Chris Cuellar: The Artist is Not Present

This piece is performed in conjunction with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s 2010 MFA exhibition. Information detailing the artist’s physical location will be streamed every thirty seconds into both the Broadway Media Centre and the Louis Sullivan Gallery in downtown Chicago for the duration of the day. Locations will be accompanied by a continuous stream of verbal commentary, transmitted via SMS messaging, allowing remote audiences a more intimate access into personal psycho-geographical space.

Chris Cuellar is an artist currently based in the American midwest. His current work aims to explore the ongoing transformation of live presence by current trends in geolocative social networking, asking what it might mean to read a person or landscape like a news feed.