Chicago Signs and Symbols Volume I

Chicago Signs and Symbols Volume I is a collaborative zine project made under the model of DIT (do-it-together.)  This publication asks:

• What makes Chicago signs unique?
• How are signs cultural indicators of our social realities?
• What can be understood about Chicago’s past, present, and future through semiotics?
• How do you see yourself reflected in the signs around you?

Edited by
Lisa Glenn Armstrong and Atlan Arceo-Witzl

Layout by LGA and Illustrations by AAW

With support from the University of Illinois Chicago Faculty Development Fund

Published by Tenoch Press and Shape Shift Press

First Edition of 300 / Printed Summer 2024

Contributors:

Alejandro Maravilla
Andrew Mazariegos
Annie Howard
Atlan Arceo-Witzl
Chris Saint Martin
Drew Ryan
Echo Elise Gonzalez
Gannon Novak
H. Schenck
Jodi Dudek
Juanito Cabroncito
Laith Jameel
Lex Applewhite
Lisa Glenn Armstrong
M. Martinez
Nick Marzullo
Oscar Arriola
RAmon Etc
Richie Klatzco
Sean Mac
Steven Melendez
TJ Moaton
Todd Irwin

Cyberfeminism Index

Silkscreen posters designed and printed to promote a lecture with Mindy Seu on Cyberfeminism Index at CalArts. In Cyberfeminism Index, hackers, scholars, artists, and activists of all regions, races and sexual orientations consider how humans might reconstruct themselves by way of technology.

Edited by designer, professor, and researcher Mindy Seu, it includes more than 700 short entries of radical techno-critical activism in a variety of media, including excerpts from academic articles and scholarly texts; descriptions of hackerspaces, digital rights activist groups, and bio-hacktivism; and depictions of feminist net art and new media art.

This lecture was supported by the Maxwell/Hanrahan Foundation IDEA Visiting Artist Award.

Metafilm

Detail of a silkscreen printed poster with metallic inks for Metafilm: a Festival of Metaphysical Cinema

Hank Willis Thomas 

Silkscreen poster designed and printed with Kathy Bates to promote a lecture with artist, Hank Willis Thomas at California Institute of the Arts as part of the Paul Brach Visiting Artist Series.