kanarinka (Catherine D'Ignazio) is a new media artist who creates collaborative experiments in public spaces both online and offline using old calculus texts, techniques from cartography, and the participation of the general public. Her current project, "The Institute for Infinitely Small Things," is a research organization that supports various ways of going on expeditions in the world to find and create infinitely small things. By conducting microperformative interventions and supporting research into infinitely small things, "The Institute for Infinitely Small Things" creates experimental social and political spaces for members of the public to imagine new forms of resistance to the current condition of Empire.     kanarinka is Co-Director of iKatun, a collaborative group of artists and technologists, and the Associate Director of Art Interactive, Boston's premier new media arts space. She is a regular contributor to GlowLab, a collective of artists interested in psychogeographic practices. kanarinka has been commissioned by Turbulence.org and the 7a*11d International Performance Art Festival. Her work has been shown at MASSMoCA and the DCKT Contemporary Gallery in NYC among other locations. kanarinka is a 2005 candidate for an MFA degree in Studio Art from the Maine College of Art.

@ Mess Hall 6932 North Glenwood Avenue,  'Morse' stop on the Redline

www.messhall.org 

On the occasion of a random Saturday in Chicago, this event will gather a range of Chicago based activist map makers, experimental geographers and space interveners to meet up with a collection of visitors producing incredibly relevant and related projects/writing for an afternoon of show-n-tell, eating and discussion. We will be presenting an archive of collected mapping projects including the work of Bureau d'études (Fr). Hackitectura (Sp), Friends of William Blake (USa), and more in a temporary exhibition for the afternoon.

Delete-the-Border! Activist Art Movements, New Mapping Projects, and the Reworking of the Euro-Border

Here Be Dragons: Cartography of Globalization 

An Exhibition initiated by Toronto School of Creativity & Inquiry   12 Nov. - 17 Dec. 2005  
Opening reception: Sat. 12 Nov., 8-10pm  
Toronto Free Gallery  
660 Queen St. East  
Toronto, ON  
416-913-0461  
Centuries ago, map-makers wrote the phrase 'here be dragons' on areas that were outside of their known world. Where should this phrase be written on contemporary maps of political and economic territory?