Select Media Festival 9 • Dec 9 - Dec 12, 2010
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This was the last edition of the Select Media Festival.

Select Media Festival 9 opens December 9th and runs through december 12th at the experimental cultural center, the Co-Prosperity Sphere and spaces in Bridgeport, the community of the future.. The ninth annual festival will feature video programs, a group exhibition, performances and presentations in conjunction with live music and action.

Our group exhibition, Infoporn II, was inspired by artists and designers who use available analog and digital tools to communicate complex data from the everyday to the very obscure, We present this project as an homage to our love for data visualization... A selection of works from around the world take form in installations, a publication library, interactive projects, and infographics.

The festival is produced by the non-profit arts organization, Public Media Institute, and is organized by artists, musicians and cultural workers based in Chicago.

From the program:

7pm – 12:30am / $6 / Opening Party for SMF9

Co-Prosperity Sphere / 3219 S Morgan Street

coprosperity.org

Inspired by artists and designers who use available analog and digital tools to communicate complex data from the everyday to the very obscure, we present this project as an homage to our love for data visualization… A selection of works from around the world take form in installations, a publication library, interactive projects, and infographics. The show will be viewable for TWO DAYS only. (Friday Dec 10 8pm – 1am and Saturday Dec. 11 2-9pm)

Featuring works by:
Tom Burtonwood, Dayton Castleman, Caleb Charland, Jeremiah Chiu, The Center for Urban Pedagogy, Column Five Media, Theodore Darst, David A. Garcia, Firebelly Design, Francesco Franchi, Cody Hudson, Gary Kachadourian, Derek Lerner, The New City Reader Classifieds project by Kazys Varnelis and Joseph Grima & others, MaTeVoS, Serifcan Ozcan, The Present Group, The PMIRL library Infoporn Collection, Adam Lonczynski, Adam Lonczynski & Joshua Clarfelt.

Performances by:
J+J+J / http://www.jplusjplusj.com
Aleks Eva / http://www.facebook.com/Aleks-and-the-Drummer
Lord of the Yum Yum
Michael Perkins

After party Dj Set at Maria’s (960 W 31st Street)
Joe Bryl LSD Soundsystem