Lots Happening @DI Futurespective in Portland this week
DesignInquiry's Universal Lunch Web Series:
Next Episode Oct. 31 @ 11:30 EST
Intrepid hosts Jimmy Luu and Gabrielle Esperdy welcome Nick Liadis, Matt Soar and Vivian Sming to DesignInquiry's limited run web series, Universal Lunch. We already told you about Nick and Matt; but Vivian! Vivian Sming uses text, image, and new genres to engage in posthuman discourse.
Watch the live broadcast on YouTube or in the ICA gallery at MECA on Thursdays at 11:30am EST, or at your convenience on DesignInquiry's YouTube Channel.
Bread Baking Demo with Charles Melcher
12:00 to 1:00pm in ICA
Perhaps this is leading to DesignInquiry's blossoming interest in different types of butter.
Free and open to the public.
Birding Walk with Nick Liadis
12:00 to 1:00pm
Meet in ICA, plumage optional.
Free and open to the public.
Visiting Artist Talk by Matt Soar
Intermedia Artist, Filmmaker, and Writer
Thursday, October 31, 6–7pm
MECA, Osher Hall, Second floor
Free and open to the public
Matt Soar is an intermedia artist, experimental filmmaker, and scholar based at Concordia University in Montreal. His creative work and writing are often located at the intersections of residual and emergent media forms and practices. Soar has written extensively about graphic design, visual communication, and cultural production for scholarly and professional audiences. Soar is co-founder and director of the Montreal Signs Project, a growing collection of commercial and civic signs on permanent exhibition at Concordia. His web documentary The Signmakers of Montreal was launched online in 2018. Soar’s project Lost Leaders is an archival, interpretive exploration of the histories of US/Canadian film leader standards. His creative work has screened at venues such as ATA/Other Cinema (San Francisco), Poetics & Politics documentary symposium, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Orphan Film Symposium, Rencontre internationales du documentaire de Montréal, VISONS Montreal, and the Engauge Experimental Film Festival (Seattle).
Curator's Walkthrough // Portland First Friday
DesignInquiry Futurespective
Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA
522 Congress Street, Portland Maine
5-8pm
Join curators Margo Halverson, Denise Gonzales-Crisp, and Gabrielle Esperdy for new perspectives on DesignInquiry's ever-evolving Futurespective, featuring new prompts and presence in the gallery by Nick Liadis, Matt Soar, Peter Evonuk and Steve Bowden, Charles Melcher, and many others.
And last but not least...
DesignInquiry Convivium : Like a symposium, only friendlier
Saturday November 2, 11:00 - 5:00 EST
Institute of Contemporary Art @ MECA
Featuring 20 real and virtual DesignInquirers riffing on the question, What does it mean to rethink the past in the present in order to point to the future?
Free & Open to the Public ; no registration required
Thanks for reading this far. Did you know that DesignInquiry has a pop-up shop as part of the Futurespective exhibition? It's happening now in the ICA @ MECA. For the month of November, we'll open up the shop online as well. Readers of this email: you get early access here. We hope you like what we've put together; this is a great way to support the interdisciplinary discourse of design.