The World Wildlife Fund??  :-D

 

 

http://www.worldwildlife.org/

 

this has gone over my head  :wtf:

It's back for '08.  I saw some flyers today around UC and did an online search.  Here's the only link I could find (kinda needs some aesthetics work...):

 

http://www.hessler.org/fair.html

 

May 17-18,  Noon-Dusk.

What a bunch of sissies, don't call out construction as a reason for not having it last year. How about not "spacing out" on the financing/organization?

 

Red balloons to lift this year's Ingenuity Festival roster of acts

 

by Donald Rosenberg / Plain Dealer Music Critic

Monday May 12, 2008, 12:32 PM

Joshua Gunter/Plain Dealer

 

Red balloons that project video images to the ground. A tech center abounding in robotics, space images and other state-of-the-art interactive exhibitions. And music of many stripes.

Ingenuity received more than 150 proposals from around the world for this year's festival, Levin said. Among the international inspirations is Kidist Getachew's "Angels by Night," digital imagery about human spirituality captured in Ethiopia that will be projected on the walls of buildings in an outdoor alley.

 

Awesome, what is this, year three?  At year five, I can see this being a week long celebration.  At Ten maybe a month.

 

I'm lovin' this years website:  www.ingenuitycleveland.com

^Year four (founded in 2004)

and scaled back to a weekend from 5 days previously.

and scaled back to a weekend from 5 days previously.

 

I just caught the "weekend" thing, but I thought it was Thursday thru Sunday in the past? 

I am curious to see how much Euclid Corridor construction they can complete by the end of July in time for the festival. It wouldn't be much fun to have to weave through construction barrels to get to different events.

^That, or they (Ingenuity/RTA/Clinic) could get a little creative and make it part of an exhibit?

Now THAT would be a great idea.

What if you proposed something to the RTA, MayDay?

Done! http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php/topic,14015.msg284755.html#new

 

:-)

Green City Blue Lake blogged live from the event, which we sold out (about 210 participants from 39 cities in 11 states):

 

http://www.gcbl.org/arts/arts-economy/from-rust-belt-to-artist-belt

 

Congrats!

 

EDIT:  that event like this add to the local economy and that even thought not a full fledged conference with CVB assistance, it still pumps money into the local economy.

The other tangential take-away I got from the event (I had many, many less tangential thoughts) was that, in terms of conferences' impact on the local community, the type of attendee can have different levels of impact as much as the volume of attendees. These were overwhelmingly community development professionals and artist service professionals ... the type of people who are ripe to have a love affair for Cleveland and other industrial communities. Almost all of them I talked to stayed in the city proper, and I think they were far more exploratory than the typical confrence attendee. Several walked from CSU over to Asiatown. I heard a number of them talking about exploring Ohio City and Detroit Shoreway. A couple were so excited about what's going on in Cleveland that they crashed the District of Design meeting to hear more about that development. These are exactly the type of people who a) spend more money in the city proper and outside of traditional convention facilities, particularly with local vendors and b) the type of people who have the grassroots capability to shape positive impressions of Cleveland back in their respective cities. Everyone I talked to had glowing things to say about our city ... people from Flint, from Pittsburgh, from California, from Oklahoma ... they all loved it.

:clap: :clap: :clap:

^ I heard it was a huge success, 8shades!  Congrats.  A bunch of folks were raving about it before a meeting this morning.

Urban arts districts take center stage at CSU conference

by Steven Litt, Plain Dealer Art Critic

Thursday May 15, 2008, 3:50 PM

 

Artists see themselves as devoted to creativity. City planners now look at artists and see something else: a highly valuable form of urban fertilizer.

 

Sprinkle some galleries on a dying main street. Change the zoning to allow live-work loft space. Throw in some government money for facade renovation or mortgage assistance. Voila: Property values will jump, and you'll soon worry about how to avoid gentrification, which is what happens when people with money move into a former zone of blight ...

 

... For more information, please visit http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/05/urban_arts_districts_take_cent.html

I'm planning on stopping by but I have the distinct feeling it's going to be rather... eh.

Isn't that how it always is?  My first time I was impressed just by the hippie scene, but ever since I've been pretty bummed out.

I just go for the contact buzz.

Ask Not What Artists Can Do For You

Supply And Demand As Cpac Goes "from Rust Belt To Artist Belt'

By Michael Gill, The Cleveland Free Times

 

During the Community Partnership for the Arts and Culture's "From Rust Belt to Artist Belt" conference last week, the atrium at Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs was filled with about 200 people. By a casual show of hands, much of the crowd had come from outside the Cleveland area. When the next show of hands came, it was clear that nearly half the room had come from out of state.

 

Those numbers say a lot. But maybe the bigger lesson is that people from all those places - cities in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New York and all around the Rust Belt - are hoping that artists can be the medicine for their post-industrial hangover ...

 

... For more information, please visit http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/55/ask-not-what-artists-can-do-for-you

IngenuityFest brings together art and technology -- and hopefully the community

 

by Karen Sandstrom

Sunday July 20, 2008, 12:00 AM

 

IngenuityFest will overtake Cleveland's PlayhouseSquare neighborhood starting Friday. Are you ingenious enough to go? Have you been before? Did you figure it out? Do you have faith in the unexpected mash-up of robots and sometimes-weird music and edgy "media art" and techno tricks for kids?

 

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/07/ingeniuty_fest_brings_together.html

Art and technology meet on the street at IngenuityFest

Posted by dpolveri July 25, 2008 00:00AM

 

Downtown Cleveland becomes briefly more dramatic, slightly electronic and, dare we say, a teensy bit exploratory this weekend as IngenuityFest overtakes the streets, alleys and theaters in the PlayhouseSquare neighborhood.

 

The fourth annual celebration of art and technology begins from 4 to 6 p.m. Friday with a parade of musicians, robotics and performers around East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, converging around Star Plaza. Festival admission is free during opening ceremonies. Activities continue through midnight at the theaters and the Idea Center. The festival resumes at noon Saturday with music on three stages, kids' activities in the Family Village at the Idea Center and an assortment of work by artists using innovative technology. The actions starts up again at noon Sunday, and the festival closes at 5 p.m. with a gospel revue. Need a little more inspiration?

 

Check out our critics' picks for festival fun.

 

Pop music

Having a hard time finding any good music on the radio? Joshua Fried is here to help. Words come up short when attempting to describe this New York City performance artist's wildly entertaining "Radio Wonderland" routine, but we'll do our best.

 

Fried shows up with a boom box, procures a random sample of something -- anything! -- he fancies on the FM dial and improvises a remix on the spot, manipulating sounds using everything from a steering wheel to a beat-up pair of shoes. Prepare to have your mind blown and your booty shaken. And with four performances by Fried scheduled during IngenuityFest, you have no excuse for missing out. Catch him at 7 p.m. Friday or 1 p.m. Saturday on The Plain Dealer Star Plaza Stage, or at 6:15 p.m. Saturday or 2 p.m. Sunday on the NPi Hanna Stage. -- John Soeder

 

Classical music

There will be a fair sprinkling of music at IngenuityFest -- some of it popular, some classical.

 

For the latter, head to the Idea Center to hear pianist Angelin Chang, who won a Grammy last year for her recording of Messaien's "Oiseaux Exotiques" with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony and conductor John McLaughlin Williams. Chang will give performances Friday through Sunday at the Idea Center, with help from video artist Qian Li and media artist John Ban, that promise to put new spins on beloved music. (8:30 p.m. Friday, 3:30 and 10 p.m. Saturday; 3:30 p.m. Sunday.)

 

Elsewhere at IngenuityFest, you'll find New York composer-guitarist Mikel Rouse performing his solo piece, "Music for Minorities" (7 p.m. Friday, 8 p.m. Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday, Ohio Theatre). -- Donald Rosenberg

 

Visual art

New York artist Jenny Marketou wants to set the record straight. Her outdoor art installation at the IngenuityFest consists of precisely 99 red weather balloons, not 100, as the festival's flier states.

 

That's important because the artist says she was inspired by the anti-war pop song "99 Red Balloons," released in German in 1983 and a year later in English by German singer Nena. "It's a very timely song," Marketou, a native of Athens, Greece, said by cell phone from New York last week.

 

Marketou's balloons in Cleveland will fly from Star Plaza in Playhouse Square. They'll be selectively mounted with wireless video cameras, which will send real time images to digital display screens around PlayhouseSquare and inside the Idea Center.

 

The balloons will not be released, out of concern for the environment. Marketou said she created a similar piece in Basel, Switzerland, last year and will create another variation in Seville, Spain, this fall.

 

"My medium, let's say, is surveillance technology," she said. "It is actually the way the moving image looks through surveillance cameras and how it can be used critically and playfully."

 

Other artistic highlights of the festival: the sound and video installation "Angels by Night," by Cleveland artist Kidist Getachew, in All Go Alley, which will explore spirituality in an urban context; and "Theater of Operations," an ongoing multimedia installation by Minneapolis artist Piotr Szyhalski in the Allen Theater, which will explore sights and sounds of the war in Iraq. -- Steven Litt

 

Film

IngenuityFest commissioned featured artist Tom Jarmusch -- brother of filmmaker and Akron native Jim Jarmusch -- to create "Sometime City," a video documentary capturing slice-of-life moments from various Cleveland neighborhoods. Tom Jarmusch, who grew up in Shaker Heights and now lives in New York, plans to attend Ingenuity. Screenings are ongoing at 2055 East 14th St.

 

Superman's local roots are the focus of "Last Son," a documentary looking at Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, and how they created an American icon. The film includes seldom-seen home movies of Siegel and Shuster growing up in Glenville. Director Brad Ricca will hold a question-and-answer session after the film's screenings at the Idea Center, at 12:30 p.m. Saturday and 4:30 p.m. Sunday. -- Julie E. Washington

 

Theater/Dance

It's not exactly theater in the old-fashioned sense, but among the main offerings at IngenuityFest, the most traditionally "theaterlike" is "Inventions Suite."

 

The hour-long dance-video-music collage about man and machine is by John Toenjes and Benjamin Smith of Urbana, Ill., and David Marchant of St. Louis. It's at 9 p.m. Friday and 6 p.m. Saturday in the Ohio Theatre.

 

In the nooks and crannies, the most intriguing thing going is "Know Your Future," 27 interactive scripts by 10 writing students in the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts program.

 

Actors will play diviners of fate, and customers can glimpse their futures, one at a time, in one of five fortune-telling rooms. It's at 1220 Huron Road, where the curious can walk in between 6 and 10 p.m. Friday, noon to 4 p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. --Tony Brown

 

IngenuityFest

Where: PlayhouseSquare at East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue, Cleveland.

 

What: Weekend of entertainment, high-tech demonstrations, interactive exhibits and food in PlayhouseSquare theatres and the Idea Center, plus three outdoor stages, storefronts and alleys.

 

When: 4 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday, noon-1 a.m. Saturday and noon-6 p.m. Sunday.

 

Opening parade and celebration: 4-6 p.m. Friday at Star Plaza, East 14th Street and Euclid Avenue. Admission is free with beverage discounts.

 

Ticket prices: $10 for Day Pass or $15 for Weekend Pass. Children 12 and under free.

 

Buying tickets: Call 216-241-6000 or visit Ingenuitycleveland.com. Passes also available at Dave's Market.

 

Street closings: Euclid Avenue from East Ninth to East 17th streets (RTA will continue to operate buses); Huron Road at Halle Building; and East 14th Street at Prospect Avenue.

 

Complete schedule and details: www.Ingenuitycleveland.com, 216-589-9444.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/07/art_and_technology_meet_on_the.html

 

Tonight and tomorrow night there is also rooftop bar accessed through the Center for Health Affairs building on Star Plaza. Excellent view of the main stage and festival. The official festival martini will be served there.

 

Look for me - i'm coordinating it.

So did anyone notice the red balloons?

 

I had a certain song stuck in my head all day yesterday during my jog.

I'll be performing in the All Go Signs alley at midnight tonight as part of a music/dance ensemble of weirdness, if anyone is out and around that area then.

If you hop on the trolleys, they have RTA/Ingenuity flyers with a "BOGO" coupon for admissions. Not a bad deal at all!

Levin has said from the start that he believed the festival should be able to attract 100,000 people to downtown, although it has yet to do that. Crowd estimates in past years have hovered around 70,000, and with this year's shortened schedule Levin said he hopes to lure 50,000.

 

But arts leader Dennis Barrie, a member of the Ingenuity board of trustees, said that as the festival evolves, the loyalty and passion of the audience might matter more than sheer numbers. He pointed to the success of Parade the Circle, the terrifically popular parade of unusual floats and folks in fantastic costumes that takes place in University Circle in early summer. Attendees are a diehard lot who pencil it on their calendars from year to year.

 

"You sort of wonder what defines success," Barrie said. "Maybe Ingenuity will peak out at 40,000 a year, but that would be a lot of people who are plugged into being interested and challenged."

 

Depending on how you look at it, w/ the amount of construction/activity downtown OR lack thereof, 50-70k is a nice threshold. As downtown improves and attracts more people for various reasons and Igenuity's identity becomes more refined and renown, I can only expect the crowds to increase in the not too distant future.

 

5PM today (Fri)- "How technology shaped architecture"-in the halle building.

I'll be performing in the All Go Signs alley at midnight tonight as part of a music/dance ensemble of weirdness, if anyone is out and around that area then.

 

Why does this not surprise me rockandroller  :-D

:-D

 

Actually, I am kind of a last minute addition and am new to the group.  I have no idea what to expect.

The Balloons look great on the plaza. That space is such an excellent place for art. Remember the giant spider? That was such a very cool piece.

 

 

 

I loved the Bourgeois spiders.  I wish they had been permanent!

So did anyone notice the red balloons?

 

I had a certain song stuck in my head all day yesterday during my jog.

 

Noooooooooo!!!

Those weather balloons are huge too. They are as tall as an average adult when on the ground... and as round as some of them too.  :-D

I think this festival is one of the coolest things about Cleveland.

 

I was a bit disconcerted by Levin's comments about it's appeal to Clevelanders at large and the smaller than projected attendees. I hope this doesn't mean that, in attempt to widen its appeal, they'll decide to "dumb" things down. Art is only interesting to me, anyway, when it challenges perceptions and notions.

If you hop on the trolleys, they have RTA/Ingenuity flyers with a "BOGO" coupon for admissions. Not a bad deal at all!

 

Thanks May Day!... got mine... hey, $10 is $10.

I loved the Bourgeois spiders.  I wish they had been permanent!

 

Me too- those things would have been an awesome permanent addition.  I wonder if her estate would license the fabrication of a couple new ones...

 

Ugh, I wish I were home this weekend to see Ingenuity.  I miss it every year :(

Any reviews of the event?  I went both Friday and Saturday night (10-1) and was a little disappointed in the crowd.  They had a great jazz jam band on Saturday for the midnight show and there was only about 15 people there to watch them.  More bands and less interactive things than I remember from last year.  Overall I was very happy with the event and it was nice to see the health line running up and down the street. 

 

 

i went through briefly on Saturday.

 

Without the map I would have had no idea where all the little stages and stuff was hiding. I kinda liked it better last year when Euclid was closed down for it.

I can't review the event itself but the alley where I was performing was pretty active until about 11 or 11:30, then everyone left, not knowing that there was another activity happening (we were scheduled at 12 but due to complex break-down of previous group and setup of our group, we didn't go on til well after).  I was surprised we even had the handful of people we did have (about 20, though admittedly one was mr. rockandroller and one was my friend who brought like 4 friends with him - good friend to have). 

 

It was a nightmare downtown Friday when we were trying to get in.  There were no designated parking lots for performers and none of the police we talked to had any sympathy or suggestions.  We had 2 cars full of people who needed to get to a particular lot so we could meet our director and get our admission tickets and we were diverted off Prospect only a couple of blocks short because the gridlock traffic due to the baseball game letting out.  We ended up double parking on Euclid and frantically approaching cops, Ingenuity staffers and even went begging into the Wyndham to see if someone had a place for us all to park.  It was chaos.  We finally got the tickets and navigated to some miraculously empty parking meters, but when we went in nobody was around to take tickets or anything, so what was the point of having tickets.  Perhaps it was too late.  The back of one of the buildings was open, into the alley where we were performing, for which I was grateful since there were bathrooms in there, but I couldn't figure out what was happening in the front.  It looked like a bar being built but there were no drinks or anything and just some really, really, really loud house type music being played and a handful of people sitting around. Not sure what that was all about.

IngenuityFest drew up to 35,000 this year, organizer James Levin says

Posted by dpolveri July 29, 2008 16:27PM

 

In addition to a movie about the Man of Steel, IngenuityFest 2008 featured this man of metal to keep the crowd wondering what the tech they'd see next. Crowd-friendly weather, a scaled-back schedule and a diverse roster of events seem to have worked for IngenuityFest, which drew crowds to PlayhouseSquare and the East 14th Street neighborhood Friday through Sunday.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/07/ingenuityfest_drew_up_to_35000.html

I really hope this continues. I think it would be so great for this to become an annual Cleveland institution.

 

35,000 is nothing to sneeze at at all.

nice set of iNGENUITY photos here >

http://www.toistudio.com/blog/2008/07/ingenuity-fest-2008.html

 

i really like how forgotten public spaces are re-purposed...

"I am determined to float at least one more out there," Levin said.

 

I am stunned it is in jeopardy. Next to the international film fest I think it is our best festival. It definitely has the kind of crowd that makes Cleveland look good. Very diverse in everyway, but most important it is a curious and energetic group. I was booked solid last weekend, so could not make it. Some years have been better than others (in fact I think I liked the first one best). I hope tings fall into place for IF

 

"I am determined to float at least one more out there," Levin said.

 

I am stunned it is in jeopardy.

 

 

Is it?  I thought the article made it seem like Ingenuity Festival was pretty successful this year.  I'm guessing the quote was taken out of context, because that was the only sentence that seemed to cast any doubt at all (except, of course, for the PD's embellishment, "Though supporters must wait and see...")

Check it out!:

 

The Smashing Pumpkins

http://www.smashingpumkins.com

Nov 01, 2008

PALACE THEATRE

Presented By: Live Nation

 

Description:

The Smashing Pumpkins have created one of the most acclaimed bodies of work in music history.  Formed in Chicago in 1988, they released Gish, their influential (and platinum) debut in 1991, which was followed by more platinum and multi-platinum albums including the nine-times platinum Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness and the four-times platinum Siamese Dream.  The pivotal group’s many hits include “Disarm,” “Today,” “Cherub Rock,” “1979,” “Tonight, Tonight” and “Bullet With Butterfly Wings”--songs that defined the alternative music era and continue to resonate on modern rock radio, influencing a whole new generation.

 

ZEITGEIST (Martha’s Music/Reprise) marks their sixth album and is their first of new material since 2000’s Machina/The Machines of God and the free, digital-only release Machina II/The Friends & Enemies of Modern Music.  ZEITGEIST represents the culmination of two years of work. www.myspace.com/smashingpumkins

 

http://www.playhousesquare.com/Events/Events.aspx?EventID=1700

^ ha -- there's a blast from the grunge era past. i saw them at the 1994 lollapalooza stop in columbus and we walked out on them. so did a lot of people. what can i say? they made the foolish mistake of following the beastie boys.

 

i see new wave era pop king nick lowe is coming to the beachland ballroom weds oct 15th. a rare opportunity -- might be good.