ArtSci Chicago

Public Art Dedication on Loyola University Chicago Lake Shore Campus April 7, 2016

2016-03-18T14:34:00.000-07:00

Biological Domains

Hunter Cole

14 oil paintings; LED lights

15’x13’

2016

Paintings making up the installation incorporate biological topics including: animal organ systems, plant development, stem cell research, neurology, cell and molecular biology, invasive species, malaria, bacteria, HIV, and evolutionary themes.

Public Art Dedication

Thurs., April 7, 2016, 5:00-7:30pm

Dedication Program at 5:30pm

Quinlan Life Sciences Center

1050 W. Sheridan Rd.

Chicago, IL 60660

Third Floor Atrium

Free and Open to the Public

http://www.BiologicalDomains.com

http://www.HunterCole.org

Photo Credit: Loyola University Chicago, Natalie Battaglia

Tender Anatomy, July 12 – August 17 at Packer Schopf Gallery

2013-04-14T14:43:00.003-07:00

Opening Reception: Friday, July 12th, 2013 5-8pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am-5:30pm
Free and Open to the Public

Packer Schopf Gallery
942 West Lake Street, Chicago, IL 60607
www.packergallery.com

Sprouting vertebrae, multicolored intestines, and floating ribs appear in Tender Anatomy, a solo exhibition of works on paper by Chicago artist Vesna Jovanovic. On display at Packer Schopf Gallery in July/August 2013, this work evokes scientific illustration as Jovanovic combines spontaneous inkblots with delicate renderings of plants, human organs, and architectural forms.

Tender Anatomy straddles the line between fact and fiction, inviting the audience to reach beyond the physical body. Squirmy and intuitive, these drawings personify Jovanovic’s visceral responses to unfamiliar environments and experiences. In one instance, she describes how “the dry air, strong sunlight, smoke plumes, and various other environmental factors affected my body as I explored the high desert near Santa Fe.” The foundation of this beautifully layered work is spilled ink on paper, a material that generates unpredictable shapes reminiscent of human entrails.

With a background in science, Jovanovic worked in research laboratories early in her career. This is her first solo show with Packer Schopf Gallery.

Exhibit: Dissecting Art, Intersecting Anatomy

2013-03-10T20:14:00.001-07:00

https://www.facebook.com/DissectingArtIntersectingAnatomy?fref=ts

Inner Cartography - this week!

2010-09-01T21:22:00.000-07:00

INNER CARTOGRAPHY

A dance show choreographed by Megan Rhyme in collaboration with neuroscientist Miriam Sach, PhD

Produced by the Chicago Fringe Festival

Scientifically curious choreographer Megan Rhyme collaborates with neuroscientist Miriam Sach of University California-San Diego to present an evening length dance work about body mapping, a term used to describe the patterns of nerve cells in the brain’s motor cortex. The piece investigates how body mapping connects to the learning process, particularly through the concept of plasticity – the brain’s ability to change and adapt itself to new circumstances. Dancers become neurons and molecules, the stage transforms into the space inside the brain, and the process of learning becomes illuminated from the inside and out. Neuroscience is re-conceptualized as something that happens not just in a lab but exists inside us and is happening every moment.

Thursday September 2nd, 8:30pm

Saturday September 4th, 4pm

Sunday September 5th, 2:30pm

Chicago Arts District: Adelaide Stage, 1832 S Halsted

Suggested Donation $10

Tickets go on sale August 2nd. For tickets and further information, please visit:

http://www.rhymedance.com/

http://www.chicagofringe.org/

Artists at Work Forum: Studio as Lab on Chicago Access Network Television (CAN TV)

2010-08-14T14:31:00.000-07:00

Artists at Work Forum:
Studio as Lab
Chicago Access Network Television
(CAN TV)

Sunday, August 15th, 12:00 PM, Channel 21
Tuesday, August 17th, 8:00 AM, Channel 19
Tuesday, August 24th, 12:00 PM, Channel 21

If you missed seeing Studio as Lab in person, you now have the opportunity to watch it on television. Artists Hunter Cole, Vesna Jovanovic, Peter N. Gray, and Josh Kurutz discuss the reinterpretation of science as art. With solid backgrounds in the scientific disciplines, the four artists offer their unique and challenging perspectives on the application of their science to create provocative and intriguing art.

For more information:
http://artscichicago.blogspot.com/2010/06/artists-at-work-forum-studio-as-lab-at.html

Posted by Hunter Cole
Hunter Cole is an artist and scientist that creates living art with bioluminescent bacteria, abstractions, digital art, and installations confronting issues related to biotechnology in our culture. She teaches biology and art at Loyola University Chicago.
http://www.huntercole.org/

HARD SCIENCE at Chicago Art Department on Friday, Aug 13, 2010, 6pm – 10pm

2010-08-11T13:44:00.000-07:00

Chicago Art Department

1837 South Halsted

Chicago, IL 60608

Hard Science is a gallery experience meant to showcase artistic interpretations of scientific concepts and theories. Although we live in an era of high technology - actual scientific principles, research, and theories seldom cross over into the realm of art. Many concepts that are being proven often times can be compared with contemporary conceptual art. Conversely much of the imaging and data created in research can function as contemporary art - as it proves concepts that may be disassociated from the actual representation, such as images of particles appearing as spiral streaks and years of research represented by the addition of a number on a scale.

Curators Chuck Przybyl and Edyta Stepien have invited artists from multiple disciplines to create work that will specifically illustrate or relate to understanding scientific concepts. Working closely with Teppei Katori of MIT and FermiLab they have created a unique scientific experience in the realm of art.

Partial List of Participating Artists:
Edyta Stepien

Margaret Noble

Cleveland Dean

Reidar Hahn

Teppei Katori

Dandee Petr

Mark Salach

Todd Frugia

Marta Sasinowska

Nat Soti

Amie Sell

Pei and Nathan Peck

Stacy Peterson

Chuck Przybyl

http://www.chicagoartdepartment.org/2010/08/hard-science-aug-13-6-10pm/

Posted by Hunter Cole

Hunter Cole is an artist and scientist that creates living art, abstractions, digital art, and installations confronting issues related to biotechnology in our culture. She teaches biology and art at Loyola University Chicago.

http://www.huntercole.org/

Artists at Work Forum: Studio as Lab at Chicago Cultural Center on June 17, 2010 at 6pm

2010-06-09T10:42:00.000-07:00

Thurs., June 17, 2010
6:00pm-7:30pm
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington St., 5th Floor Washington Room
Chicago, IL

(This is a free event.)

Artists Hunter Cole, Vesna Jovanovic, Peter N. Gray, and Josh Kurutz discuss the reinterpretation of science as art. With solid backgrounds in the scientific disciplines, the four artists offer their unique and challenging perspectives on the application of their science to create provocative and intriguing art.

With a Ph.D. in Genetics, Hunter Cole created and teaches innovative bioart courses at Loyola University Chicago. She also co-authored a paper on “Art and Genetics” with Joe Davis, Dana Boyd, and Marek Wieczorek, published in the Encyclopedia of Life Sciences (ELS). Her "Living Drawings" have been exhibited throughout the U.S, and include a solo exhibition at the Loyola University Museum of Art in Chicago.

Vesna Jovanovic has degrees in both art and chemistry. Since 2003, her art has been included in more than 50 exhibitions, most recently in a solo exhibition at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago.

Peter N. Gray was the principal investigator for a biochemistry laboratory for more than 20 years. His large-scale public sculptures are in collections of sculpture parks throughout the Midwest. His most recent installation includes multiple works in the Blue Line Chicago stop subway station.

Josh Kurutz is a senior scientist and instructor at Northwestern University, and was a Featured Artist for Chicago Artists' Month 2008. He has shown his artwork at the Science and Art exhibits at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science at the University of Chicago, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and his audio work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio.

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"Hands," photograph by the light of bioluminescent bacteria,

Hunter Cole, 2010.

Hunter Cole - Short Biography
Both an internationally shown artist and also experienced geneticist, Hunter Cole reinterprets science as art through living art, abstractions, digital art, and installations. She holds a Ph.D. and Master's degree in Genetics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of California-Berkeley. She teaches biology and art at Loyola University Chicago. She created a course, Biology Through Art, where students have the opportunity to create innovative artworks in a biology laboratory.

Hunter Cole - Presentation
Hunter Cole will discuss her art created with living bioluminescent bacteria. In her “Living Drawings” series she creates controlled line drawings using bioluminescent bacteria. The bacteria grow, first appearing with bright light, then dim and gradually die off as available nutrients are depleted. Bacteria are photographed using a time-lapse technique over a two-week period. Bacteria become collaborators in the art as it grows and dies. She has also created a movie of bioluminescent bacteria growing and dying with music based on protein sequences found in the bacteria. Recently Hunter Cole has created a new series, “Living Light,” where people and objects are photographed by the light of bioluminescent bacteria. The only light source in the photographs comes from living bioluminescent bacteria.
http://www.HunterCole.org

"New Mitosis," ink, graphite, and white pencil (26 x 40 in.)

Vesna Jovanovic, 2008.

Vesna Jovanovic - Short Biography
Vesna Jovanovic is a visual artist based out of Chicago, IL. She holds a BA in Fine Arts and a BS in Chemistry from Loyola University Chicago, where she received First Place at the graduating senior exhibition. She also received a BFA in Studio Art from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she was granted a Merit Scholarship of Recognition. Her MFA degree in Photography is from The Ohio State University. Jovanovic is a recipient of several awards and grants, and was recently featured in several magazines and blogs such as: Time Out Chicago, Newcity, Seed, Art:21, and Discover. Her artwork has been included in over fifty exhibitions since 2003, including solo exhibitions at the University of Chicago Gordon Center for Integrative Science, and the International Museum of Surgical Science.

Vesna Jovanovic - Presentation
Vesna Jovanovic will discuss the ways in which her art process has been informed by her background in science, and the parallels that she draws between her experiences with science and art. Her ink drawings, sculptural ceramic vessels, and pinhole photographs all depend on experimentation, inquiry, risk, and the struggle between chance and intentionality. She often incorporates scientific themes into her work, and her current studio practice has, in some sense, become a fulfillment of the same needs that were once fulfilled by science: those of curiosity, inquiry, and discovery. The difference for her lies in how she perceives the outcomes of these two fields; while science primarily seeks explanations, art aims to reveal open-ended questions.
http://www.vesnaonline.com/

"Point Mutation," steel and African Red Granite (l9H x 4W x 3D feet) Peter N. Gray, 2007.

Peter N. Gray - Short Biography
Peter N. Gray is an artist and biomedical scientist using steel and bronze sculptures to awaken our inner scientist as he expresses the inherent softer organic sculptural aesthetics of genetics and biotechnology. His large-scale public sculptures are in permanent collections of sculpture parks and a Chicago public school and he has had long-term exhibits in the Koehnline Museum of Art, Lincoln Park, the Chicago campus of DePaul University and the Johnson, Vermont Sculpture Park. A recent installation includes multiple works in a CTA subway station. Gray earned a doctorate in biomedicine and is a full time practicing artist.

Peter N. Gray - Presentation
Gray will present the melding of science in art over the years and then discuss how he personally weaves together science and art. He will discuss his recent works that abstractly address the complexities of the Central Dogma from DNA structure to protein synthesis. Motivated by a passion for science, he tries to express the innate beauty of biotechnology of these disciplines to stimulate the public’s interest in science. His newest installation at the Koehnline Museum of Art is recognizable as a lyrical statement while depicting how DNA works.
http://www.metal-i-genics.com/

Josh Kurutz

Josh Kurutz - Short Biography
Josh Kurutz is a senior scientist and instructor at Northwestern University, and was a Featured Artist for Chicago Artists' Month 2008. He earned his B.S. in Chemistry at Caltech, his Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, and did postdoctoral work in the Medicine and Chemistry departments at the University of Chicago. He has shown his artwork at the Science and Art exhibits at the Gordon Center for Integrative Science at the University of Chicago, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the American Academy for the Advancement of Science meeting, and the Experimental Nuclear Magnetic Resonance meeting, and his audio work has been featured on Chicago Public Radio.

Josh Kurutz - Presentation
Josh explores the hypothesis that scientists look at raw data like artists look at art. His art re-presents scientific data in aesthetic audible, visual, and sculptural forms to elicit the emotional resonance that scientists and artists share. Taking signals generated by different molecules in nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers, he records sounds that give voices to chemicals and makes compositions using those sounds. We will listen to the genetic code by hearing the amino acids and DNA bases tell their own story, delve into synesthesia by listening to fragrances, and experience sexual dichotomy by listening to estrogen and testosterone in stereo. He also re-creates NMR spectra as collages of pressed flowers on paper, thus making objects whose primary function is visual beauty, but which bear all the same chemical information found in the original raw data printouts. He is currently working on an interdisciplinary project called "Is Your Science Beautiful?"
http://www.joshkurutz.com

Posted by Hunter Cole.

Contact Hunter Cole for more information.

Seminar: Art, Technology, and Living Systems by Brittany Ransom, April 8, 2010

2010-04-01T11:13:00.000-07:00

Investigating the Convergence Between
Art, Technology, and Living Systems

A Presentation of Artwork & Robotic Prototypes
by Brittany Ransom

Thurs., April 8, 2010
10:00-10:50am

Loyola University Chicago

Lake Shore Campus
Mundelein Center
Room 603

Free and Open to the Public

Brittany Ransom creates interactive sculptures, sound devices, and wearable recording units that incorporate the participation of humans and animals to examine the co-evolution between the living and our always evolving techno-culture.

http://brittanyransom.com/

Loyola University Chicago
Lake Shore Campus Map
http://www.luc.edu/about/pdfs/lsc_may09.pdf

You can get off at the Red Line Loyola "L" stop.

Hunter Cole is an artist and scientist that creates living art, abstractions, digital art, and installations confronting issues related to biotechnology in our culture. She teaches biology and art at Loyola University Chicago.
http://www.huntercole.org/

The DNA Trail at the Silk Road Theatre Project in Chicago through April 4, 2010

2010-03-29T10:43:00.000-07:00

"The DNA Trail: A Genealogy of Short Plays about Ancestry, Identity, and Utter Confusion" is playing at the Silk Road Theatre Project through April 4, 2010 in downtown Chicago. I took my students from my Bioart course at Loyola University Chicago to see the plays. The students were impressed with how entertaining the plays are. The students also personally related to several of the themes in the plays such as wanting to turn genes on to make yourself taller or make other changes to appearance, and people making assumptions about your identity based on your appearance and name. There are seven short plays ranging from the very serious and dramatic to the very humorous. Each playwright took a genealogical DNA test and related the results to self, family, community, and ethnicity.

For more information and to buy tickets:

http://www.srtp.org/productions.html

Peter N. Gray, a Chicago artist and scientist, was the scientific consultant for the playwrights.

http://www.metal-i-genics.com/

http://www.huntercole.org/

MCA Symposium: Art/Science/Spectacle 9/12

2009-07-30T15:39:00.000-07:00

How do immersive artworks, such as those created by Olafur Eliasson, play upon our attraction to the spectacular and a fascination with the mechanics of how things work? This afternoon program at Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art features presentations by three internationally renowned speakers who will trace the history of this phenomenon in art and science, and relate it to wide-ranging developments in consumer culture, optics, psychology, philosophy, and technology. Madeleine Grynsztejn, MCA Pritzker Director and curator of Take your time: Olafur Eliasson, introduces the program.

MCA Symposium: Art/Science/Spectacle
Saturday, September 12, 2009, 2 pm
Museum of Contemporary Art Theater, 220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL
$10 general admission, $8 MCA members, $6 students

Speakers:

Anthony McCall has a cross-disciplinary practice in which film, sculpture, installation, drawing and performance overlap. McCall was a key figure in the avant-garde London Film-makers Co-operative in the 1970s and his earliest films are documents of outdoor performances that were notable for their minimal use of the elements, most notably fire.

McCall provides the keynote address, discussing the shifts and relationships between the work produced in the 70s by artists of his generation, including his own early works, and that produced by a newer generation, including Eliasson's, contextualizing these shifts within the massive changes that have taken place over the last 15 years in the production, consumption and presentation of culture.

Barbara Stafford, the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor, Emerita, at the University of Chicago, has consistently explored the intersections between the visual arts and the physical and biological sciences from the early modern to the contemporary era. Stafford's most recent book is Echo Objects: The Cognitive Work of Images, (University of Chicago Press, 2007). In her presentation, she discusses how recent discoveries in the brain sciences are upending our assumptions about how we see, imagine, feel and sense the realities of our world.

Paola Bertucci, Assistant Professor of History of Science and Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, researches, lectures and publishes on the history of electricity, natural catastrophes in the age of Enlightenment, the utility of spectacle, and the material culture of science in 18th-century Italy. She has organized several museum exhibitions, including two new permanent installations from the 18th-century collections of the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy (opening in Fall 2009): The Spectacle of Science and Domestic Science. Her talk contextualizes our contemporary fascination with electricity and spectacular phenomena, and elucidate the role that spectacle plays in the presentation and popularization of science.

VISUALIZING MEDICAL PROGRESS, 8/7 ->

2009-07-30T13:39:00.000-07:00

by Vesna Jovanovic

Two new shows at the International Museum of Surgical Science!

“Redefining the Medical Artist” a group exhibition of work by members of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Biomedical Visualization program

“Pareidolia” a solo show of drawings and other works on paper by Chicago artist Vesna Jovanovic, as part of its ongoing “Anatomy in the Gallery” contemporary art program.

WHEN
opening Friday, August 7, 2009,5:00 to 8:00pm, free!
Through October 17.

WHERE
1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.
Chicago, IL 60610 USA
312.642.6502
fax 312.642.9516
info@imss.org

“Redefining the Medical Artist” features state-of-the-art scientifically accurate representations of the body in various media by students, alumni, and faculty of UIC’s Biomedical Visualization graduate program. Their work stems from the tradition of medical illustration founded by the 16th-century physician Vesalius, who first sought to communicate anatomical knowledge through visual means; however, these contemporary medical artists have grown far beyond drawing from dissection. They now create animations, digital renderings, and three-dimensional models to depict biomedical procedures, processes, and phenomena—illustrating the progress of medicine as well as that of visual technology. The Biomedical Visualization program at UIC program is among the largest in the nation and the only one to have a Virtual Reality in Medicine Laboratory.

Jovanovic’s exhibition highlights her series of ink spill drawings that explore the psychological phenomenon of pareidolia, in which a vague and random stimulus, often an image, is perceived as being significant—for example, when people imagine that they see animals or faces in clouds. Originally trained in chemistry, Jovanovic now uses art as an alternate avenue of inquiry, one that reveals open-ended questions rather than reductive formulae. She received her MFA in Photography from Ohio State University and currently teaches ceramics at Loyola University in Chicago. The “Pareidolia” exhibition will be open to the press for preview beginning Friday, July 31. Further details about Jovanovic and her work can be found at: www.vesnaonline.com.

Housed in a landmark turn-of-the-century mansion, the International Museum of Surgical Science is located at 1524 North Lake Shore Drive, one-half block south of North Avenue, in Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood.

It is open to visitors Tuesday through Sunday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Admission costs $10 for adults and $6 for students with ID and seniors age 60 and older. On Tuesdays admission is free. For more information about the Museum, call 312.642.6502.

Slightly Off Science - Reception 7/30

2009-07-30T13:18:00.000-07:00

Slightly Off Science is evidence of a 6 week program in which Chicago teens collaborate with artist Alberto Aguilar and chemist Allan Wilson. Participants utilize various media to explore the inexact parallels of art and science, seeking a middle ground between the studio and the lab. Participants include: Justine Adeboyejo, Patrick Easley, Destiny Johnson, Ashley Klauck, Abigail Larraide, Sean Lyles, Jazmine McDonald, Christina Morris, Jessica Obrochta, Carlos Ortega, Monica Pizano, Jeremy Porter, Alexandria Ramirez, Omar Reyes, and Nancy Sanchez. In the first ten days of this exhibition the gallery will be treated as a open lab as group members test out the best way to present their findings, gaining curatorial experience.

Slightly Off Science Exhibition
Harold Washington College
30 E. Lake St, Chicago
President's Gallery: 11th Floor
July 21 – August 14, 2009
artists’ reception Thursday, July 30, 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Ars Sciencia: Animals, Autism & Design (5/4)

2009-04-13T19:32:00.000-07:00

In 1995, noted scientist and engineer Dr. Temple Grandin, and artist Wendy Jacob, met to discuss the engineering and benefits of deep pressure. The result of their conversations was the Squeeze Chair Project, an evolving experiment in art, design, and therapeutic function. Inspired by Grandin's "hug machine," a deep pressure device that Grandin designed to calm her own hypersensitive nervous system, Jacob designed a series of chairs that squeeze or 'hug" the user.

Grandin and Jacob will discuss the results of their collaboration, as well as their independent projects. This conversation will touch on the parallels between autism and animal cognition, and the role of design in identifying and ameliorating conditions.

Monday May 4, 6:00 pm
Chicago Cultural Center
78 E. Washington -- Preston Bradley Hall
312-744-6630
info@ars-scientia.org

Admission FREE - space is limited.
Please arrive early to insure a seat.

Cinema, Nature, Ecology Film Series at UChicago (3/13)

2009-03-10T18:18:00.000-07:00

This Friday, the University of Chicago's Film Center hosts a program featuring films by three Chicago filmmakers, Bill Brown, Thomas Comerford, and Deborah Stratman, who collectively investigate the varied relationships of urban spaces and rural landscapes to historical narratives of power and control. In works ranging from experimental shorts to documentaries, these screenings highlight a significant thread within Chicago’s underground film community: the reinvestigation of familiar locations and landmarks. The screenings will be followed by a roundtable discussion with the artists.

Friday, March 13, 2009, 6pm
University of Chicago
Film Studies Center
Cobb Hall, 5811 S. Ellis
More Information (and campus map) HERE

The Physics of Music (3/23)

2009-03-10T18:09:00.000-07:00

We've been delinquent in reporting on them thus far, but we're nonetheless rather excited about the Chicago Cultural Center's new ARS/SCIENTIA lecture series, which focuses specifically on collaborations between artists and scientists.

In this unique program, the public can hear from pioneering visual artists, dancers, musicians and culinary artists, and the biologists, chemists, mathematicians and engineers who have partnered with them on unusual projects.Conversations feature presentations and discussions between actual collaborators, while Salons offer more intimate opportunities for artists and scientists to meet, discuss and interact around specific topics.

Coming up next:
Salon: Waves, Beats and Grooves: The Physics of Music

Physicist and musician Dr. Cristian Huepe [labo_labs] collaborates with hip hop and electronic music producer Lional “Brother El” Freeman as the Makers of Sense. Together with percussionist Doug Brush, they will discuss how the scientific perspective and the artistic sensitivity naturally entangle in music and enhance their creative work. From a basic wave or beat to the subtle principles behind an engaging groove or a quantum description, music has always been linked to its underlying physics and to an almost mathematical abstraction. Join them in this conversation to explore the similarities and differences between the approaches, tools, communities, inspirations, and realities of physicists and musicians.

Chicago Cultural Center
Monday, March 23, 6 pm
Monday, March 9, 23, 6 pm
Chicago Cultual Center, Cassidy Theater
78 E. Washington St.
FREE and open to the public!
1st Floor Garland Room

C.E.B. Reas lecture at Gallery 400 (2/17)

2009-02-02T19:06:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday, February 17, Los Angeles-based artist C.E.B. Reas will speak about his work as part of Gallery 400's Spring 2009 Voices Lecture Series + Design Lecture Series: “Sustainability Spurs Innovation in Everything."

Media artist Reas makes both conceptually and perceptually driven works that explore process and abstraction. His installations, photographs, video and interactive works are informed by systems theory, biology, artificial life, and information patterns. In 2001, Reas and designer Ben Fry initiated Processing.org, an open source programming language and environment for creating images, animation, and interaction. This ongoing project is documented in Processing: A Programming Handbook for Visual Designers and Artists (MIT Press).

Reas has exhibited and screened his work internationally in galleries and museums including P.S.1, New York; Institute for Contemporary Art, London; Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston; Laboral, Gijon, Spain; Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York; the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia; and the National Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. He is associate professor and chair of Design | Media Arts at UCLA. His lecture is presented in collaboration with Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College.

The Voices Lecture Series hosts artists, designers, architects, critics, curators and art historians at the leading edge of artistic discourse.

All lectures are on Tuesday at 5pm inside the Gallery 400 lecture room at 400 S. Peoria Street.

Admission is Free

Design and Sustainability Lecture (2/24)

2009-02-02T18:35:00.000-08:00

On Tuesday, February 24, Jonathan Shaun, 3.Zero and Elizabeth Redmond, Independent Sustainability Consultant present “Design, Business and Sustainability” as part of the Gallery 400 Spring 2009 Voices Lecture Series + Design Lecture Series: “Sustainability Spurs Innovation in Everything”

Jonathan Shaun and Elizabeth Redmond discuss the goals and challenges of creating a sustainable Chicago. Shaun is one of Chicago’s foremost designers and retailers of cutting edge, sustainable apparel, accessories, and furniture. His most recent project is Connect, a retail showroom and conscious event space in Wicker Park. Redmond, since spring 2007, has worked with a start-up company called Ecolect that helps professionals in design-influenced fields learn about and source sustainable materials.

The Voices Lecture Series hosts artists, designers, architects, critics, curators and art historians at the leading edge of artistic discourse.

All lectures are on Tuesday at 5pm
inside the Gallery 400 lecture room at 400 S. Peoria Street.

Admission is Free

X-102 Rediscovers The Rings Of Saturn (1/16)

2009-01-11T19:17:00.000-08:00

X-102 Rediscovers The Rings Of Saturn

"A visual and sound graphic exposé of one of the universe's most beautiful and mysterious planets"

Friday, January 16, 7 pm

Claudia Cassidy Theater
Chicago Cultural Center
77 E. Randolph St.

::::Free admission:::::

Saturn In 1992, X-102 (Experimental 102), otherwise known as Underground Resistance – the Detroit-based electronic musical trio of Mike Banks, Jeff Mills and Robert Hood – set out to create a musical project about the planet Saturn and its rings in a full-length LP entitled X-102 discovers the Rings Of Saturn (Tresor). X-102 attempted to musically describe the physical make-up and content of the never-before seen planet and each of its significant rings known as A, B, C, E and F. Fifteen years later, Banks and Mills have produced a brand new musical soundtrack, featuring re-mastered original compositions paired with a visual version of the project and breathtaking images from the NASA Cassini/Huygen exploratory mission, which visited and documented Saturn and its moons. Musician and director Jeff Mills will discuss the project after the screening. The approximate running time is 1 hour and 15 minutes. This Ohm Multimedia Series program is supported by Axis Records and GammaPlayer.com.

Watch the film trailer here.

Re: Production (1/9 -2/13)

2009-01-11T18:46:00.000-08:00

Re: Production - recent work by Christa Donner

At Three Walls
January 9th - February 13th

artist's talk: Thursday, January 29th, 6pm

Donner’s project Re:Production, is an exhibition that “re-imagines reproduction” through a wall installation, large scale drawings, a small-press zine and an animation made in collaboration with biologist and fellow artist Andrew Yang. What role does the notion of birth play in our diverse conceptions of femininity? What feelings or fears arise out of it? How might pregnancy conflict with or alter our priorities? What sort of agency do we even have in directing our bodies, and to what lengths are we willing to go? Drawing on both the personal narratives of a diverse group of women and from the reproductive models of other organisms -- the Peach Aphid, Surinam Toad, Adactylidium Mite, Hydra, and the Mollusk Crepidula --Donner creates new visions of human reproduction during a time when fertility drugs and genetic modification seem to make all sorts of impossible things viable.

Chicago Reader review

ARS SCIENTIA series (Part II - Salon Series)

2008-12-09T09:23:00.000-08:00

ARS SCIENTIA Salon Series

First Floor Garland Room

An opportunity for artists and scientists to meet, discuss and interact
around specific topics.

Exploring Environmentalism
January 26

Artists Tiffany Holmes and Frances Whitehead and choreographer Carrie
Hanson tackle major environmental issues with surprising and concrete
results. Whitehead is working with plant scientists, meterologists, and
urban planners to use city parks as climate change laboratories.
Hanson's company, The Seldoms, recently premiered an entire performance
based on consumption, waste and landfills. Holmes coined the term
"eco-visualisation" to describe an emerging art movement that is devoted
to using information visualization techniques to get the general public
interested in ecological issues. The artists will be joined by
environmental scientist Liam Heneghan, co director of the Institute for
Arts and Culture at DePaul University.

Pushing the Boundaries of Biology
February 23

Artist Eduardo Kac captured the world's imagination with a glowing
fluorescent bunny and introduced the concept of "bio-art", while Alison
Ruttan's drawings and films of bonabo monkeys led to surprising
recognition that the creation of "hairstyles" may be as much a marker of
intelligence as are signs of tool-making. The artists will be joined by
behavioural biologist Dr. Dario Maestripieri (University of Chicago) and
plant biologist Dr. Neil Olsziewski (University of Minnesota).

March 23
Artists + scientists tbd.

For more information on film programs presented by the Chicago
Department of Cultural Affairs, call 312-744-6630 or visit
www.chicagoculturalcenter.org. For more information on Science Chicago
visit www.sciencechicago.com

Programs presented by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs are
partially supported by grants from the Chicago Cultural Center
Foundation and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Science Chicago is a collaboration led by the Museum of Science and
Industry and the MacArthur Foundation to showcase the local talent and
resources that make our region a uniquely "science-focused" center.
Leading scientists, educators and civic leaders are supporting this
effort by creating programs that show how science works and why it is so
important. Their goal is to inspire awe, foster civic pride and
encourage broad interest in science. Our goal is to add art to the
equation.

ARS SCIENTIA series (Part I - Conversations Series)

2008-12-09T09:12:00.000-08:00

ARS SCIENTIA debuts at the Chicago Cultural Center JANUARY 12

Exciting new series, part of Science Chicago, combines art & science

The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs presents Ars Scientia, a
series of conversations and salons which explores the fascinating
intersection of art and science, and professional collaborations that
have sprung from it. The public is invited to learn about the work of
pioneering artists, dancers, musicians and culinary artists, and the
biologists, neuroscientists, mathematicians and engineers who have
partnered with them. The series is held bimonthly on Monday evenings
from 6:00 - 7:30 pm, beginning on January 12, 2009.

Ars Scientia is part of the year long Science Chicago festival, and
will be held at The Chicago Cultural Center, 77 E. Randolph St.

Admission is free.

location: Claudia Cassidy Theater:

The Chemistry of Cooking
January 12

Chef Homaro Cantu is well known for making food that snaps, crackles,
freezes and evaporates into thin air. Science, nature and technology
have inspired Chef Cantu's culinary creations at Moto Restaurant and
the unique inventions at his company, Cantu Designs. Learn how Chef
Cantu and his partner at Cantu Designs, scientist Dr. Linda Kawano,
collaborate, share ideas and meld science, art and business.

Structuring Change
February 9

Artist Inigo Manglano-Ovalle's technically sophisticated and formally
elegant investigations employ forms and systems found in nature -- like
clouds, icebergs and DNA -- to address issues ranging from immigration
to cloning to gun violence and climate change He will converse with
computational scientist Mark Hereld, Senior Fellow in the Computation
Institute (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago) and
artist Siebren Versteeg.

The Magic of Perception
March 9

Magician Apollo Robbins and neuroscientist Dr. Susana Martinez-Conde of
Martinez-Conde Laboratory of Neural Science in Arizona collaborated on a
study of perception -- how do we know what is really happening?
Robbins, a "professional thief," once pick-pocketed President Carter's
Secret Service escort -- keys, IDs and wallets -- in a demonstration of
the vulnerability of our perception.

The series title, Ars Scientia, is based on a Latin
phrase, ars sine scientia nihil est, loosely translated as Art without
Knowledge is Nothing, which the late artist Leon Golub had painted on
his studio wall.

The Emergence Project (til 12/30)

2008-11-01T12:24:00.000-07:00

The Emergence Project
work by Daniel Sauter and Mark Hereld

Oct. 11–Dec. 30, 2008
Opening Reception: October 26, 3–5 pm

Hyde Park Art Center
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615

Artists Daniel Sauter and Mark Hereld work together to create a digital artwork driven by the ideas produced during the 2008 Chicago Humanities Festival. The contents of the day’s presentations, performances and panel discussions will be captured, analyzed and processed into a dynamic visualization that evolves from minute to minute to express “big ideas”, in resonance with the Festival's theme of Thinking Big. The Emergence Project is an innovative, real-time art installation that explores how complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of simple interactions, a phenomenon known as emergence. At first focusing on the actual discourse emanating from the Chicago Humanities Festival’s October 11 day of programs hosted in several venues in the Hyde Park area, the contents of the presentations, performances, and panel discussions are captured, analyzed, and processed into a multidimensional image that continually evolves. The piece uses simple morphological rules to excavate emerging word clusters and expressed big ideas, representing them on the Hyde Park Art Center’s digital façade.

The Leaf and the Page

2008-11-01T12:18:00.000-07:00

The Leaf and the Page

Eleven Illinois artists explore plants as conduits between humanity and the natural world. This exhibit considers the connection between the historic canon of botanical images, the plant as specimen, and contemporary practices that imbue the subject with emotive and narrative qualities. Artists in the exhibition are Judith Brotman, Melissa Jay Craig, Stephen Eichhorn, Winifred Godfrey, Dennis Lee Mitchell, Carolyn Ottmers, Olivia Petrides, Rebecca Shore, Eric West, Scott Wolniak, and Andrew Young. Curated by Douglas Stapleton. The Leaf and the Page is part of the 2008 Chicago Artists Month, an annual citywide celebration of Chicago's vibrant visual arts.

Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery
James R. Thompson Center, Suite 2-100
100 W. Randolph Street Chicago, IL 60601

How Does your Garden Grow? (til1 11/14)

2008-11-01T12:16:00.000-07:00

How does your Garden Grow?

October 9 – November 14, 2008

Kemper Room Gallery, Galvin Library
Galvin Library 35 W. 33rd Street
Chicago, IL 60616
Phone: 312.567.3616

Experience the secret life of plants as captured by artists and scientists using x-ray and microscopic photography, time-lapse video and robot monitors.

Whether it is the delicate structures of flowers revealed in Steven Meyer's x-ray photography, nature's silent rhythms seen in Roger Hangarter's Plants in Motion videos, fluorescent plant cells in microscopic images by Michael Davidson, Peter Osler's photo essay, or David Bowen's growth charting robot, How Does Your Garden Grow? provides a new way of seeing and appreciating the plant life around us.

for more information go to:
Art@IIT

Bio-Art Panel Discussion 11/05

2008-10-28T17:04:00.000-07:00

What issues of agency arise when science enters the art world? UIC's BioCultures hosts a panel discussion discussing art that engages directly with the biological, the ecological, and the medical. Panelists include Lori Andrews (Chicago Kent College of Law, IIT); Lennard Davis (UIC Project Bio-cultures and Professor of English, Disability Studies and Medical Education) and Andrew Yang (SAIC, Biologist and Co-curator of the exhibition Biological Agents). Moderated by Jennifer Ashton (UIC English Department).

This event is presented in conjunction with the exhibition Biological Agents, on view at Gallery 400 through November 22.

Biological Agents Panel Discussion
Wednesday, November 5th
3:30 - 5:30pm
UIC Humanities Institute
701 S. Morgan St. (Lower Level, Stevenson Hall)