*** My 2019 Predictions. ***

1. There will be a disclosure about what is in Antarctica. The Nazis built bases there. The USA has bases there. It has not been just for scientific reasons. What is under the ice? Many politicians have gone down there including John Kerry, Hillary Clinton and her “aide” Huma Abedin in 2009. Climate change? Really? https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/09STATE48359_a.html 2. Bill Clinton will suicide with 2 bullets to the head at Jeffery Epstein’s Pedo Island for his last fling. 3. Bernie will pass away. And just “conveniently” for the Democratic party. 4. The deep state/illuminati (or whatever you call them) will keep on trying to assassinate the President just like they did to Kennedy. He will survive. 5. No one will care about Drake anymore and he will go into Jermaine Jackson mode or start performing in Vegas. 6. The USA will dissolve the federal reserve and our monetary system will go back to being backed by gold instead of something imaginary. 7. Some new motherfucker will find a link to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to Quantum physics. And then realize we live in a computer program. 8.The band Pavement will try to reunite again because they need money. 9. Agenda 2030 will be exposed as just a continuation of the “New World Order” Neo-con/Neo-liberal/New green Deal corporate initiative. 10. Tom Hanks will be exposed as a pedophile after his Mister Rogers movie. 11. Betty White will finally die. 12. The Space Force will happen and we will be surprised as to what has been going on behind the scenes for decades. The Pentagon's trillions of dollars went somewhere.

Lucid dream 3/13/16

I just had a lucid dream where I was at an art opening at my studio and it had no furniture and no wall divider. So it was all filled with sculpture and interactive art all over the floor. Some people are walking around while others sit on the floor looking at the smaller objects. At this point I realized I was dreaming.

I looked around and everything was in vivid color. I'm sitting on the floor talking to someone and one of the artists hands me a small piece of paper with text and intricate paper cut out patterns on the edges. I start noticing the extreme level of detail that my brain is doing to render this dream.

I start walking around and looking at every little texture. I look in my kitchen area to see what I have. I then walk outside and the street is a wider busier 2 lane avenue with huge trees on the sidewalk. I look up at the 3 floor building and start climbing the wall. Once I get to the top, I sit down and just look around in a panoramic view at my brain's creation.

I designed this graphic in support of Bernie

Dream 12-25-15

Just had an interesting dream where I was part of a team traveling to another alternate reality. There was a group of us in some warehouse waiting in line to go through a big doorway. It was kind of like a Stargate but rectangular with a ramp and no fancy special effects. The center was just black. So when it was my turn, I walked up the ramp, walked into the blackness and instantaneously came out the other side which was the inside of another building  with rooms and aisles with storage boxes plus people working.

I walked through out the building looking for an exit. I climbed up some stairs and eventually found one. There where a few people near the door so I asked this cute girl what I was supposed to do. She said to explore and come back later for a group dinner.

As I walked onto the street of this metropolitan alternate reality city I felt the fresh outdoor air going into my lungs. A few people were walking about and I noticed the building facades were filled with intricate stone designs. They looked centuries old but without the usual Greco-Roman influence that you see in 19th century USA cities.

I walked for a few blocks and came across what looked like an alley. I looked away for a second and then back and the alley was gone. It was just a brick wall. It was then that I realized I was dreaming and woke up.

multi-verse

I believe in the multi-verse theory where anything that can happen, does happen. All possible outcomes of any decision you think you make does happen and you only experience your choice. you cannot deviate and experience other options after you choose. Quantum theory tries to explain how the minute elements behave at a microscopic subatomic level. They exist both as a particle and a wave until you perceive them. Your choices in life exist as every possible option until you decide.

Lucid dream

Early this morning I had a lucid dream where was living on a 2nd floor apartment in an unfamiliar building and location. All of a sudden tons of people come in and start having a party. I don't know any of these people. At this point I realize I am dreaming because I feel myself laying on my bed and this scene being some projection or virtual reality.

After some NSFW moments, I start exploring and trying to change the environment. I look at a wall and think there are other rooms so a door gradually appears. I go through it until I find a stairway and go downstairs and eventually find myself outside in the backyard.

I stand in the center, look up and see the electrical wires connecting the house. I jump up, touch the wires and pull them up slightly and let go like a rubber band. I float back down gently towards the grass. I then start jumping on garages and over trees until my alarm wakes me up.

My Friday Rant

I realize I exist at a point in history that is still fucked up by (stupid) ideology, race and religion and truly hope one day we will look back at this time period and see how primitive we behaved. We need to dismantle the current systems and devise one that benefits all of us in order to evolve as a species. 

Dream 2-6-15

4:35am. Just woke up from a futuristic dream. I was being held captive in some industrial decayed warehouse when all of a sudden some friends barged into the building and beat up and killed the people that were keeping me captive. We ran throughout the rooms and hallways and got onto a sort of elevator/cart with windows. This device moved in all directions (up, down, left and right) through this city complex. I tried looking out one of the windows as we were moving and between a scenery of industrial pipes and objects I caught a glimpse of the outside. Off in the distance near the horizon I saw some huge objects that looked like massive robots the size of skyscrapers. They weren't moving. And behind them was the dark star lit sky.

Bridgeport Dream

I dreamt I was in a place that resembled Bridgeport. This song was playing: http://youtu.be/guJOyJyTn5w

In the dream I walked out of my home and wandered throughout the neighborhood.

August 1, 2014

There is so much violence happening now globally and locally. Why can’t humanity evolve past this? Does one blame the political and religious ideologies that guide us? Is it that simple? I hope one day we look back at ourselves and see how primitive we really were in this 21st century.

Dream July 2, 2014

I dreamt that I hooked up with Ann Margret but in my dream she was young and not present day Ann(in her 70s). I always had a crush on her growing up but she made horrible movies.

CTA train

I take the train daily to work and during the repetitiveness of this action I notice the same people over and over. One such person is this very pretty young woman probably in her late 20s or early 30s. She always wears a distinctive colorful backpack. Boards at Division, leaves the train at my stop Rosemont and then walks to an area by the parking lot where a lot of shuttles pick up people to go to work.

I still haven't had a chance to talk to her. I wouldn't know what to say besides dumb small talk. Perhaps one day I'll start a conversation.

April 18, 2014

For the past year and a half I have struggled to make art that for years used to satisfy me. That was mostly 2D painting and drawing. I grew out of this traditional media and although I do still respect the medium and like that type of art, I feel the need to grow and experiment. In the past, I have dabbled in video, animated GIFS, photography, etc. But now I want to explore further and grow as an artist and as a person without catering to the commercial aspect of artmaking.

#404 Not Found

#404 Not Found
Curated by Miguel Cortez from Antena

Opening Friday August 30, 2013 from 6pm-10pm
Show runs until September 8th

"Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence." - Nam June Paik

The 404 Not Found is an HTTP web error message indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server could not find what was requested. Humans created this entity called the Internet which has no physicality but it is a collective forum for our ideas, comments and cat videos. This show is about artists using technology as an art form, from video, web, animated GIFS, social networks, virtual reality, etc.

Artists:
Channel TWo (CH2)
Jeff Kolar
Jon Satrom
Rob Ray
Patrick Lichty
Sarah Weis
Christopher Smith
Jake Myers
Amelia Winger-Bearskin
Emilie Gervais

Co-Prosperity Sphere
3219-21 South Morgan Street
Chicago Illinois, 60608
http://coprosperity.org

Artist Bios:

Channel TWo (CH2)
Adam Trowbridge (b 1972) and Jessica Westbrook (b 1974) collaborate as Channel TWo (CH2), a studio/research construct focused on mixed reality, media, design, development, and distribution, authorized formats + unauthorized ideas, systems of control + radical togetherness. Channel TWo is loosely aligned with the concept of over-identification, Slavoj Žižek’s description of a tactic intended to reveal the hidden nature of dominant ideologies -- not by pointing to them but by becoming extreme forms of them. CH2 projects intersect joyful/play-oriented aesthetic experiences and user interfaces with challenging critical undercurrents. CH2's most recent projects involve interactive landscapes/game environments, and computer viruses. In 2012 CH2 was awarded a Rhizome Commission, a Turbulence Commission in 2011, and a Terminal Commission in 2009 for projects involving education, systems design, and net art. In addition to exhibitions and commissions, CH2 contributes to panels, platforms, publications, and collaborative programs involving new media, and social practices. Both Trowbridge and Westbrook are Assistant Professors at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where they teach courses in the Department of Contemporary Practices and the Department of Art and Technology Studies. Trowbridge received an MFA in Electronic Visualization from the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL (2008). Westbrook received an MFA in Photography from Temple University's Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA (1998). http://www.onchanneltwo.com/

Jeff Kolar is an audio artist working in Chicago, USA. His work, described as "speaker-shredding" (Half Letter Press) and "wonderfully strange" (John Corbett), includes cross-platform collaboration, low-powered radio, and live performance. Jeff is a free103point9 Transmission Artist, and also the director of Radius, an experimental radio broadcast platform.

His work has been released on Panospria (Canada), HAK Lo-Fi Record (France), free103point9 (USA), and has appeared in compilations by Furthernoise.org (Australia) and Sonic Circuits (USA). His video work was published in the DVD journal ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art. He presents at festivals, radio programs, exhibitions, and performance venues which recently include GLI.TC/H, KUNSTRADIO, and The Kitchen; and in Argentina, Mexico, and the Netherlands, among others internationally. http://www.jeffkolar.us/

 

Emilie Gervais
Girl living the life, living the internet and all. If i lose this current skin, it's scary like #404voidBB. http://emiliegervais.com/

Jon Satrom is a constructive deconstructivist, a creative problematizer, a collaborative agitator and a systems spelunker. His realtime A/V performances, experimental video-works, net.art and artware have been consumed within various space-times across multiple planes. Satrom co-founded the r4wb1t5! microFestival framework and the GLI.TC/H conference/festival/gathering. He has taught and developed courses in the new-media path of the Department of Film Video New Media Animation at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and directs the Chicago-based boutique digital studio studiothread. Sharing, bringing folks together, creative problem creating and investigating structures though failure, kludges, and glitches fuel his endeavors. http://jonsatrom.com

Rob Ray examines technology in public/outdoor spaces and creates interactive public artworks, experimental videos and sound compositions. His interactive work, GET LOST! was commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival in Manchester, UK and has exhibited at Conflux 2012 in New York and the Tracing Mobility festival in Berlin, Germany. His video game disguised as ATM, Bucky's Animal Spirit, was selected for the art.tech exhibition at The Lab (San Francisco), and the (re)load exhibition at Antena (Chicago).

Rob also collaborates with Jason Soliday and Jon Satrom as a member of the Chicago-based circuit-bent multimedia noise trio I Love Presets. I Love Presets has performed at the GLI.TC/H 2011 and 2012 festivals, The SAIC's Conversations at the Edge series and the Chicago Underground Film Festival.

From 1999 to 2008, Rob was founding curator of the DEADTECH electronic arts center in Chicago, IL, USA. DEADTECH's unique curatorial vision, residency facilities, workshop facilities and exhibition space were custom created to cater to the specific needs of the electronic artist and performer. DEADTECH exhibited artists from across the globe including the Beige Programming Ensemble, Institute for Applied Autonomy, Trevor Paglen, Norman White, Kevin Drumm, T.V. Pow and Kazuyuki K. Null. In 2010, Rob received his MFA in Electronic Arts from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. http://robray.net/

Patrick Lichty is a technologically-based media artist, writer, independent curator, co-founder of the performance art group Second Front, animator for the activist group, The Yes Men, and Executive Editor of Intelligent Agent Magazine. He began showing technological media art in 1989, and deals with works and writing that explore the social relations between us and media. Venues in which Lichty has been involved with solo and collaborative works include the Whitney & Turin Biennials, Maribor Triennial, Performa Performance Biennial, Ars Electronica, and the International Symposium on the Electronic Arts (ISEA). He is also an Assistant Professor of Interactive Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago. http://patricklichty.com/

Jake Myers is a Chicago-based artist, athlete and educator. "His work gratuitously merges art and sports, homoeroticism and hypermasculinity, and heroism and existential suffering." (M. Devlin) http://jakemyers.us

Amelia Winger-Bearskin works with modeling (as defined by agent based computer programming) as a conceptual prompt in her performance work, she has developed a concept of Open Source Performance Art (OSPA), she has spoken about OSPA at various academic conferences and performance festivals since 2010. She has been a solo performer at numerous international performance festivals since 2008 in cities not limited to: Beijing, China, Manila, Philippines, Seoul, South Korea, Sao Paulo, Brazil, New York NY and Washington, DC. She participated in the 2012 Gwangju Biennial as a performance artist and recently returned from an artist residency at the University of Tasmania in Australia. http://www.studioamelia.com/

Miguel Cortez is an artist/curator living in Chicago and born in Guanajuato, Mexico. He has studied filmmaking at Columbia College and art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently runs Antena, an alternative art space located in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood. His artwork has been shown at Gallery 414 in Fort Worth, Texas, at the Krannert Museum and at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Chicago. Other shows included exhibits in Dallas at Mighty Fine Arts Gallery, Glass Curtain Gallery and at VU Space in Melbourne, Australia. http://www.mcortez.com/

Public Transportation Options: (CTA)
Take the HALSTED BUS (8) south to 31st or 32nd Street. Walk 4 blocks West to Morgan.

ORANGE LINE to Halsted/Archer, catch the HALSTED BUS to 31st.

RED LINE to Sox/35th, take the 35th STREET BUS (35) West to Morgan. Walk north.

2013 Predictions

my predictions for 2013:

1.smartphones will continue to be larger(phablets) because very few people actually make calls anymore. Luddites/Hipsters continue looking for payphones and carry 50 cents in their pockets at all times.

2. Al Gore will try to sell his soul on ebay. No one bids on it.

3.The CBS network will finally cease to exist. All the old viewers will be confused and just watch CSPAN thinking it's a new episode of Matlock.

4. Fox will finally cancel all those damn sunday night cartoons and replace them with 2 hours of Howard Stern.

5. New alternative apartment art spaces will pop up and disappear.

6. Religious freaks will continue knocking on your door but Google will invent the star trek "tricorder" so they will be able to scan your place and see that people are home and ignoring the knock on the door.

7. Anonymous will finally be the TIME mag person of the year.

8. No one will care anymore about the Kardashians. TV shows canceled. They become the Vanilla Ice of reality TV. Kanye's music sales take a dive too. He goes nuts and just kills all of them. Bruce Jenner's face survives. Kanye gets life in prison.

9. Michelle Bachmann finally realizes her husband is gay and supports gay rights. No one cares.

10. Blackberry 10 is released and no one cares. RIM goes out of business but on their way out they release a youtube video of their executives singing  a Frankie Goes To Hollywood song. The web site REDDIT loves it and it becomes a MEME.

11. An artist installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art accidentally blows up the building.

dream 1-04-2013, 3:51am

Had a dream of walking to an outdoor one day art show in this decayed industrial area with destroyed buildings and walls leftover standing. This conceptual/graffiti female artist who went by the name "happy?" was showing installations using materials that blended with the raw industrial surroundings.

I was with a group of people, some of whom I recognized. The artist was explaining an installation in front of us which was a huge 300sq foot square made up of dirt, rocks and stuff sticking out which looked like metal hangers twisted into various shapes.

She invited the group to step into the installation and reshape the metal sculptures. So we did. I noticed as the crowd was stepping all over the dirt and rocks, that a few larger rocks looked like they were moved so I proceeded to move them back into place. The artist came by me and started yelling and saying, "Those are part of the installation and should not be moved voluntarily. You should only reshape the metal sculptures that I just explained!"

I apologized and after this ordeal the artist pointed to where we could get some drinks. It was an opening on the floor with a metal chute that lead down to a basement level. It did not look safe but most of us in the group slid down for drinks and further art chit chat.

After a while we walked back up to leave and there was a half demolished wall with an abstract mural with the name "happy?" spray painted below it. Next to it it said "next art opening: Barry McGee."

WTF is wrong with America?

taking a nap

recycle your ideas

early 1900s