contact: adelheidmers (at) gmail (dot) com
shortcuts: SGATTP, HPACorganogram, Early Adopters, Images after George Lakoff, Images after Vilém Flusser, "Heliosphere, Biosphere, Technosphere" in the Exelon Pavilion, Millennium Park, Chicago and daily reference (to the Wizard of Oz) blog
recent/current/coming:
September 2010: “Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?”, in the context of the art, science & business program
of the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
in cooperation with the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen (downoad call)

July 2010: Blockseminar, "Critical Cultural Discourses - Maps and Discussions", Studiengang Kulturarbeit
Fachhochschule Potsdam

May 2010: HUMAK Helsinki Symposium 2010, Cultural Management and Pedagogy: Discourses and Practices

June 4 - 26, 2010: "Effervescent Condition", curated by Fang-Tze Hsu, at the SAIC, Chicago; May 14 -July 14, 2010: "Effervescent Condition", part of "The Power of Copying", Xuzhou Museum of Art, Xuzhou, China

since Feb 25, 2010: I am working with the City of Chicago/Chicago Recovery Partnership to visualize data for accountability and transparency. I am very excited that President Obama has appointed Edward Tufte to the Recovery Independent Advisory Panel that advises The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.

Tuesday February 23rd, 7:00 pm: threewallsSALON: Cartography 2.0 with Scott Carter, Adelheid Mers, Deb Sokolow and Sara Schnadt; coordinated by Ania Szremski
Feb. 12, 2010: panelist, "Distributing Ourselves: New Media Art, Curating, Networks, and Collaborations", chair, Beryl Graham. CAA Conference, Chicago, 12:30-2:00 pm

Dec. 12 - Feb. 13, 2010: Picturing the Studio. Sullivan Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Oct. 11, 09: 39 verbs by Industry of the Ordinaryat Packer-Schopf. See my contribution (the Quai Branly Guestbook palimpsest) here.
posted on Drain Magazine, September 09: "Responsibility to" (select section 5)
posted on the Art21 blog, July 6: The value of didactic art and the gift economy—from object ownership to object affiliation
May 10 - July 5, 2009:Artists Run Chicago, Hyde Park Art Center (with Margin)

April 24 – May 30, 2009: "Response: Art and the Art of Criticism" at I-Space, Chicago, Art Chicago: 1-2:30pm, Monday, May 4
Response: Art and the Art of Criticism
Presented by I Space Gallery, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in conjunction with the Chicago Art Critics Association
Location: Merchandise Mart Conference Center

Download Bootprint 2, with my interview with Jan Kaila and Jan-Erik Andersson about the PhD program in Visual Art at the Finnish Academy of Fine Art, Helsinki
February 09 - CAA conference, Los Angeles - presentation with the panel: New Thoughts on Teaching Museum Ethics, 2/25, 2:30 - 5:00
January 09: in print: WhiteWalls: "useful pictures"
November 08 - Conference on Museum Ethics at Seton Hall University - my conference notes
May/June 08: "Making Artistic Inquiry Visible", Banff Centre Workshop
"Peck School of the Arts Organogram 2008", INOVA INSTITUTE, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, March 28-May 18, 2008, Opening reception: Friday, March 28, 6-9 pm
Mapping the Chicago Resource Center for the "Re-Create" Benefit at Caro d'Offay Gallery, Chicago, Thursday, March 27, 2008
Visiting Artist, University of Central Florida: live mapping a virtual seminar with Katherine Hayles and Terry Harpold; mapping workshop with Craig Saper; Orlando, February 29, 2008
"Writing on the wall": February 19-21, 2008
an exploration of graffiti culture;
panelist, February 21: Chicago graffiti: panel discussion with local artists and academics, MacLean Center Ballroom, 112 S. Michigan Ave. at 4:30 pm.
"Here There Everywhere", diagram of texts about creativity, Cultural Center, Chicago, January - April 2008, part of the Festival of Maps
Study trip to China with the SAIC MAAAP program, January 4-18, 2008
Caro D'Offay Gallery, December 8, 2007, diagramming the textaport project
Show [Title to be Determined by Symbols Not Yet Rendered], process diagram,
Roots & Culture, November 23 - 25, 2007, mapping the event
"Mapping the Self", MCA, Chicago, November 07, part of the Festival of Maps
"Forks, Tables and Napkins", an exhibition organized by students in my seminar "Diagrams in Art and Activism", November 2 - November 21, 2007, at SAIC Gallery 2, part of the Festival of Maps
"Fast Forward", Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, October 07 - January 08
Phone conversation with Lynne about Second Life as part of the audio catalog for Lynne Heller's Exhibition: This show is Rented, December 2007, Toronto
Art 44/46, a game based on a map of Lakeview East and a poster for the exhibition, Chicago, October 2007
Canadian Studies & Mapping CURA - Conferences Collaboration, Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, September 13-16, 2007
Pedagogical Factory: How We Teach Art; How We Make Educational Posters, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, 8/25/07, 11-1pm
Artists Connect: Adelheid Mers connects with Carl Blechen. Art Institute of Chicago, May 5, 2007
KS(AM)EC, an exhibition in conjunction with the Arts Administration Symposium: Creating Context at ThreeWalls, May 5 - 19, 2007
juried a graduate group show at NIU, 04.12.07 - 04.26.07; juror's statement
The first issue of Bootprint contains a translation of Vilém Flusser's lecture "Krise der Linearität" (Crisis of Linearity) and a text about my diagramming practice. Download the pdf here.
FATE conference, Milwaukee, WI; chair: panel, "Assess, Situate, Disperse", March 28-31, 2007
DIY, Columbia College Chicago, A & D Gallery, March 1 – April 14, 2007
CAA conference, New York; panel: FATE open session, paper: "Foundations as Triage", Feb. 14-17, 2007 (podcast of talk available)
M /E / A/ N /I /N /G Online, Feb. 7, 2007, Feminist Art: A Reassessment. Edited by Susan Bee & Mira Schor - pdf of my contribution
Oct. 14, 2006: a live diagramming experiment at Oxbow
posted 9/27/06: interview about Vilém Flusser on the luckypix blog