James Goggin, Passport Photo Colour Test, Rainbo Club, Chicago, November 30, 2011

Goggin will explore the evolving definition of and possibilities for identity in graphic design, from an ongoing questioning of cultural identity since his peripatetic childhood, to a current interest in institutional identity with his work in progress at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. An argument for identity as a critical and speculative platform will be made with illustrated case studies in contemporary art and architecture from his design practice in the UK and the Netherlands, alongside current design and publishing at MCA Chicago and a recent exhibition project in France involving an identity which questions the very need for identities.

James Goggin founded graphic design studio Practise in 1999 upon graduation from London’s Royal College of Art. After 10 years in London, the studio moved to Arnhem, the Netherlands, where he combined commissioned projects with teaching at postgraduate design school Werkplaats Typografie, alongside monthly lecturing in history and theory at ECAL (University of Art and Design Lausanne), Switzerland. In August 2010, James took up the Director of Design, Publishing, and New Media position at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, where he now lives and works.

Previous clients include Camden Arts Centre, David Kohn Architects, Frieze, Phaidon, Tate Modern, Transport for London, and Victoria & Albert Museum. James lectures, runs workshops, and is a visiting critic at various art institutions and design schools in Europe, Australasia, and the United States, and regularly writes for international publications and journals. Typefaces designed by James are distributed by Swiss type foundry Lineto.

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Los Angeles musician Joseph Hammer returns to Lampo this month in a follow up to his 2007 performance of “Road Less Traveled.” Hammer (b. 1959, Hollywood, CA) has performed widely and contributed to the Los Angeles underground music community since the early 1980s.  Notably, Hammer participated in the Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS), a loose collective of LA-based experimental musicians active through the 1970s and 1980s, and co-founded groups Points of Friction, Dinosaurs with Horns, and the trio Solid Eye.  His practice draws on the complexities of the process of listening and playing, using music as it influences our notions of time, memory and intimacy as the basis for improvisation and abstraction.

Wearing white cotton gloves, Hammer physically manipulates computerized sources that have been abstracted as tape loops on vintage magnetic audio gear, a high fidelity, full-track mono analog tape recorder serving as his primary instrument. He uses a series of real-time mechanical interventions to transform and layer the source material, physically manipulating the degree of exposure of the tape loops and creating varying strata of old and new information on the loop of magnetic tape.

For this Lampo performance, the artist will premiere “Dynasty III,” the latest installment in his “Dynasty Suite” series, drawing widely-collaged source material from songs that make the artist cry.  Come for the gorgeous plunderphonics; stay for a megadose of the lachrymose.

This performance is presented in partnership with Lampo. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music, sound art and intermedia projects.

Radim Peško, “Dear Sir, Dear Madam,” typeface, 2011.

'Zak Kyes Working With…' will open with a public reception June 14, 2012. Please join us for a talk by Zak Kyes at 5:30PM, followed by an opening reception and the world premiere book launch of the exhibition catalog published by Sternberg Press from 6-8PM.

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Photo: Giovanni de Angellis

In his Lampo debut, John Wiese will present three new works — a quad diffusion of "Magical Crystal Blah," an all-new iteration of "Battery Instruments," and a concrète improvisation. Expect an immersive sonic experience, shaped by John's distinctive and precise use of stereo panning.

John Wiese (b. 1977, Ft. Leavenworth, KS) works primarily in recorded and performed sound with a focus on installation and multi-channel diffusions, as well as scoring for large ensembles. Wiese is involved in multiple ongoing projects including the concrète grindcore band Sissy Spacek, and collaborations with Evan Parker, C. Spencer Yeh, Aaron Dilloway, Kevin Drumm, Lasse Marhaug, and others. In 2011 he released his 100th 7-inch record, celebrated with a retrospective exhibit and monograph. Many of these recordings were published on his Helicopter label, and on more than 50 independent labels from around the world. Wiese has toured extensively and has appeared at several leading international festivals. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

This performance is presented in partnership with Lampo. Founded in 1997, Lampo is a non-profit organization for experimental music, sound art and intermedia projects.

Image: from Utopie: Texts and Projects 1967–1978 (Semiotext(e)and MIT Press, 2011).

Starting from the recent anthology of writings, Utopie: Texts and Projects 1967–1978 (Semiotext(e) and MIT Press, 2011), Buckley’s talk will focus on the production of the Utopie group, a collection of architects, urbanists, and sociologists that emerged in the cracks between several disciplines in the late 1960s. While the group’s collaboration is often seen as parallel to the simultaneous rise of interdisciplinarity within the academy and in large urban planning initiatives, for Utopie such a collaboration remained distinct from, and opposed to these larger institutional trends. The talk will reexamine the demands that such group formations placed upon the intellectual and pedagogical culture of architecture during the late 1960s in order to consider what its legacies may be today.

The talk will be followed by an open discussion moderated by Sara Knox Hunter of Summer Forum for Inquiry and Exchange. Conversation will then continue with a reception in the library and Graham bookshop where Utopie: Texts and Projects 1967–1978 and other related titles will be available for sale.

Craig Buckley teaches at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, where he is also the Director of Publications. His research focuses upon relationships between architectural practice, new genres of publication, and politics in the postwar period. Recent books include Dan Graham’s New Jersey (coedited with Mark Wasiuta, Lars Müller Publishers, 2012), Utopie: Texts and Projects 1967-1978 (with Jean-Louis Violeau, Semiotext(e) 2011) and Clip/Stamp/Fold: The Radical Architecture of Little Magazines 196X-197X (with Beatriz Colomina, ACTAR Press 2010). His writing and criticism have appeared in the journals Anarchitekur, Log, October, and Perspecta, among others.

This event is co-sponsored by the Graham Foundation and Summer Forum for Inquiry and Exchange.

Summer Forum for Inquiry and Exchange seeks to nurture and facilitate conversation and creative exploration through an examination of contemporary texts. This year, participants will meet in New Harmony, Indiana for a one-week summer residency to engage in an extended dialogue centered on directed readings on the prescribed theme, "Community, Utopia, and the Individual."

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