talk20:chicago UPDATE

talk20: Chicago

Our new edition of talk20: Chicago will be hosted this Friday February 16th at IIT's very own Crown Hall.

Martin Felson + software designer, IIT
Julie Flohr, IIT
Thomas Kerns + New York colleague, IIT
Penelope Dean, UIC, editor of ‘Hunch’
John Jourden, archinet director
Paula Palombo, extensiongallery director
Laura Fehlberg & Mark Nagis, Art Institute

and more to come...

More on talk20:Spartanburgh

I came across some of the interesting images some of the speakers will show tonight at our new edition of talk20: South Carolina (Spartanburg).

I picked this image up from this guy Brian Hitselberg who is going to speak on art pieces by his friends

"That’s a little over 6,000 cigarette butts gorrilla-glued vertically (filter-side out) to create a pointilist image of an Abercrombie model. My buddy from Tulane Brian Glaser made it (and by the way, you can catch it in this month’s issue of Interior Design magazine).Brian doesn’t smoke. He found all of these and separated them into “colors.” In person, it’s jaw-dropping, if not highly stinky. Brian’s obsessive-compulsion and frankness of self were a big inspiration for me at school. He’s also hilarious and a genuinely nice guy."

I guess this really makes you wonder what your lungs look like after years of smoking.

talk20:Spartanburgh

This edition of talk20 will have have presenters covering topics from climbing Mount Kiliimanjaro to Spartanburg oddities to Sculpture parks to experimental aircraft to the history of punk rock to great works of art to a local effort to get bikes to Africa. There's definitely something for everone. Make sure to come over and check this one out. SATURDAY, January 27th @7:30. check out the hub-hub.