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Plural in collaboration with The Center for Book Technology will be exhibiting Living Book, 2011 at Carrie Secrist Gallery Project Room December 10, 2011 – January 15, 2012. In addition to our work in the Project Room, Derek Chan will be exhibiting his stunning work in the main gallery.

at Carrie Secrist Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd / Chicago, IL

Opening Reception:
December 10 / 5:00 – 8:00pm

Living Book, 2011 is a multi-media installation environment created by Plural and The Center For Book Technology. Living Book transforms the gallery space into an automated book production facility. Using custom-software, viewers in the space are captured in-real-time (every 60 seconds) from an overhead camera and projected onto the wall. Each capture is then printed onto single pages of a book in production. In addition, a keyboard allows viewers to author their own page(s), creating a spontaneous performance environment where a database of individual choices becomes a collective narrative.

The Living Book Production Facility will be open 5 hours a day, printing a single page every 60 seconds, resulting in a 300-page book at the end of each business day. Each week will become a collection of 5 books. Living Book 2011 will become a collection of 25 books.

Hours of operation:
11:00am – 4:00pm Tuesday – Saturday / December 12, 2011 – January 15, 2012

Golden Age, Chicago’s best independent bookstore/project space, has sadly closed. Read the exit interview with Jason Foumberg

Support American Ritual

American Ritual is a feature-length documentary exploring what television does for us and what it means to American culture. Through vérité footage, in-depth conversations and archival film and audio, American Ritual examines the relationship between cultural promise and lived experience, while considering the possibilities of the privately felt public imagination.

American Ritual arises from the assumption that the televised image is both representational and generative. The film will examine how television fits within American mythology and creates new readings of history. Since it’s debut, television has taught Americans who to be, how to love and what to want, simply by presenting a concrete image of life.

Jordan Martins : Strange Attractions
@ Elastic Arts / 2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd floor
runs December 1, 2011 – January 15, 2012

Opening Reception: Thursday, Dec 15 / 6:00 - 8:00pm

November 30 / 6pm / MoCP
Video Playlist: The Evidence Show(s) with guest curator Jesse McLean

The Evidence Show(s) is a one-night public screening of video work in conjunction with Crime Unseen. The artists featured in this program consider the potential for everyday objects, ordinary surroundings and average people to become evidence of something beyond the familiar.

Today! Chase Scenes, Jessie Stead, 2009, 12:00
Am I Evil?, Jacob Ciocci, 2011, 4:14
The Chocolate Factory, Steve Reinke, 2002, 26:00
Earth Moves, Semi-Conductor, 2006, 4:55
Apple Grown in Wind Tunnel, Steve Matheson, 2000, 26:00
Chapters 1-12 of R. Kelly’s Trapped in the Closet Synced and Played Simultaneously, Michael Bell-Smith, 2005, 4:22
Payroll, Noah Klersfeld, 2003, 13:00

Neche Collection
@ Public Works Gallery
Opening:
Friday, December 2nd
7 - 10pm

from PW: Artist Veronica Corzo-Duchardt’s Neche Collection is a set of minimal, atmospheric prints and print / photo diptychs that retell the story of her grandfather Neche’s life across an archive of his precious, quotidian possessions: shoe horns, graph paper, toys. After Neche’s death, Veronica inherited items that spoke clearly about his heritage as a Cuban exile of Lebanese descent, and as a career accountant. She also inherited her grandfather’s desire to document. Making use of abstracted color fields, re-contextualized language and representative graphic renderings, Veronica translates these material touchstones into a paper narrative of her familial history.

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.