Popup/advance screening coinciding with NeoCon:
June 11–15, 2022
Art on theMart
Chicago Riverwalk Jetty (between Wells and Franklin St)
Chicago Design Through the Decades is a swift, exciting journey through the history of Chicago design spanning the last one hundred years (1920s–2020s). Investigating a human-centered approach and following engaging characters and textual tidbits from archived design works, the journey begins in the 1920s with the era’s painterly and illustrative techniques. Forms then evolve under the modes of photography, minimalism, futurism, three-dimensionality, postmodernism, and AI technologies.
Chicago Design Through the Decades team:
Daria Tsoupikova, UIC School of Design & Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)
Sharon Oiga, UIC School of Design & Chicago Design Archive
Guy Villa Jr, Columbia College Chicago
Krystofer Kim, NASA
Jack Weiss, Chicago Design Archive
Cheri McIntyre, Chicago Design Archive
Lauren Meranda, Northeastern Illinois University & Chicago Design Archive
AI/ML visualization by Fabio Miranda, UIC Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL)
Music by Louis Schwadron, Sky White Sound, with vocalist/activist Nnelolo Karen Wilson-Ama’Echefu and rapper Elijah Robb