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Feng Mengbo January 13 – February 24, 2002 Opening reception: Sunday, January 13, 2002, 4:00- 7:00pm

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Scary thought. One that begs the one hand, and a plasma rifle Q4U has been made possible through Talk with the artist of Western and traditional Chinese Special Exhibition Tour: question as to whether civil liberties in the other. There will be three play generous support from The National Sunday, January 13 paintings styles, and 66 pages of Mu Xin and Feng Mengbo IL Endowment for the Arts; Bert Lies do indeed apply to the imagination. stations in the gallery and over 5:00 to 6:00 pm Mu Xin's Prison Notes, written while Sunday, February 24 and Rosina Lee Yue; and Judith Neisser. In a post- 9/11 environ where fear, the course of the exhibition, Mengbo Additional support has been received in solitary confinement from 1970 1:30 pm S Postage from the CityArts Program of The Chicago Quake III Arena: Showdown 2002 Non-Profit Organization U PAID Chicago, Permit No. 2336 fantasy and reality have merged will engage players via the internet. to 1973. This exhibition is jointly Join Smart Museum Associate Curator in all the wrong proportions, most Given the dynamic audio visuals Department of Cultural Affairs, a munici- Sunday, January 13 organized by the Smart Museum pal agency; The Danielson Foundation; Stephanie Smith and Renaissance would hesitate before answering of contemporary video games, 1:00 to 4:00 pm and the Yale University Art Gallery. Q4U the Dorothy and Gaylord Donnelley Society Education Director Hamza yes. Obviously thoughts are free is formally stunning. It is projected Foundation; the Illinois Arts Council, Good at Quake? Mengbo needs a Walker for a special tour. Visitors will to roam. The imagination, however, over three large screens (10 feet x 13 a state agency; The Lannan Foundation, Lecture serious ass whoopin'! Mengbo, who move between two poles of recent does not reside exclusively in the feet) each featuring a different point The LLWW Foundation; The Peter Norton Steven L. Kent boasts of his Quake skills, welcomes Chinese art, beginning at the Smart psyche. The imagination’s industrial of view. Family Foundation; The Pritzker author of The First Quarter: The Foundation; The Sara Lee Foundation; all local competitors for a live Quake Museum among Mu Xin's evocative forms include movies, television Although we have come a long way A 25 Year History of the The Siragusa Foundation; WPWR - TV Showdown. Survive and win valuable landscape paintings and ending at the and video games, all of which have since G.I. Joe, have we really Video Game Renaissance Channel 50 Foundation and our prizes! This event is free and takes Renaissance Society in Feng Mengbo’s ratings boards. come that far from ? Aside from membership. Indirect support has been Sunday, January 27, 3:00 pm Pong place in the gallery. leading-edge video installation. For his exhibition at The Society, “kill or be killed” what protocol received from The Institute of Museum and Library Services, a federal agency Kent will give an informal talk about Society Beijing-based artist Feng Mengbo could govern the conduct of players offering general operating support to The Art of Mu Xin: Landscape historical developments within the has created , a customized from all over the world whose Museum Hours: Q4U the nation’s museums. Paintings and Prison Notes industry as they lead up to the present. version of Quake III , the popular actions are delimited by what is essen- Tuesday - Friday: 10 am - 5pm Arena January 24 – March 31, 2002 Topics include new technologies, Saturday, Sunday: 12- 5pm internet game whose plot is simply tially a binary system? In this Smart Museum of Art, University the Entertainment Software Review Closed Mondays kill or be killed. Designed by id respect, , although it has taken Quake of Chicago Board (ESRB), and the post- 9 /11 software, Quake is a follow-up to their the form of a violent romp, repre- is the official airline of The Renaissance 5550 South Greenwood Avenue fallout. Kent, author of The First hit game Doom, which alongside sents what the video game Society’s 2001-2002 season. Quarter: A 25 year History of Mortal Kombat, both released in 1993, medium is, was and always will be at This exhibition explores the work of the Video Game is also a columnist set new standards in video game its core, winners/ losers, zeroes/ contemporary Chinese artist Mu Xin for MSNBC and T he L.A. Times violence. In , scavenging for ones. In any case, Mengbo’s philoso- (b. 1927), revealing his distinctive Quake as well as a frequent contributor to body armor, health capsules, phy of gaming is in the playing. personal and artistic responses to Wired and Next Generation. He is ammunition and plasma rifles, is all He wants any and all viewers to grab tumultuous changes within twentieth- called upon regularly to testify before part of the quest to kick as much the mouse and have fun. He is an century China. Jointly curated by two Senate Committees about the ass as possible in a maze of avid gamer who boasts of having died leading scholars — Alexandra Munroe, industry. This talk is Free and will take intergalactic dungeons. Quake III a thousand deaths. Watching his Director of the Japan Society Gallery, Feng Mengbo Arena place in Cobb Hall Room 307 is written in open code, a feature character grunt, hurdle and return New York and Wu Hung, Harrie A. (directly below the gallery). that allows users to customize enemy fire, it’s obvious he can’t wait to Vanderstappen Distinguished Service January 13 – February 24, 2002 the game. Q4U, Mengbo’s customized die a thousand more. As for the Professor in Chinese Art History

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