Sunday April 30, 2006
NFO XPO, New Trends in Chicago Photography, Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating, and the Group Group Show and MORE
Location: Version Kuntshalle Iron Studios 3636 S Iron St 1st and 4th floors
Hours: Noon to 10pm
Admission: $10/$5 students

Our second day of the NFO XPO coincides with the Version Conference, Underground Multiplex screenings, talks and tours, and extended viewing hours for all Version Kuntshalle exhibitions like the Group Group Show, Urban Gardening and Exterior Decorating, New Trends in Chicago Photography. See April 29 description for full list of participants.

Free University Program: The Version Conference
Conference Program includes talks and presentations.

1pm Bridgeport Walking Tour with Mike Pocius and friends. Meet with Mike at the Bridgeport Coffee House and take a tour of the community of the future.

2pm How to be Sexually Progressive: Porn, MTV and Metrosexuals
Maureen Fitzpatrick, Nicholas Grider, Melody Hoffmann
In this panel we explode pop culture discourse by exposing the political and societal value of Chris Cunningham's music videos, female-produced porn websites, and the metrosexual identity. These elements of popular consumer culture aggressively re-work, question, and deconstruct heteronormative sexuality. Our goal is to emphasize the importance of their place in culture; it is in the popular, albeit consumption-based, realm that messages have their greatest impact.

3pm Art Shanty Projects
Soap Factory
For the last three winters the frozen surface of Medicine Lake has hosted exhibitions of architecture, performances, science, art, zombies, spear-fishing, videos, robots, pinhole cameras, sculpture, radio, knitting, readings and karaoke. The Art Shanty Projects are part art gallery, part residency and part sculpture park, inspired by the tradition of ice fishing and ice fishing houses used in the Minnesota winter. A big hit at Version>05, the Art Shanties return to Bridgeport with members of the Soap Factory collective to present their multimedia story.
www.artshantyprojects.org

2pm- 5pm Working Bikes Cooperative
Intimidated by flat tires? Want to take that old 10-speed out of the basement for spring, but the brakes don't work, the wheel's bent, and the seat's too short? Volunteers from Chicago's amazing Working Bikes Coop are here to take away your fear of gears with a friendly hands-on workshop on bike repair for everyone.
www.workingbikes.org

4pm Counter.Cartography Walk, lecture and return to Version Kutshalle for A Bar BQ

4pm Bridgeport Walking Tour with Mike Pocius and friends. Meet with Mike at the Bridgeport Coffee House and take this last tour of the community of the future.

Underground Multiplex
6pm: "I"
Expanding on the explosive prequel Eye of the Storm, “i” is a meditation on the relationship between media and power as manifest by the worlds largest all volunteer network of media activists, the Independent Media Center network, or “Indymedia.” This feature documentary portrays this unprecedented global movement through an intimate look at a single node of that network during the crisis that followed the 2001 collapse of the economy and government in Argentina.

Produced and directed by a pair of young filmmakers working with largely consumer equipment, “i” is both an example of independent, engaged grassroots media, and a portrait of how such media functions during situations of political crisis. Lyon and Ingoglia weave a tapestry of stories and perspectives of this group as they attempt to work in the swirl of political drama and grassroots struggle that followed the crash.

The result is a dramatic and poetic portrayal of the complex questions that surround identity and information in our networked age
http://www.ithefilm.com

Artist Brunch and Bar-B _Q

Food and Beverages are provided free to pass holders and participants. The public will be able to purchase food all day.

Public Projects
Maxwell Street intervention (early Morning) TBA

Touched By Jessica Mac CormackLocation and time TBA
Touched is an installation and performative intervention. Influenced by the semantics of fingerprints in art and forensic science

AFTER NFO XPO EVENT

Llord Droll & Ophiuchus present: Taurus - Second House
Location: Skylark
Hours: 10pm
A very special night for Tarus Zodiac Calendar people. This is the second of 12 parties. Once every month for the next year we will gather to celebrate every sign of the zodiac. At this event we will celebrate by only playing music by Tarus born artists or songs about the Tarus. There will also be a guest dj who is of the sign and if you prove you are a Tarus you will get a shout out and be entered in a raffle for Tarus prizes that happens at 12:30ish am.
At each party there will be a limited edition full color poster available showcasing that sign. If you come to all 12 parties and get each poster they will hook together like voltron.

Version 06 @ Art Chicago in the Park
Location: Butler Field
Hours: Noon - 6pm
Version 06 is pleased to partner up with Art Chicago this year. At our booth we will present some of our favorite artist's work, share some news and information about our projects and festival. We also will distribute literature and instructions about Version's NFO XPO and everything else that we are putting on the same weekend. Art Chicago Exhibitors are invited to visit any of our Version events and shows for free. Art Chicago ticket holders can go tot Version events and shows at half price. And Version pass holders can go tot Art Chicago at half price. Check out Art Chicago website for more info.
Artists Exhibiting at our booth include:
Cody Hudson
John Duda
Michael T Rea
Elisa Harkins
Brian Ulrich
And others tba