Gallery Hours: Mon-Wed. and Fri., 9-5pm. Thurs. 9-7pm. Sat by appointment.
Fair Use is a multimedia exhibition at Columbia College Chicago's Glass Curtain Gallery that sets out to foster critical discussion about intellectual property rights. The exhibition looks at how contemporary artists and designers challenge proprietary cultural material through its appropriation, reconfiguration and redistribution.
The recent strategies of open-source and "copyleft" licensing serve to encourage collaboration and innovation through the free sharing of information. Together these two paradigms form a critique of the conventional modes of distribution and ownership to imagine a more fluid and inclusive economy of cultural meanings.
Participating artists include: Guy Ben-Ner, Bea Correa, Line Langballe and Christina Okai Mejborn of Totem Collective, Sze Lin Pang, Pratchaya Phintong, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Salter/Snowden and Siebren Versteeg. This exhibition is curated by Brandon Alvendia.
Exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
RELATED PROGRAMMING:
Artist Talk: Siebren Versteeg
Thursday, March 11, 5:00pm
Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Co-sponsored by the Interactive Arts & Media Department as part of their Spring Lecture Series. Free and open to the public.
Siebren Versteeg is a multimedia artist who, in addition to writing his own software code, co-opts online media and commercial databases to create hi-tech works that critique the very sources he usurps. Versteeg will be discussing his ideas and work in this lecture. Versteeg's piece,
New York Windows, is included in the
Fair Use exhibition.
Gallery Talk: Brandon Alvendia, Curator
Tuesday, March 16, 6:00-7:00pm
Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Free and open to the public.
FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
http://www.colum.edu/deps
CONTACT:
Justin Witte, Exhibition Coordinator and Co-Producer of Fair Use, 312-369-8177,
jwitte@colum.edu
