{"row_id":0,"name":"La Keisha Leek","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"La Keisha Leek is a writer, arts administrator and curator who will be graduating with a BA in Art History from Columbia College Chicago this May. Her interests within art …","contactpoint":{"email":"amooney@colum.edu","name":"Amy Mooney"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/meet-the-bloggers\/lleek\/"}
{"row_id":1,"name":"Sid Branca","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"Sid Branca is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist & writer. She works primarily in performance, but also makes use of sound, video, text, installation, and digital media to create theatrical and …","contactpoint":{"email":"amooney@colum.edu","name":"Amy Mooney"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/meet-the-bloggers\/sbranca\/"}
{"row_id":2,"name":"Social Paper: An Interview with Mel Potter","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"What is the conversation between socially engaged community craft and gallery art? How can we understand these two seemingly conflicting forms in our current social and cultural landscapes? These are …","contactpoint":{"description":"Interdisciplinary Arts and Media First Year MFA","name":"Julynn Wilderson","email":"wilderpedia@gmail.com","url":"http:\/\/julynnwilderson.virb.com"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/social-paper-an-interview-with-mel-potter\/"}
{"row_id":3,"name":"The future is so bright, we gotta design better shades for everyone","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"What is the role of artists, creative thinkers and innovators in navigating the rapidly approaching and sometimes dismal looking future? I chatted with Mat Rappaport who is co-chairing the panel “Designing …","contactpoint":{"description":"Interdisciplinary Arts and Media First Year MFA","name":"Julynn Wilderson","email":"wilderpedia@gmail.com","url":"http:\/\/julynnwilderson.virb.com"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/category\/social-practice\/"}
{"row_id":4,"name":"The M Words: Thoughts on Motherhood and Masculinity in CAA’s feminism","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"During the Feminist Art Project’s series of panels themed “The M Word: Motherhood and Representation,” panelists discussed issues of maternity, the maternal body, and motherhood in art and for practicing …","contactpoint":{"description":"Interdisciplinary Arts and Media First Year MFA","name":"Julynn Wilderson","email":"wilderpedia@gmail.com","url":"http:\/\/julynnwilderson.virb.com"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/the-m-words-thoughts-on-motherhood-and-masculinity-in-caas-feminism\/"}
{"row_id":5,"name":"Meg Santisi","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"Meg Santisi (BA 2013, Art History, Columbia College Chicago) is an art historian and an artist. Theatre, film, new media, and installation art are central to her interests. Meg writes …","contactpoint":{"email":"amooney@colum.edu","name":"Amy Mooney"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/meet-the-bloggers\/msantisi\/"}
{"row_id":6,"name":"To Talk About What I Didn’t Talk About","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"At some point during the conference I’d gotten a little flack on twitter for the perceived triviality of a post of mine, and so I responded by asking for suggestions …","contactpoint":{"name":"Sid Branca","url":"http:\/\/sidbranca.com","email":"sid@sidbranca.com","description":"MFA Candidate, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/to-talk-about-what-i-didnt-talk-about\/"}
{"row_id":7,"name":"“I Saw You” (Again) at CAA in Chicago","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"“I Saw You” gets candid with CAA conference go-ers, capturing the movers and ‘shapers’ of the conference in the act. Will you be next? Your blogger ran into Michael D, a Professor …","contactpoint":{"description":"Arts Management\/ Art History","email":"matthew.robinson1@loop.colum.edu","name":"Matt Robinson"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/i-saw-you-again-at-caa-in-chicago\/"}
{"row_id":8,"name":"Meet The Bloggers","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"The CAA Student Ambassadors 2013-2014 Are you curious about our bloggers’ personal stories and recent projects? Click on a link below to find out more about these current Columbia students.","contactpoint":{"email":"amooney@colum.edu","name":"Amy Mooney"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/meet-the-bloggers\/"}
{"row_id":9,"name":"Conor Moynihan","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"Conor Moynihan is a writer, aspiring curator, and art historian and recently received his BA in Art History from Columbia College Chicago. Queer and LGBT issues, identity and post-identity politics, religion …","contactpoint":{"email":"amooney@colum.edu","name":"Amy Mooney"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/meet-the-bloggers\/cmoynihan\/"}
{"row_id":10,"name":"Interview with Ariane Cherry of Design Cloud","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"I’ve been talking to many people about this thing social practice. On this subject, I had the privilege of speaking with someone with a unique perspective and many enlivening comments, …","contactpoint":{"description":"Arts Management\/ Art History","email":"matthew.robinson1@loop.colum.edu","name":"Matt Robinson"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/interview-with-ariane-cherry-of-design-cloud\/"}
{"row_id":11,"name":"In the West Loop: Nick Albertson at Aspect Ratio Projects","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"On view at tonight’s West Loop Gallery Art Walk is an artist named Nick Albertson. This is Albertson’s first solo exhibition, taking place at Aspect Ratio Projects. The exhibition, Single Use: …","contactpoint":{"description":"Arts Management\/ Art History","email":"matthew.robinson1@loop.colum.edu","name":"Matt Robinson"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/in-the-west-loop-nick-albertson-at-aspect-ratio-projects\/"}
{"row_id":12,"name":"About","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"OFFICIAL CAA BLOG: COLUMBIA COLLEGE STUDENTS Organized by faculty members Duncan MacKenzie and Amy Mooney, Columbia College Students will cover the conference, reporting on panels, receptions, exhibitions, and participant experience. …","contactpoint":null,"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/about\/"}
{"row_id":13,"name":"A Moment With Ivan Gaskell","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"On DAY TWO: I spent the morning at Music & Visual Culture: Assessing the State of the Field and the afternoon swamped in writing for the blog. Thankfully, I had just enough …","contactpoint":{"url":"http:\/\/megsantisi.virb.com","email":"megsantisi@gmail.com","name":"Meg Santisi","description":"BA Art History '13"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/a-moment-with-ivan-gaskell\/"}
{"row_id":14,"name":"Daniel Parker","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"Daniel Scott Parker is a poet, artist, and collaborator working across and between disciplines. He is currently based in Chicago, where he’s an MFA Poetry candidate at Columbia College and …","contactpoint":{"email":"amooney@colum.edu","name":"Amy Mooney"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/meet-the-bloggers\/dparker\/"}
{"row_id":15,"name":"New Media Lightning Talks highlight: Daniel Temkin on “Algorithmic Art”","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"On Friday afternoon the New Media Caucus hosted a series of “Lightning Talks”, 7- to 10-minute presentations on a variety of new media art-related topics, followed by a q&a discussion. …","contactpoint":{"name":"Sid Branca","url":"http:\/\/sidbranca.com","email":"sid@sidbranca.com","description":"MFA Candidate, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/new-media-lightning-talks-highlight-daniel-temkin-on-algorithmic-art\/"}
{"row_id":16,"name":"\/\/\/\/WARNING: SYSTEMS APPROACH\/\/\/","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"This week I had the pleasure of speaking with Jon Cates and Shane Mecklenburger about their CAA panel, Approaching Systems, sponsored by the New Media Caucus and taking place on …","contactpoint":{"name":"Sid Branca","url":"http:\/\/sidbranca.com","email":"sid@sidbranca.com","description":"MFA Candidate, Interdisciplinary Arts & Media"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/warning-systems-approach\/"}
{"row_id":17,"name":"CAA Day One: Here’s to game plans…","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"It’s official. 2\/12\/14. The first day of CAA is upon us. (Hopefully y’all aren’t crazy nervous…) Some of you are presenting papers you’ve been working on for months (or longer). …","contactpoint":{"url":"http:\/\/megsantisi.virb.com","email":"megsantisi@gmail.com","name":"Meg Santisi","description":"BA Art History '13"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/caa-day-one-heres-to-game-plans\/"}
{"row_id":18,"name":"Interview: Curator Teresa Silva on ‘Soft Drugs’ at Dfb","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"Tonight. SOFT DRUGS “looks at how artworks incorporate play as process or idea for understanding or perceiving the world. play in artistic practice has a way of opening up audiences …","contactpoint":{"url":"http:\/\/megsantisi.virb.com","email":"megsantisi@gmail.com","name":"Meg Santisi","description":"BA Art History '13"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/interview-curator-teresa-silva-on-soft-drugs-at-dfb\/"}
{"row_id":19,"name":"Mirror Mirror On the Wall: The Speculative Fatimah White at CAA","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"It is day 3 here at CAA. After sitting in on tons of presentations with thoughtful Q&A sessions, I found a moment for another kind of looking. Sitting on the …","contactpoint":{"name":"La Keisha Leek","description":"BA Art History '14","email":"La.Leek@loop.colum.edu"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/category\/hotels\/"}
{"row_id":20,"name":"Kirsten Leenaars: Aesthetics and Social Practice","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"I had the pleasure of conversing with artist Kirsten Leenaars. We talked social practice, aesthetic, people, the post office, and what’s next for Leenars. As one of the artists involved in the …","contactpoint":{"description":"Arts Management\/ Art History","email":"matthew.robinson1@loop.colum.edu","name":"Matt Robinson"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/kirsten-leenaars-aesthetics-and-social-practice\/"}
{"row_id":21,"name":"Jessica Cochran: On Curating, Feminism and Supporting Chicago-based Artists","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"I first met Jessica Cochran when I organizing a conversation series this past summer with Rebuild Foundation on non-traditional archives. Although she has been in my own backyard working at Columbia …","contactpoint":{"name":"La Keisha Leek","description":"BA Art History '14","email":"La.Leek@loop.colum.edu"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/jessica-cochran-on-curating-feminism-and-supporting-chicago-based-artists\/"}
{"row_id":22,"name":"Julynn Wilderson","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"Hi, I’m Julynn! I grew up in Denver, Colorado, but I moved to Western Massachusetts to get a BA in Cross-Cultural Relations and Dance from Bard College at Simon’s Rock. …","contactpoint":{"email":"amooney@colum.edu","name":"Amy Mooney"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/meet-the-bloggers\/jwilderson\/"}
{"row_id":23,"name":"“I’ll show you mine if you show me yours,” a review of ARTexchange","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"ARTexchange is an open and free forum that showcases working artist. Artists applied and were chosen in December to be part of the event, which hosts forty or so working …","contactpoint":{"description":"Interdisciplinary Arts and Media First Year MFA","name":"Julynn Wilderson","email":"wilderpedia@gmail.com","url":"http:\/\/julynnwilderson.virb.com"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/category\/chicago\/"}
{"row_id":24,"name":"Day One: Punk, Abstraction, Cake.","address":{"streetaddress":"600 S. Michigan Ave.","postalcode":"60605","addressregion":"IL","addresslocality":"Chicago"},"description":"Day One, A quick recap: What a full day! For energy between sessions I opted for a $3.00 bag of pretzels (!) …","contactpoint":{"url":"http:\/\/megsantisi.virb.com","email":"megsantisi@gmail.com","name":"Meg Santisi","description":"BA Art History '13"},"page_url":"https:\/\/blogs.colum.edu\/caa\/day-one-punk-abstraction-cake\/"}