Fwd: The final 2 noon hour talks at SAIC "Artist as urban planner" 9-23 and "YOUgenics" 12-7

Nov. 20, 2004

Type: discussion

> Announcing the 4th installment of the new
> Border/Hacking/Mapping/Culture
> SAIC Tuesday 12-1pm Lunchbox Series
> 112 S. Michigan Room 707
> Bring your lunch!
>
> November 23
> "Artist as Urban Planner"
> With presentations by Emily Forman (SAIC Alumni) and Eric
> Triantafillou (SAIC MFA)
>
> About the presenters:
>
> Emily Forman has worked collaboratively and across disciplines as an
> artist, garbologist, and curator on initiatives ranging from the
> Department of Space and
> Land Reclamation to the StreetRec collective and the Autonomous
> Territories of Chicago. She is a corresponding editor for the LA-based
> Journal of Aesthetics and Protest and is busy constructing a DIY
> television studio for the ends of feminist trespass. More information
> about these projects can be found at
> www.counterproductiveindustries.com and www.pilotchicago.org
>
> In 1999 Eric Triantafillou formed the San Francisco Print Collective,
> a group of artsists that address things like gentrification,
> displacement and homelessness with street postering, billboard
> reclamation and stenciling campaigns. These actions have led to the
> creation of several ideologically autonomous public spaces around the
> city. The SFPC works closely with several local advocacy organizations
> towards the development of a community-based planning process in the
> Mission District of SF. Since then Eric has initiated similar
> initiatives in Romania and Cincinnati, Ohio. He is currently a
> graduate student at the Art Institute of Chicago. See www.mindbomb.ro
>
> \\\\\And finally, with a change in location////////
>
> December 7
> *At the Betty Rhymer Gallery, 280 s Columbus Drive
> YOUgenics: Mapping the Politics of the Genome
> With Faith Wilding and Ryan Griffis
>
> About the Presenters:
> Ryan Griffis is an artist and educator currently residing in Los
> Angeles. He has also produced writing on culture, media and politics
> for (the late) New Art Examiner, Rhizome and Furtherfield. Current
> projects include The Temporary Travel Office, an ongoing exploration
> of the politics of technology through the language of tourism, and
> YOUgenics, a series of art exhibitions and events dealing with the
> politics of genetic technologies. The third exhibition of
> YOUgenics will open at the Betty Rymer Gallery in December 2004.
> See http://www.yougenics.net/ for more information
>
>
> Faith Wilding is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, and educator who
> collaborates with groups and individuals both nationally and
> internationally. Currently she is a member of subRosa, a reproducible
> cyberfeminist cell of cultural researchers committed to combining
> tactical media, activism, and politics to explore and critique the
> intersections of the new information and biotechnologies in women's
> bodies, lives, and work. subRosa produces artworks, performances,
> workshops, contestational campaigns and projects, publications, media
> interventions, and public forums. Recent Wilding/subRosa
> performances/exhibitions: "The Interventionists", MASSMoCA;
> "BioDifference" Biennial of Electronic Arts, Perth, Au.; YOUGenics,
> Betty Rymer Gallery, SAIC; "International Markets of Flesh,"
> Performance International, Mexico City; "ExpoEmmaGenics,"Intermediale,
> Mainz; "Cloning Cultures,"National University, Singapore; Welcome to
> the Revolution, Zurich; Art of Maintenance, Kunstakademie, Vienna.
> Publications:Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices. Autonomedia, 2003
> (co-editor, writer). Numerous essays including in The Power of
> Feminist Art. Abrams, 1995. Grants: NEA, NEH, NYSCA, PCA, Creative
> Capital.
> Faith Wilding URL > www.art.cfa.cmu.edu/wilding/<
> subRosa: >www.cyberfeminism.net<
>
>
>
>
> About the Lunchbox Series:
> More and more artists have been responding to issues such as uneven
> development, gentrification, and the increasing privatization of
> public,
> intellectual and creative space. Using acts of mapping, these
> contemporary
> forms of intervention challenge the spatial and political norms of
> organization and representation. For this semester's VAP lecture
> series, a
> collection of SAIC affiliated artists (staff, faculty, students,
> alumni), have
> been asked to present their work and the work of others in a Tuesday
> noon time
> discussion series. This format has been created help foster inner-
> institutional dialogue that will compliment the VAP lecture format.
> Contact organizer Daniel Tucker for more information [email protected]
>
> Lead Corporate Sponsor: Sara Lee Foundation
> This Program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts
> Council
> See http://www.artic.edu/saic/art/vap/
>