Dear ATS Community,
I’m writing with a warm invitation to several events as a part of the Chicago Cluster Project exhibition, Don’t Make Photographs, Think Them, running from March 28 to April 27, 2025 at the former Hedrich & Blessing Photographers location, 400 N. Peoria.
Curated by AT/SP professor Jan Tichy, it reactivates historical photographic archives and cameras by inviting contemporary Chicago-based artists to engage with these unique materials gathered by former Museum of Contemporary Photography curator Rod Slemmons. The project explores the potential of discarded archives as platforms for reevaluating the photographic past and proposing new possibilities for its relevance.
The exhibition will open on Friday, March 28th at 5 pm.
I will be sharing a new work, Memristive Bridge, which envisions a computational paradigm rooted in stochastic properties and ecological symbiosis, rejecting the extractive logic of modern technology through a system responsive to solar energy and environmental fluctuations. The work proposes a rewilded computational ethos that embraces noise, decay, and human-nonhuman collaboration.
The next day, Saturday, March 29th, at 4 pm, I will lead a panel titled reliving is not remembering, which gathers works in the show that deal with infrastructures, technology, and ideology – questions pertinent to many AT/SP practitioners.
I hope to see you there!