Sunday May 1
Version>05 NFO EXPO and Kunsthalle
Zhou B. Center
1029 W. 35th St.
noon - 8pm
The last weekend of Version>05 features a series of programs that includes
the Version>05 Kunsthalle exhibition, the NFO EXPO trade show for experimental
art and radical communication and a conference program. During the weekend,
video works will be screened and broadcast in the media lounge/installation
by Steven Eichhorn. Presentations and talks will take place during the conference
and workshop programs. Artists will present work, conduct demonstrations
and workshops and give tours. A summit for creating an alternative art space
and
artist collective network for North America will be held as well as the third
and final program of the Terry Plumming summit.
VERSION NFO EXPO
Version>05 has invited spaces and projects that straddle definitions
and are pushing experimental formats seeing culture as art + social + political
practice. The NFO EXPO is a trade show for experimental artists, info agitators
and organizers of cultural interference and part of the final program thread
for Version>05. Members of artist-run spaces, alternative institutions,
galleries, cultural and social spaces, co-ops, and individual artists and
activists will present their work and mission within a booth, installation
or on a table
at this two day event. Over 50 organizations and individual projects will
be participating. The NFO EXPO is open from noon to 8pm Saturday April 30
and
noon to 8pm May 1, 2005. See NFO EXPO exhibitors for particapnt
listings.
Conference
For two days we will discuss, demonstrate and present and
share ideas and projects that are assembling for this year’s version.
Two locations in the Zhou B. Center will host the conference program: the
Media
Lounge and Chat Room.
Noon Brunch
MEDIA LOUNGE PROGRAM
1pm Mike Pocius
Walking Tour of Bridgeport
This renowned Bridgeport historian will give two walking tours of
the Community of the Future, beginning at the Bridgeport Coffee House (31st & Morgan)
and ending at the Zhou B Center.
1 – 4 pm Terry Plumming summit
Frequency
ATTN ALL MEDIA PERVERTS - final lecture clusters followed by a second series
of performances by employees of worldwide et al capped by a laser guided
bomb dropped from two miles up by tossed / including distractions: pervert
podium: 10 typists (typewriter chorus): famous summit photograph reenactments
/ lecture cluster: people who have been somewhere tell you about it; a perversion
of television / that one dood who invented synthetic blood, some spiritual
person, personal messages, an older lady, somebody into politics, another
artist from some different weird place, a writer who's really difficult to
understand but everybody thinks is way deep, and a zookeeper looking foreigner
who's way into animals but in a cool way / if it really is about you and
what you have done with all your history then come for fuckedup show and
discussion / if you have found a niche stay there stay arise about a summit
for discussion and fuckedup show bring yer babies the gloves are off: a moment
is television thought spyplanes more! more! more! undo the war weather sports
social and commercial programming as far as the eye can see / terry plumming
summit an opportunity to participate in a perversion of television perversion
of documents
3pm Mike Pocius
Walking Tour of Bridgeport
(see 1 pm)
4pm Jack Bratich
'If All Else Fails, Try Fairy Tales' - On Swarmcessions and Defacings
After the over-inflated Kerry balloon burst, the left behind sent a few trial
balloons up. What can we make of these new balloons? Among these humorous
and serious proposals were calls for Secession and Exodus. How can we understand
the desire to withdraw, move, and disappear as a productive one (and not
selfish, opportunistic, cowardly, a betrayal)? Using recent autonomist theory,
this presentation explores notions of movement and withdrawal outside of
territory, and into the domain of fluid and chaotic dynamics.
5pm Randall Packer, Secretary-at-Large, US
Dept. of Art & Technology
A Season in Hell
The US DAT was created in 2001 as an artist-led, virtual government
agency for facilitating the need to extend aesthetic inquiry into a social
sphere
where ideas become action. During Version>05 Packer will conduct a live
daily blog broadcast from Washington, DC; an underground reportage on the
invisible activities of politicians using only a cell phone and laptop to
transmit live imagery, audio and commentary. His multimedia transmission
will be made freely available to artists in Chicago for incorporation into
any project. Today Packer will present the week’s mobile blog as
a springboard for dialogue and critique.
6pm dinner
6pm Volatile Shorts: A program of short films by Volatile Works 26min
From ghosts to monsters to the ambient fear generated by our neoliberal,
militarized nuclear age, the Volatile Shorts program is a collection of films
that offer a taste of the styles, themes and genres (from found footage to
animation, from scratch video to experimental horror) explored by members
of the Volatile Works media arts collective of Montreal, Quebec.
with We Are Here To Stay by Allard Klok 2005 (The Netherlands) 25 min
`We Are Here To Stay` is a documentary about the former "Hole in the
Voorstraat" in Utrecht. This squatted complex, with its turbulent
squat history, has been bought in 1997. Thanks to an unique cooperation
between
the squatters and a commercial real estate developer, this complex could
be bought and grown until it is now a political cultural centre The ACU
and a low budget hostel Strowis.
CHAT ROOM PROGRAM
1pm Neighborhood Public Radio
DIY: The History and Future of Neighborhood Public Radio
Years
of broadcasting nomadically throughout the San Francisco Bay Area have
taught ‘NPR’ a
great deal about transmission methods, community organizing, the myth of
PUBLIC radio, and attempts of corporate
media to
exclude localized voices. DIY is a presentation drawing upon this experience,
relayed via conversation between a low power radio proponent and a low-level
corporate radio hack. Followed by a hands-on workshop on how others might
duplicate their methods.
2pm alt.space summit
We are pleased to announce the formation of a global alternative
space, artist collective and nomadic projects alliance. A collaborative process
has been
in process to establish a framework for the formation of this alliance and
the results of this will be discussed at the Alt space summit. Some of the
ideas include the creation of a distribution network, artist touring circuit,
website and mailing list. Members of artist run spaces, alternative institutions,
galleries, cultural and social spaces, co-ops, and individual artists and
activists invited to
participate in the NFO EXPO will take part in the Alt space summit.
4pm Obtainable Solutions panel
Marshall Preheim is the co-founder of Open End gallery, Ideotech
imaging, & DEPART-ment;
Nance Klehm is a professional garden designer, permaculturalist, urban farmer,
ecologist, and artist. The two will lead a discussion on ingenious invention,
reuse & recycling, neighborhood orchards, guerilla seeds, & urban
permacultures for the landless many. Klehm will also guide a city foraging
tour during the festival.
5:30pm James John Bell, J Cookson, Doyle Canning, & Patrick
Reinsborough
smartMeme strategy, communications, & training project
Movements are made of stories. The power of stories shape our understanding
of the world around us. The stories of power that are told and retold, and
reinforced in our minds everyday, create and perpetuate the frames by which
we interpret our relationship to power. Whose stories are you telling and
how are you telling them? Using a provocative multi-media presentation, smartMeme
project trainers will share strategy models for applying the power of narrative,
image, and meme campaigning to successful social change work.
Closing party Skylark
2149 S. Halsted
10 pm free
Our closing party will end with a bang. Join us to say goodbye to Version>05. Features performances by Small Bathroom FIre and DJs Logan Bay and way too many DJs. BYO 5 minute megamix.
