Ben Russell: US
1716 S Morgan #2F Chicago, IL 60608
Sunday 4-9pm, July 10th, 2011
Performance at sunset

ACRE Artist Residency
48193 County Rd E,Steuben, WI 54657
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Performance at sunset

Andrew Rafacz Gallery
835 W. Washington Blvd. Chicago IL 60607
Saturday, August 13, 2011
4–7pm

All shows are free and all ages.

http://www.manetas.com/eo/wb/w/artists/TTB/Tharkins/turntable.swf

Wow. So cool these are still online.  I made these animations in 2002.
Click on things to change the color, bg color, rotation, etc.
Such a wonderful inclusive design for new media.
It’s too bad it was just overlooked as the fad of 2002.

http://datstrue.wordpress.com/

Roxaboxen Exhibitions and Acre Artist Residency present Pocahontas vs Predator, works by Thorne Brandt and Elisa Harkins. Works in this show include paintings, paper mâché sculpture and wood cut-outs.  Pocahontas vs Predator is thematically based on inter-dimensional travel.  The works combine Harkins’ interest in Native American culture and Brandt’s influence of time travel and pop culture.  The result is a peyote ritual in a Delorean.

Thorne Brandt was born in a haunted bookstore in St. Louis, MO in 1984.  He moved to Chicago in 2002 where he attended the School of the Art Institute.  A classically trained painter turned animator; Brandt now lives and works in Chicago.  Performing under the name “Pizza Dog”, he plays the drums with music and animations.  He is also a host of “Art Games” which is a collaborative game experience played with strangers and friends alike.

Elisa Harkins, aka Pooper, was born in Miami, Oklahoma in 1978. She has been working and living in Chicago, Il since 1998. Her artistic practice stems from the ancient art of myth-making and ritual. Using the world around her to create myths, she sometimes places these spiritual creatures and characters in the public eye of the streets as well as on the gallery walls. She uses digital forms (animation, electronic music) as well as analog forms (singing, drumming, wood cut outs) to create her own version of native ritual in the present day.

Roxaboxen Exhibitions
2130 W. 21st, Pilsen
Chicago, IL

Opening
Sunday, November 21, 2010 at Roxaboxen Exhibitions
(wine sponsored by Rodan)
7pm-10pm

Live performances by Pooper and Pizza Dog
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at Roxaboxen Exhibitions
8pm

Art Games and turkey with Pooper and Pizza Dog
Thursday, November 25, 2010 at Gucci Manners, 2837 W. Washington Blvd
4pm

http://www.roxaboxenminicastle.com

Oscar Arriola aka Fotoflow took these pics of us at Ottoman Empire.
Gracias Oscar!
Here is his blog: http://fotoflow.blogspot.com
Here is his flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fotoflow

I had a holler in Time Out Chicago as one of the acts to see. they said I wouldn’t ever be in a Starbucks compilation. Wait till they hear my Xmas song “Turkey Dance”, a follow up to the “Ham Dance”.  Hee hee.

I am playing Bitchpork on Sunday, July 18.
Pizza Dog is also playing!

Here are our slots:

A 7:40 Pizzadog
O 8:00 daniel lutz (our ex-roomie plays outside)
A 8:20 Pooper

10am Doodlenutz, a drawing event hosted by Pooper and Pizza Dog
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We are drawing with folks at 10am on Friday at the MCA. Get ready for “Pizza Corpse”, “Fax Machine” and other drawing collabs. But that’s not all, there is lots more happening at Club Nutz after our hour of fun in the club!

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11am 3-D video screening of Rasmalai Dreams by Xav Leplae
Noon – 1:30pm Get Nutz open-mic: tell a joke and win a prize!
1:30pm – TBD
2:30pm – Bernie Circuits, robot comedian
3-3:20pm – Sonata in 2-D performance by Scott and Tyson Reeder
3:30-5pm DJ Nevin Tomlison

MCA info page
http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=251

Facebook Club Nutz at MCA page
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129180683782041

Museum of Contemporary Art
220 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611

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