Reveries and Line Drawings
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Reveries and Line Drawings. © 2010 Georgia Wall and Nick Bastis.
In Reveries and Line Drawings, a projected video piece first shown at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s New Blood exhibition, artists Georgia Wall and Nick Bastis offer methods in which stored spatial reveries can be recalled and represented using both analog and digital technologies. The piece posits forms in which spaces can be visualized without being physically present through the use of technology and memory. This process was explored with two participants, who visualized places they had never visited: Rebecca Zorach, an art historian at the University of Chicago, visualized Art & Soul, an experimental art center founded by a street gang and the MCA in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago that existed from 1968 to 1972; and Andrew Norman Wilson, an MFA candidate at SAIC, visualized the home of his collaborator in Bangalore, India – he has come to know both the person and the place through the internet. [End Page 378]
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Reveries and Line Drawings. © 2010 Georgia Wall and Nick Bastis.
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Georgia Wall School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, Illinois USA georgiarrwall@gmail.com
Georgia Wall received her BA in 2008 from Oberlin College in Ohio. She is currently an MFA student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. With a background in both dance and visual art, Wall’s practice is grounded in performance, but her deliverables often take form through video and audio pieces. Wall has shown work both nationally – in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco – and abroad, in Italy, Turkey, and Canada.
Nick Bastis University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois USA nbastis@gmail.com www.georgiawall.com www.nickbastis.com
Nick Bastis graduated with a BA in architecture and geography from Middlebury College and studied at the master’s level at the Royal Institute in Sweden. Most recently, Bastis was a visiting artist at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a Propeller Fund Grant winner through Gallery 400 and the Andy Warhol Foundation. He is currently a researcher for the Metropolitan Planning Council, a non-profit urban planning and advocacy group.
