New Media Workshop

Artist Stan Douglas will lecture in CWAC 157 at 5:45 on Monday 10/27.

You can view three of his video pieces at UBU

Kris Cohen (Ph.D. Candidate, Art History, University of Chicago) presents a chapter from his dissertation in progress entitled “Statement in the Form of a Question.” Co-presented by the Contemporary Arts Workshop.

Friday 10/17 10:30-12:30 Cobb 310

What: 2008 English Department Graduate Conference

When: Friday & Saturday 10/9-10/10

Where: Rosenwald 405

More at http://lucian.uchicago.edu/workshops/strangereading/schedule/>

What: Films & Videos by Phil Solomon

(including a détournement of Grand Theft Auto!!!)

When: 6pm Thursday 10/9    &   7pm Friday 10/10

Where: Two Locations!

Thursday: Gene Siskel Film Center 164 N State St

Friday: FSC Cobb 307 University of Chicago

What: screening of Razzle Dazzle: The Lost World (dir. Ken Jacobs, 90m.)

When: 8pm   Saturday 10/4

Where: Chicago Filmmakers Coop

5423 N Clark    Chicago, IL 60640

What: talk & discussion with Facebook engineer Luke Shepard

When: Monday 10/6 at 6pm

Where: Ryerson 277

RSVP here

Sponsored by University of Chicago chapter of the ACM

Nov 30 thru Dec 2

OPENPORT: Realtime Performance, Sound & Language Festival brings together artists from a diverse set of contemporary practices for an international festival featuring live acts and real-time transmissions from practitioners within performance, sound, and the language arts. The festival presents thirty-three artists, both established and emerging, in a series that will take place over four weekends in February 2007 at Links Hall, an intimate performance space in Chicago.

OPENPORT is an invitation to converge on the theme of live and real-time in contemporary culture and practice. Keywords include: the live body, network presence, virtual embodiment and disembodiment, duration, speed, live writing, programmatic composition, realtime processing, live data acquisition and mapping. Links Hall, the host location for the events, will be transformed into a permeable public space, an access point for both physical and virtual arrivals and interventions.

In conjunction with the OPENPORT performances, there will several events throughout Chicago including a symposium at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago featuring prominent visiting and local scholars and artists, a lecture series at Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection, and a panel discussion
at the Chicago Cultural Center.

For more info, click here.