Monthly Archives: February, 2006

Student Video Art Profile

Student Video Art Profile

Student Video Art Profile

Student Video Art Profile

The Gay Gene: establish homo and hetero relationships on equal grounds.

Student Video Art Profile

The most common sexually transmitted infection (STI), genital HPV, is a “silent epidemic,” according to every medical professional I’ve talked to about it. About 75% of men and women of reproductive age have it, according to one study. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and American Social Health Association web sites say that among 15-24-year-olds, 9.2 million have been infected, although, because of the difficulty in detection, such studies may be inaccurate. The fact is that HPV is hugely widespread.

In the last week of the fall semester, FNews surveyed SAIC students, asking about their religion, spiritual beliefs, and politics, and when it comes to religion, many art students are undecided.

The acquisition of the Art & Project bulletins could not be timelier. As the SAIC curriculum continues to develop and change the role and form of exhibitions, having such a crucial primary source is a boon for research.

Encouraged by sites such as Match.com, Facebook, and Friendster, more people than ever are meeting in virtual spaces.

An Incomplete Map of Everything, a month-long series of performances curated by SAIC instructor and artist Mark Booth, opens Friday, February 3, at independent artistic Links Hall, with the experimental literature of Christian Bök and fellow SAIC instructor Terri Kapsalis.

Because of the recent successful debut of online enrollment, most students won't be standing in painfully long lines on the seventh floor of the Sharp Building to enroll in classes anymore.

Michael Rooks' latest show Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art opens at the Chicago Cultural Center on February 4. The exhibition brings together an all-star team of funny artists (think Tom Friedman and Erwin Wurm) with a few locals like Tony Tasset and SAIC faculty members David Robbins and Stephanie Brooks.

The morning of January 3, Corneliusen tightly wrapped a foot and a half of chain around his bare ankles and fastened them with a Master Lock padlock before sitting down to sketch the restraints. Upon finishing the drawing, he realized the key was missing.

SAIC alumnus Jason Salavon spoke January 12 in the Fullerton Auditorium about how he borrows from popular culture, media, and memory--essentially accumulating and compressing data--to produce images that move beyond traditional photography.