Family Day | Screen Time

About the Event

Join us on opening weekend of The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies to make some art in the digital world.

Participating artists include GIIIVENS, Norman Long, Niema Qureshi, and Roland Santana.

 
ASL interpretation is provided at this event.

About the Artists

GIIIVENS is a Chicago-based experiential designer, creative director, professional musician, DJ, and software developer armed with a BA in Fine Arts from St. Mary’s College, and a graduate of Northwestern University’s coding program. They create interactive and immersive experiences that consist of experimental light, architectural, and furniture design, audio visual art, 3D/2D animation, and full stack + augmented reality software development, in addition to music composition and artistic direction. Their work has been shown in various capacities, including a permanent art installation at Pier Park in South Bend, Indiana. Their work has also notably been shown for Redbull at the Dance your style US National Championship, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Summer Smash Music Festival, SXSW, The LINE Hotel Austin, TX, EXPOChicago, Public Works Gallery in Chicago, and Bishop Arts Gallery in Brooklyn, NY.
 

Norman Long’s work centers on walking, listening, improvising, performing, teaching, field recording, and exploring memory, place, ecology, and race. Long has performed and exhibited at venues including Yale University’s Center for Collaborative Arts & Media in New Haven, CT, High Zero Festival in Baltimore, MD, and Chicago Humanities Festival, IL. Long has performed and toured with Angel Bat Dawid & the Brothahood, Honey Pot Performance Spectralina, Damon Locks, and many others. He has released his compositions on labels such as Hausu Mountain, Reserve Matinee, LINE, and Room40. Anemoi is the latest ensemble release with Ishmael Ali, William Harris, and Wills McKenna. His solo album, BLACK BROWN GRAY GREEN, was released in September 2021 on Hausu Mountain, and Return and Recovery is his latest solo release on LINE.
 

Niema Qureshi is an interdisciplinary artist and Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Since 2011, she has been a teaching artist with Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), collaborating with Chicago Public School teachers to develop and co-teach arts-integrated curricula that fuse art and new technologies with contemporary practices. Her research focuses on engaging underrepresented youth in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math).
 

Roland Santana is a Chicago-based artist whose influences began from observing his father’s industrial processes while working as a house painter in the early 2010s. Mostly growing familiar with domestic building materials and techniques, he began to incorporate them in his creative projects. Reclaimed foam, silicone, plaster, and concrete are some of his materials of preference. Santana’s interest in non-traditional materials has allowed him to have an expansive and open-ended body of work that is constantly evolving, steering clear of limits of every kind. Experimenting with ideas of scale and roles of materials he evokes a bold abstract language that carries a sculptural essence. Vibrant color decisions are unlocking spiritual dimensions, fostering intimacy with the unseen. Transforming, transmuting from reality to an euphoric dream world. Today Santana has gained the likes of several galleries and collectors and has participated in showcases in spaces such as NADA, AMFM, Belong Gallery, CAC, Ortega y Gasset Projects (Brooklyn, NY), Baby Blue Gallery, Heaven Gallery, and Chuquimarca Projects, and is 2022’s Breakout Artist for Newcity Magazine.

Funding

Support for Family Programs is provided in part by the MCA Women’s Board Family Education Initiative and Peoples Gas Community Fund.