AmbienteOS
Opening Reception
Friday, September 26, 5 - 9 pm
Call for Artists Closes August 31\
Seeking local artists for three categories of work.
Photography and Video, Drawing and Painting, Written Work
Please fill out the contact form below and the visual art coordinator will reach out. More information below.
Thank you!
Photography and Video Work – content creators, experimental film, ambient footage, edits
Seeking footage and images that convey a feeling of people, fashion, surveillance, uneasiness, everyday life, unsettling locations, liminal spaces, dreaming, under the influence, nightmares. These works will be shown on vertical and horizontal screens in one or more of 5 video timelines. Sbmissions must be sent as a MP4, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or SVG file.
Seeking footage and images that convey a feeling of people, fashion, surveillance, uneasiness, everyday life, unsettling locations, liminal spaces, dreaming, under the influence, nightmares. These works will be shown on vertical and horizontal screens in one or more of 5 video timelines. Sbmissions must be sent as a MP4, JPEG, PNG, GIF, or SVG file.
Painting and Drawing – size limitation: under 4 ft wide.
Seeking portraits, landscapes, interiors, and abstract work. Paintings featuring the use of technology, people and nature, visions of the future, optimism, aesthetics, cool and calm colors. Please specify the title, dimension, medium, year created, of your work. Please provide a short artist statement about the work.
Seeking portraits, landscapes, interiors, and abstract work. Paintings featuring the use of technology, people and nature, visions of the future, optimism, aesthetics, cool and calm colors. Please specify the title, dimension, medium, year created, of your work. Please provide a short artist statement about the work.
Written Work – poetry, short response
Short written work will be used and displayed throughout the exhibit. Short cryptic phrases or short paragraphs about: communication, being alive, people, everyday life, anxiety, healing. This can be submitted as a docx, email, or PDF file.
Short written work will be used and displayed throughout the exhibit. Short cryptic phrases or short paragraphs about: communication, being alive, people, everyday life, anxiety, healing. This can be submitted as a docx, email, or PDF file.
About the Show
This art show addresses the conflict of personal computers. Everyday, people are forced to negotiate and compromise their privacy and attention. Consumer electronics (and the corporations who create and service them) survey people, and attempt to shape and predict their behavior. Through the illegal collection of user data, they are able to train machines to make more accurate predictions about how we will plan, sense, and act. But how accurate do these corporations have the right to make those predictions?
This feedback loop is dangerous and hard to escape, designed this way on purpose to lure and capture people. The artists in this show are critical of the political, economic, and social climate which these technologies and corporations enable, and call out the ways technology is used to cause harm to people and the environment.
We invite you to watch and listen to this one night exhibit in Downtown Elgin.
The Ensemble
“There is no branding on the product. The product is understated, confident, and cool.”
This program features an ensemble of musicians coordinated by Matt Gilleran. They will perform an original arrangement from 7:30 - 8:30 pm.
The Performers:
Hope Rogers - Flute, Adrian Mesino - Clarinet, Eric Goluska - Saxophone, Rich - Percussion, Nasya Mendoza-Elias - Violin, Gramm - Cello, Matt Gilleran - Guitar
About the Coordinators
Adrian is an Artist and Illustrator living in Elgin, IL He works in a variety of mediums, plays clarinet, and produces digital music. Adrian will be coordinating the visuals for this show.
Matt is a guitarist and composer from Geneva, IL, He plays with a range of musicians and musical styles. Matt will be coordinating the music for the ensemble.
Ambiance is a process of universal translation that achieve instant compatibility between people, object, and the spaces they inhabit.
Once a space has become properly connected, a person could simply state their needs and they are taken care of. AmbienteOS connects to people in the real world, shaping experiences and building relationships.
Great connections start with great products. There is no branding on the product. The product is understated, confident, and cool. Ambiance transforms things into robots that can plan, sense, and act. A great operating system gives people an accessible window into a digital experience. We make our products irresistible.
AmbienteOS is an art show. The artwork highlights processes of automation and improvisation, and the relationships between people and personal computing.