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Plays Well with Others: groups, teams, and friends
Spring 2006 Art + Design Department Lecture Series
Columbia College Chicago
February 1
The Bird Machine + Punk Planet Panel Discussion,
moderated by writer Joe Meno Reception and Book signing after the lecture, A+D Gallery, 619 S. Wabash
The Bird Machine website
Punk Planet website
Punk Planet article in The Nation
The Bird Machine is becoming legendary. Founded by Jay Ryan,and featuring the work of Mat Daly and Diana Sudyka, this prolific machine hums along producing charming silk-screened posters for bands like Shellac, Hum, Stereolab, Interpol, among many others. You may have seen one or two of Ryan's posters in Wicker Park or at the Empty Bottle. Now you can see them in his new book 100 Posters, 134 Squirrels published by Punk Planet Books.
An independent magazine edited by Dan Sinker and Anne Elizabeth Moore, Punk Planet focuses much of its energy covering music, visual arts and a wide variety of progressive issues --including media criticism, feminism, and labor issues. Punk Planet is renowned for its music reviews, critical stance, and interviews; these last have been published in an anthology entitled We Owe You Nothing . (They are currently compiling an anthology of their articles, called Weapons and Motives , to be released in early 2007.) Moore and Sinker also head up Punk Planet Books, a diverse books line in conjunction with Akashic Books in New York. Their other recent publications include Joe Meno's novel Hairstyles of the Damned . Meno is professor of creative fiction at Columbia College and will moderate a discussion by the Bird Machine and the Punk Planet crews.
March 15
Chuck Anderson of NoPattern
Chuck Anderson’s career as a graphic designer is on fire. And the impressive thing is that he’s 19 years old. His clients include Nike, Reebok, Absolut Vodka, Vagrant Records, among many others. His work has appeared in The Royal, Thrasher, Transworld, Slap, and Teen People. He was a speaker at the 2005 Design is Kinky, Semi-Permanent Conference in New York, and he’s been tapped to judge this year’s graphic design entries for the 85th Annual Art Director’s Club Awards.
No Pattern website
Interview at Zero In
Interview at Crative Behavior.com
April 11
Amy Franceschini of Future Farmers
In collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art
MCA theater, 220 E. Chicago, 6:00-7:00 pm
The Richard and Mary L. Gray Lectures are made possible through a generous gift to the Chicago Contemporary Campaign
Amy Franceschini is a pioneer in the field of net art and the founder of Futurefarmers, an art and design collaborative dedicated to expressing environmentally sustainable community interests through digital media.
Future farmers website
May 3
Julie Ault of Group Material
Julie Ault is an artist who frequently assumes a curatorial role as a form of practice, individually and collaboratively organizing exhibitions, multiform projects and publications. Ault is a founding member of Group Material, a New York based artists collaborative that has produced over fifty exhibitions and public projects exploring relationships between politics and aesthetics between 1979 and 1996. She has taught at Ecole Supérieure d'Art Visuel in Geneva, UCLA, the Rhode Island School of Design, CalArts, and the Cooper Union.Her book, Alternative Art New York, 1965-1985 (University of Minnesota Press and The Drawing Center, New York, 2002), presents a multifaceted history of New York's alternative art scene during a time of rapid social change.
Art Forum Interview
Public Art - a talk by Julie Ault
All lectures free + open to public, 6:30-7:30, Room 203, 623 S. Wabash unless noted otherwise
???contact Debra Parr 3123447887 or dparr@colum.edu
Fresh Picks
Exhibition
March 1st - 14th. Floors 7, 8 and 9 in the
623 S. Wabash Building
Adobe Partners
By Design Contest
Submission Dates: March 15th - May
15th
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