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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: Because the Night\nEvent Url: http://www.artshound.
 com/event/detail/34211/Because_the_Night\nEvent Date Begin: 2010-02-06\nEv
 ent Date End: 2010-02-06\n\nAurora Picture Show presents Because the Night
 \, Saturday\, February 6\, 7pm\, at DiverseWorks.  Curator Catherine Forst
 er in attendance.\nMayhem\, sex\, battles\, romance\, war\, dreams\, and a
 bstract works that evoke the poetics of night. Inspired by Patti Smith's r
 ecording &ldquo\;Because the Night\,&rdquo\; Catherine Forster of LiveBox 
 has curated a program of short works that reflect the many facets of human
  behavior and habitats of the night. Artists featured in the program inclu
 de: Caleb Engstrom\, Fabienne Gautier\, Paulo Fernandez\, Christina McPhee
 \, Midori Sakura&iuml\;\, Pierre St-Jacques\, and Michael Szpakowski.\nLiv
 eBox\, a non-for profit space\, utilizes Chicago and its neighborhoods as 
 gallery\, bringing new media art to the people of Chicago. LiveBox also se
 eks collaborative relationships with like-minded galleries and museums to 
 create new media events.\nMore about the featured artists: \nCaleb Engstro
 m lives in Iowa City\, his art practice includes video\, sculpture\, insta
 llation and music (he is a songwriter)\, and curation. His body of work th
 at draws upon ideas of labor\, tests of will\, and the ephemeral. In 2008\
 , a year after completing his undergraduate degree\, Engstrom initiated an
 d co-organized Public Space ONE Gallery\, a nonprofit artist run space in 
 Iowa City\, IA and is currently directing BS Gallery\, an artist run 10' x
  32' basement space in his home.\nFabienne Gautier lives and works in Pari
 s and deploys multiple mediums in her art practice\, including photography
 \, video and film. Her work has been shown internationally in galleries an
 d festivals\, including The New Museum of Contemporary Art NYC\, The Kitch
 en NYC\, Locarno Rotterdam\, Media City Canada\, Paris Berlin Meetings\, R
 evelation Perth Australia\, and The New York Underground Festivals to name
  a few. Her short &ldquo\;Night Walk&rdquo\; has been awarded Best Interna
 tional Film at the 2006 Delta International Film and Video Festival USA.\n
 Paulo Fernandez is a young multimedia artist from Chili. I know very littl
 e about him other than he is prolific and consistent in his delivery of or
 iginal and compelling videos.\nChristina McPhee is a native of Los Angeles
 \; Christina grew up in Nebraska. She attended Scripps College\, Claremont
  and later earned the BFA in painting from Kansas City Art Institute\, fol
 lowed by the MFA in painting from Boston University School for the Arts\, 
 where she was a student of Philip Guston. During the eighties and nineties
  she worked in large-scale drawings from medium format and 35 mm photograp
 hs she shot at archaeological and geologic sites in the American West. Sin
 ce the mid nineties her practice expanded into new media arts\, retaining 
 a deep involvement in direct observation through drawing and photography. 
 She lives and works in the central coast of California and in San Francisc
 o. McPhee's current practice involves creating topologic site explorations
  in layered suites involving on-site photographs\, video\, drawing\, and i
 nteractive new media. She is involved with the poetics of traumatic memory
  in landscape performance.\nMidori Sakura&iuml\; is Japanese and lives and
  works in Paris-Montreuil (France). Sakurai has a B.A. in Japanese literat
 ure and in 1991 she worked as a journalist-correspondent in Paris for the 
 design magazine FP (Gakken Co.\, Ltd). Since 1996 she has been working in 
 media arts primarily in performance art. In 2005 she began exploring video
  and video installation that is her primary medium today.\nPierre St-Jacqu
 es studied Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design where his initia
 l ideas about perception and the structure of narrative were planted. His 
 two latest projects 'clouds and raindrops' and 'token of my affection' con
 tinue to explore these themes today with an emphasis on how individuals co
 nstruct themselves and their worlds. Pierre has recently showed at AIM24 a
 t the Bronx Museum of Art\, The Studio in Armonk New York\, The Knitting F
 actory in New York City and Real Artways in Hartford.\nMichael Szpakowski 
 is an artist\, composer & educator. His music has been performed all over 
 the UK\, in Russia & the USA. He has exhibited work in galleries in the UK
 \, mainland Europe\, Australia & the USA. His short films have been shown 
 throughout the world. This year his short film 'Incident' was awarded the 
 main jury prize at the Pocket Films Festival at the Forum des Images in Pa
 ris\, France. He is composer & video artist for Tell Tale Hearts Theatre C
 ompany & a joint editor of the online video resource DVblog.\n\nStart time
 : 7 PM
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