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Mark Booth

Associate Professor

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Bio

Assistant Professor, Writing (2007), Painting, Sound, Liberal Arts, Performance (2000). BFA, 1987, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA, 1995, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Exhibitions: Adds Donna, Chicago; Kunstverein Koelnberg, Koln; oqbo, Berlin; O'Connor Gallery, Dominican University, River Forest; Schalter, Berlin; Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn; HPAC, Chicago; 12x12 MCA, Chicago; KOCA, Weimar; Hudson Franklin, NY; Tony Wight, Chicago. Performances: ELO-Brown University, Providence; Kunstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt; PAC, Chicago; The Outer Ear Sound Art Festival, Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center. Publications: Frakcija; Antennae; Jubilat; Whitewalls; Performance Research. Bibliography: Art Papers; NPR Berlin; New York Times; Chicago Reader; Das Kunstmagazine; Tribune. Awards: ESS Artist's Residency; Crosscut; ESS/Links Hall.

 

Courses

Title Department Catalog Term

Description

This writing workshop's point of departure is a creative response to Charles and Ray Eames' influential film Powers of Ten and George Perec's essay Species of Spaces. In Powers of Ten, the Eames' explore humankind's scale in a progression of images in powers of ten as seen from an individual cell to Earth's position in the galaxy. In a similar fashion, Perec examines increasingly greater scales of experience¿¿from a blank piece of paper to the world and outer space. Using these concepts of scales of magnification, we write fiction and poetry about an imaginary universe of our own devising¿¿from the outer limits of space to life on a microscopic scale. We examine contemporary micro-nations, science fiction, the natural world, and other sources as exemplar and inspiration.

Class Number

2128

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1714

Credits

3

Description

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Class Number

1943

Credits

3 - 6