Art Loop Open
Translations from tom burtonwood on Vimeo.
http://www.stopgostop.com/jacobchammes/
Art Loop Open
Translations
My video collaboration with Jacob C. Hammes, Translations, has been selected for the inaugural Art Loop Open here in Chicago. Our piece is a four minute digital video with audio that was originally produced for Three Walls experimental animation series “Chasing Two Rabbits.” It has since been exhibited at the Next Art Fair in Chicago in May and published online by Drunken Boat in September.
Art Crawl
Art Loop Open launches this Friday, the 15th of October with a gala event from 5 – 8pm hosted by each of the venues throughout the downtown area. Translations is exhibited in the lobby of the Hard Rock Hotel located at 230 N. Michigan. Members of the public are invited to view the all the work in the Art Loop Open from October 15th – 21st and vote on their favorite pieces. If successful our piece will then go forward to the next round of voting from October 22nd – 29th.
How to vote
Vote one of two ways:
Use your smartphone to scan the Microsoft Tag found on the plaque of each artwork, which will take you to the mobile voting site. The tag reader can be downloaded free at gettag.mobi.
OR
Send ALO and the number of your favorite piece as a text to 75309 to vote for it (for example, ALO123 to vote for piece 123).
Important voting dates:.
Round 1
October 15 – October 21
Vote for as many of the 200 works of art as you like. At the end of Round 1, the top ten will be tallied.
October 22
Top Ten Finalists Announced.
Round 2
October 22 – October 28
Vote for your favorite piece among the top ten finalists.
October 28
Last Day to Vote.
October 29
Top THREE winners announced and all prizes awarded.
About the artwork:
Contained within our unique animal identity is a strong desire to witness and experience symmetry, a desire informed by an overwhelming lack of its immediate presence in our waking lives. Symmetry and uniformity are present in the video collaboration between Burtonwood and Hammes, abstracted in terms of geometry and pure tones. Folding cubes and squares are accompanied by modulated, warbling sine waves and occasional bursts of distorted guttural voices, suggesting a human presence in a world of pure geometric and sonic abstraction.
How to get there
The Hard Rock Hotel Chicago is located in the historic Carbide and Carbon building at 230 N. Michigan, Chicago, IL 60601. Google map link:
http://maps.google.com/maps/place?cid=12428075265271646013&q=hard+rock+hotel+chicago&hl=en&gl=us
About Art Loop Open
CHICAGO, IL (September 20, 2010) – Chicago’s inaugural Art Loop Open, a major new art competition judged by the public, will launch with a festive Loop Art Crawl throughout the downtown area, Friday, October 15, from 5-8 p.m. 200 pieces of artwork by Chicago talent will be on display at the ten official Art Loop Open venues: Block 37 (108 N. State St.), Hard Rock Hotel Chicago (230 N. Michigan Ave.), Hotel Burnham (1 W. Washington St.), Macy’s (111 N. State St.), Merchandise Mart (222 W. Merchandise Mart Plaza), French Market/Metra Mart (131 N. Clinton), Palmer House(17 E. Monroe St.), Hotel Allegro (171 W. Randolph St.), theWit Hotel (201 N. State St.), and W Chicago-City Center (172 W. Adams St.). On the 15th, the public is encouraged to visit each venue and begin voting for their favorite artworks, while enjoying specially-priced “Artini” cocktails and other offerings. Many of the artists will be on hand that evening to discuss their works.
Art Loop Open is presented by the Chicago Loop Alliance and Chicago Artists’ Coalition. Voting starts on October 15 and will continue through Friday, October 29, 2010 when winners will be announced. Artwork will be on exhibit and for sale from October 30 through November 12.
Art Loop Open: http://artloopopen.com
Art Loop Open artist page: http://artloopopen.com/ALO27
Translations on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/10750465
Tom Burtonwood: http://tomburtonwood.com
Jacob C. Hammes: http://www.stopgostop.com/jacobchammes/