This project by digital media artist Maysam Al-Ani, specially commissioned for Start a Reaction, utilized an interactive Instagram AR filter to explore topics of metamorphosis and emergence, inspired by the symbols surrounding the narrative of nonproliferation.
The complex relationship of art to memorialization is as alive—and fraught—today as at any time in history. In this photographic study, Hugo Juarez reconsiders both the form and meaning of Henry Moore’s work commemorating the 25th anniversary of the first self-sustaining controlled nuclear reaction and installed in 1967 at the Chicago site of Enrico Fermi’s experiment.
How do we trouble time? was an augmented reality installation experienced on August 7th, 2021 at the site of Chicago Pile-1, where a nuclear chain reaction under Enrico Fermi led to the atomic bomb and the violent proliferation of a nuclear age.
They did not hesitate was a site-specific performance on August 7th, 2021, created and performed by MacArthur Fellow Eiko Otake.
A recent New York Times article explores the artwork of Athena LaTocha (BFA 1992) and highlights her newest projects, a 55-foot long installation at the BRIC House titled In the Wake of… and a companion piece showing in the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) Greater New York exhibit. Working with natural elements such as lead, wood, and earth, LaTocha’s latest projects feature soil from Green-Wood Cemetery and imprints of Manhattan schist bedrock striated by glaciers, and she speaks about her deep dive into what shapes the terrain of New York City.
Lauren Bon has been at work "undeveloping" a Los Angeles River adjacent property, regenerating the soil to form a novel urban ecosystem. Four years into this work, her Metabolic Studio has created a self-generating and self-complicating urban haven best illustrated by the biological diversity that has re-emerged.
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Hosts Second Discussion in Toward an Anti-Racist Art Ecosystem Series on November 3
