Come check out the Chicago Debut of PUBLIC DISCOURSE, a new street art video featuring Swoon, Darius & Downey, JJ Veronis, Shepard Fairey and more...

Sunday Nov 23, 9PM at High School Space, 1542 N. Milwaukee Avenue.

Monday Nov 24, 6:15PM at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street.

as part of the Select Media Festival 2.

see below:
Flying in the No Fly Zone
A Program of the Select Media Festival
curated by Dara Greenwald
Sponsored by the Video Data Bank at SAIC
Sunday Nov 23, 9 pm High School Space, 1542 N. Milwaukee
Monday Nov 24, 6:15 at the Gene Siskel Film Center, 164 North State Street


Program Notes:

From traditional graffiti to radio controlled spy planes, the pieces in this program document artists projects that exist outside the studio and the art gallery. Public Discourse exposes us to the vibrant world of NY artists who install and exhibit their work in the street (Artists include: Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Darius Jones, Ellen Harvey, Verbs, Desa, and many others.) Malcolm X Street, BIT Plane, and Suggested Photo Spots reveal what is forbidden or diverted from our sight: from toxic dumps to Silicon Valley to the agendas of city officials. TRT 66 Min

Malcolm X Street (excerpted from Undeniable Evidence) TRT 5 Min
by anonymous culture jammers
At a time when the city of Portland is considering stripping Martin Luther King Jr.'s name off a local street, a covert organization calling itself Group X changes the name of another downtown street to Malcolm X Street in a clandestine overnight action.

BIT Plane, 1999, TRT 13:00
Bureau of Inverse Technology
BIT plane is a highly compact spy plane, wingspan 20 inches, radio-controlled, video-instrumented and deployed over areas of scenic interest. Due to its refined dimensions, BIT plane is able to enter territory inaccessible to other aircraft. Pioneering flight: in an aerial reconnaissance over the Silicon Valley, California 1997, BIT plane flew solo and undetected into the glittering heartland of the Information Age. Video generated in this exercise includes footage retrieved over no-camera zones Apple, Lockheed, Nasa Ames, Netscape, Xerox Parc, Interval Research, Atari, Hewlett Packard, Oracle, Yahoo, SGI, Sun Microsystems.

Suggested Photo Spots, 1997, TRT 10 Min
By Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos
Strap on your seat belts and get comfortable for a 7,000 mile drive. This documentary invites you to travel along with the Center for Land Use Interpretation as they find Suggested Photo Spots across North America. Journey from coast to coast, stopping long enough to take snap shots of unusual or exemplary land use sites across North America. You will even get to take a picture of Kodak's own waste water treatment plant in Rochester, New York.

Public Discourse, 2003, TRT 38 Min
Brad Downey and Quenell Jones
Rather than an objective examination of illegal installation art, Public Discourse is an in depth study of this art form. The primary focus of the film is about paintings of street signs, advertising manipulation, metal welding, postering, and guerilla art. Artists include: Swoon, Shepard Fairey, Darius Jones, Ellen Harvey, Verbs, Desa, and many others.

*This exhibition is the first time the Collective have shown as a complete group for a year and the first time they have ever exhibited together in the USA