Select Media Festival 3
Insurgent Media Arts | October 13-22 2004 | Chicago U$A
October 15, 2004
CULTURAL COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
CULTURAL COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
2002-2004, Various Directors & Countries, 95 min.
Friday, October 15, 6:15 pm (Gene Siskel Film Center)
Comprehending the assault on reason while living in the Age of Bush and his wars on terror and drugs means reading between the lines, remixing the edits, and investigating mind control. The Program includes DEEP BLUE (Mark Boswell), SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE (Rick Silva and Trace Reddell),A PERCEPTION OF WAR (Ramon Grendene), DESPOTISM, THEN AND NOW (P Rettig),DRUG WAR REALITY TOUR (Stephen Marshall/GNN), 30 SECONDS OF HATE (Bryan Boyce), CLOSER (GNN), ALUMINUM (Tyrone Davies), TERROR IRAQ SERIES (Mike Nourse).
Select Media Festival 3 Film and Video Programs
October 15-Oct 22
Select Media Festival 3 Film and Video Programs
Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street
Most of the film and video programs of this year’s festival take place at the world class facility downtown Chicago. Tickets to films are $9 ($5 for Film Center members), $3 for student, faculty, and staff of the School of the Art Institute and staff of the Art Institute. For more information, call 312-846-2600 (general information) or 312-846-2800 (Hotline).
Tickets are available at the Gene Siskel Film Center Box Office which opens at 5pm weekdays and 2pm weekends. Tickets may also be purchased by calling Ticketmaster at 312-575-8000 or by visiting ticketmaster.com.
Full film program listed here.
Select Media Festival 3 Super Show
October 15, 2004
8pm
Little Utopias
Select Media Festival 3 Super Show
Buddy / High School / Heaven
1542- 1550 N Milwaukee Ave 2nd /3rd floors
Join us for an evening of SMF3 exhibitions, screenings and performances.
Live music by The Latest, Terry Plumbing super group, and others (buddY)
Select Shorts: Best of smf3 shorts program (High School - 10pm)
Little Utopias: Alterations of Everyday Life Exhibition (Heaven)
Work by:
Nick Adam, Melina Ausikaitis, Kelly Breslin, Juan Chavez, Michael Colman, David Cuesta, Ryan Davies, Rob Doran, John Duda, Justin Fines, Erin Foley, Mike Genovese, Robert Gomez, Sayre Gomez, Elisa Harkins, Cody Hudson, Duk Ju L. Kim, Karl Koett, Dan Ezra Lang, Rebecca Mann, Josh MacPhee, Ray Noland, You Are Beautiful, Lee Piechocki, Justin Schaefer, Jeremy Schulz, Sighn, Chris Silva, Mathew Strongin, J. Patrick Walsh III, Travis Wiggins, Jeff Zimmerman.
Digital Disobedients new media Exhibition (High School)
Work by:
Kaho Cheung, Tom Spiers, and Joe Boughton-Dent, Mike Caloud, and John Brennon, The Escape From Woomera Project Team, Amy Francheschini, Linda Leow, and maxMin, Future Farmers, Newsgaming.com, J. Oda, Team Waco @ C-Level, Together We Can Defeat Capitalism
Terry Plumbing Inflatable Cave installation at buddY
Admission: $10 donation
Receive the new Select 8 compilation DVD and a syndrome/Lumpen t-shirt with admission. Complementary beverages and treats.
http://www.lumpen.com/smf3/supershow.html
Little Utopias: Alterations of Everyday life
Little Utopias: Alterations of Everyday life
A Select Media Festival 3 Exhibition
Artists, the disobedient, the interventionists and modern day cultural producers are working with some guidance and influence from situationist philosophy.
As our hopes for social and political change are in flux, forms of resistance come in the act of creation. The utopian in us all cannot wait for a distant revolution, so instead we reinvent everyday life here and now. The little utopias arise between our personal lives and the communities and networks that we live, work and drift in.
The Situationists use détournement to demonstrate the scandalous poverty of everyday life despite the plentitude of commodities. How do contemporary artists promote the spirit of a revolution, the idea of possible change, the allure of a better life? Little Utopias is a potlatch of contributions by artists seeking to describe or create a vision of the world they seek to inhabit.
Work by:
Nick Adam, Melina Ausikaitis, Kelly Breslin, Juan Chavez, Michael Colman, David Cuesta, Ryan Davies, Rob Doran, John Duda, Justin Fines, Erin Foley, Mike Genovese, Robert Gomez, Sayre Gomez, Elisa Harkins, Cody Hudson, Duk Ju L. Kim, Karl Koett, Dan Ezra Lang, Rebecca Mann, Josh MacPhee, Ray Noland, You Are Beautiful, Lee Piechocki, Justin Schaefer, Jeremy Schulz, Sighn, Chris Silva, Mathew Strongin, J. Patrick Walsh III, Travis Wiggins, Jeff Zimmerman.
Heaven Gallery 1550 N Milwaukee Ave.
Gallery hours: Saturday, October 16, 1-5pm, Friday Oct 22, 2004 7-10pm or by appointment phone/fax 773-342-4597
http://www.lumpen.com/smf3/little.html
Digital Disobedients: War Games
Digital Disobedients: War Games
A Select Media Festival 3 Exhibition
Designers and programmers are being acknowledged this year for creating games as social commentary. Many PC games motivate your interaction by placing you in a kill or be killed setting, while other games typically encourage winning as your objective. Contrary to mainstream games, the games we have selected call your attention to the story and place importance on inaction as well as action. They illustrate polemic perspectives on war, terrorism, GMO‚s, and capitalism. Even though these games make you think about serious issues, they are still fun, creative and masterfully designed. From cute pixel flash games to realistic 3-D game mods, these works peacefully exemplify the art of War Games.
FLASH/SHOCKWAVE GAMES
Bush Game by J.Oda
http://www.emogame.com/bushgame.html
Anti War Game by Future Farmers
http://www.antiwargame.org
Donkey John by Kaho Cheung, Tom Spiers, and Joe Boughton-Dent
http://donkeyjohn.com
Madrid by Newsgaming.com
http://newsgaming.com/games/madrid
September 12th by Newsgaming.com
http://newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm
Pinga by Amy Francheschini, Linda Leow, and maxMin
http://futurefarmers.com/pinga/pinga.html
PC GAMES
Waco Resurrection by Team Waco @ C-Level
http://waco.c-level.cc
911 Survivor by Jeff Cole, Mike Caloud, and John Brennon
http://selectparks.net/911survivor/911game.html
Escape From Woomera by The Escape From Woomera Project Team
http://escapefromwoomera.org
STOP BUSH by Together We Can Defeat Capitalism
http://twcdc.com/STOP_BUSH_3D_COMPUTER_GAME
High School 1542 N Milwaukee Ave 3rd Floor
Gallery hours: Saturday, October 16, 1-5pm, Friday Oct 22, 2004 7-11pm
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Chicago Premier!
UNCONSTITUTIONAL
2004, Nonny De La Pena, US, 60 min.
Friday, October 15, 8:15 pm (Gene Siskel Film Center)
Unconstitutional is an hour-long documentary detailing the shocking way that the civil liberties of American citizens have been infringed upon, curtailed, and rolled back since 9/11 -- all in the name of national security. In the rush to pass the USA PATRIOT Act, intelligence agencies have been empowered to "protect freedom and democracy" by destroying freedom and democracy. Real stories depict the personal loss of American civil liberties and present citizens who are resisting those efforts. From the producer of Unprecedented, Uncovered, and Outfoxed.
A member of the Illinois chapter of the ACLU will be at the screening for an introduction before and a Q and A after the film.
SELECTIONS 04
SELECTIONS 04
2002-2004, Various Directors and countries,
Friday October 15, 9pm (High School 1542 N Milwaukee Ave 3rd Floor)
The program features a variety of animations, short films and music videos giving an overview and sampling of the best work screening at this year’s festival. The program includes 30 SECONDS OF HATE (Bryan Boyce), CLEAN SWEEP ( Jason Archer and Paul Beck), SHOCK AND AWE CHICAGO AIR SHOW (Amy Cargill), WARNING PERTROLEUM PIPELINE (Jan Van Neuenen), MANIFEST DESTINY (Sarah Kanouse), MADE FOR TV (Maria Pappas), APOSTROPHE (Barnstromers), ITSU (Plaid video by Pleix), WINDOWLICKER (Chris Cunningham) FREAK (Daniel Levi), ALUMINUM (Tyrone Davies) and THE NEED (Adam Greul) and others.