Organized alphabetically by artist: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z   Penalty Kicks Anarchist Football Association     description   The AFA invites anti-authoritarians of all skill levels to shoot a penalty kick at their political target of choice. The penalty kick is a free kick opportunity directly in front of the goal and with no defenders. Only the goalie, an effigy of the contestant's political target, blocks the goal. An extra police officer may defend against advanced shooters.     location   Wicker Park     date   Sunday, April 29th, 2pm     Field Study Mike Andrews     description   Charmingly disfigured amusement park hybrids roam about the zoo and look for friends.     location   Lincoln Park Zoo     date   Saturday, April 28th, 4pm     Pirate Woodwork Allan Bailey and David Merritt     description   An endeavor to reclaim lost childhood space. A Mobile tree-fort will be docked in six different neighborhoods throughout Chicago. See http://piratewoodwork.50megs.com     locations/dates   Daley Plaza, 100 N Washington, Friday, April 27th, 1-4 pm Meigs Field shoreline, Lakeshore Dr. and the Planetarium, Friday, April 27th, 6-10 pm Chinatown Billboard, 440 W. Cermack, Saturday, April 28th, 1-4 pm DSLR space, 1317 W. Lake St., Saturday April 28th, late evening Wicker Park (Steel Town Lofts), 1765 N. Milwaukee Ave.,Sunday, April 29th, 1-4 pm Logan Square, 2564 N. Milwaukee, Sunday, April 29, 6-10 pm     Rapid Message Replacement System Brett Bloom     description   Modified paint rollers, holder and latex paint. The special holder is for clean and easy concealment of the roller. Messages cut into the paint rollers allow one to cover entire public surfaces rapidly. The rolled on messages look different than the usual aesthetics of interventionist actions. I am offering this and other aesthetic services to activist, community and other groups. I am available to help groups develop new visual methods of message distribution.     location   Various new condo developments and commercial postering Park, East Village, Ukrainian Village and Humboldt Park area.     date   Ongoing     Groups and Spaces Brett Bloom     description   A web site that collects information on people working in independent art groups and/or running non-commercial spaces. It is a neutral platform for building networks of people working in these ways. Brochures and forms for adding groups and spaces to the web site are available during the campaign.     location   DSLR Space     date   Ongoing     NEST Project Kara Braciale     description   Nest/hive formations will be constructed incorporating local debris and degradable materials. They will be built in/on lightposts, signposts, and other undernoticed spaces.     location   West Loop, Ukrainian Village, Lake Street     date   Ongoing through the weekend     A Brief History of Trash Kara Braciale     description   Trash objects collected from all over the city will be giftwrapped (including information about the objectís origin) and redistributed throughout the city     location   Throughout city     date   Ongoing through the weekend     Shadow Boxing Project Jim Brenner     description   To cast a shadow is to make a blueprint of the dark side of oneself. The shadow is a snap shot, a remnant, of the existence of ones place at a particular time. The organic topographical nature in which they were cast reflects the emotive state of that particular time. How does it feel to experience these shadows in the context in which they exist? Come, put yourself in my shoes.     location   High Noon shadow : Lake and Ashland, North bound bus stop. Cruising shadow : 312 N. Laflin, Alley wall 5 O'clock shadow : Laflin and Arbour, 1 blk north of 312 N. Laflin, In the railroad track     date   Ongoing     Project Management cc:     description   Business-sized cards are printed with various phrases to consider on them. They address issues in commuting, noise pollution, and other situations where courtesy is sometimes lacking. These are written, and intended to be given out, in as polite a manner as possible, in an effort to maintain mutual respect for all individuals' space and equilibrium within the public sphere.     location   Throughout city     date   Ongoing     Fast Trash Salem Collo-Julin     description   Garbage, the last anonymous denizen of our cluttered and crowded urban landscape. Where did all this shit come from? Why does it keep floating into my neighborhood? While finding personal responsibility for each piece of torn styrofoam would be almost impossible (without a million dollars and dna testing), CORPORATE responsibility is much easier to track. In fact, certain corporations have already copped to their trash. Witness the brown paper bag with colorful red lettering... did it once belong to a certain red-headed clown's burger joint? I will concentrate on this most insidious of the floating mess and pick up as much fast food garbage as possible. A diary of locations and approximate dates of findings, plus a map of fast food sites, will be made. This project will culminate in a re-delivery of all McTrash to its rightful owners, at their headquarters in beautiful Oak Brook, IL. Documentation of my arrest will follow.     location   Anywhere fast food trash is found     date   Ongoing     8 mph x 8 gal. x circle Theo Cowley     description   This piece uses the unproductive expenditure of energy in a car to suggest a negative non-productive expenditure of capital excess; land and its materials. "One of the functions of the sovereign (ie the USA), who had immense riches at his disposal (ie the USA) was to indulge in ostentatious squander (ie the USA)." George Batallie "The Gift of Rivalry: Potlatch" At 1:00AM I will put a stick on the gas pedal of a ford and lock the steering wheel the car will be put in reverse, the hand brake released. It will travel in a small circle of about 4 meters at about 8 mph until it runs out of gas. With its headlights on it looks like a god, for the spectators a weird negativity will develop around the car. The fords energy is expended and eventually fails, leaving a spectacle of negative emotion and waste surrounding the car. The architecture of the background Hospital Center suggests a utopian / dystopian Aztec temple not, paradoxically of human sacrifice but of recuperation and the continuation of individuals productive capabilities in society. The Parking Lot is a spreading concrete waste land, sub-species devoted to the worship of the car.     location   Parking Lot, Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital Center, 2222 W Division     date   Friday, April 27, 01:00 AM     Stockyard Radio: A Rooftop Publicast Jim Duignan w/General Subjects     description   We are using the Stockyard Institute as a public platform and loud speaker to address the community. Speakers will be placed on 4 sides of the building's roof. Community bulletins, poetry assaults, oral histories, sound-works, readings and propaganda. This is a live community broadcast.     location   Rooftop of the Stockyard Institute, 4741 S. Damen     date   Saturday April 28     Clown Syndicate Andres Duques     description   The International Clown Syndicate takes action on various problems in Global Society. The Representative from Columbia, "Pipe" the Clown will stand for answers on new strategies on the War on drugs. As an individual activist and as a responsible circus representative he will ask for alternative solutions to the drug trade.     location   Throughout city     date   Ongoing     Environmental Encroachment EE     description   Our mission is encroaching on environments that require; action, art, play, dancing, costumery, music and/or our attention. W(EE) will be the festival's official marching band, and collaborate with whoever may need music at an event. There will be some spontaneous encroaching through the festival as well as documentation of past projects. www.encroach.net     location   Various Locations     date   Ongoing     15 Stories High 15 Stories High     description   15 Stories High is a teen theatre ensemble based on the collection and performance of stories of Rogers Park residents. The mission of this project is to increase awareness of pressing neighborhood social issues. This project is run through Insight Arts, a community-based contemporary arts-activist organization located in Rogers Park.     location   Rogers Park Community Action Network, 1545 W. Morse Ave.     date   Saturday, April 28, 3 pm     loiter (see conversation) flotsam     description   conversation: konve(r)sashen\ n ñs [ME conversacioun, frequent abode in a place, intercourse, manner of life. fr. conversatus + -ion-, -io, ñ- more at CONVERSE] 1 obs a : the action of living or dwelling in a place <vagrants found conversing outside the building> b : the action of living, associating, or having dealings with others : social circle <you may know the man by the conversation he keeps> 2 oral exchange of sentiments, opinions, ideas : colloquial discourse <asked him not to converse on his way home> see loiïter {Coffee served.}     location   Loop Location     date   Friday, April 27     Kiosk Libration www.47ward.org     description   Residents in the 47th ward have wondered why kiosks dotting the sidewalks in the Lincoln Square shopping area are private space, available for use only by store owners and politicians. This project addresses the need for free speech space in the 47th ward by "liberating" the kiosks for public use. Please visit the kiosks and build this space by adding your flyers, stickers, and other flamboyant expressions.     location   Lincoln Square (on Lincoln from Leland to Lawrence)     date   Starting Friday, April 27 until as long as it lasts     CTA Ad Takeover Joe Fournier     description   Public train advertisements will be renewed with anti-Nike and anti-Starbucks silk-screened messages.     location   Blue and Brown Lines, concentrating on Loop stops     date   Late night Friday, April 27th     Don't Buy It Joe Fournier     description   Grocery stores around Chicago will have all products made by Philip Morris on their shelves targeted by boycott stickers. The stickers will be placed on the backs of products in hopes that they will be purchased unknowingly and discovered in the homes of the buyers. In-part the stickers read: "Philip Morris Inc. owns THIS product and 70 other major brands on supermarket shelves. Over 3 million people die every year from smoking related causes, and that number is expected to triple in the next 30 years. Make a difference. BOYCOTT THIS PRODUCT."     location   Supermarkets around Chicago     date   Ongoing     Sonication Module Fuz Fon     description   In medicine, doctors break up kidney stones by focusing concentrated sound waves at the blockage. The waves break up the stones until the passage is clear. In much the same way, Fuz Fon proposes to break up the process of gentrification by aiming sound waves at a specific location where the tumor is visible.     location   3 Locations in Wicker Park, Bucktown, West Town     date   Ongoing     The Future is Now Aaron Gach     description   Communal empowerment through suggestive states. A mobile ritual space within which individuals will gain insights into their own unharnessed potential as they have their fortunes told, curse their (least) favorite corporation, and learn simple ritual tactics for combatting the abuse of power.     location   Various outdoor plazas and zones of pedestrian thoroughfare     date   Ongoing     Americcult Aaron Gach     description   Militant Occultism for a better Tomorrow. Members combine magickal and martial arts as they navigate and infiltrate the horizontal and vertical stretches of Chicago, leaving behind small gifts, curses, and charms designed to anathematize neo-feudalist regimes while liberating and empowering the spellbound proletariat.     location   Moving throughout the Loop     date   Ongoing     Dirty Little Slideshow Mckay Grundstein     description   A public powerful dirty slide show projected all over Chicago. Hooray.     location   Various Locations     date   Ongoing through the weekend     Where Technology and Anarchy Fuck Hactivist.com     description   We will discuss our reverse engineering of the Nintendo GameBoy and the current state of that project, as well as some of our current projects such as the mobile phone jammer and wireless pornographic gaming for kids. Most of the projects we have been a part of target children as an audience for activists. We will explain the book and cdrom we have just completed with Critical Art Ensemble (distributed through Autonomedia and sponsored by RTMark) that details our GameBoy project as well as our ideas on "Child as Audience." We will also detail our experiences (both positive and negative) in cross breeding traditional activism with technological tools and academic teachings.     location   DSLR Space     date   Saturday, April 28     Graf Cart Host, Shame, and Michael Piazza     description   Moveable cart approximately 6'x5'x1' with 2 sided shaped board to be graffed on at the DSLR space. The cart can then be moved out onto the street where it will occupy a parking space. Quarters will be provided to feed the meter.     location   Painted in the DSLR space then parked throughout the city     date   Ongoing     Want/Need Jennifer Karmin     description   I moved to the Humboldt Park neighborhood in the fall of 1999 and began collecting objects I find while walking around. I have been showing these found objects to people in my community, asking them to write their reactions, and transcribing this collected language onto maps of Humboldt Park.     location   Humboldt Park     date   Ongoing     Tree Treatments Nance Klehm     description   Twenty-four street trees line a mile of Lake street between Halsted and Ashland. Each tree will be picked clean of garbage, pruned, fertilized and mulched and tagged by the individual who provides the treatment.     location   Lake Street between Halsted and Ashland     date   Ongoing     Meadow Catalog Nance Klehm and Mario de Juan     description   Both the organic and inorganic in the meadow at the end of Ogden Slip will be catalogued using collection and photographs, and figures made from materials found at the site will be constructed and placed throughout.     location   Ogden Slip     date   Ongoing     Machine Animal Collages Nicolas Lampert     description   Projections of monstrous machines intertwined with animals onto the buildings of Chicago. Images from the "Against Power," "In The Kitchen" and "Meatscapes" series. Examples of the collages can be found at www.machineanimalcollages.com.     location   Various locations     date   Friday, April 27, evening     Jaywalker Forever Marc LeBlanc     description   Cards will be distributed with a button attached that reads "jaywalker" and promotes a reclamation of public space through walking. The card will ask the recipient to jaywalk, walk on "donít walk" signs, walk through buildings, etc.     location   Along State Street in the Loop and along the route to Union Station     date   Saturday, April 28th, 4-6 PM     People's Park Little Village Environmental Justice Organization     description   LVEJO inaugurates one new park while their battle for public land continues only a block away. In a campaign to stop the sale of 10 public acres to a plastics factory, residents have begun to make the empty property into a park. LVEJO invites artists to celebrate its success so far and to help stake a claim to the rare remaining open space.     location   31st and Lawndale, Little Village     date   Saturday, April 28th     B3H1ND 7H3 H4CK Todd Margolis, Keri Butler, Frank Crist, Joshua Goldenberg, Chris Larson     description   This broadcast exposes the motivations of computer hackers and the implications of their actions. Self-proclaimed hackers give insight into this counter-culture that has been accused of everything from pranksterism to major criminal acts. In addition, a victim of one of these attacks, an Internet citizen whose business came to a halt recently due to a hacker's exploits, will be interviewed. All this plus more on KRAK TV.     location   Broadcast will be shown in the DSLR space