![]() ![]() (The project is dedicated to Wayne Stuetzer, a founder and director of the CDA who passed away in 2020.)Įmbracing what Tsoupikova described to AN as a “overarching umbrella of human-centered design,” this mesmeric whirlwind journey through Chicago design history manages to cover a lot of ground in its 7-minute runtime. Like with past Art on theMART commissions, the installation features a musical element, which in this case was created by musician Louis Schwadron of Sky White Sound. Joining this core trio were fellow CDA directors Jack Weiss, Cheri McIntyre, and Lauren Meranda, along with NASA science animator Krystofer Kim, and the EVL’s Fabio Miranda. While multiple members of the CDA were involved in the creation of Chicago Design Through the Decades, the three-years-in-the-making project was initiated as a cross-institutional collaborative effort led by Daria Tsoupikova, professor at the UIC School of Design and faculty member at the university’s Electronic Visualization Laboratory ( EVL) Sharon Oiga, a graphic designer and professor at the UIC School of Design who serves as a director of the CDA and Guy Villa, Jr., a fellow graphic designer and assistant professor at Columbia College Chicago. Growing from a slide-based collection presented in 2002 to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the Society of the Typographic Arts, the CDA, described as an “exclusive and permanent online record of design excellence created from the 1920s to the present,” initially focused on graphic design but has since expanded to include industrial, product, and experiential design produced in and related to the Windy City. ![]() (Daria Tsoupikova/Courtesy Art on theMART) “The breadth of creative works by Chicago designers shown in the time-lapse visualization illustrates the perpetual advancement of design, a field that continually expands, allowing members of the public to immerse themselves in design history,” reads a description of the “at once nostalgic and whimsical” work, which is based on the 3,250-work collection of the Chicago Design Archive ( CDA). ![]() Works are commissioned via a variety of means including individual invitations, direct proposals, and theme-tied RFP processes.Īrt on theMART’s newest projection, Chicago Design Through the Decades, which debuted November 18 and can be viewed nightly through December 30, isn’t the work of a single artist but a century-spanning celebration-slash-compendium of Chicago design, beginning with the city’s art deco heyday in the 1920s and ending in contemporary digital portraiture produced using neural networks, a subset of deep learning technology with roots at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) and the University of Chicago. (Daria Tsoupikova/Courtesy Art on theMART)Īrt on theMART’s programming, save for temporary seasonal installations and some partner content, is shepherded by a nine-person curatorial advisory board that includes, among others, artist Amanda Williams, the program’s executive director Cynthia Noble, and Lydia Ross, director of public art with the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events. Notably, Nick Cave’s Ba Boom Boom Pa Pop Pop, a remix of sorts of the Chicago-based artist’s 2011 film Drive-By incorporating original footage, graced the exterior of The MART nightly over the summer and into the fall in conjunction with his first career retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Since the inception of Art on theMART, the facade has hosted site-specific moving image works by a slew of multidisciplinary local, national, and international artists including Charles Atlas, Barbara Kruger, Bisa Butler, and Yuge Zhou. Dubbed Art on theMART, the ongoing (save for a pause early in the pandemic when large gatherings, even outdoors, were verboten) free public art exhibition transforms the southern face of the hulking art deco landmark into what’s billed as the world’s largest digital projection screen-a seasonally activated blank canvas that spans two city blocks and is brought alive by 34 massive projectors built into the Riverwalk.
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