Music for Elephants
@ Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
220 E Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL 60611
Opening Tuesday, November 1st, from 6PM - 7PM
Artist Jenny Kendler algorithmically translates data predicting future poaching of African elephants into a score for a vintage ivory-keyed player piano—which concludes when the population count reaches zero. Learn more: http://bit.ly/2b2c1k7
Jenny Kendler is an interdisciplinary artist, environmental activist, forager, and naturalist based in Chicago and elsewhere. Her intimate sculptures and interactive projects have been exhibited nationally and internationally at museums and biennials including the Albright-Knox, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, iMOCA, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago Biennial, Yeosu International Art Festival, and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale. She has been commissioned to create public projects for locations as diverse as downtown Louisville, to Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park, to a Costa Rican tropical forest. She is vice president of the artist residency ACRE, and cofounder of OtherPeoplesPixels and The Endangered Species Print Project. Kendler is the first ever Artist-in-Residence with environmental non-profit NRDC.
This event is free with admission, and Tuesdays are free admission for Illinois residents.
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