Fall 2016 CHI College Dean’s welcome CHI Theatre & Music 2016/17 theatre season LA Art & Art History Marientina Gotsis and the art of solving problems CHI, DXB, Architecture JED Adrian SmithCHI comes to Projecting the Forum CHI College Projecting the future: a UIC legacy the future: a DET Design Industrial Design at IDSA conference UIC legacy LIS, VCE Architecture City views: School of Architecture represented in Lisbon and Venice CHI College In memoriam CHI Architecture Legos Brick by Brick at the Museum of Science and Industry DET Industrial CHI Design High in the Modern Wing: Amir Berbic’s installation at the Art Institute of Chicago Design at IDSA CHI College Alumni step out at Steppenwolf NYC Design conference The future, now ACC Art & Art History Congratulations, Daniel Dunson CHI College Sides to our story: east side/ west side collaborationsLIS School of University of Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts Architecture to Lisbon and Venice CHI East side/ west side collaborations Dean’s UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts 2 Fall 2016 has arrived at the University of an arts center for UIC and the city of Geissler, Beate, Oliver Sann, and Brian Illinois at Chicago College of Architecture, Chicago. You can also read descriptions and Recent faculty publications Holmes. Volatile Smile. Nuremberg: Moderne welcomeDesign, and the Arts (CADA), and the see images of luminous design concepts Kunst Nurnberg, 2014. learning environment here is as vibrant as for a new visual and performing arts facility The faculty of UIC's College of Harmansah, Omur. Place, Memory, and ever. Every day, visual and performing here at the College created by three teams Architecture, Design, and the Arts are Healing: An Archaeology of Anatolian artists, art historians, designers, architects, of UIC architects and graphic designers. leading, internationally recognized Rock Monuments. London and New York: and musicians step on campus, into the Also included: CADA accomplishments scholars. The following publications are Routledge, 2015. classroom or studio, onto the stage ready and other recent news — updates on faculty among their contributions to discourse and eager to teach and be taught, to ponder Lyster, Clare. Learning from Logistics: work and publications, a new theatre in a wide variety of disciplines. and provoke, and to imagine and invent. How Networks Change Our Cities. Berlin: season on campus, and accomplishments Birkhauser, 2016. This newsletter chronicles some of these of our faculty, students, and alumni, as activities and the myriad ways we are well as poignant remembrances. Archias, Elise. The Concrete Body: Yvonne Stimson, Blake. Citizen Warhol. London: engaging with our work and with each Rainer, Carolee Schneemann, Vito Acconci. Reaktion Books, 2014. We hope you enjoy this newsletter, which other. We have the good fortune to be part New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. reflects that we are many disciplines, of a College community with four distinct four schools, and one college — an eclectic Becker, Catherine. Shifting Stones, Shaping schools in the city of Chicago, so we are community with countless projects on the Past: Sculpture from the Buddhist creating and connecting in an energetic our minds and in the works. Comprising Stupas of Andhra Pradesh. New York: Oxford place with a strong urban character and highly motivated people who love to University Press, 2014. an extensive international reach. As noted inquire, speculate, and create, our College in this newsletter, members of our College Brown, David P. “Lots Will Vary in The has great stories to tell. community — students, faculty, alumni — CHI Available City.” In The Oxford Handbook are doing important work on both sides of Critical Improvisation Studies, Vol. 2, Cordially, of the UIC campus, throughout the city, edited by George E. Lewis and Benjamin Steve Everett and across the country and globe. Piekut, 57–75. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. The College’s ingenuity has historical roots, of course. In this issue you can read about Dean, Penelope, ed., Flat Out magazine, Walter Netsch’s original design for the 2016. campus, and his aspirational work for the Everett, Yayoi Uno. Reconfiguring Myth and secret “Project Y,” a stunning vision for Narrative in Contemporary Opera: Osvaldo Golijov, Kaija Saariaho, John Adams, and Tan Dun. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015. The Story The Secret in the Wings Glengarry Glen Ross Life’s a Dream Friday, September 30–October 9, 2016 Friday, November 11–20, 2016 Friday, February 17–26, 2017 Friday, March 31–April 2, 2017 September 30, October 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30 pm November 11, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 at 7:30 pm February 17, 18, 22, 23, 24, 25 at 7:30 pm March 31, April 1, 5, 6, 7, 8 at 7:30 pm October 2, 9 at 2 pm November 13, 20 at 2 pm February 19, 26 at 2 pm April 2, 9 at 2 pm CHI A rookie reporter sidesteps her editor’s From the fertile imagination of Tony award In an economic market speeding Tales of political machinations and orders to investigate a murder in this winner Mary Zimmerman, this stunning toward disaster, aggressive power plays jilted lovers intertwine in this masterful enigmatic drama drawn from a true work adapts little-known classic fairy dominate a real estate game where the play by Shakepeare’s Spanish counterpart, story. American playwright Tracey Scott tales to weave a darkly beautiful new story. common consumer is prey. David Mamet’s Pedro Calderon de la Barca. For a prince Wilson packs a punch with a perilous Beasts, beauties, and other familiar and testosterone-fuelled 1984 Pulitzer Prize imprisoned in a tower by his father reality mix of newsroom politics, racial tension, unfamiliar characters journey from close winner shifts into the 21st century, set in a blurs as he wrestles with the conflict and implacable personal ambition. corners of childhood to distant basements women-owned firm in late 2007. between free will and fate, and control of of imagination. the nation hangs in the balance. Directed by Hallie Gordon, Artistic Directed by UIC faculty member and Jeff and Educational Director of Steppenwolf Directed by Christine Mary Dunford, Award winner Derrick Sanders.Fri Directed by Josep Galindo, head of theatre for Young Adults at Steppenwolf Lookingglass Theatre Company Ensemble 2.17 at Barcelona’s Eolia Conservatory. Theatre Company. member, and Director of UIC’s School of Theatre and Music. For tickets, see the calendar page on Fri Sat Sun the School of Theatre & Music website: 9.30 2.18 2.19 theatreandmusic.uic.edu. Sat Sun Wed Thur Fri Sat 10.1 10.2 2.22 2.23 3.31 4.1 Wed Thur Fri Sat Fri Sat Sun Sun 10.5 10.6 11.11 11.12 2.24 2.25 2.26 4.2 Fri Sat Sun Sun Wed Thur Fri 10.7 10.8 10.9 11.13 4.5 4.6 4.7 2016/17 Wed theatre Thur Fri Sat Sun 11.16 11.17 11.18 4.8 4.9 Sat Sun season11.19 11.20 Marientina Gotsis 3 applications for health, happiness, and Art & Art History rehabilitation. She also teaches courses and the artand supervises students of on the design and Marientina Gotsis (BFA ’99, MFA ’03) never evaluation of games, mobile media, and wanted to choose between the study of virtual reality applications in health. She art and the study of science. Fortunately, works across departments, universities, her UIC education did not require her states, and countries to identify and solve to make that choice. That’s a very good problems through new products, and solvingthing for the estimated 25,000 people problemswho she credits her UIC education as her “first, are able to help thousands more because great path to doing that.” they have played The Brain Architecture AT UIC, Gotsis earned a BFA in photography/ Game, and for the countless others yet film/interactive media and an MFA in to benefit from it. Developed by the electronic visualization from the Electronic Creative Media and Behavioral Health Visualization Laboratory (EVL). She Center at the University of Southern managed a lab and also served as a research California (USC), which Gotsis directs, assistant on large-scale computing the game teaches the science of early efforts for networked virtual reality (VR), childhood to laypeople, and producing it sponsored by the National Science required collaboration among graphic Foundation. designers, industrial designers, experts in e-commerce, scientists, communication “In terms of the remarkable collection of experts, public policy leaders, and a artists at UIC,” she says, “I remember variety of other professionals — in part- going to sit in on critiques that weren’t nership across USC, Harvard University, even for my classes, just to go listen to the University of Pittsburgh, and the the professors talk. At Professor Wilson’s FrameWorks Institute. critiques everything that came out of his mouth was magical. I had to hear Gotsis has a broad background in the arts, him think. I remember he would have Marientina Gotsis (BFA ’99, MFA ’03). LA design, and virtual reality with a special something amazing to say even about Photo by Roberto A. Gomez. interest in interactive entertainment a piece of paper glued to the wall. You just had to be there. You didn’t miss those opportunities.” CHI Adrian Smith Smith certainly stands tall in the CADA On April 7, Smith was honored at the Image: Architecture community, not only as a preeminent 2016 Legacies and Leaders event at the UIC Adrian Smith, Hon.Litt.D, comes toarchitect and alumnus, but also as a Forum — a celebration of philanthropic FAIA (BARCH ’69). In 1969, Adrian Smith graduated from UIC generous donor to the College.