"Never let the perfect be the enemy of the good." Richard Sandor
In the News: "Art Attack", a special interview with Ellen Sandor in i4Design by Harlene Ellin: "We recreate for historical purposes. We deconstruct for artistic purposes."
Current Exhibition: Oceans of Change produced in collaboration with NCSA, JPL and MBARI will be included in "Pathways and Portals: Art " Science " Nature" at the Illinois State Museum Chicago Gallery, January 25 - May 7, 1010. Click here for invite.
Happy New Year and Congratulations to Julie Sandor, co-producer of WONDERFUL WORLD starring Matthew Broderick: "If the glass is half empty, at least you can't drown." Frank Scheck from Hollywood Reporter commented " Matthew Broderick's best screen role in quite a while." Jonah Weiner covers the film in The New York Times.
Screen Dates: 1/8 Cinema Village, New York NY 1/8 Music Hall, Beverly Hills CA 1/8 Cinemas Palme DOr, Palm Desert CA 1/8 Opera Plaza, San Francisco CA 1/15 Varsity, Seattle WA 1/15 Ritz at the Bourse, Philadelphia PA 1/29 Robinson Film Center, Shreveport LA
Congratulations to Julie Sandor and her team on the release of their mobile games: HEAD, SHOULDERS, KNEES AND TOES, which is based on a precious song and MY NAME, an enjoyable educational game that teaches little ones how to spell their name. The delightful games were recently reviewed in Classy Mommy and was named 'best aps of the week' by gizmodo.
Recent Exhibition Extended by Popular Demand: Concepts of Construction: (art)n new work and retrospective, Zhou B Art Center in Chicago, October 24-December 12, 2009:
"You are invited to join us Friday, December 11th 2009. December is a busy month for us because of the holidays, so we pushed the 3rd Friday up a week, for this month only. The Third Fridays opening is an eclectic and enthusiastic event featuring gallery openings and artists open studios from Chicago and abroad. Come and join us every Third Friday for an experience that's sure to please."
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.
In 2000, (art)n created Telomeres Project on Imminent Immortality that was shown during "Genomic Issue(s): Art and Science" at The Graduate Center Art Gallery, City University of New York, February 25 through April 5, 2003 to celebrate the Human Genome Project. The interactive sculpture documented the potential of the telomerase enzyme.
News Flash: Three U.S. researchers have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for solving "a major problem in biology," the Nobel Committee announced Monday, as reported in CNN.
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak are credited with discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation -- a field that could shed light on human aging and diseases, including cancer.
"The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies," the committee said in a news release.
The three will share the $1.4 million prize. It is the 100th year the prize will be awarded, and the first time that any Nobel in the sciences has gone to more than one woman. The work that won them the prize took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
It centers on structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres and an enzyme that forms them, called telomerase.
Recent Work: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe once said "you have to borrow the sky when you cannot see it."
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.'
