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Past Events

Cultural Conversations: Relation, Collaboration, and the Uncanny:

Cultural Conversations: Relation, Collaboration, and the Uncanny:

Chicago, IL
This conversation with twin brothers Alan and Michael Fleming will focus on their collaborative artistic practice and elements that inform their artwork. The brothers will show some of their work and discuss what it means to make work from a shared experience of the world. The conversation will als…
Saturday, October 26 2013 12:00 PM 2:00 PM

Cultural Conversation: Filmmaker Tirtza Even

Cultural Conversation: Filmmaker Tirtza Even

Chicago, IL
This installment of of Cultural Conversations will focus on Even's project, currently sponsored by HCL, entitled Natural Life: For the last fifteen years, video artist and documentary filmmaker Tirtza Even has created a body of work that addresses an array of complex social and political issues in …
Wednesday, October 2 2013 7:00 PM 9:00 PM

Cultural Conversations: Zac Whittenburg and Robyn Mineko Williams

Cultural Conversations: Zac Whittenburg and Robyn Mineko Williams

Chicago, IL
In this installment of HCL’s Cultural Conversation Series, join us for Sunday brunch and an engaging discussion about creating contemporary dance for the stage. Culture reporter and critic Zachary Whittenburg will interview choreographer Robyn Mineko Williams about her fall premiere for Hubbard Str…
Sunday, August 25 2013 12:00 PM 2:00 PM

William Pope.L : Before and after PULL!

William Pope.L : Before and after PULL!

Chicago, IL
Join HCL for the second installment of this Summer's Cultural Conversations series. This month features a discussion with the multi-faceted artist William Pope.L. "PULL! was a endurance-performance that took place june 7-9, 2013 in Cleveland, Ohio. In the performance, rotating teams of Clevelanders…
Sunday, June 30 2013 12:00 PM 2:00 PM

Cultural Conversation with Mariano Chavez

Cultural Conversation with Mariano Chavez

Chicago, IL
Join us for a sumptuous Sunday Brunch and talk In this installment of HCL’s Cultural Conversation Series. Visual Artist Mariano Chavez will take the audience through a fast-paced image ride that is both sharp to look at and funny, shifting from beauty to nightmare and back again.   ABOUT THE ARTIST…
Sunday, July 21 2013 12:00 PM 2:00 PM

Tirtza Even's Natural Life Screening and Panel Discussion

Tirtza Even's Natural Life Screening and Panel Discussion

Chicago, IL
Natural Life is a feature-length documentary about five individuals who, as youths, received the most severe sentence given to convicted adults—“natural life” or life without parole.  The screening will be followed by a discussion with Tirtza Even, artist and filmmaker; Mariame Kaba, Project NIA Di…
Sunday, November 10 2013 3:00 PM 5:00 PM

Mana Contemporary Open House

Mana Contemporary Open House

Chicago, IL
Join us as past and present sponsored artists celebrate the opening of our friend Mana Contemporary's new Chicago location. Featuring: Coppice (Sound): A Vinculum VariationA sound presentation expanding the performed-installation practice of the duo. Encompassing live performance, sculpture, collec…
Sunday, September 22 2013 1:00 PM 5:00 PM

Cultural Conversation: Artist & Fimmaker Hiba Farhat

Cultural Conversation: Artist & Fimmaker Hiba Farhat

Chicago, IL
At a time when material is becoming increasingly oppositional, Hassan Nasrallah: Divine Victory is a video installation that investigates the construction and destruction of material within the political sphere- larger, systematic force of the political imaginary, embodied in this work by the voice…
Sunday, November 17 2013 12:00 PM 2:00 PM

Human-Robot Composition and Improvisation

Human-Robot Composition and Improvisation

Chicago, IL
This performance will explore how humans and robots interact when improvising music.  The musical robots include PAM (a robotic string instrument made by EMMI) and a robotic percussion ensemble (made by the Music, Perception and Robotics lab at WPI) that are controlled by an artificial intelligence…
Thursday, July 18 2013 7:30 PM 9:30 PM

Artist-Built Tools & Slippery Standards: A conversation with jon.satrom at High Concept Laboratories

Artist-Built Tools & Slippery Standards: A conversation with jon.satrom at High Concept Laboratories

Chicago, IL
Jon Satrom is an artist who undermines interfaces, problematizes presets, and playfully bends data. He spends his days fixing things and making things work. He spends his evenings breaking things and searching for the unique blips inherent to the systems he explores and exploits. His works and ware…
Sunday, May 19 2013 12:00 PM 2:00 PM
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