Sonic Meditations XIII (1974) By Pauline Oliveros Read more…
Algorithmic Empathy?
As dusk settled over the MCA, whispers and quiet jokes mingled with the passing lights and reflected glass, humming across Chicago. A piano sat at the small crowd’s center, its still, wooden body pronounced against the spectators’ static flutterings andRead more…
The Contemporary: Technology of the Grand and Mundane
Looking up from my desk I see an old and familiar photo, pinned and curling. I remember seeing it for the first time leafed between a stack of musky, sepia portraits—people I’ll never know, nor really care to. This photo—aRead more…
Information’s Narrative
“There is an essential … distinction between stories, on the one hand, which have, as their goal, an end, completeness, closure, and, on the other hand, information, which is always, by definition, partial, incomplete, fragmentary.” -Susan Sontag Reading Maria PopovaRead more…
Exploring a Subject in Lens: Alex Walker and Thomas Ruff
Drawing from a rich collection at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art, former Curatorial Assistant, Karsten Lund, crafts a dynamic exhibit featuring photographical portraits from the 1940s to 2006. According to Lund, Witness, explores the role of the photographer in perceivingRead more…
Spectrum of the Real
The show begins when I enter the room. Tseng Kwong Chi, ready to amaze, pulls the curtain back in a swift motion of pop-star grace. He draws to perform or maybe to fight, welcome or send away. I stand backRead more…
Where O America are you: Exploring Francesca Anderegg’s “Wild Cities”
Winding through the neon lights of electronic dance music, the dusty panes of Appalachian fiddling, and the fluid shadows of post-Romanticism, Francesca Anderegg delivers a dynamic and adventurous look into the contemporary life of classical music. In her latest album,Read more…
No Time to Care: Cultural Criticism’s Corporate Millennium
The number of professional critics dwindles in the face of the internet’s instantaneous, all-inclusive platform. With amateurs’ impromptu reviews multiplying, the space for complex critical thought becomes smaller and smaller, melting into a wide and shallow sea of quick judgementsRead more…