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Monique Meloche Gallery Opens Sanford Biggers’ First Solo Show in Chicago

Sanford Biggers, Untitled, 2014.  Courtesy of Monique Meloche Website.  

The exhibition Winter Experiment, which celebrated SAIC’s 150th anniversary by featuring a range of sixteen late 20th and early 21st century SAIC alumni, closed on Saturday, January 30.  One of the artists included, Sanford Biggers (MFA 1999), will be the focus of the gallery’s upcoming exhibition, the pasts they brought with them, which opens on Thursday, February 11. 

Biggers, who is a TED Fellow for 2016, will be on hand for the opening reception: 5:00 - 7:30pm on February 11.     

From the Gallery Website: “On a large, horizontal, mounted quilt painting, collaged material buckles underneath Biggers’s abstracted motifs. With an emphasis placed on materiality, form, collage, and influences ranging from Miriam Schapiro to Frank Stella, the pasts they brought with them will feature this new series of transmogrified quilts alongside bronzed, deconstructed sculptures sourced from street vendors on 125th Street in Harlem. Narrative video works act as accompaniment to each of the sculptures, further elucidating the process Biggers’ figurines undergo.”

This will be Biggers’ first solo exhibition in Chicago. 

The Monique Meloche Gallery which has been a staunch supporter of SAIC artists over the last decade and a half is located at  2154 W. Division in Chicago.  Meloche herself is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute, as are all of her gallery staff!     

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It reminded me of a possible scene from the movie Interstellar. But it is just the wind turbine on to of Vancouver's Grouse Mountain. #TEDfellows #fog #camilleseaman #sustainable #energy #wind #scifi #photography

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Getting Girls in Science: Shohini Ghose heads the Center for Women in Science

 Meet TED 2014 Fellow Shohini Ghose, a theoretical physicist who examines how the laws of quantum mechanics may be harnessed to develop next-generation computers and novel protocols like teleportation.

Shohini is currently an associate physics professor at Wilfrid Laurier University where she is also the Director of the Centre for Women in Science. The center’s mission is to build a strong community for women in science as well as the mathematical social sciences through research, action and communication. It provides grants to female scientists and to scholars studying the role of women in the sciences. In addition, the center organizes seminars, workshops and conferences, developes partnerships with other educational institutions and with industry, facilitates networking and mentoring opportunities for female scientists, and supports community outreach to female youth considering careers in science.

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TED e tudo que eu não sabia

Eu tive que dar uma parada nos estudos essas semanas por conta de uns contratempos, mas eis que numa das minhas zapeadas pelo twitter, encontrei um projeto chamado TED.

E minha vida mudou. OMG.

O TED esse ano acontece aqui no Rio, mas o ingresso custava algo em torno de 12 mil reais *fuén fuén fuééén*

Não vou assistir pessoalmente, mas estou fazendo questão de acompanhar pelo site.

Sobre o TED:

"TED é uma organização sem fins lucrativos dedicada à difusão das idéias, geralmente sob a forma de curtas e poderosas palestras (18 minutos ou menos). TED começou em 1984 como uma conferência onde tecnologia, entretenimento e design convergiram, e hoje abrange quase todos os tópicos - da ciência à empresa para questões globais - em mais de 100 línguas. Enquanto isso, executados de forma independente eventos TEDx ajudar a compartilhar idéias em comunidades ao redor do mundo."

Primeiro, me chamou a atenção o projeto de um chileno chamado Jose Manuel Moller, um chileno que observou que a compra de produtos em atacado era mais econômica, mas por haver uma disparidade de renda muito grande, as famílias mais pobres não conseguiam fazer compras de mês e eram obrigadas a fazer compras semanalmente gastando muito mais. Pensando nisso, ele criou o "Algramo" uma maquina que disponibiliza produtos básicos (arroz, sãbão em pó, feijão etc) a preço de custo, já adquire os produtos em atacado. A disponibilização é gratuita nas mercearias chilenas e Jose divide os lucros em 50% com seus donos. Uma simples ideia que vai ajudar muitas famílias!

No site do TED e no TED Ed (Uma espécie de plataforma de ensino que vai de economia à religião) tem várias palestras curtas e vídeos explicando sobre diversos temas, infelizmente a maioria está em inglês, mas há algumas palestras em português também.

Uma das palestras que achei em português e que achei super interessante é do médico Sueco Hans Rosling que fala sobre algumas estatísticas mundiais e a interpretação errada sobre elas. Para assistir clique aqui.

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33 Flatbush Avenue in downtown Brooklyn is a space for experimentation and collaboration, colonized by TED Fellows and MIT Media Lab alums...and where all the magic happens!

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MAPPR lets you visualize complex interconnections. See a map of TED Fellows collaborations -- and an analysis of Syria's civil war.

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Skylar Tibbits makes things that make themselves.

In this new video -- part of a series chronicling the day-to-day adventures of TED Fellows -- TED Fellow Tibbits reveals some of the mesmerizing, wacky, and revolutionary materials coming out of MIT's Self-Assembly Lab, where his team prints objects with "memory" that dynamically respond to stimulation.

Think: a printed cube that folds before your eyes, or a printed pipe able to sense the need to expand or contract.

Recently, the Self-Assembly Lab has produced some delightfully brainy creations, like a strand of material that folds itself into any number of Crambin protein structures when thrown into the air. (Crambin proteins, if you didn't know, are seed storage proteins for a type of cabbage. But you already knew that, didn't you?)

Watch the whole video here>>