[ELECTRON] Fair Use: Information Piracy and Creative Commons in Contemporary Art and Design

[Simon Yuill]

Fair Use: Information Piracy and Creative Commons in Contemporary Art
and Design

Columbia College Chicago

March 1 - April 30, 2010

Reception: Thursday, March 11, 5-8pm

Glass Curtain Gallery
Columbia College Chicago
1104 S Wabash Avenue, 1st Floor,
Chicago, IL 60605

http://www.colum.edu/deps

Gallery Hours: Mon-Wed. and Fri., 9-5pm. Thurs. 9-7pm. Sat by appointment.


Fair Use is a multimedia exhibition at Columbia College Chicago's Glass
Curtain Gallery that sets out to foster critical discussion about
intellectual property rights. The exhibition looks at how contemporary
artists and designers challenge proprietary cultural material through
its appropriation, reconfiguration and redistribution.

The recent strategies of open-source and "copyleft" licensing serve to
encourage collaboration and innovation through the free sharing of
information. Together these two paradigms form a critique of the
conventional modes of distribution and ownership to imagine a more fluid
and inclusive economy of cultural meanings.

Participating artists include: Guy Ben-Ner, Bea Correa, Line Langballe
and Christina Okai Mejborn of Totem Collective, Sze Lin Pang, Pratchaya
Phintong, Seth Price, Kay Rosen, Salter/Snowden and Siebren Versteeg.
This exhibition is curated by Brandon Alvendia.

Exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

RELATED PROGRAMMING:

Artist Talk: Siebren Versteeg
Thursday, March 11, 5:00pm
Conaway Center, 1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Co-sponsored by the Interactive Arts & Media Department as part of their
Spring Lecture Series. Free and open to the public.

Siebren Versteeg is a multimedia artist who, in addition to writing his
own software code, co-opts online media and commercial databases to
create hi-tech works that critique the very sources he usurps. Versteeg
will be discussing his ideas and work in this lecture. Versteeg's piece,
New York Windows, is included in the Fair Use exhibition.

Gallery Talk: Brandon Alvendia, Curator
Tuesday, March 16, 6:00-7:00pm
Glass Curtain Gallery, 1104 S Wabash Ave, 1st Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Free and open to the public.

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
http://www.colum.edu/deps

CONTACT:
Justin Witte, Exhibition Coordinator and Co-Producer of Fair Use,
312-369-8177, jwitte at colum.edu