Chicago Art Department
1926 s. Halsted
Mondays, 6:30pm - 9:00pm

Workshop Description
How do communities understand power relations? Are there specific interventions we can create that describe and challenge the systems that structure our understanding of power, meaning, value, and history? What does it mean to create a collective diagram? Artists, designers, and creative practitioners in all career stages (including undergraduate and graduate students) are invited to this 4 - week workshop series exploring diagrammatic forms and their ability to shape social narratives, critique power relations, and re-imagine how a speculative system might work. Creative outputs from the workshop series will be archived and published as an artbook for the Diagrams, Systems, Collective Power exhibition, this coming September at the Chicago Art Dept.

May 19 - Archeology of Diagrams
May 26 - Power Mapping
June 02 - Speculative Systems
June 16 - Production Studio

Biography
Oscar (b. 1988) is a Mexican + American graphic designer and researcher based in Pilsen. His design research explores new modes of community engagement and participatory models of design. His graphic practice focuses on art book publishing, queer diagrammatic forms, and technological mediation. He is a PhD Design Researcher at DePaul's Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media, Chicago Art Dept. CORE studio resident, and programing council member of Co-Prosperity.