Blog Topics: Events

A Moment With Ivan Gaskell

On DAY TWO: I spent the morning at Music & Visual Culture: Assessing the State of the Field and the afternoon swamped in writing for the blog. Thankfully, I had just enough time to catch the Q&A portion of Objects, Objectives, Objections: The Goals and Limits of the New Materialisms in Art History.  

I am so glad I made it.  The room was packed. Everyone in the audience had eyes locked on the panelists; the papers must have been thrilling. I caught the end of Michael Schreyach‘s excellent paper, titled New Materialism’s Renunciation of Meaning.  As best I could tell, Schreyach’s essay critiques the methods used to locate meaning and to generate value. What bad luck to have missed the entire paper! (I have since bought the recording). As Schreyach finished, moderator Ben Tilghman opened the room to questions. The audience had many.

And one question struck right to the heart of the matter:

Q: Does any interest you may have in a thing as an artwork necessarily exhaust your interest in it?

The panel needed to hear it asked once more…

Q: Does any interest you may have in a thing as an artwork necessarily exhaust your interest in it?

Ivan Gaskell (Photo by Justin Ides, Courtesy Ivan Gaskell)

Ivan Gaskell (Photo by Justin Ides, Courtesy Ivan Gaskell)

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A Moment With Ivan Gaskell

On DAY TWO: I spent the morning at Music & Visual Culture: Assessing the State of the Field and the afternoon swamped in writing for the blog. Thankfully, I had just enough …

BA Art History '13 Meg Santisi, megsantisi@gmail.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

The M Words: Thoughts on Motherhood and Masculinity in CAA’s feminism

During the Feminist Art Project’s series of panels themed “The M Word: Motherhood and Representation,” panelists discussed issues of maternity, the maternal body, and motherhood in art and for practicing artists. Amidst the radical reclamation of arts and family life, lactative performance art, images of the devouring Mother popularized by Disney, etc., Miriam Schaer presented her work on the stigma of women without children. While this might seem inconsistent with the theme, Schaer mentions that these seemingly contrasting states of motherhood/childlessness are illusory distractions from the larger issues at hand including how women’s bodies understood/evaluated, issues of external validation, procreation, and what it means to be a child as well as a mother.

The Feminist Art Project used the complicated issue of maternity to problematize how those who are parents, those who are not, and those in between can unite under a common but diverse feminist agenda. It revisits the crucial and continual question of how to challenge oppression in the face of a multitude of diverse and different realities. After all, arbitrary and reductive understandings of “womanhood” and “feminism” have only ever been exclusions and harmful to a vision of social justice.

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The M Words: Thoughts on Motherhood and Masculinity in CAA’s feminism

During the Feminist Art Project’s series of panels themed “The M Word: Motherhood and Representation,” panelists discussed issues of maternity, the maternal body, and motherhood in art and for practicing …

Interdisciplinary Arts and Media First Year MFA Julynn Wilderson, wilderpedia@gmail.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

New Media Lightning Talks highlight: Daniel Temkin on “Algorithmic Art”

On Friday afternoon the New Media Caucus hosted a series of “Lightning Talks”, 7- to 10-minute presentations on a variety of new media art-related topics, followed by a q&a discussion. I wanted to do a quick post highlighting my favorite of the talks, Daniel Temkin on how “glitch art” is often really “algorithmic art,” and the implications of that difference.

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New Media Lightning Talks highlight: Daniel Temkin on “Algorithmic Art”

On Friday afternoon the New Media Caucus hosted a series of “Lightning Talks”, 7- to 10-minute presentations on a variety of new media art-related topics, followed by a q&a discussion. …

MFA Candidate, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media Sid Branca, sid@sidbranca.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

ATTENDING TO WHAT IS VALUABLE

Valuables

As the resident and perhaps even interloping poet-blogger for CAA, I would be remiss, or at least ashamed of myself, if I didn’t mention a couple peripheral poetry events happing during or around CAA.

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ATTENDING TO WHAT IS VALUABLE

As the resident and perhaps even interloping poet-blogger for CAA, I would be remiss, or at least ashamed of myself, if I didn’t mention a couple peripheral poetry events happing …

Daniel Scott Parker MFA Poetry Daniel Scott Parker, danielsparker@gmail.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours,” a review of ARTexchange

ARTexchange is an open and free forum that showcases working artist. Artists applied and were chosen in December to be part of the event, which hosts forty or so working artists. I went there last night and here are a few highlights.

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Magdalena Olszanowski

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“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours,” a review of ARTexchange

ARTexchange is an open and free forum that showcases working artist. Artists applied and were chosen in December to be part of the event, which hosts forty or so working …

Interdisciplinary Arts and Media First Year MFA Julynn Wilderson, wilderpedia@gmail.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

TONITE TONITE: Saturday night options in Chicago

As we round out the final day of the conference, and many of you return home tomorrow, I thought I’d provide some options for non-conference arts events taking place in Chicago tonight:

CAAALTERNATE 2014 at Tritriangle (more info here), a salon of media art. Featuring works by Patrick Lichty, Andrew Blanton, Morehshin Allahyari, Christine Kirouac, Sanglim Han, and Kayla Beth Anderson. As a part of this event Jennifer Chan will be running STUFF ON STUFF ON STUFF, a free-for-all of screen-based work. 6pm, 1550 N Milwaukee Ave Fl 3.

Mana Contemporary February Opening, an evening of art, performance, and merriment on Saturday, February 15. The event is free and open to the public, and food and refreshments will be served throughout. Various performances and receptions will take place between 5pm and midnight (see event page), including works and performances by High Concept Laboratories, Yigal Ozeri, graduate students of University of Wisconsin Madison, Honey Pot Performance, Amber Ginsburg and Aaron Hughes, Industry of the Ordinary, and ACRE. 5pm to 12am, 2233 S Throop St.

Pivot Pop Up! The Sadness Show: An Ironic Valentine’s Day Celebration, featuring Music by Sad Brad Smith (Up In The Air); A Sadness Game Show hosted by Brigid Murphy (Millie’s Orchid Show) with sad works by top playwrights Ike Holter, Noah Haidle, Mickle Maher, Shannon Matesky, Brett Neveu, and Tanya Palmer judged by a panel of “Sadness Experts.” Break-Up Karaoke DJed by Carlo Garcia. 7:30pm, 4101 N. Broadway Avenue

LOVESICK : Art Show, a show at 32Forty including mural painting, watercolor, sculpture, drawing, comic books, artist book, and mixed media. Curated by Michelle Graves, featuring work by Sean Backus, Vyto Grybauskas, Tine Defiore, Angela Erickson, Dana Grossmann, Cathy Hannah, Megan ‘Pain Gwen’ Larcher, Jenna Rodriguez, and Joan McDonald. 7pm, 3240 S Morgan St.

I n c o g n i t o, co-curated by the Pigeon Bench and Jack Collier, featuring art by Heather Marie, Olivia Rogers, Pan Gelic A, and Erik Peterson, and projections by Glen Jennings and Brian Hochberger, as well as music by a variety of objects. 9pm, 3036 N Lincoln Ave.

 

TONITE TONITE: Saturday night options in Chicago

As we round out the final day of the conference, and many of you return home tomorrow, I thought I’d provide some options for non-conference arts events taking place in …

MFA Candidate, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media Sid Branca, sid@sidbranca.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

In the West Loop: Nick Albertson at Aspect Ratio Projects

On view at tonight’s West Loop Gallery Art Walk is an artist named Nick Albertson.
This is Albertson’s first solo exhibition, taking place at Aspect Ratio Projects.

Nick Albertson on the opening night of Single Use.

Nick Albertson on the opening night of Single Use.

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In the West Loop: Nick Albertson at Aspect Ratio Projects

On view at tonight’s West Loop Gallery Art Walk is an artist named Nick Albertson. This is Albertson’s first solo exhibition, taking place at Aspect Ratio Projects.

Arts Management/ Art History Matt Robinson, matthew.robinson1@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

The future is so bright, we gotta design better shades for everyone

What is the role of artists, creative thinkers and innovators in navigating the rapidly approaching and sometimes dismal looking future? I chatted with Mat Rappaport who is co-chairing the panel “Designing a Better Future: A Participatory Platform for Exchange.”

Co-chair Mat Rappaport. Image Courtesy of Columbia College Chicago.

Co-chair Mat Rappaport. Image Courtesy of Columbia College Chicago.

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The future is so bright, we gotta design better shades for everyone

What is the role of artists, creative thinkers and innovators in navigating the rapidly approaching and sometimes dismal looking future? I chatted with Mat Rappaport who is co-chairing the panel “Designing …

Interdisciplinary Arts and Media First Year MFA Julynn Wilderson, wilderpedia@gmail.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Kirsten Leenaars: Aesthetics and Social Practice

I had the pleasure of conversing with artist Kirsten Leenaars. We talked social practice, aesthetic, people, the post office, and what’s next for Leenars. As one of the artists involved in the exhibition RISK: Empathy, Art, and Social Practice – which is open Feb 10th – April, 26th, at Glass Curtain Gallery – I thought it appropriate to get her take on the complicated practice of a socially engaged artist. Leenaars will exhibit in the RISK, the exhibition featuring contemporary artists whose work “invites the outside in,” blurring “the lines between public and private space.” Click Read more for the full interview.

Kirsteen Leenars (left) and Lise Baggesen in Boulevard Dreamers

Kirsten Leenaars (left) and Lise Baggesen in Boulevard Dreamers

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Kirsten Leenaars: Aesthetics and Social Practice

I had the pleasure of conversing with artist Kirsten Leenaars. We talked social practice, aesthetic, people, the post office, and what’s next for Leenars. As one of the artists involved in the …

Arts Management/ Art History Matt Robinson, matthew.robinson1@loop.colum.edu
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605

Day One: Punk, Abstraction, Cake.

Day One, A quick recap:

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Taking Mad Notes

Taking mad amounts of notes at each session…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a full day! For energy between sessions I opted for a $3.00 bag of pretzels (!) from the Hilton gift shop, made many trips to the third floor bathrooms for those complimentary hand-exfoliants, and took a brisk walk through Grant Park (cold).

The Hilton is packed full of us art types, as we carry our black tote bags between sessions, and scan the names on badges for friends and colleagues. It helped enormously to have game-planned in advance. Knowing a bit about the panelists, their papers, and artwork allowed me to bounce around more easily between sessions and even ask a few questions.

The sessions I spent the most time at: Visual Culture Caucus: On the Industrial Sublime and Articulating Abstraction. I also caught bits of Towards A Loser’s Art History: Artistic Failure in the Long Nineteenth Century and accidentally missed (dang!) On Sampled Time: Artist’s Videos and Popular Culture. I witnessed a fiery audience-to-panel argument at Sensitive Instruments (A Painting Discussion) and moved on to cocktails with my fellow bloggers and our Columbia College sponsors Amy Mooney and Duncan Mackenzie. At the end of all that I ate a giant slice of my birthday cake and fell fast asleep…

 Here’s (just a few) things from Day One:
@ Visual Culture Caucus: On The Industrial Sublime
Day One: Punk, Abstraction, Cake.

Day One, A quick recap:                 What a full day! For energy between sessions I opted for a $3.00 bag of pretzels (!) …

BA Art History '13 Meg Santisi, megsantisi@gmail.com
600 S. Michigan Ave. Chicago, IL 60605