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WITHOUT YOU I AM NOTHING: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago @ the Green Lantern

2009-03-29T17:17:00.001-07:00

Let it be said that my experience with Providence, Rhode Island has been tainted by the sub-hip liberal arts majors (fucking everywhere) that track bike through town--box wine strapped to their back--on route to quiz the cashier of a contending fair-trade/co-op coffee shop on their extensive yet increasingly poor taste in classical music... "Debussy?... Really?"
With that said, there was not a lack of overly didactic dioramas on abortion, vegan recipes, and democratic interventionist drawing exercises at The Green Lantern's WITHOUT YOU I AM NOTHING: Cultural Democracy from Providence and Chicago, which runs until April 25th.

Corey Arnold: FISH-WORK

2009-03-29T17:13:00.000-07:00

Cody Hudson: thanks man, see you around man, fuck yeah, you guys are wild, thanks man, i dig it, see you

2009-03-29T16:31:00.000-07:00

Cody Hudson's first solo show in Chicago in years, represents a soulful (or soul-less) maturation of his twitchy, effervescent abstraction. In thanks man, see you around man, fuck yeah, you guys are wild, thanks man, i dig it, see you, the topographic ascension of balloons and their gradient geometric entanglements progress through reverent synapses of life and death to expose the synergistic relationships forged between. There is some divergent strategies in the editing and cohesion of the exhibition, but as Joseph Stalin once said, "Commodity has a quality of it's own." Thanks man, see you around man, fuck yeah, you guys are wild, thanks man, i dig it, see you, runs until May 9 at the Andrew Rafacz Gallery.

Women Get Fucked! - Alogon

2009-03-18T08:08:00.000-07:00

Chicago Art Spaces

2009-03-17T20:42:00.000-07:00

Hyde Park:

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DoVA Temporary 5228 S. Harper Ave

Dusable Museum of African American History 740 East 56th Place

Hyde Park Art Center 5020 S. Cornell Avenue

Museum of Science and Industry 57th Street and Lake Shore Drive

The Oriental Institute Museum 1155 East 58th Street

The Renaissance Society 5811 S. Ellis Avenue

Robie House 5757 S Woodlawn Ave.

Smart Museum of Art 5550 S. Greenwood Avenue

Self-Guided Route:

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thinkArt Salon 1530 North Paulina, Suite F

The Silver Room 1442 N. Milwaukee

65GRAND 378 W Grand Ave. (on noble st)

Alogon 1049 N. Paulina St. #3R

Around the Coyote 1935 1/2 West North Avenue

Barbara&Barbara 3144 W. Carroll Ave

Believe Inn 2043 N. Winchester Ave.

Boats Not Bridges 2295 W. Ohio St.

Country Club Chicago 1100 N. Damen Ave.

Devening Projects + Editions 3039 W. Carroll Ave.

Eel Space 2846 W. North Ave. #1A

Elegant Mr. Gallery 1355 N. Milwaukee Ave. #3

The Green Lantern Gallery and Press 1511 N. Milwaukee 2nd Fl.

Golden 816 W. Newport Ave. #1

The Green Bicycle Organization 1626 N. California Ave. #2

He said, She said, 831 S. Grove Ave. (Oak Park)

Heaven Gallery 1550 N. Milwaukee Ave. #2

HungryMan Gallery 2135 N. Rockwell St.

[inCUBATE] Institute for Community Understanding Between Art and The Everyday 2129 N. Rockwell St.

LivingRoom Gallery 1530 W. Superior St.

Lloyd Dobler Gallery 1545 W. Division St. #2

Mess Hall 6932 N. Glenwood Ave.

minidutch 3111 W. Diversey Ave. #1

The Nightingale 1084 N. Milwuakee Ave.

Old Gold 2022 N. Humboldt Blvd.

Phaiz Gallery 673 North Milwaukee Ave

The Post Family 1821 W. Hubbard St. Suite, 202

Roots & Culture 1034 N. Milwaukee Ave.

Scott Projects 1542 N. Milwaukee Ave. #3

Spudnik Press 1821 W. Hubbard St. #308

The Suburban 125 N. Harvey Ave. (Oak Park)

Swimming Pool Project Space 2858 W. Montrose Ave.

Thrones Gallery 123 N. Jefferson St. #3R

West Loop:

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ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation 832 W. Superior St. #204

EC Gallery 215 N. Aberdeen

Function + Art / PRISM Contemporary 1046-1048 W. Fulton Market

Gallery 2 847 W. Jackson Blvd. , Chicago

Kavi Gupta 835 W. Washington Blvd.

Kasia Kay 1044 W. Fulton Market St

Monique Meloche 118 N. Peoria

Leslie Hindman Auctioneers 1338 W. Lake

Rhona Hoffman Gallery 118 N. Peoria

Rowley Kennerk Gallery 119 N Peoria St #3C

Spoke 119 N. Peoria St. #3D

Mars Gallery 1139 W. Fulton Market

Gallery 400 400 S. Peoria Street (MC 034)

The MB Gallery 407 N. Elizabeth (60642)

Peter Miller Gallery 118 N Peoria St,

The McCormick Gallery 835 W. Washington

G.R. N'Namdi Gallery 110 N. Peoria

Andrew Rafacz Gallery 835 W. Washington Blvd.

Shane Campbell Gallery: Chicago 1431 W. Chicago Ave.

Packer Schopf Gallery 942 W. Lake

Thomas Robertello Gallery 939 W. Randolph

Carrie Secrist Gallery 835 W. Washington

ThreeWalls 119 N. Peoria #2D

Walsh Gallery 118 N. Peoria 2nd Fl.

Linda Warren Gallery 1052 W. Fulton Market

Western Exhibitions 119 N Peoria St, 2A

Tony Wight Gallery 119 N. Peoria, #2C

Woman Made Gallery 685 N. Milwaukee

Bridgeport/Pilsen:

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33 Collective Gallery
Zhou B. Art Center 1029 W. 35th St. First Floor

Antena 1765 S. Laflin St.

Brown Triangle 2214 W. 21st St.

Chicago Art Department 1837 S. Halsted St.

Co-Prosperity Sphere 3219-21 S. Morgan St.

Eastern Expansion 244 W. 31st St.

Golden Age 1744 W 18th Street

Knock Knock Gallery 3658 S. Wolcott Ave. #2F

La Espacia 1437 W. 17th St.

Mutherland 1125 W. 31st St.

No Coast 1500 W. 17th St.

Normal Projects 2844 S. Normal Ave.

Plaines Project 1822 S. Desplaines St.

Reuben Kincaid Project Space 3219 S. Morgan St.

Second Bedroom Project Space 3216 S. Morgan St. #4R

Vespine Gallery 1907 S. Halsted St.

Zhou B Art Center 1029 W. 35th St.

Museum:

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Artropolis The Merchandise Mart (the big fucking brick)

Finestra Art Space The Fine Arts Building (410 S. Michigan Avenue Suite 516)

Art Institute of Chicago 111 S Michigan

The Arts Club of Chicago 201 East Ontario St.

Chicago Architecture Foundation 224 South Michigan Ave.

MCCORMICK TRIBUNE FREEDOM MUSEUM 445 North Michigan Avenue

Joel Oppenheimer, Inc. 410 N. Michigan, Ste. 1

Gage Gallery 18 S Michicagn Avenue (Fl. 1 of Gage Building F)

President's Gallery, at Harold Washington College 30 E. Lake Room 1105

Donald Young Gallery 224 S. Michigan Ste. 266

LUMA: Loyola University Museum of Art 820 N. Michigan

Chicago Cultural Center 78 E. Washington

The City Gallery 806 N. Michigan Avenue

International Museum of Surgical Science 1524 N. Lake Shore Dr.

Museum of Contemporary Photography 600 S. Michigan Ave.

Millenium Park Madison N' Michigan

Museum Of Contemporary Art 220 E. Chicago Ave.

Newberry Library 60 W. Walton St.

Averill and Bernard Leviton A+D Gallery 619 S. Wabash Ave.

Center for Book & Paper Arts 1104 S. Wabash, 2nd Fl

Betty Rymer Gallery 280 S. Columbus Dr.

Spertus Museum 610 S. Michigan Ave.

Sullivan Galleries 33 S. State Street, Seventh Floor

River North:

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Addington Gallery 704 N. Wells

I Space Gallery 230 West Superior Street 2nd FL

Jean Albano Gallery 215 W. Superior

ArchiTech Gallery 730 N. Franklin Ste. 200

Aldo Castillo Contemporary 465 E. Illinois, Suite 160

Andrew Bae Gallery 300 W. Superior

Koppel Alan Gallery 210 W Chicago Ave

Melanee Cooper Gallery 740 N. Franklin

Catherine Edelman Gallery 300 W. Superior

Carl Hammer Gallery 740 N. Wells

Perimeter Gallery 210 W. Superior

Maya Polsky Gallery 215 W. Superior

Printworks 311 W. Superior

Schneider Gallery 230 W. Superior

David Weinberg Gallery 300 W. Superior St. Ste. 203

Zolla / Lieberman Gallery 325 W. Huron

Zg gallery 300 W. Superior St.

New York City Gallery

2009-02-22T14:05:00.001-08:00

THE END OF ANALOG-Roots and Culture (review soon)

2009-02-22T13:19:00.000-08:00

Who pays the minter's bills?-proposal-ish

2009-02-10T08:47:00.000-08:00

The American intellectual property and copyright regimes have positioned themselves in-dictate over the immaterial vectors of culture, education, and community.
In doing this they have not only secured themselves as exclusive beneficiaries, but have stymied any progression towards a fiscal recognition of cognitive capital. A recognition that knowledge and culture is more akin to the road and highway system, than to golden turds.
For substantial change to occur, one must parch these traditional architectures of capitalism by bearing the foreign fruits from the cognitive land of demand... If it can be made to be free, so shall it must be...for now.
A gift-economy not only incitates the formal inequities from overbearing institutions, but also temporarily inverts the power-structures into the hands of it’s “consumers”. This, if precisely implemented, creates a new and highly superior default.
When this change becomes defaulted and is then stripped away, it fractures what is left of reason from the contemporary condition. In insubordinating reason, a new population of dissonance is propogated in the footsteps of culture’s primordial bridge troll... securing an institutional foundation, from the inside out...
The aim of this project is to force the governing institutions of knowledge and culture into the immaterial vectors they attempt to control... summoning their eminence and impotence to a conscious platform from which the first steps toward the veritable horizon can be seen to be set. Change, mother-fucker...

Proposal:
1.)Construct a book scanner, costing less than $300.
2.)Digitalize entire 1,000 level reading list from any one of Chicago’s major universities (a law school would be fun).
3.)Convert books (with pre-existing softwares) into searchable .pdfs, OCR to texts, and searchable .mp3 files (via highly complex auto-readers).
4.)Distribute.

1.) A book scanner can be constructed using two Canon SLRs, two tripods, a simple lighting setup, free software, and a day spent at Home Depot. Not only will this actualize the scanning of text books, Lumpen Archives, Zines (at 100 times the speed), but other people’s books as well. Simple advertisements within Lumpen or Proximity to “Digitalize Books, Zines, Portfolios, Comics, Archives, ETC.” for a nominal donation, could establish a new fiscal support system for the Public Media Institue.

2.) Digitalizing only 1000 level text books secures a dissonance when the budding young producers are confronted with the reality that they now have to drop $1000 on text books. This is more poignant in effect with freshman, for juniors would feel gifted, not entitled.

3.) Creating searchable .pdf’s and .mp3’s of the texts, not only allows one to google what they’re skimming for, but they can study Proust on their iPod while doing the dishes. Better, cheaper, faster.

4.) self-explanatory...