Tom Burtonwood

wow…. this last 3 weeks has been insane. and tomorrow we have an opening at What It Is…. i’ve been teaching a class at UIC and another at SAIC… plus doing renovations… and Holly is a grad student at SAIC which means she is at school 13 hours a day… so all things considered there has been no time for retrospective scannings and postings. i came across this piece cleaning the office so i went ahead and posted it for good measure. created at pearl one afternoon it depicts an Interactive Art Lab behemoth. IAL was a web design / hosting / start up Jeremiah aka Piko Piko (aka small and round) and I worked on together for a few years. this was a stab i had at “branding” … needless to say we didn;’t use it in our marketing campaign but i still like it…. it reminds me of lego star ships i would make as a kid, (minus the penis protrusions and nipples of course….)

the story so far….

Pattern Recognition, 2009

Drawing (above) featured in artXposium 2009 (details below) being held today in West Chicago.

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Contact Person: Anni Holm, Co-Founder & Curator
Company Name: People Made Visible, Inc.
Telephone Number: 847.436.2664
Email: artxposium@gmail.com
Website: http://artxposium.org

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
West Chicago (IL 60185), September, 2009

artXposium 2009

On September 19, 2009, the West Chicago City Museum, located at 132 Main Street in West Chicago, will open its doors to the third annual artXposium, a multimedia art experience, in collaboration with People Made Visible, Inc. Local, national and international artists will come together to display a variety of art work ranging from traditional media, to interactive and multimedia installations.

In addition to the West Chicago City Museum, artXposium events and exhibitions will take place in Gallery 200, Main Street Storefronts, the 19th century CB&Q Depot, the West Chicago City Museum and the West Chicago Public Library District. Saturday, September 19th the exhibition opens at 11am, and features a guided tour at 2pm. Saturday evening from 5 to 10 pm will feature a closing reception with an artist talk by Danish Artist in Residence, Berit Nørgaard, performances by Alison Rhoades, Core Project, Kathryn Born and John & Mandy Rakow, along with food, drinks, and a silent auction. (Full program available at artxposium.org.)

New to the program this year are the Meet the Artists Potluck on Friday, September 18 at 7pm and an 8pm screening of Reach the Rock written by the late John Hughes and filmed in West Chicago in the 1990s.

Featured artists and performers include:
Lise Haller Baggesen, Kathryn Born, Jessica Bruah, Tom Burtonwood, Andrew Coppersmith, Core Project, Stephanie Dean, Adam Farcus, Benjamin Funke, Valerie J. Gordon, Annie Heckman, Anni Holm, Holly Holmes, Nate Mathews, Sara Peak, Irene Pérez, John Rakow, Mandy Rakow, Brian Reis, Alison Rhoades, Rachel Weaver Rivera, Ingrida Slajuvienne, Christopher Smith, Ted Strandt, Allison Yasukawa, Colin & Emily York

artXposium is curated by Anni Holm and Irene Pérez and organized in conjunction with the West Chicago International Artist in Residency Program featuring Berit Nørgaard’s project: If I Can Do It – You Can Do It Too.

artXposium Hours: Friday 7-10pm & Saturday 11am-10pm. This event is open to the public and free (suggested donation $2).

I have started “curating / collecting / compiling” hit lists, top tens etc for the Proximity Magazine online blog. First up this week is my good friend and all round nice guy Christopher Hudgens with 10 tech sites that will make you laugh, cry and much much more productive. If you have a top ten to contribute please send me an email tom@tomburtonwood.com … links should be annotated, and images are nice too… http://proximitymagazine.com/2009/09/top-ten-links-with-christopher-hudgens/

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Display Unit_ animated sketch

As u can see i kinda botched the unfolding portion here. Trying to figure it all out by hand not so easy. Maya makes it easy….. soon …. soon…. but i thought i’d post this anyway. hope to see everyone out and about tonight…. i’m starting downtown at the SAIC faculty show, then River North then West Loop, then perhaps Pilsen or a party not sure yet.

ciao!

Permutations 2.0, frame from animation.

Making progress now on the second Permutations animated short. work on the first Permutations animation has ground to a halt. hopefully will get this done soon also.

Display Unit, sketch in Maya.

One of the first frames of the new animation, not much to see here – yet, but i wanted to post it to remind myself mostly how much i love the line quality — just a simple stabilo pastel pencil drawn across somerset paper — very exciting!