June 4, 2012
Remembering this week at the Battle of Midway National Memorial
Midway Atoll, June 4, 2012, a year ago this week the U.S. Navy and Fish and Wildlife Service hosted an unforgettable event honoring those who survived and did not survive, the Battle of Midway. The emotions are forever apart of those in attendance because of two battle survivors who graced us with their presence, brilliance and personality. Colonel John Miniclier and Sergeant Edgar Fox warmed our hearts - all of us including those of Japanese and Hawaiian ancestry.
Please click here for Photographer Dallas Nagata's imagery that captured those moments to help us to continue to honor their sacrifice and courage.
Special appreciation to all of the Battle of Midway Veterans as we celebrate the 71st anniversary this year of the historic Battle of Midway that happened on June 4, 1942. The historic battle helped to restore and preserve freedom in the world we are grateful to live in today, won with their honour, courage and bravery. In Honor of all Battle of Midway Veterans, we thank you for your fighting spirit and contributions for our freedom. The Battle of Midway Memorial was first installed on June 4, 2001, and is located just through the security checkpoint and to the left at the beginning of Concourse A of Midway Airport. The Battle of Midway Memorial was commissioned by the Public Art Program and Department of Aviation, City of Chicago, Richard M. Daley, Mayor. The Memorial includes the story of the battle, told in four panels: I, II, III, and IV. Please click here for special reflections from Veteran Ed Fox and to view related works of Visual History.
Ellen Sandor is featured in Amy Creyer's Chicago Street Style
Special Tribute: In Memory of Martyl Langsdorf, 1917-2013
"Artist Who Designed Doomsday Clock" by Joan Giangrasse Kates for the Chicago Tribune.
Click here for PDF.
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Heights of the Heavens: Taipei 101 Deconstructed, 2013
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New Media Women in the Arts: Prairie Style (working title). Forthcoming manuscript to be published by University of Illinois Press. Stay tuned for more up-dates.
Happy New Year!
(art)n's Perfect Prisms: Crystal Chapel PHSCologram animation from (art)n's Architecture Series is also newly featured in CRISTAL on Vimeo. Please enjoy!
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December 4-9, 2012
Josh Lewis features Ellen Sandor and Chris Kemp and Diana Torres, (art)n in artnmiami.tv: Overture Art Fair VIP Pass
Ellen Sandor and (art)n:
Overture Contemporary Art Fair, Miami, Midtown District (Inside the SCOPE Pavilion)
Entrance through NW 34th Street & Buena Vista Avenue (or through SCOPE entrance on Midtown Blvd.)
Presented by Arts For A Better World
OPENING NIGHT VERNISSAGE: Tuesday December 4th, 6:00 to 10:00 pm
Click here for VIP EVITE
(art)n will be showing the following:
Deconstructed Marina Towers
Deconstructed Aqua
Deconstructing the Warsaw Ghetto, 2012
Deconstructing the Barracks: Auschwitz-Birkenau
Interior of a Barracks: Auschwitz-Birkenau
Reconstructing the Wright Space
Mies-en-scène
Perfect Prisms: Crystal Chapel
and Structural Spectrums, 2008 (sculpture)
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Deconstructing the Warsaw Ghetto, 2012. Please preview the animation sequence for Deconstructing the Warsaw Ghetto featured on YouTube
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October 27, 2012
Elysabeth Alfano quotes Ellen Sandor in Chicago: The City that Creates for HUFFPOST ARTS & CULTURE , The Huffington Post: "I truly believe that Chicago is the very best city for artists to invent and experiment, especially with new media. It's not a celebrity culture; but, a culture where innovation is encouraged and rewarded." Ellen Sandor was recently interviewed by Alfano in Ellen Sandor and the Future of Photography for HUFFPOST ARTS & CULTURE.
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Aquatic Assemblage: The Maritime Metropolis
Deconstructed Crain Communications Building
Deconstructed Marina Towers
Deconstructed Aqua
Please preview the animation sequence for Aquatic Assemblage featured on YouTube
Aquatic Assemblage: The Maritime Metropolis was shown at Expo Chicago, September 20-23, 2012 at Navy Pier, Exhibit Hall A, next to 105
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August 27, 2012
Elysabeth Alfano interviews Ellen Sandor and (art)n, featured in HUFFPOST ARTS & CULTURE for The Huffington Post: Ellen Sandor and the Future of Photography
August 7, 2012
Joanna Carver interviews Ellen Sandor and (art)n, featured in Northwestern University's Medill Reports Chicago: Virtual reality pioneers 3D art and science
: : New Features : : Animations
Please visit (art)n's web-based presentation of animated sequences that show the depth and movement of selected PHSColograms. These animations are a simulation of how the sculptural, three-dimensional effect looks when you are viewing PHSColograms in real life.
“I saw myself as Mr. Imagination, an African king.”
Mr. Imagination (1948-2012), We will Miss You!
In 2002, the celebrated visionary artist collaborated with Ellen Sandor and (art)n on The Third Eye of Mr. I, a unique PHSCologram installation featured at Carl Hammer Gallery, Zhou B Art Center and other venues, along with Little Feather Man and Red Man details.
: : Exhibitions : :
The Other Window: Distortion '06, Red Self-Portrait, and No Fumare, por Favore: Now showing from the permanent collection in the New Stuart Wing at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma.
No Fumare, por Favore (No Smoking Please) was included in The Art of Collecting, Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, November 25, 2011 - January 8, 2012
Ellen Sandor and (art)n were recently featured in Los esperamos este miercoles at Galeria Arteconsult in Panama on December 14, 2011
Arts for a Better World, Art | Basel | Miami Beach, December 1-4, 2011, featuring Special Treatment, a unique Virtual Reality installation experience, produced in collaboration with Applied Interactives, and a selection of PHSColograms were recently shown at "FOTO SEPTIEMBRE 2011 - PHOTO SEPTEMBER 2011," Museo de Arte Contemporaneo and FUNDAHRTE in Panama.
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Deconstructing the Barracks: Auschwitz-Birkenau with a sequence of animated PHSCologram frames and an animation sequence featured on YouTube
Punta Pacífica: A Deconstructed Vision and animated sequence featured on YouTube
Complications of a Heart Attack produced in collaboration with Richard Lee, Division of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Making a Difference: Breast Cancer Revisted produced in collaboration with Michelle Lee M.D., Department of Breast Imaging, Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital
(Brain + Love) left and (Brain + Love) right, produced in collaboration with Raun K. Kaufman, Autism Treatment Center of America: The Son-Rise Program and Cynthia K. Thompson and Sladjana Lukic, Northwestern University
Garden of Digital Delights, 2011 features artist tributes to Man Ray, Imogen Cunningham, Charles Csuri, Robert Mapplethorpe and Nam June Paik. Click here to view a special animation published on You Tube and the (art)n Screening Room.
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November 5, 2011
Congratulations to James Zanzi, Professor Emeritus, School of the Art Institute of Chicago: 2011 Visionary Awardee, INTUIT: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art,"who increased our knowledge and appreciation of independent artists and vernacular environment builders." Zanzi is one of the original members of (art)n, whose early tributes to the Outsider and Intuitive Artist were included in the seminal installation, PHSCologram '83 that first debuted in November 1983, and was later written about by Victoria Lautman in The Chicago Tribune (1989) and M (1988) magazine. More recent collaborations include VSL/RB (Virtual Still Life / Roger Brown), The Other Window: Distortion '06 and The Other Window II: Distortion '07. Click here for (art)n Reflections from James Zanzi with Lisa Stone.
: : Past Exhibitions : :
"FOTO SEPTIEMBRE 2011 - PHOTO SEPTEMBER 2011, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo and FUNDAHRTE in Panama, opening September 29. Click here for catalogue and exhibition invite. Click for English Translation of Acerca de Fotoseptiembre 2011 article, MAC 2011 article and The Visitor cover, with English and Spanish translations. Click here for exhibition opening night photos, I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, VIV, X, XI, XII, and XIII.
No Fumare, por Favore (No Smoking Please) was included in Without You I'm Nothing: Art and Its Audience at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 20, 2010 - May 1, 2011. Click here for exhibition photos of Ellen Sandor, Detail I and Detail II
Garden of Digital Delights, 2011 was featured in Art Chicago as a part of Art Chicago and NEXT's special Focus Photography exhibition. This floor wide exhibition highlights exemplary works of contemporary and vintage photography, and photography based works.
Oceans of Change produced in collaboration with NCSA, JPL and MBARI is featured in "Pathways and Portals: Art, Science, Nature" at the Lockport Gallery, August 24, 2010 - February 18, 2011.
Bruce Goff: A Creative Mind, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, The University of Oklahoma, October 9, 2010 - January 2, 2011. Please visit You Tube to see an animation for the Perfect Prisms: Crystal Chapel PHSCologram from (art)n's Architecture Series that is also featured in the (art)n Screening Room. The piece is part of the university's permanent collection and is featured as the cover image for the exhibition catalog and invitation. Related PHSColograms include Gliding Goff/Gryder Residence Reconstructed and Light the Sky: First National Bank.
(Brain + Love) left, (Brain + Love) right and Oceans of Change will be shown at 15000 WATTS - ARTS FOR A BETTER WORLD at SOHO STUDIOS, NW 22nd Street & NW 1st Avenue, Wynwood Arts District in Miami. VIP Opening: Tuesday November 30, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. General Preview: Tuesday November 30, 7:30 pm to 11:00 pm. Exhibition: December 1 to 5, 11:00 am to 7:00 pm. Family Day: Sunday December 5, 2010.
(art)n: Virtually Visionary - Exploring 2D Forms in 3D Space, Galeria Arteconsult, Panama, September 15-October 9, 2010. Click here for exhibition catalogue, opening invitation,
advertisement and opening night photos - I, II, and III.
Art Chicago
April 30-May 3, 2010
(art)n at Kasia Kay Projects Gallery, 12th Floor, Booth 154
Oceans of Change produced in collaboration with NCSA, JPL and MBARI was included in "Pathways and Portals: Art, Science, Nature" at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, January 25 - May 7, 2010. Click here for invite.
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Congratulations to the Zhou Brothers, Shanzuo and DaHuang, who were commissioned by the White House/State Department to create a large painting as the official gift for Premier Hu that was given by President Obama last night at the White House. Click here for more information.
Recent exhibitions at the Zhou B Art Center include Concepts of Construction: (art)n new work and retrospective, October 24-December 12, 2009, featuring New Beginnings created in collaboration with the Zhou Brothers in 2004. A panoramic view of the popular exhibition is presented above.
Exposición fotográfica en 3D: La muestra ‘Virtually Visionary’, de la artista estadounidense Ellen Sandor, estará hasta el próximo 9 de octubre en la Galería Arteconsult by Jesus Martinez, with English translation and exhibition opening photos - I, II, and III.
Life - now in exciting 3D! by Jessica Krinke, Medill Reports Chicago, Northwestern University, August 27, 2010.
Art Attack, a special interview with Ellen Sandor in i4Design by Harlene Ellin: "We recreate for historical purposes. We deconstruct for artistic purposes."
(art)n's PET Study II was featured on the Winter 2010 cover for ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. PET Study II is currently on display at the National Academy of Sciences.
Happy New Year and Congratulations to Julie Sandor, co-producer of WONDERFUL WORLD starring Matthew Broderick: "If the glass is half empty, at least you can't drown." Frank Scheck from Hollywood Reporter commented " Matthew Broderick's best screen role in quite a while." Jonah Weiner covers the film in The New York Times.
Congratulations to Julie Sandor and her team on the release of their mobile games:
HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES, which is based on a precious song and MY NAME, an enjoyable educational game that teaches little ones how to spell their name. The delightful games were recently reviewed in Classy Mommy and was named 'best aps of the week' by
gizmodo.
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October 5, 2009
Congratulations to Nobel Prize winners Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak. Click for A day in the 'normal' life of a Nobel Prize Winner
In 2000, (art)n created Telomeres Project on Imminent Immortality that was shown during "Genomic Issue(s): Art and Science" at The Graduate Center Art Gallery, City University of New York, February 25 through April 5, 2003 to celebrate the Human Genome Project. The
interactive sculpture documented the potential of the telomerase enzyme.
News Flash: Three U.S. researchers have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for solving "a major problem in biology," the Nobel Committee announced Monday, as reported in CNN.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak are credited with discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation -- a field that could shed light on human aging and diseases, including cancer.
"The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies," the committee said in a news release.
The three will share the $1.4 million prize. It is the 100th year the prize will be awarded, and the first time that any Nobel in the sciences has gone to more than one woman. The work that won them the prize took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
It centers on structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres and an enzyme that forms them, called telomerase.
