 2011 by introducing one open, angular, three foot sculpture that contains a digitally created AbEx painting.

For us, modernism means having the authority to pick and choose from all of history, regardless of convention, and using what is most appropriate for each new project. When history is so readily available and flattened by the immediate forms of reception, anachronism characterizes our current day. We enjoy the “misplacing” of customs, people, and objects. Instead of fantasizing about traveling to 1750 with a computer, we disrupt the contemporary with books. As Golden Age comes to a close, we invite you to look to the future, by acknowledging the past.

Luke Fowler: A Grammar For Listening

Thursday, October 27, 6:00 p.m.

Gene Siskel Film Center
164 N. State St./312.846.2600

Luke Fowler in person!

from CATE: How one sees the world and how one hears it are the indelible questions underlying Luke Fowler’s startling, vibrant films. The award-winning Glasgow-based artist often collaborates with musicians and sound artists, drawing upon the histories of field recording, experimental music, and portraiture. Fowler’s early films shed light on such infamous experimental musicians as Cornelius Cardew (of the London-based Scratch Orchestra) and Xentos “Fray Bentos” Jones (of the post-punk The Homosexuals)…This evening, Fowler presents a collection of these works, including his Tenement Films (3 Minute Wonder) series (2009) and selections from his three-part 2009 A Grammar for Listening cycle, among others. Copresented with the University of Chicago’s Film Studies Center, which will present a second program of Fowler’s films on Friday, October 28. Luke Fowler, 2007-09, Scotland, 16mm and video, ca. 75 min plus discussion. Read all…

H E R E   C O M E S   T H E   D A R K N E S S



Irena Knezevic
October 29-December 18, 2011, ISU Galleries
University of Illinois at Normal,
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 29, 5-7pm

Programs:

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 7 PM, VIDEO SCREENING WITH LIVE INTERMISSION THE
NORMAL THEATER / 209 NORTH STREET, NORMAL

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 4 PM, CONCERT FEATURING KNEZEVIC, DANCERS FROM THE
SCHOOL OF THEATRE’S DANCE AREA AND MUSICIANS FROM ISU BANDS
145 CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 7 PM
PERFORMANCE WITH KNEZEVIC AND ISU’S DEBATE TEAM
145 CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS

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At Walker Art Center
October 22, 2011 – January 22, 2012

(image via Walker blog)

from Walker Art Center: “This major international exhibition explores how graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically over the past decade, expanding from a specialized profession to a widely deployed tool. With the rise of user-generated content and new creative software, along with innovations in publishing and distribution systems, people outside the field are mobilizing the techniques and processes of design to create and publish visual media. At the same time, designers are becoming producers: authors, publishers, instigators, and entrepreneurs employing their creative skills as makers of content and shapers of experiences.” Read all…

Mobile Processing : Open Source for Mobile Innovation
November 11 – 13 / 2011
@ UIC Innovation Center

Shin, Dokho. Graphic designer. Portfolio. Korea.

(via Seth)