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Before Art and Technology Studies at SAIC became what it is today, the department took the form of two previous programs: Kinetics and Generative Systems.

In 2021, a piece of artwork sold for $69.3 million dollars at Christie’s—the third-highest price ever realized by a living artist at auction. While other works would be whisked away from the auction block by white-gloved hands and packed by art handlers, this piece was different: it doesn’t exist in the physical world at all.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago student Milica Zekic (BFA 2023) was recently announced as the First Prize Winner of the 2022 AXA Art Prize.

Professor Emeritus Michiko Itatani’s (SAIC 1983-91) latest solo exhibition Michiko Itatani: Celestial Stage was recently spotlighted on Chicago’s PBS television station WTTW as part of their “Chicago Tonight” segment.

Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing Michelle Grabner was recently featured in the Chicago Reader.

Alum Brandon Phillips (BFA 2000) and his wife Amy Phillips were recently featured on an episode of the HBO television series Where We Call Home.

Rebecca Fons, the Gene Siskel Film Center’s director of programming, was recently named by the Chicago Tribune as their 2022 Chicagoan of the Year in Film.

BODIES, curated by Lecturer Megan Euker, highlights the medical device design work of SAIC’s Intro to Designed Objects students. The exhibition is on display at the International Museum of Surgical Science. 

Seeing the future is hard work. Tomorrow can seem like a total mystery and, as the pandemic taught us, what’s to come might not be for the faint of heart. Fortunately, we have artists and designers.