The UnConventional Gathering Place

The UnConventional Gathering Place
August 31st – November 7th, 2008
Intermedia Arts
2822 Lyndale Ave. S. Minneapolis, MN 55408

Intermedia Arts presents
The UnConventional Gathering Place!
Intermedia Arts Becomes Hangout for Artists, Educators, Alternative Journalists During the 2008 Republican National Convention

Gallery hours: Monday- Friday 12pm-7pm, Saturday 12pm-5pm
Suggested $5 donation

Main Gallery
Landing In America
By John Obrien
A multi-media installation reflecting on the compelling experiences with or related challenges to our basic liberties. It looks at the personal perspectives of those for whom America has served as a refuge from the kind of political exclusion, violence, rage and oppression we fear the most.

Political Science 101 A Crash Course in Civil Discourse on Political Blogs
By Fang-Yu Lin
Are the Political Blogs legitimate? Where does it stand in the tradition of civil discourse as a medium? What is the role that the political bloggers play in this suddenly proliferative forums? A study of blogs as a political medium and an appraisal of its traits and uses, this net art installation scans and monitors hundreds of political blogs for keywords and trends in real-time. The “learnings” are presented using textbook style charts and graphs projected through a hacked slide projector in a simulated classroom setting.

New Stations, Minneapolis 2008
By James Case Leal
Rather than aiming to send people home to watch television in isolation, New Stations creates centers that embody a physical site for both sending and receiving messages together. Part of an ongoing multi-site project series that represents a reinvention of the television medium, this new multi-media installation will celebrate these movements serving not only the geography of the local neighborhood, but also this specific time (i.e. the occurence of the Republican National Convention.) It will provide an opportunity for members of the community to invert the media power relationship by putting themselves on the air and celebrating our collective voice.

My Yard Our Message
By you!
Selections from My Yard Our Message, a project conceived by Scott Sayre and produced by the Walker Art Center and mnartists.org in collaboration with The UnConvention.

Sandy Agustin Gallery Puppet Farm Arts By community workshop participants led by Christopher D. Lutter-Gardella. With a vision to improve the health of human communities and the Earth by teaching people the process of transforming waste materials into imaginative art, the Puppet Farm facilitates acts of communal storytelling, through the teaching of art-making, theater, music and dance. We are actors, sculptors, painters, writers, dancers and singers, playing together to affirm what is important and vital to our communities. We bring people together to do something fun, beautiful and meaningful. We are resourceful and strive to harvest all of our material needs from the waste stream. We teach the gentle craft of transforming trash into imaginative art pieces that can be performed, including costumes, masks, puppets, floats and musical devices.

I Approve This Message
By you!
YouTube projections of entries will be available for viewing. This project, led by The Uptake and Walker Art Center, invited people to create a video in response to questions surrounding the scripted nature of presidential nominations and democracy in general.

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