Mas Context: Analog

Please join us next Saturday, October 15th for a pop-up bookshop from Golden Age and a series of presentations from emerging and established designers as part of MAS CONTEXT : ANALOG.  

MAS CONTEXT : ANALOG will gather a group of emerging and established practitioners within the field of design who will discuss their work based on proposed themes. The event will include presentations by photographers, filmmakers, architects, urban designers, graphic designers and industrial designers. Speakers include Lee Bey, David Schalliol, Jessica Rodrigue, John Szot, Andrew Moddrell and Christopher Marcinkoski, Sarah Dunn, Stewart Hicks and Allison Newmeyer, Brian Strawn and Karla Sierralta, Jeremiah Chiu, Karen Semone, Cheryl Towler Weese, Jason Pickleman, Caroline Linder and Lisa Smith, Cody Hudson, Craighton Berman and Rick Valicenti.

Plural, the Chicago-based creative studio will exhibit their work during the event.

More information and schedule 

 

Friday: Golden Age at Public Works

Public Works Speaker Series seeks to create a real, live knowledge base for making a life in the independent arts. We’re bringing in internationally recognized artists and creative entrepreneurs to speak to what we know to be true: ”Art makes work; work makes art.”

On Friday, September 16th, Golden Age (Marco Kane Braunschweiler and Martine Syms) joins James Goggin for a double-bill. We'll be talking about art: what we love, what we hate, who we love, who we hate and everything in between. After the chats there will be DJs and drinking. I'm on a cleanse right now, so I won't be drinking, but feel free to come and say hello.

More information at www.thispublicworks.com!

Lecture: James Goggin, Pop Culture Color Theory

Saturday, August 20, 2011, 6pm

James Goggin's ‘Pop Culture Color Theory’ lecture is an ongoing, continually evolving project which explores humankind’s attempts at codifying and commodifying color. From video test patterns to International Klein Blue, the Pantone Matching System to the Homeland Security Advisory System, color is endlessly refracted by our subjective perception into adaptable economic and semiotic structures.

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth

The Pruitt-Igoe Myth is a documentary that explores the fabled Minoru Yamasaki designed public housing project in St. Louis, Missouri. Demolished only twenty years after its construction, Pruitt-Igoe is often referred to as a failure of modernism. The project consisted of thirty-three, eleven-story buildings that spanned four city blocks. Originally built to solve a housing crisis, Pruitt-Igoe became a haven for crime, drugs and violence. My mother spent her youth living in Pruitt-Igoe. Her family fit the profile; black, single-parent, average of four children. Although her stories of living in the building are terrifying—and in stark contrast to my suburban youth in Southern California—she has an attachment to the project. It was her home. A few years ago she told me she wanted a shirt that read "Pruitt-Igoe Class of 1972." I'm excited to see The Pruitt-Igoe Myth tonight at Gene Siskel because it seems to get at the complicated story of public housing. In a recent interview, landscape architect Kathryn Gustafson remarked, "[M]yths don’t go away—they become silent because nobody is listening." With the last Cabrini-Green demolotion earlier this year, it's a particularly relevant time to start listening again.

TONIGHT: The Pruitt-Igoe Myth, 6:15pm, Gene Siskel Film Center