Hideous Beast is participating in a group exhibit hosted by Material Exchange (see below). Our Air Hockey is a 6-player version of air hockey, where 4 of the players will power bicycles that provide air for the table! This show is going to be a blast! Hope to see you there.
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King Ludd’s Midway Arcade-Version Fest 09
9 artist-made, family-friendly, analog arcade and carnival games, from air-hockey to lawn bowling, pinball to video games.
PLUS
Magic, Clowns, Tarot Readings, Music, Home Brew
Opening night: Saturday, April 25th, 7-11 pm
Then open Sunday the 26th from 2-8 pm
Friday, May 1st, 7-11 pm
Saturday, May 2nd, 2-8 pm
Experimental Station
6100 S Blackstone Ave.
Chicago, IL
(map)
Adults: $5, Kids $3, all proceeds support Material Exchange, the Experimental Station, and the artists who made the games.
The Midway Plaissance in Hyde Park was the site of the World’s Fair of 1893, an international celebration of the landing of Columbus in North America 401 years prior. Chicago intended to out-Eiffel the French to prove that it was the cultural center of the universe. The fair was a massively ambitious feat of engineering, architectural prowess and speed, exhibiting buildings, people, food, skills, and inventions from all over the world, each country attempting to one-up its neighbor. The fair was brimming with the promise of technology, and the hope of future America.
King Ludd was the alias pen-name of the Luddite movement, a 19th century revolt of English textile artisans against the introduction of automated weaving technology and the abolition of set pricing in favor of free-market, supply-and-demand pricing.
As Chicago vies for the Olympics, as we consider the benefits and failures of free-market capitalism in a time of recession, as we consider who deserves to be bailed out and who should face the fiddler, as we succumb to the promise of hi-tech solutions to environmental and social ills, somewhere south of the Midway,
The Games Are On!!
Artist Games by: Hideous Beast, Forward Information Office, Jim Duignan, Ted Danlyuk, Material Exchange, Monica Herrera, Heather Mullins, Conrad Freiburg, Shane Mecklenburger, and Mark L Franz. Tarot readings by Madame Rachel Herman. Performances by Chico the Ex-Clown.
Contact: info@material-exchange.org
www.material-exchange.org
