F Newsmagazine - The School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Art, Culture, and Politics

Julie Rodruigez

What has Obama done for us lately?

It may be difficult to sift through the heaps of extraneous media coverage to discover Obama's successes and failures.

The Big World: A Review

The Big World: Recent Art From China provides a glimpse into a thriving, politically provocative art scene that few Western art lovers have had a chance to experience.

The evolution of prosthetics

Technology has actually progressed so far in some areas that there are concerns prosthetics may function better than mere flesh and blood.

Town Hall Audience Response

A case for accountability

On cyborgs

F Newsmagazine writer Julie Rodriguez sits down with John Barnes, the author of nearly 30 books of science fiction (and the occasional fantasy novel), to chat about cyborgs, war, and the realistic applications of imagined technology.

Tax Do's and Don'ts

April is here, and that means it’s time to file your taxes! With that in mind, F Newsmagazine is here to help.

Sita Sings the Blues

Perhaps more interesting than any of the questions Nina Paley's animated film, Sita Sings the Blues, raise about the human condition is the controversial question surrounding it's creation. Simply, do attempts to protect intellectual property rights stifle creative development?

Cultural Conflicts

Eric Garcia's recent mixed media installation at LG Space, "Cultural Conflicts," showed that his satirical caricatures lend themselves not only to cartoons, but to fine art as well.

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