Re: [rumori] Illegal Art Chicago


From: Sonar Radar (intothegloamingATyahoo.com)
Date: Mon Jan 27 2003 - 17:01:34 PST


Jessica:

Will your how be coming to LA? regards, sonar

--- Jessica Clark <jessicaATinthesetimes.com> wrote:
> Jessica Clark here; co-organizer of the Chicago
> Illegal Art show...
>
> Thanks for the nice description, James! We were very
> pleased with the
> turnout and the new artists. The piece you mentioned
> by Dan Lynch can be
> seen at http://www.sp3d.com/shield/, along with his
> comments about how it
> was made. We're working to get the new pieces up on
> the Web.
>
> Next two events:
> Video Mash-Up, Feb 7/8 at the buddy. space
> (http://www.lumpen.com/events/illegal/art.html)
>
> Who Owns Ideas? Panel Debate at the Chicago
> Historical Society, 6-8 pm,
> featuring Lawrence Lessig, Jonathan Tasini, DJ
> Spooky and others TBD
>
> Not sure yet about San Francisco; looks good, but
> we'll keep you posted!
>
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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> Associate Publisher
> In These Times
> phone: 773.772.0100, x246
> fax: 773.772.4180
> jessicaATinthesetimes.com
> www.inthesetimes.com
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Allenspach" <jimaATlegnog.com>
> To: "snuggles" <snugglesATkuci.org>; "rumori"
> <rumoriATdetritus.net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 25, 2003 10:56 PM
> Subject: [rumori] Illegal Art Chicago
>
>
> > We attended the opening reception at the Illegal
> Art show tonight. There
> > was a great turnout; by the time we left, there
> were at least 70 people
> > there. Pretty much all of the pieces on the IA
> Website were represented.
> > Personal favorite was definitely the Wally Wood
> Disneyland poster; you
> > can't really see the detail from the small image
> on the site, and
> > there's a lot of amazing detail in the thing. I
> love the two extra pairs
> > of legs underneath Alice's skirt, in the upper
> right-hand corner.
> >
> > Local artists were well-represented, too. There
> were some new additions
> > to the show specifically for this leg of the tour.
> Our favorite was this
> > strange quilted picture with Spiderman; it looks
> like a painting until
> > you get up close and notice it's a quilt! Also
> represented was none
> > other than Dan Lynch, who has dome some graphic
> design for Negativland.
> > He had this amazing portrait of a smirking George
> W., standing in front
> > of a Ryder truck being driven by Timothy McVeigh.
> Below the poster was a
> > long detailed essay on how he constructed the
> portrait. Wish I had had
> > time to read the whole thing!
> >
> > The video portion of the show was also
> represented. There's a smallish
> > room that I'm guessing is normally the breakroom
> for the In These Times
> > staff, where they had set up a VCR and TV. The
> tape they ran apparently
> > had about two hours worth of material on it,
> including not only the
> > pieces on the IA site, but a bunch of shorts from
> people like SF's
> > Laughing Squid and the Guerilla News Network. The
> best piece of video I
> > saw was this wonderful thing on the war on
> terrorism that inter-cut
> > footage of GWB blinking and looking foolish, with
> footage of the
> > weird-ass banjo-playing kid from 'Deliverance'.
> It's online, if you want
> > to see it. But it's only available in Windows
> Media format, unfortunately.
> >
> >
>
http://www.sundanceonlinefilmfestival.com/shorts01_06.html
> >
> > So.. yeah! The show is open, it looks great, and
> there are some
> > excellent events coming up in the next month or so
> as part of it. If
> > you're in the vicinity, you should definitely
> check it out.
> >
> > jma
> >
> >
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