Exhibitions

[Lincoln]

An installation of his sculpture "Maquette for a Black Hole", a 13 foot
wide, room-filling cardboard construction, is included in this show
curated by Ken Fandell and Ciara Ennis.

Event date: Sunday May 29th, 2005

THINGS FALL FROM THE SKY
May 29 - July 10, 2005
Opening Reception: Sunday, June 5, 1 - 4 PM

THINGS FALL FROM THE SKY, curated by Ciara Ennis and Ken Fandell,
brings together varied and compelling works by artists: Chad Gerth,
Angelina Gualdoni, Brian Kapernekas, Janice Kerbel, Amy Jean Porter,
Corey Postiglione, Scott Roberts, Cristián Silva, Joe Sola, Christine
Tarkowski. The exhibition is dedicated to the immense, limitless, and
utterly quotidian subject of the sky and things that fall from it.

Presented by the Contemporary Arts Council at:
Evanston Arts Center
2603 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60201-1799
847.475.5300

Contemporary Arts Council
Chicago, IL 60664-0507 -- 312.364.9300

[Lincoln]

SABRINA RAAF
Float: A series of electronic, kinetic, and photographic works
installations & photo
Opening Reception : Thursday, June 2, 2005
June 2 - July 9, 2005
Float is a series of electronic, kinetic, and photographic works which
address potential future relationships between
people, (anti)gravity, and the architecture of their living and working
spaces. The theme of "float" is central to the
works, whether it is related to black pools of liquid magically rising,
sculptures created through human breath, or
humans appearing to struggle in zero gravity. In this exhibit, the
viewer roves through time as they experience
Raaf's imaginings of both near and distant futures. The near future
includes a look at the dualism in which a person
can remain in a stagnant posture, yet may at the same time experience
mobility through remote video telematics.
The more distant future includes new systems, which are designed to
allow people to live more efficiently. It is not a
world without the troubles of daily life, however...
Raaf's work aligns with recent categories of New Media and Digital
Photography. Within New Media her work falls
under the categories of kinetic and interactive art. Like others
working in these categories, she is interested in
creating immersive and responsive art experiences because we are
surrounded by products of computer systems,
data directories, television networks, and other media machines, Raaf
has chosen to create art objects that embody
complex productive systems (both machine and computer). By using this
media, Raaf effectively engages in and
reflects the current cultural moment. She is interested in making
explicit interdependent relationships of human to
machine as vital entity to vital entity and not as master to slave.
Float includes some of her creative machines -
machines which are based on complex computer and machine systems
architecture. She uses networks, reflexivity,
and the interplay of randomness and pattern to initiate a genuine
engagement of the machines with the human
visitors around them. Such nature of creativity and manipulate staid
cultural messages.
Sabrina Raaf is a Chicago-based artist who works in both experimental
sculptural media and photography. In 2004-5, her
work will be shown at the Museum Tinguely in Basel, Switzerland, at the
San Jose Museum, at the Oboro Art Center in
Montreal (solo), at the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria, and at ISEA (the
International Symposium of Electronic Arts) as part of
Wearable Experience amongst other exhibitions. She has also had solo
exhibitions at Klein Art Gallery in Chicago and in the
eShow exhibition at the Krannert Museum. She is the recipient of a
2002, Creative Capitol Grant in Emerging Fields and two
Illinois Arts Council Fellowships (2005 and 2001). She received an MFA
in Art and Technology from the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago in 1999. Sabrina is currently a tenure-track
professor in the Photography Department of Columbia
College in Chicago. This is Sabrina Raaf's first one person show at
Stux gallery in New York.
530 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001 T 212 352-1600 F 212 352-0302
E st...@stuxgallery.com
STEFAN STUX GALLERY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE PRESS

[Michelle Citron]

Hi Lincoln:  thanks for getting the digital media group started.  My latest digital piece - an interactive narrative -- will be projected and "performed" at Gene Siskel on June 4th.  I'd love to get this event announced to the digital community.  It's the first time the Film Center is showing an interactive work.  Thanks.  Michelle

Gene Siskel Film Center, Saturday, June 4th, 8pm
 
Chicago premiere!
Michelle Citron in person!

MIXED GREENS

2004, Michelle Citron, USA, ca. 90 min.
 
Northwestern professor Michelle Citron has extended her irreverent undermining of filmmaking boundaries into new territories with a recent series of interactive CD-ROM narratives collectively entitled “A Queer Feast.”  The third entry in the series is MIXED GREENS, a tasty buffet of 48 scenes that, in Citron’s words, “presents two narratives: four generations of my Irish Jewish heritage played against four decades of lesbian life in America, offering a do-it-yourself story in both documentary and fiction.”  Michelle Citron will host the evening, which will include both a ”guided” presentation by the filmmaker and interactive participation by the audience.   Projected CD-ROM.  (MR)
Saturday, June 4, 8:00 pm

[Sabina Ott]

HI Lincoln- it's sabina o! I need to change our dinner
to another day - the following week? is that cool?
stuff came up with school.
best s

Sabina Ott
Artist in Residence, Columbia College, Chicago
mailing address: 2/10 - 6/14
Two East Eighth Street # 1010
Chicago, Il 60605
Cell: 415 902 7968

[Marlena]

Hi Sabina,

I just noticed when you replied to Lincoln (see below) the e-mail
went to the whole group...so I thought I'd mention it in case it was
an unintended reflex (of which I have many).

till soon,
Marlena

--
Marlena Novak
Department of Art Theory and Practice
Northwestern University
3-400 Kresge Hall
1880 Campus Drive
Evanston, Il 60208
m-n...@northwestern.edu

[Ellen Sandor]

We spoke about this piece at length at the Gene Siskel board meeting. I
will email my board again.
Also congratulations to Sabrina, we always knew she was a true Rock
Star!

ellen sandor