The inaugural, by-invitation Symposium C6, entitled The Art World Is Flat: Globalism—Crisis and Opportunity, takes place April 26 – 28, 2007 at the Pritzker Pavilion designed by Frank Gehry in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
Symposium C6 Highlights: Keynote speech by world-renowned theatre director Peter Sellars; the premiere Chicago screening of Strange Culture, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s film, […]
Archives: February 2007
Press release: Symposium C6 Debuts April 26-28, 2007
February 7, 2007 – 12:00 pm
Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture at Berlinale 2007.
February 5, 2007 – 11:33 am
Following its recent premier at Sundance and on Second Life, Lynn Hershman Leeson’s Strange Culture has been selected to open the Panorama Dokumente section of Berlinale 2007. The Hollywood Reporter says the film “speaks volumes about where free expression stand today in the U.S. in its ceaseless combat with forces of repression.”
Hear Lynn speak […]
Ed Gillespie of Futerra asks “can art change the climate of opinion on climate change?”
February 1, 2007 – 12:01 pm
“My hope is that art, culture and those ‘happy accidents’, in conjunction with the appropriate information, can engage the public emotionally as a precursor to action,” writes Ed Gillespie of Futerra Sustainablity Communications in his article “Melting Into The Mind” in Green Futures. “ Looking at ecologically minded art, in particular Cape Farewell, Gillespie says […]
Stephen Burks featured in The New York Times
February 1, 2007 – 11:32 am
“The Tatu collection from the housewares company Artecnica is as good for South African artisans as it is for your patio,” says Tim McKeough in The New York Times. Developed by Stephen Burks, a New York Designer, in collaboration with a wire weaver from one of Cape Town’s poorest townships, the steel wire tables […]
Symposium C6 runs concurrent with 