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Posted by os_admin on February 14, 2007

Art Theory Summer Camp All Year Long: January

When: Last Thursday of the month at 8pm
Where: OPENSOURCE Art, 12 E. Washington, Champaign
What: An opportunity to talk about great books
Who: Anyone interested and perhaps a friend

Suggested Donation: $1 (Come on, only a dollar helps support a community based art space and you get to use your brain)

Every session will be based on one article and discussion will be one hour. Readings are posted here. The first reading is a chapter from On Longingby Susan Stewart. The chapter focuses on the power of objects, primarily souvenirs and collections of objects. This reading is part of an ongoing effort to tie the readings to the spring show, Collected

Posted by os_admin on January 12, 2007

OPENSOURCE Art is...

OPENSOURCE Art is an alternative art space accommodating variety of non-traditional, community-oriented art projects events within Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Using our current location as a home base, we intend to host and support a diversity projects: artists' workshops and lectures; short-term art
and events by local, regional, and national artists; and community outreach activities. We intend to initiate and local, national, and international projects, whether independent artists or students and faculty from the local schools.

Access to space for the presentation of art is limited and highly confined to institutions dependent upon conventional modes of operation and large financial restrictions. The need for a space for presenting art in which relationships between artist, facilitators and audiences can be established without monetary exchange is crucial to finding alternative ways of understanding art and its varied meanings. With this in mind, OPENSOURCE Art exists in order to create the possibility that art might be defined by those whom it impacts and by those who are rarely given a voice in conventional museums and commercial gallery spaces. Originally started as a public space for the display of any and all art projects, OPENSOURCE initiates its programs through open calls to the general public, inviting them to use the space. OPENSOURCE takes proposals and submissions from anyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation or age, and without prejudicial reference to a person's past experience with OPENSOURCE or the creative arts. Anybody who puts forth a proposal is asked what it is they want from OPENSOURCE and what OPENSOURCE can do for them. Proposals are then evaluated, on the understanding of the purpose presented to OPENSOURCE, by a group of participating members who decide between proposals on the basis of simple majority vote.

Active members help facilitate the production of the agreed-upon proposal. This includes, but is not limited to publicity/promotion, space preparation, communications, solicitation, event staff and coordination, curatorial advice or direction, administration, etc. Though OPENSOURCE operates in ways not unlike a conventional art gallery, OPENSOURCE attempts to distance itself from the limiting functions of most commercially run spaces. OPENSOURCE creates and fosters activities that challenge our prescribed notions of art, its meaning and its role in a capitalist and consumer-based economy. Although it has common financial needs, and expects its members and board members to raise funds for its operations, OPENSOURCE acts without any formal financial or commercial affiliations and strives to avoid the presentation of art objects and
activities as consumer products.

If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask any current member or email us at opensource@boxwith.com

Posted by os_admin on November 26, 2006

Art Theory Summer Camp All Year Long

When: Last Thursday of the month at 8pm
Where: OPENSOURCE Art, 12 E. Washington, Champaign
What: An opportunity to talk about great books
Who: Anyone interested and perhaps a friend

Suggested Donation: $1 (Come on, only a dollar helps support a community based art space and you get to use your brain)

Art Theory Summer Camp All Year Long will meet at OPENSOURCE the last Thursday of the month starting November 30th at 8pm. Every session will be based on one article and discussion will be one hour. Readings are posted here. The first reading is Theses on the Philosophy of Historyby Walter Benjamin. This reading is in preparation for an upcoming Spring show at OPENSOURCE based on notions of the archive and collecting.

Milk and cookies provided.

For further information, contact Amber at opensource@boxwith.com

Posted by os_admin on November 22, 2006

Call for Entries: Birthday Suit

Call for Submissions
OPENSOURCE invites artists and designers to participate in our second anniversary celebration by producing, exhibiting, and selling their own t-shirts, shorts, shoes, gowns, hats, belts, lingerie, MC Hammer pants … whatever. There’s no theme and only one request: All items should come in an edition
of at least five. That’s right, multiple wearables please. Even though we would like items within the edition to be somewhat consistent, we don’t mind if they’re not identical.
Deadline for submissions: December 3, 2006
Exhibition dates: December 7– December 17
Opening Reception: December 7, 7–10pm

Guidelines
There is no entry fee and artists may submit as many separate editions as they like. However, OPENSOURCE suggests a 20% donation on all sales in order to offset operating costs. Since Birthday Suit is an unjuried show, there’s no need to send us a proposal. Just ship items to:
OPENSOURCE Art
12 E. Washington St.
Champaign, Illinois 61820

Download a PDF of the call

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Posted by os_admin on November 20, 2006

In War/At War: The Practice of Everyday

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

War affects the daily life of all societies, cultures, families and individuals. The result is a climate of war, including the physical, economic, and psychological conditions created by the direct and indirect connection to this kind of violent conflict. We (in the broadest sense) generate and define the everyday, all becoming participants that shape perceptions of daily experience. In War our adjustments to everyday practices and daily life can reflect its radical climate, pointing to the nature of conflict and one's relationship to experience. We adapt. These adaptations vary depending on personal experiences and define one’s relationship to war and inform one’s everyday life.

In War/At War: The Practice of Everyday is an exhibition and series of events that investigates variations on everyday practices, projects, and tactics explored by individuals who cope, adapt and adjust to War and the climate it produces.

Schedule
September 8, 2006 – Submission deadline
September 14, 2006 – Notification of acceptances
September 28, 2006 – Artwork due at OPENSOURCE
October 5, 2006 7-10pm – Opening reception

Please download the full Call for Submissions (pdf) for information about the exhibitions and our exciting program of events and talks

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Posted by os_admin on July 19, 2006

Global WARNING

Global WARNING

What is Global WARNING?

Global WARNING is an environmental awareness group whose goal is to meet to discuss, fix, change, or otherwise improve on environmental issues in the Champaign, Urbana area, as well as issues around the world. Our goal is also to solve these problems in such a way that transforms them into art and/or other useful objects or ideas. There will be a different topic each meeting. No background knowledge is needed. We wish only for you and your ideas to turn our heading-into-disaster-world into a beautiful and clean place for us all!

When?
We will meet twice during the summer starting Sunday, June 11th from 4 to 6 P.M. The first session will be dealing with energy conservation and deforestation while making our own solar cookers. The second meeting on Sunday, July 9th from 4 to 6 P.M. will be focused on trash. While we help the local neighborhood by collecting trash, we will also create our own art piece from of the materials. Future meetings will be arranged and/or decided based on feedback.
Where?
We will meet at OPENSOURCE Art, 12 E Washington, Champaign, which is just across the street from the Orpheum Children’s Museum.
Who?
All are welcome.
Bring?
Bring only yourself and your ideas. We will supply all materials. However, if you would like to bring extra cardboard boxes and tinfoil to the first meeting, it would be appreciated. Fun/useful art materials would also be welcome at the second session.
Questions?
Contact Natalia at opensource@boxwith.com. RSVP is requested.

Posted by os_admin on June 14, 2006

OPENdraw: A Drawing Show

OPENSOURCE Art is looking for works of art which question the historical concepts and conventions of “drawing”.

OPENdraw: A Drawing Show will question the history of drawing in order to reinterpret the concepts, techniques, and languages of drawing. This show seeks to find new systems, symbols and conditions that expand the traditions associated with drawing.

Submissions should demonstrate ideas, or a process, which rethink and reshape drawing as an art practice. This call is open to all mediums and disciplines.

Schedule:
June 26, 2006, 5pm - Submission deadline
June 28, 2006 - Notification of acceptances
July 8, 2006 - Artwork due at OPENSOURCE
July 12, 2006 - Shows Opening at OPENSOURCE 7-10pm

August 24, 2006 - Show Closing (Event) 7-10pm

Submission guidelines:
Please submit a proposal that includes documentation, installation information, and contact information. Documentation may be in the form of, but not limited to: sketches, slides, video, CD or DVD. Please be clear about what, if any, multi-media equipment your work requires. OPENSOURCE Art has a limited budget for installation and exhibition expenses therefore will not be able to admit art that is expensive or excessively difficult to install, no matter how much we'd like to. Supporting materials (vita, portfolio, statement) are not necessary, but would be helpful.

Proposals may be sent via postal service, email, or delivered in person to:

OPENSOURCE Art
12 E. Washington
Champaign, Illinois 61820

opensource@boxwith.com

If you would like your proposal returned, please include a self-addressed package with sufficient return postage. Accepted works must include return packaging and proper postage. Materials that cannot be returned will be considered donations to OPENSOURCE. OPENSOURCE is not responsible for lost or damaged material.

Curatorial Process:
The show will be juried by a committee drawn from the members of OPENSOURCE Art. Any work submitted by members (or family members) of the committee will be voted on by the full OPENSOURCE membership with interested parties recusing themselves. Specific works are likely to be solicited from individual artists, and some flexibility may be exercised for these entries with regard to scheduling.

For more information, please email Aaron Hughes ahughes@uiuc.edu or check http://opensource.boxwith.com

Posted by os_admin on June 10, 2006

ART THEORY SUMMER CAMP 2006

When: Fridays at 9am
Where: OPENSOURCE Art, 12 E. Washington, Champaign
What: An opportunity to talk about great books
Who: Anyone interested and perhaps a friend

Suggested Donation: $1 (Come on, only a dollar helps support a community based art space and you get to use your brain)

Can't make it, but want to join in? Start an online chat group.

Milk and cookies provided.

Beginning Thursday June 1st, it's a book every three weeks with weekly discussions. Feel free to come any week.

June 1st-June 15th
Michel de Certeau, translated by Steven F. Rendall, The Practice of Everyday Life

June 22nd-July 6th
Beatriz Colomina, Sexuality and Space

July 13th-August 3rd
Bill Brown, Things

August 10th-August 24th
Martha Rosler, Decoys and Disruptions: Selected Writings 1975-2001

For further information, contact Amber at opensource@boxwith.com

Posted by os_admin on May 27, 2006

BREAD/EXCHANGE

Saturday, May 13, from 2-5PM

Bread is basic. It is a ubiquitous staple in the diets of diverse cultures around the globe. Beyond mere sustenance, bread also serves in many traditions as a symbol for communal sharing. On Saturday, May 13, from 2-5PM, the Whirlwind Project will host an event in cooperation with OPENSOURCE in downtown Champaign. The event, entitled Bread/Exchange, invites all members of the greater Champaign-Urbana community to meet and share conversation, and bread from varied traditions, at the OPENSOURCE location at 12 East Washington Street in Champaign. Bread for the event will be provided by local companies and by bread-baking workshops taking place in the community prior to Bread/Exchange.

Bread/Exchange is part of the Whirlwind Project’s 2006 event schedule focused on the theme, “The Art of Being Neighbors.” OPENSOURCE is an alternative art space accommodating a variety of non-traditional, community-oriented art projects and events within Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.

If possible, please bring bread to share and exchange with others at the event, with ingredients listed with the bread.

For information about the bread-baking project, please contact
367-9872, or
bread@whirlwindproject.org .

Posted by os_admin on May 07, 2006

OPENtalk:Spectacles of the Real: Truth and Representation in Art and Literature

OPENSOURCE Art is providing online readings in pdf format as a resource for investigating and understanding the upcoming show Spectacles of the Real.
The readings were selected from titles that helped shape the ideas behind the exhibition, which takes place during March at OPENSOURCE Art and the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (http://www.iprh.uiuc.edu/). The readings, combined with discusion at the show spaces, offer a way to more fully appreciate the visual and theoretical connections in the show.

You are invited to the following dates to discuss the readings and critique the works presented.

OPENSOURCE on Saturday March 4, Noon-2pm
IPRH on Monday March 27, 7-9pm

Please follow the link below for individual downloadable files.

Chapter 5: The Return of the Real
The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century
Hal Foster, 1996
An October Book, The MIT Press

The Long Walk of the Situationist International
by Greil Marcus
Guy Debord and the Situationist International: Text and Documents
Edited by Tom Mcdonough
An October Book, The MIT Press

Anthrax R Us
by Susan Willis.
Social Text 73 (Winter, 2002)

Relational form
by Nicolas Bourriaud (1998)
From Relational Aesthetics

Excerpts from Regarding the Pain of Others
Susan Sontag, 2003
Farrar, Straus & Giroux

Ch. 1 from Things
edited by Bill brown.

The Story of K
Matthew Stadler

Posted by os_admin on February 08, 2006