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Nicolas Maigret [Paris] && HARD R [Chicago] @ the Nightingale, 21 February, 2012

13 February, 2012 by


presented by Upgrade!Chicago (curated by Nick Briz)
@ the Nightingale
1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL, 60642 (map)

Tuesday, February 21, 2012
@ 7PM
$5 donation

On Tuesday, Feb 21, at 7pm, Upgrade!Chicago presents an evening of experimental sound/music performances and noise/new-media lectures by Nicolas Maigret (Paris) and HARD R (Chicago).

Upgrade!Chicago is an art and technology series which presents new-media projects, engages in informal critique, and fosters dialogue and collaboration between individual artists. Upgrade! Chicago is the local node of the international Upgrade! network and meets at the Nightingale Theatre.

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Nicolas Maigret has been developing experimental sound and electronic image projects (performances, installations, programming, radio) since 2001. Maigret takes the internal characteristics of the media, which are revealed through their errors, dysfunctions, borderlines or failure threshold, and develops them into sensory and immersive audio visual experiences.

After studying Intermedia arts with a focus in avant-garde theoretical education, he joined the laboratory Locus-Sonus in Nice dedicated to networked sound art research.

Maigret taught at the Fine Arts School of Bordeaux and is presently involved in an artist run space named Plateforme in Paris. He develops digital and sound art projects in collaboration with Nicolas Montgermont under the name Art Of Failure. His works have been presented in various exhibitions and venues such as File (Sao Paulo, BR); Gli.tc/h (Birmingham, UK); DeOrigenBélico, (Caracas, VE); Sonica (Ljubljana, SI); Leeds Film Festival (UK); Le Zoo (Genève, CH); Artivistic (Montreal, CA); ESG (Kosice, SK); Cimatics (Brussels, BE); Gaite Lyrique (Paris, FR).

http://peripheriques.free.fr/ + http://artoffailure.free.fr/

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HARD R is a Chicago-based collaboration between Michael Junokas and Edward Breitweiser. Together, Junokas and Breitweiser design software and electronic systems for improvised musical performances.

Michael Junokas is a member of the faculty at Elmhurst College, teaching music theory and composition. He is also the music director at Notre Dame de Chicago Parish. In 2010, he graduated from DePaul University with an M.M., studying under Juan Campoverde Q.

Edward Breitweiser is a Chicago-based artist, musician, and writer. His works have been presented at Festival MusicAlp (Courchevel, FR); the Illinois State University Galleries (Normal, IL, USA); the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; Salle Cortot (Paris, France); threewalls (Chicago); the Giorgio Cini Foundation (Venice, IT); Stramash Space (Glasgow, UK); and the Network Music Festival (Birmingham, UK).

www.hardr.bandcamp.com

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BYOB Chicago, at the MCA, 18 October 2011

16 October, 2011 by

.gif by Chris Collins

.gif by Rachel Milton

.gif by Chelsey Hoff

.gif by Brian Khek

.gif by Theodore Darst

.gif by Andrew Rosinski

BYOB Chicago #2
18 October 2011, 6–8pm, free
at The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (map)

BYOB is a series of one-night exhibitions in which artists explore the medium of projection using their own “beamers” (projectors). BYOB has taken place in more than 40 cities throughout the world. Originally conceived by artist Rafaël Rozendaal, BYOB Chicago brings together Chicago-based artists to create a collaborative happening of multiple, simultaneous video projections that fill the walls of the museum’s café, Puck’s at the MCA. BYOB Chicago is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in collaboration with Nicholas O’Brien and Brian Khek.

Participating Artists Include:

Ramsey Alderson
Daniel Baird
Mark Beasley
Thom Brandt
Nick Briz
Jon Cates
Chris Collins
Theodore Darst
Arend deGruyter-Helfer
Louis Doulas
Lauren Elder
Daniel Everett
Eric Fleischauer
Bea Fremderman
Geoff Hanssler
Alex Herrera
Nate Hitchcock
Chelsey Hoff
Brian Khek
André Lenox
Evan Lenox
William Evan May
Rachael Milton
Judd Morrissey
Andrew Rosinski
Jon Satrom
Micah Shippa
PplSft
Brad Troemel
Heather-Marie Vernon
Sarah Weis
Andrew Norman Wilson
Samuel D. York

 

More:
http://www.byobworldwide.com/
Internet Superheros: MCA

 

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Chris Cuellar @ the Nightingale presented by Upgrade! Chicago, 4 October, 2011

3 October, 2011 by

Chris Cueller @ the Nightingale
presented by Upgrade! Chicago
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
the Nightingale Theatre
1084 N MILWAUKEE AVE. CHICAGO IL 60642 (map)

Chris Cuellar is a Los Angeles (previously Chicago) based new-media artist, writer and provocateur. His works occupy various media simultaneously including www, installation, social-media and printed texts. His pieces, occasionally brain-busting but often conceptually simple, deal with themes of digital identity, distribution of information, labor, spam, networks and telepresence in a way that never fails to incite a re-evaluation of these issues. He has worked and performed for the Austin New Music Co-op in Austin, TX; the School of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hyde Park Art Center; the Red Rover Reading Series in Chicago; and Diapason Gallery in Brooklyn.

Chris Cuellar will be presenting on a series he recently organized for the art21 blog where he transformed the guest column into “a practical art-making resource” as well as a “vehicle for the un- distribution of existing works.” He asked a small group of artists to give away their secrets in the form of online tutorials. “Each how-to is meant to give the reader enough information to accurately reproduce the project presented.” Furthermore, “in order to reduce issues of artistic ownership, each artist’s contribution has been more or less ‘anonymized’ before posting, with as many overt references to the the individual artist or original project removed as possible.” Cuellar asks why display a work when you can use a work? Why distribute copies when you can distribute a process?

“Why buy a work, when you can just make it yourself?”

Read more about the series and view the tutorials on the art21 blog.

Upgrade! Chicago is the local Chicago-based node of the international Upgrade! network, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. Upgrade! Chicago presents new media projects, engages in informal critique, and fosters dialogue and collaboration between individual artists. Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year. http://upgradechicago.org

Upgrade! Chicago meets @ The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642
The Nightingale is a rough and ready microcinema dedicated to screening emerging work across film, video, and new media genres and aims to support Chicago’s vibrant cinema community.

http://nightingaletheatre.org

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Tonight: Theodore Darst and Louis Doulas on Curating New Media at Upgrade! Chicago, The Nightingale, April 12, 2011

12 April, 2011 by

Theodore Darst and Louis Doulas on Curating New Media
Upgrade! Chicago
2011.04.12
The Nightingale (map)
7PM
FREE
1084 N. Milwaukee
Chicago, IL 60642

Theodore Darst curates TLVSN, “a monthly series of video and new media screenings/performances.” TLVSN has recently featured the work of Chelsey Hoff, Bit_Synthesis (Ben Baker-Smith), CRACKED RAY TUBE (James Connolly and Kyle Evans), Arcane Bolt (Mark Beasley, Alex Inglizian, Tamas Kemenczy), Jon Satrom, and many more.

Darst will discuss organizing and curating these events and issues related to New Media Art events IRL (in real life).

Louis Doulas curated and ran the online exhibition space, The Gallery Space (TGS). Doulas exhibited various international artists in solo and group shows in/on TGS including Ryan Barone, Colin Schappi, tanner america, Petra Cortright, Arend deGruyter-Helfer, Dain Oh, and many more. Incorporating models from offline galleries, while also focusing on the particularities of online platforms, TGS dealt with issues such as, “our dependency on digital documentation as a way of experiencing artwork.” Doulas will discuss contemporary online curatorial practices — tracing these practices across blogs such as VVORK and Rhizome, to spaces such as Jst Chillin’ and Chrystal Gallery — while looking at how online spaces and AFK (away from keyboard) spaces, such as the BYOB series, can cooperate and propose new directions.

Nick Briz will facilitate a discussion following their presentations.

Nick Briz, an organizer of GLI.TC/H and curator of various Glitch Art programs, will moderate the discussion following the presentations by the artists/organizers/curators.

Upgrade! Chicago is the local Chicago-based node of the international Upgrade! network, an emerging network of autonomous nodes united by art, technology, and a commitment to bridging cultural divides. Its decentralized, non-hierarchical structure ensures that Upgrade! (i) operates according to local interests and their available resources; and (ii) reflects current creative engagement with cutting edge technologies. Upgrade! Chicago presents new media projects, engages in informal critique, and fosters dialogue and collaboration between individual artists. Upgrade! International functions as an online, global network that gathers annually in different cities to meet one another, showcase local art, and work on the agenda for the following year.

Upgrade! Chicago meets @ The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL 60642

The Nightingale is a rough and ready microcinema dedicated to screening emerging work across film, video, and new media genres and aims to support Chicago vibrant cinema community.

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a beach in Boston, July 23rd – August 28th: Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media

22 July, 2010 by

a beach (2010) | click to enlarge

My two-part film, a beach (2010), will be wavin’ simultaneously on two monitors at the Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media, as part of Refresh, “an exhibition of video and animation work that explores an alternative aesthetic in digital media artwork.” … “Refresh features a group of artists that all ask the viewer to reevaluate our collective definition of digital beauty and the value we place on visual quality in contemporary culture.”

The opening reception is tomorrow, 23 July, 2010, and the exhibit will sit pretty 23 July – August 28th, 2010. Artists in the show include: Nick Briz (Chicago), Michelle Ceja (NY), Clint Ennis (Canada), Elna Frederick (the internet), Doug Goodwin and Rebecca Baron (Los Angeles), Duncan Malashock (NY), Rosa Menkman (a Dutch-visualist DINCA recently interviewed, the Netherlands), Andrew Rosinski (Chicago), and Nicolas Sassoon (Canada).

This exhibition is curated by Yuri Stone.

REFRESH

23 July – 28 August, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, July 23, 6-9pm

Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media is pleased to present Refresh, an exhibition of video and animation work that explores an alternative aesthetic in digital media artwork. Refresh features a group of artists that all ask the viewer to reevaluate our collective definition of digital beauty and the value we place on visual quality in contemporary culture.

Spanning from 8bit and ascii animations to manipulated digital video, this exhibition creates an aesthetic and conceptual dialogue that allows us to question conventions of digital media in our society as well as our relationship to new and past technology.  The artists included in this exhibition evoke notions of nostalgia, document unintended artifacts, and push the boundaries of the ↓field by experimenting with new technologies.  In doing so, these artists create a refreshingly alternative digital practice that functions outside of the mainstream aesthetic.

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Axiom Center for New and Experimental Media
Refresh Exhibit Page
Nick Briz
Michelle Ceja
Elna Frederick
Doug Goodwin and Rebecca Baron
Duncan Malashock
Rosa Menkman
Andrew Rosinski
Nicolas Sassoon

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