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I stumbled upon this great CAPTCHA on the Chicago Reader site while looking for information about the rockin' FREE STORE coming up in Pullman.

Select from I am: "A Living Being with a Valid Comment" or "A Bot Sent to Spam"

For the Chicago, IL and Providence, RI Peeps... a kick-ass call for submissions.

[The Interactive Poster Show] is a May 2009 exhibition of works on paper
intended not for public consumption but to create small venues for
public participation. It will be held at Green Lantern Gallery in
Chicago, IL and possibly also in Providence, RI: we haven't gotten that
far yet. We've been kind of busy lately.

[The Interactive Poster Show] will feature a name that does not begin
with an onomatopoeia, followed by an exclamation point. If you have
ideas for what that should be, please feel free to share them with us
at artshowheckyeah@gmail.com.

[The Interactive Poster Show] will exclusively contain posters that
have one or more of the following elements: stuff that falls off (on
purpose), windows, parts that move, space for new information, dials,
buttons, removable elements, or other user-manipulated,
four-dimensional aspects of awesomeness.

In other words, [The Interactive Poster Show] will display a wide
collection of new, recent, and downright old works on paper that
require more from the viewer than merely reading about, memorizing
information on, and attending the event described in the poster. These
may be malleable, 3-dimensional, tactile, transient, or somehow
otherwise inclusive of elements that can move, deteriorate, or be
removed; or bits that must be rubbed, poked, ripped, pressed, wettened,
prodded, or yanked to achieve full poster satisfaction. Full poster
satisfaction need not be guaranteed each viewer.

[The Interactive Poster Show] will highlight screenprinted or
letterpressed materials or, hell, anything made primarily by hand but:
the poster package must include all necessary elements necessary for
interaction.
example: if you make charts exhibited on street corners that passersby
are intended to mark, for example, ongoing acts of police brutality
personally witnessed, YOU MUST ALSO INCLUDE A WRITING UTENSIL.

[The Interactive Poster Show] will show posters made exclusively by artists currently based in Chicago, IL or Providence, RI.

Requirements:
- Print it, yo. And interactive it too, while you're at it.
- Posters need not necessarily feature "leftist" or even "political"
content; rock show, informational, missing pet, activist, pointless,
and "art" posters—as well as religious treatises and manifestos—will
also be considered.
- Open only to artists currently based in Chicago, IL or Providence, RI.
- Forward the email to relevant cultural producers. If you wonder if
they've gotten it, they probably haven't. I'm either new in town, if
you're in Providence, or haven't been around in awhile, if you're in
Chicago.
- Send JPGS of images—preferably more than one view of each—by August
1, 2008 to: artshowheckyeah@gmail.com, or check in to set up a studio
visit. Participating artists will be notified by September 1, 2008.
Final work is due no later than February 1, 2009.

via worth its weight in awesome, a 22 player foosball table...

IX by H3X3N @ DEADTECH
Saturday May 10
7 - 10 PM
FREE

H3X3N is a group of Computer Witches who have built an enchanted cube
that casts magical spells on computers. This cube, called IX, is a New
Media Artwork that will be shown at DEADTECH, an art and technology
center and gallery in Chicago, this Saturday May 10. The IX cube casts
spells on Windows, Macintosh and Linux computers, hacking and hexing
these operating systems. IX combines traditional stage magic tricks and
irony as elements of Hacker culture to create an Interactive
Installation and Software Art project. IX has been exhibited previously
at the Interactivos? exhibition at the Media Lab Madrid in Madrid,
Spain.

H3X3N, a collaborative computer witchcraft club from Chicago,
Mexico City Mexico and Linz Austria, is currently composed of Mark
Beasley, Sandra Rosas Ridolfi, jake elliott, tamas kemenczy, Alex
Inglizian, Nina Wenhart and jonCates.

Come play with the cube and cast spells that beautifully break
computers at DEADTECH, 3321 W. Fullerton Ave. Chicago IL 60647 from 7 -
10 PM.

IX by H3X3N
http://h3x3n.net

H3X3N blog
http://h3x3n.wordpress.com

I just bought some Co-Op Hot Sauce from a friend at work and it's prett damn tasty!

Not only is it tasty, it's made by kids from their abandoned lot garden in Humboldt Park! 

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The hot sauce was made from an abandoned city lot, which we took over,
and turned into a vegetable garden. The garden now supplies a couple
local businesses, and has even started selling the hot sauce for use in
local restaurants.

you can find out more about other programs here:  http://www.coopimage.org/

also check out the video the kids made. a cooking show was also
produced as a result from these vegetable gardens. i believe this was
the pilot that aired on FiTV and CAN-TV. production of the show not
only teaches kids about healthy eating and nutrition, but also some
industry-standard video production techniques. the kids themselves were
involved in the production, shooting, and editing of the show.

http://mikebancroft.com/chi_town_chefs.mov

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another program worth mentioning is "Co-op Clothing Tech", a
silk-screening company owned and run by the kids themselves. its pretty
neat that these kids have a sense that they're in control of their
financial future, and there's more opportunities for them other than
running the streets of chicago.

so if you need any t-shirts printed, give them a try.

Adding the Mario theme song to something can make 99% of the lame-ass things in the world cooler. Flute-boxing is not one of these.

Steve Kurtz just got cleared!

Nate Harrison's Can I Get An Amen? is something i keep coming back to as a source of inspiration.

Can I Get An Amen?, 2004
recording on acetate, turntable, PA system, paper documents
dimensions variable
total run time 17 minutes, 46 seconds

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