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

Kayla Lewis

What It Means to Be Al2O3Ne

Kayla Lewis explores the poetics of chemical reactions

Writing The Future Wrong

Sci-fi author William Gibson speaks on the success of his failures and the timeless qualities of speculative fiction.

Holographic Histories

An upcoming event hopes to find a new home for holograms that once belonged to Chicago's Museum of Holography.

Resurgence or Emergence?

An Imagist-inspired interview with director Leslie Buchbinder and cinematographer Brian Ashby on their recent documentary, Hairy Who & The Chicago Imagists

Kyle McDonald: The Only Thing That’s Consistent is Sharing

An exclusive interview with the interactive artist, who is heavily involved in the open-source movement, on his work and thoughts about the meeting of art and technology to engage audiences.

Open Curiosity, Open Source

This year's INST-INT art and technology conference in Minneapolis brought a number of opportunities that contributed to the ongoing building of a sharing-based community of makers and thinkers.

Twelve Movies Disguised As One

“How do you plan a twelve-year production?” “You don’t,” said Richard Linklater, in an interview with The Guardian. “There’s always a life metaphor. How do we plan for our own futures? You do your best but you have to live in the present.”

Startups Versus Astronauts

“I think that’s the positive part of the privatization of space exploration,” Walczak explains. “You get rich people to do it first because they have the ability and then it trickles down where it becomes cheaper and there’s more technology out there and new ways of seeing things.”

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