contact: adelheidmers (at) earthlink (dot) net
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:
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
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.
in progress: WhiteWalls: "useful pictures"
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