Chicago Music, Philosophy, Art, and Literature

• New Art Examiner
  The New Art Examiner is a nationally distributed monthly
  magazine published by the Chicago New Art Association.
  As a non-profit, the Examiner is free from the market
  constraints frequently placed upon the commercial press, and as a
  Chicago-based periodical, it provides an alternative viewpoint to
  those of the New York-based publications.

• (Art)^n Laboratory
  Located at BIRL, 1801 Maple Avenue, in Evanston,
  "Art to the enth" is a collective of artists, scientists,
  mathematicians and computer experts who invented PHSColograms-the
  museum quality photography of Virtual Reality.

• Perspectives: Architecture Film and Video
  Perspectives produces high quality videos on architecture and
  design that are broadcast on public television and made
  available to schools, libraries and the general public. It also
  creates specialized videos and products for planning and
  development firms, historic preservation agencies, and cultural
  instututions.

• Lake Shore Drive
  Chicago's Internet Drama!

• The Tackboard
  Weekly listings for the Windy City: Music, Theatre, Literary
  and Film, from Centerstage Chicago

• Dept. of Radio, TV & Film, Northwestern University
  The OMNIBUS:EYE Project is NWU's Dept. of Radio, TV & Film's
  vision of the future for the production and study of digital
  media upon the world-wide network including the creation
  and anthologizing of "transpixins"(digital movies viewed over
  the internet). The department is involved with all aspects of
  media creation and study.

• Chicago Concert Search
  Searchable index for Orchestra Hall, Performing Arts Chicago,
  UofC Professional Music Series concerts and more!

• the Collectors' Corner
  Fine art dealers exhibit a selection of the artists they
  represent; all works shown are for sale through the galleries.

• Chicago Filmmakers'
  Chicago Filmmakers' is a 21 year old not for profit media
  arts center whose mission is to support independent film through
  exhibition, education and artist support. Started by a group of
  filmmakers to fill a void in local film programming, within a few
  years, the Chicago Filmmakers' Co-op was born out of the need many
  filmmakers had for inexpensive equipment access. Today the Co-op
  has the equipment necessary to shoot and edit a 16mm sync sound
  film, and offers classes in filmmaking.

• Big CityArt
  Landscape watercolors from the City of Big Shoulders that
  depict some of Chicago's lesser known architectural structures,
  such as viaducts, roadways, and bridge structures.

• The File Room
  The File Room is an illustrated archive on censorship which you
  can browse, as well as add cases to. Initiated as an artist's
  project by Muntadas, The File Room is produced by Randolph
  Street Gallery (Chicago,IL) with the support of the School of
  Art and Design and the Electronic Visualization Laboratory of the
  University of Illinois/Chicago and the Chicago Dept. of
  Cultural Affairs.

  
  Entry information, film maker profiles, film guide, history
  and call for entries.

• Subculture Magazine
  Online home of _Subculture_ Magazine
  Underground Music and More from the City of the Big Shoulders:
  "Besides music, Subculture has regular columns covering booze,
  movies, comics, morons and more. And sometime during 1995,
  we have high hopes that the entire country will be reading
  Subculture along with us Chicagoans."

• Critical Inquiry
  Critical Inquiry is an interdisciplinary journal devoted to
  publishing the best critical thought in the arts and humanities.
  Combining a commitment to outstanding scholarship with a vital
  concern for dialogue and debate, the journal brings its readers
  current criticism on a variety of topics within literature,
  art, architecture, film, history, philosophy, and music.

• Public Culture
  Public Culture is an interdisciplinary journal of cultural
  studies, published three times a year in Fall, Winter, and
  Spring for the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies by
  the University of Chicago Press.

• University of Chicago Magazine

• WZRD Chicago
  WZRD - Chicago 88.3 FM -- THE WIZARD
  A member of the Pacifica Radio Network, The National Federation
  of Community Broadcasters, and the SubGenius Radio Network.
  Free Form Radio for over 20 Years

• WNUR - 89.3 FM Evanston, IL
  WNUR is committed to promoting new and innovative music of every
  genre. A non-profit, listener-supported station, WNUR provides
  creative radio programming of the sort that is becoming
  increasingly rare. WNUR broadcasts at 7200 watts from
  Northwestern University's campus in Evanston.

• WXRT 93.1 FM Chicago
  The first commercial Chicago station on the WWW. Information
  about XRT concerts, program schedule, events, feedback amd more.

• Triad Radio Pages (Chicago)
  Triad was a progressive, free-form, innovative radio program

• The Lumpen Times
  Chicago-based paper critically examining political,
  social, and cultural-issues.

• The Chicago Tribune

• BluesNet
  Actually home paged in California, but it's BLUES, man, BLUES.

• Info on the Chicago-based band, the Killer Kiwis

• The Art Ensemble of Chicago

• University of Chicago Philosophy Project
  This project seeks to provide a forum for electronically mediated
  scholarly discussion of philosophical works. The technological medium
  in which the project is implemented provides for both hierarchical
  organization and full hypertextual links between the elements of the
  discussion.

• Chicago Art Galleries

• Walter S. Arnold, Sculptor
  Visit Walter Arnold's virtual studio home pages

• The Koh-Varilla Guild
  Anna Koh Varilla and Jeffrey Hanson Varilla's online
  portfolio of paintings and sculpture, in ink, oil,
  terra-cotta, and bronze. (Gueas which is which).

• Robert J. Johnson: a sample of 1994 work
  Samples of paintings by Robert J. Johnson, a Chicago artist,
  formerly the Director of the Bureau of Art, City of Chicago,
  Board of Education, who before that he taught 25+ years at
  Chicago Vocational High School

• Otis Synergy
  Home of the internettified Dadaist/surrealist CORPSE
  page, plus CORPSE artwork and info about its presentation
  at the Kopi Cafe in Andersonville.

• The University of Chicago Press Gopher

• The University of Chicago Press anonymous FTP site

• Doc Films
  The Documentary Film Group, the longest continuously running
  student film society in the nation, is committed to
  providing a low cost, high quality venue for a wide
  variety of films to the University of Chicago community
  and the city of Chicago. Doc was recently rated by
  Entertainment Weekly as the best student film society
  in the country.

• ARTFL: A Textual Database
  Project for American and French Research of the Treasury
  of the French Language, University of Chicago 2000 Texts/15th-20th
  Centuries Literature, Philosophy, Arts, Sciences...
  A Cooperative Project:
  * Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
  * The University of Chicago
  A Research Tool for Scholars and Students in all Areas of French Studies.

• Chicago Moving Image Scene
  A growing guide and index of things having to do with
  film, video and multimedia in Chicago.

• CHICAGO POEMS, by Carl Sandburg
  CHICAGO POEMS, by CARL SANDBURG.
  (One of the first copies on the 'net was
  Digitized by Cardinalis Etext Press, C.E.K.
  Posted to Wiretap in June 1993, as chicago.txt.
  as the text is in the public domain.) This is a
  neater copy.

• Chicago PsyberView
  A Chicago music and arts server with info on local bands,
  clubs, and the annual Around The Coyote Art Festival.

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All original artwork, text, and layout are copyright 1995 Mike Scher (http://www.cultural.com/~strange/). Permission granted to freely copy only with inclusion of this notice in full.