Projects
Featured installations projects and works at this year's festival
are described below. The Convergence of the Movement for a Democratic Society
program is listed in the right hand column in YELLOW
CPS1: A Space Colony
CPS1: A Space Colony is a group exhibition using the entire 5,000 sq
ft gallery and display windows of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. The mostly
black lighted
show contains works, murals and sculptures by:
Juan Angel Chavez
Michael
T. Rea
Thunder Horse
Terry Plumming
Ed Marszewski
Rachael Marszewski
Nicholas Camargo
Bill Mackey
Michelle Faust
Sarah Kenney
Vlado Ketch
Jennifer Lorraine
Cayetano Ferrer
Nat Ward
Party Planet by Thunderhorse
A space flight simulator taking riders beyond the reaches of our solar system
on a mind melting journey. Up to four strong and willing space cadets can ride
together as the party animal, Cpt. Skvm, pilots his space ship Thunder-1 on
a sick and gnarly tour of the cosmos.
Shut the hatch, check your power levels, and lock in coordinates for Party
Planet.
Reuben Kincaid Artist Management Showroom
Reuben Kincaid has been advising and managing artists, musicians and writers
for the past decade. He has finally opened up a secret showroom tucked
away in the heart of the Co-Prosperity Sphere. This mini-group show features
work
by Reuben's roster of clients including:
Seripop
Paper Rad
Dungeon
Majesty
Jennifer Juniper Stratford
Michael T. Rea
Rachael Marszewski
Aron Gent
Rand Sevilla
Marie Harten
Jackie Kilmer
SANDWITCH
A new media-zine that will serve as the main DVD distribution arm for loaf-i
productions. Every few months, a new DVD, or set of DVDs will be
available on loaf-i.com . These DVDs will almost always be a part of the
SANDWITCH
zine. Experimental videos, documentaries, music videos, animations
and feature films are just a few examples of the kind of work that each
SANDWITCH DVD might contain. The Lost Media Archive, a depository for
strange and forgotten media works, will also produce DVDs of truly
unusual archival
and "found" footage for some issues of SANDWITCH. In
addition to video, SANDWITCH issues will commonly contain CDs that
bear the
works of
loaf-i bands and other forward-thinking musicians. All this, and
an occasional written article will serve as the meat, tomato, lettuce
and pickles on
the best new media-zine named after a food that anyone ever consumed.
Copies of Sandwitch will be given away on Tuesday November 13 at
the CO-Prosperity
Sphere.
TLVSN
Throughout the Festival we will be shooting footage for future episodes of
TLVSN our cable access show.
About TLVSN
TLVSN features documentary, new media, experimental
and socially relevant work by artists and makers from around the world. By
using the mass media outlet of cable tv, TLVSN creates new cultural TV options.
TLVSN seeks to expose viewers to an alternative network of impactful information
and art. It's an effort at providing more cultural and political diversity
on the "public" cablewaves. We challenge the assumptions made
by those in power by participating in the sharing of alternative viewpoints,
cultural forms, new artforms, and dissenting opinion. By providing socially
driven and personal media art TLVSN hopes to become a viable and vital
part
of the Chicago public's public tv and internet options.
Leo by
Brant Villieux
Think satellites, space stations, and well, space is only for NASA and other
large entities? Well think again, there is literally tons
of debris that were placed in orbit by and for the weirdo common folk
like amateur radio
operators. Come drink all night and lurk via radio as our
favorite Low Earth Orbit (LEO1s) satellites pass by in the heavens and
listen to common ground
dwellers operate this really cool and low-fi equipment. At
optimum visual times see with your own eyes what a bit of your tax dollars
have placed up
there. (According to the past predictions, looks like early in the morning )
Matthew Nicholas
This new performance by Matthew Nicholas, with Eric Warner, is a further meditation upon the idea of the romanticized self in correlation with the premise of an interview. The two characters, The Elderly Youth and the hero named ISPEAKNOTHING, engage in an awkward interview, which leads to a perverse negligence of communication.
visit: www.matthewnicholas.com
Mobile Exhibitions
Truck 4 by Jon Song
Truck 4 is an
installation of photos shot from the perspective of Chicago surveillance
pods. It contains
150 night photographs tied to the strings
of floating balloons. Lit with the familiar blue strobes from under the
pods.
Surveillance images are taken at a distance and they are kept there. Most
are never seen. One Chicago police officer remarked that even he has a
hard time gaining access to POD surveillance images. Yet they are used
to replace
officers, as a tool to reduce patrols. What is left out of the images is
not considered until it is too late.
The installation asks what happens to all of those photos: the ones taken
of you at the store, or of you walking down the street. The photos shot
of you on your way to work and riding the elevator. Are they stored in
some
vault? Do they drift together on the waves of unread journal entries; documented
moments of time lost before they are forgotten. Appearing only at times
of crisis, when you are caught in some misdeed or as the last testimony
of a
loved one. Do our photos, our information, flirt with our past only to
be discovered far in the future? The everyday moments of our lives are
document
with our tax dollars and left to others, we never see them. If we could,
what would we find? Would the beauty of crossing the street or eating a
candy bar at a bus stop be apparent to us. When these moments are documented
do
they become special? Are they special if we do not see them? The truck
contains these moments and begs the beauty of everyday life.
A Field Guide to Convenience Stores of Tuscon, Arizzona
A Check List of the Automobiles of the city of Tuscon, Midtown
Bill Mackey makes guides and checklists much like Audubon Society members
use to reference their interests.
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Earthman
EarthMan is a self-contained, self-sustaining bio-environment survival
suit featuring the Air Terrarium BackPack Oxygen/Air Survival System®. Theoretically,
it can maintain a human in oxygen free, contaminated or otherwise extreme environments,
in outer space, and even in the most polluted and unlivable environments
on Earth.
EarthMan consists of a solar powered system including fans, air ducts,
lights, terrarium and plants that creates a bio exchange system that vents
the CO2 human exhaust from the helmet and suit to the Air Terrarium Backpack,
thus feeding the plants the necessary CO2 gas necessary for their survival. In
unison, the fan and air duct system delivers the oxygenated air of
the terrarium to the suit and helmet of EarthMan, supplying the oxygen
necessary for human survival, thus creating a simple biosphere exchange
system similar
to that of Planet Earth.
EarthMan and AirPort and related projects by Dion Laurent are dedicated
to Advanced Life Support Systems (ALSS) and Bio-regenerative Life Support
research. Conceptually,
If we continue to destroy our natural environment on Earth, it may be necessary
for all humans to wear such an EarthMan suit, much as humans must wear
a space suit to travel outside of our atmosphere.
EarthMan performances
may involve the planting of trees, the handing out of flowers, broadcasting
seeds, various other activities, or just passing
through environments whether human populated or not. Most performances
are documented on film and video.