Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once said "you have to borrow the sky when you cannot see it."
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.
Keepers of the Frame: The Sandors are regarded as Futurists in the Winter '07 issue of MET Home, featuring a personal interview with Ellen Sandor
Matt McDermott interviews Ellen Sandor in Chicago City Arts Review:
Matt McDermott: What technical and aesthetic possibilities has the PHSCologram specifically opened up for you as an artist?
Ellen Sandor: We have broken new ground for innovation as an art form by conceptually blending content with process. We have taken on subjects that include war, terrorism, disease and tolerance, with respect for history and appreciation for all forms of expression, as evidenced by all of our collaborators, from early pioneers in the field to the scientists, mathematicians, traditional artists, architects and film directors.
Matt McDermott's interview with Ellen Sandor in Chicago City Arts Review was included in "Best of 2006 New Media Profiles."
European traveling exhibition "No Name Fever," curated by the Museum of World Culture in Göteborg, Sweden travels to South Africa, to Red Location Museum in Port Elizabeth opening December 1, 2007 - Spring 2008. This special exhibition features AIDS Virus, Third Edition, and is the second time the piece will be shown in Africa since its first showing by the US Art in Embassies Program during 1998-2000 in Zimbabwe:
"The AIDS Virus is clearly the most talked about piece in our collection . . . while this country has the fourth highest concentration of HIV infection in the world, Zimbabweans are still generally reluctant to talk about the disease. The PHSCologram offers us a chance to discuss AIDS in an informal, less threatening way, but nonetheless important way. Zimbabweans are drawn to the technology that the piece evokes. Americans are stunned by the artistic feel, the vivid color and amazing shape of 'the disease'."
Anmarie McDonald, American Embassy Harare Zimbabwe 1998
"Invention in art to develop new ways we can experience it is critical, but the artist collaborations that Sandor and (art)n have made and continue to make are essential to fully enable new technologies; this may be the greater of the two contributions to art she has made."
Robert J. Krawczyk art @ IIT Illinois Institute of Technology
It was the fourth time since the end of the Cold War that the clock has ticked forward, this time from 11:53 to 11:55, amid fears over what the scientists are describing as 'a second nuclear age' prompted largely by atomic standoffs with Iran and North Korea.
But the organization added that the 'dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons.'
