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Luftwerk, INsite test, 2012.
Photo: Kate Joyce
From October 17-20, 2014 the critically-acclaimed artist duo of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, known as Luftwerk, will bring INsite, a temporary public art exhibition, to Farnsworth House, a site of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Continue reading…
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Jim Campbell’s new installation at St. Paul’s Union Depot, 8 1/2 x 11, commissioned by Northern Lights, is now up! Continue reading…
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INST-INT 2014: Exploring the Intersection of Art, Technology, and Interaction
September 25-27 in Minneapolis, INST–INT presents three days of lectures and workshops with renowned creators of interactive art and media-rich experiences. Continue reading…
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Northern Lights.mn is pleased to announce that we have been selected as one of 69 finalists in the Knight Arts Challenge. Continue reading…
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As part of the Creative City Challenge’s summer-long programming, there are three themed activity days: Play Day, July 19; Discovery Day, August 16; and Maker Day, September 13.
For Play Day, over a dozen artists performed and presented projects at the Minneapolis Convention Center Plaza for more than 750 people throughout the course of the day.
There are still a few spots open to present or perform at Discovery Day. Email creativecitychallenge@northern.lights.mn with your project and for more information. Artist stipends available.
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Northern Lights.mn in coordination with the City of Minneapolis is hiring individuals for the following tasks:
Administer a short survey to the Creative City Challenge* attendees on September 13th at the Minneapolis Convention Center plaza. The shift would include attending an hour long survey training followed by a three hour working session. Must be friendly and willing to approach and speak with a diverse group of people. Experience with survey administration or canvasing is preferred. Must be willing to fill a quota of 15-20 surveys and be willing to follow instructions.
If you are interested in working this event, please email surveys@northern.lights.mn no later than Thursday, August 14 (shifts will be filled on a first come basis) and include:
Positions will be confirmed as received (those interested must email no later than 5 pm on Thursday, August 14p).
*Creative City Challenge is collaboration between Northern Lights, the Minneapolis Convention Center and the Arts, Culture, and Creative Economy at the City of Minneapolis. It is a competition for Minnesota artists and architects to create a destination artwork, which acts as a sociable and participatory platform for summer-long onsite activities. More information about Discovery Day.
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Northern Lights.mn is partnering with Twin Cities Public Television to host TV Takeover, an art-filled party, broadcast live on tpt on June 6th. The party will showcase Northern Spark artists and their projects in a showcase of past years’ projects and a sneak peek of what you’ll see at this year’s festival on June 14th. Purchase your tickets here. Continue reading…
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Northern Lights.mn is pleased to announce that the Creative City Challenge has received a Greening Award from the Minneapolis Downtown Improvement District. The Greening Public Realm Awards recognize projects that create and maintain public green spaces that help to enhance the vibrancy of Downtown Minneapolis. Continue reading…
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The Art(ists) On the Verge 5 exhibition is open now through April 20 at The Soap Factory. The Star Tribune commends the AOV5 artists on their successful mash-up of art, science and technology.
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While snow was falling and the ground was covered in ice last month, we were dreaming of liquid water — lakes, creeks, watersheds. Ken Eklund was in town to workshop our concept for the Big Watershed Game, a project we’re creating in partnership with him and the Minnehaha Creek Watershed District and with funding from a Bush Foundation Community Innovation Grant.
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AIR is live!
The beta version of Amateur Intelligence Radio is now live at Union Depot and online at airstories.mn.
Spending some time in the Waiting Room at Union Depot? Plug your headphones into one of the AIR stations to hear the building tell its stories. Contribute your own stories and listen remotely at airstories.mn. Have you found the secret listening station in the Waiting Room?
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Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception at the Museum of the Moving Image, March 21 – June 1
Guest Curator: Steve Dietz
Jim Campbell’s art gets under your skin. Standing in the middle of the gallery, you can see nearly all of his work. The odd thing is that for much of it, as you get closer, the work becomes more abstract. As you move back, it comes more clearly into focus. There is something magical about this, like finally locking in on the stars of a constellation in the vast night sky, suddenly recognizable as a dipper or belt or chair. But only barely. Waveringly. Profoundly.
San Francisco-based artist Jim Campbell is a pioneer in the use of digital technology in art, creating custom computer chips and electronics for most of his works. Born in 1956 in Chicago, Campbell graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with degrees in electrical engineering and mathematics. A former Silicon Valley engineer, with more than a dozen patents in the field of video image processing, he turned to visual art in the late 1980s. He became interested in the brain’s ability to recognize a scene or identify the human form with minimal information.
While Campbell’s work is partly autobiographical, incorporating family portraits and home movie footage, it also elicits a personal response from the viewer, as the primitive visuals trigger an impulse to imagine and insert personal memories into the image.
Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception presents 29 years of Campbell’s work, from his first experimental film to his most recent self portrait. These works reveal a portrait of the artist as inventor, as technician, as engineer, as scientist, and ultimately as artist.
Jim Campbell: Rhythms of Perception is organized by guest curator Steve Dietz, Founder and Artistic Director of Northern Lights.mn.
This exhibition is made possible with generous support from Andrew H. Tisch and an anonymous donor. The Museum also gratefully acknowledges the City of New York for ongoing support.
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Peter Sowinski, Autonomous, Art(ists) On the Verge 5 Fellowship
Northern Lights.mn announces the recipients of the 6th round of Art(ists) On the Verge commissions (AOV6). AOV6 is an intensive, mentor-based fellowship program for 5 Minnesota-based, emerging artists or artist groups working experimentally at the intersection of art, technology, and digital culture with a focus on network-based practices that are interactive and/or participatory.
Artists: Ryan Aasen, Molly Balcom Raleigh, Claire Barber, Daniel Dean, Meredith Lynn
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Northern Lights.mn is pleased to announce that we have been chosen as a finalist for an ArtPlace America Community Placemaking grant. Creative CityLab, the proposed project, will build on existing creative placemaking efforts to introduce experimental artist projects and prototypes into the long-range planning process of the City of Minneapolis. NL was chosen from a pool of 1270 proposals, and is a finalist along side 7 other Minnesota organizations. ArtPlace grantees will be announced in June 2014.
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Monday, February 10, 6:00pm, Rapson Hall, School of Architecture and Design on the East Bank campus of the University of Minnesota
In collaboration with former Mayor R.T. Rybak’s “Mayor 101” class at the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, the three Creative City Challenge finalists will present their proposals to the public. The presentation will feature a facilitated discussion with Kjersti Monson, Director of Long Range Planning for the City of Minneapolis, the artists and and the attendees.
The event is free and open to the public.
