Chicago Art Events- Daniel Everett - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - April 2nd 6:00 PM - 9:30 PMDaniel Everett repurposes technology, including videogames of his youth, computers, and the Internet to explore the intersection of public and private space. The exhibition opens April 2 during First Fridays as part of the monthly UBS 12 x 12: New Artists/New Work exhibition series at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago and is on view through May 2 […]
- Félicia Atkinson, White/Light - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - March 27th 3:00 PM - 4:00 PMAs part of the March UBS 12 x 12: New Artists / New Work series, sound and visual artist Félicia Atkinson performs on March 27 in the 12 x 12 gallery space, and on March 28 White/Light gives their final 12 x 12 performance, also in the gallery space. Experimental music duo White/Light -- musician Matt Clark and sound engineer Jeremy Lemos -- create an intera […]
- Friese Undine - Packer Schopf Gallery - April 2nd 5:00 PM - 8:00 PMIt is common for children to imagine that one of their parents is an imposter; that through some grand deceit a better, more honorable parent was replaced. What is called in psychoanalysis, "family romance" might reflect the popular dis-ease with human evolution. In The Trial of Proconsul the parent of all primates, Proconsul himself, is interrog […]
- Ted Halkin - Corbett vs. Dempsey - April 2nd 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM[…]
- Gazira Babeli, Janell Baxter, Patrick Lichty/Cao Fei, Scott Kildall - Antena - April 2nd 6:00 PM - 10:00 PMLiminality describes the nature of being “in-between”; neither here nor there – or perhaps here and there. This exhibition explores the nature of liminality though examining work from the virtual world, Second Life, and its dialogues with issues of physicality via an exhibition at Antena Gallery, Chicago and on I Am Columbia Island in Second Life. The show w […]
- Daniel Everett - Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) - April 2nd 6:00 PM - 9:30 PM
Category Archives: Architecture
Homes for Haiti – Architecture Watch
“Parliament has collapsed. The tax office has collapsed. Schools have collapsed. Hospitals have collapsed.” — President Rene Preval of Haiti
As Preval noted, Haiti’s rebuilding efforts in the wake of January’s 7.0 earthquake won’t be complete without a manifold approach, as the entire infrastructure of the nation and its capital, Port-au-Prince, has crumbled under thousands of [...]
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Weekly Architecture Design Digest
1st up:
The Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica by Frederick Fisher + Partners:
http://archidose.blogspot.com/2010/01/todays-archidose-384.html
Modest community beach house open to the public and available for those special events on the beach.
LA Times’ Christopher Hawthorne’s Top 10 Architectural Moments of 2009:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/12/architecture-2009-christopher-hawthornes-top-10.html
Need an architecture guide? There’s an App for that:
http://archidose.blogspot.com/2010/01/app-architecture-guides.html
The Remnants of the BioSphere:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/remnants-of-biosphere.html
Photographer Noah Sheldon got in [...]
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Jackson Clements Burrows – Separation Creek House
The treehouse is sited in the bush fringe of Separation Creek, perched on a steep forested hillside above the Great Ocean Road and Bass Strait. It is a site that enjoys a unique combination of bush environment with intimate views of Separation Creek, the beach and the Wye River Peninsula to beyond.
Architects: Jackson Clements Burrows [...]
Mount Fuji Architects Studio – Plus