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April 2012

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UIC MFA Portfolio: UIC MFA Spring 2012 Final Critiques Open to the Public → uicartmfa.biz

The UIC MFA Spring 2012 Final Critiques take place from April 30th - May 4th and are free and open to the public. All students and faculty will be present to showcase and discuss work from the current semester. Come watch things get BIZZY!

All locations in Art & Design Hall, 400 S. Peoria St.,…

If any Chicago people are interested in seeing MFA critiques at UIC, they are open to the public and all next week. Almost done…

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“Opposed to this creative urge toward a transformed future is the stabilizing force of an immutable present, overlaid, as this present is, by a stagnating slime, which stifles life in its tight, hard mold. The Russian name for this element is byt.” —From On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets by Jakobson.

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“…laws/concepts/faiths
The granite blocks of cities
And even the very sun’s reliable glow-
Everything had become as it were fluid,
Seemed to be sliding a little-
A little bit thinned and watered down.” —Mayakovsky from On a Generation That Squandered Its Poets by Jakobson.

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#Mayakovsky

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#Daniel Shea #Richard Galling #LVL3 Gallery #Chicago Art

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#things #media #objects #materials #possessions #mmmmmm

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What

30k followers, what the hell is wrong with you people.

“Newton says power is the ability to define phenomena and make it act in a desired manner. So, if we have the ability to define it, the only next thing to do is get organized; get organized! So when a pig walks up to you, or a pig gets to jivin’ with the people, you’ll be so organized, you’ll be learning some tactics…you’ll be learning some revolutionary principles! You’ll be having some guns hid out somewhere, you have some proper tactics! That when the pig gets to jivin’ with you, when the pig gets wrong, you whip your guns out on them, blow them away and then you have the ability, in fact, you have made that pig act in a desired manner.” —Huey Newton speech transcribed.

Apr 2, 201216 notes

#Huey Newton #ACAB

“Before one could address the questions above in good faith, one would need a serviceable definition of what “photography” (and here, its hypothetical exemplar, a “photograph”) is. Without veering into convoluted ontology, this “photography,” regardless of what might be argued to fall within its boundaries, seems best described as a type of “medium,” or “an agency or means of doing something,” and in its specific case, “the intervening substance through which impressions are conveyed to the senses or a force acts on objects at a distance.” Defined in this way, a medium is constituted by a dialectic of applied use and technological development, and is further defined by the conventionalization of the relationship between the two, a process that occurs over time and is in a state of constant revision. It would follow that a medium is never freed from its use, nor is it freed from its position between some agents in a transaction, and it is always steeped in the inertia of its conventions, for this is how, by analogy, each new relation between shifting technologies and new applications is self-historicizing and legible. This is the unending “crisis” of all media, the struggle between adherence to convention, and new relations between technology and use.” —Walead Beshty from SFMOMA.

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#Walead Beshty

“We people can only live in illusions - without them we simply cannot survive. Because there is no meaning in the world. There is absolutely no meaning. We only live in the illusion and from illusions.” —Anselm Kiefer interviewed by Boris Manner, 2006.

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#Anselm Kiefer

“I made a painting in 1986 of a plane going into a skyscraper. Both are high up. It was inevitable that they would meet once. It is logical that an aircraft finds a tower, that a tower finds an aircraft.” —Anselm Kiefer interviewed by Karen Wright in Modern Painters, 2006.

Type O Negative - Summer Breeze

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