CHF Chicago Humanities Festival

Welcome, visual art fanatics, to the Chicago Humanities Festival!

Our fall festival is all about technology: it's 'technology' with knowledge at its center. Our programs are an array of terrific events: more than 80 in all, over 2 days in October and 2 weeks in November. The schedule is full of riches, and we've handpicked some to guide you through the festival offerings, especially if this is your first time visiting us. Tickets are very reasonable at $5-15 for many programs, and we offer free and reduced-price tickets to many programs for students and teachers.

Top CHF Visual Art Picks

• Artist Jason Salavon uses computer software of his own design to manipulate and reconfigure preexisting media and data to create new works of art--he talks about his work with Hamza Walker on Sunday, October 23.
• Experimental performance artist Laurie Anderson reflects on an extraordinary career in conversation with Steppenwolf Theatre artistic director Martha Lavey on Wednesday, November 2.
• Artist and educator Iain Baxter&: in conversation with art historian Hannah Feldman, BAXTER& recalls not only Art by Telephone but also additional milestones in conceptualism on Saturday, November 5.
• Artist Siebren Versteeg discusses his work and the role of the artist in the digital age with Naomi Beckwith, curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, on Saturday, November 5.
• Graphic designer Jason Pickleman reveals tricks of the trade and decodes the technologies underlying typography’s power and persuasion on Saturday, November 5.
• CHF Artistic Director Emeritus Lawrence Weschler discusses digital animation and the recreation of the human face on Saturday, November 5.
• Artist Tom Sachs leads a panel discussion on his staging of a full-scale Mars landing in New York’s Park Avenue Armory on Sunday, November 6.
• Star Trek film director Nicholas Meyer in panel discussion, talks about how sound, lighting, and other audio and visual technologies influence a film’s ultimate impact on the viewer on Sunday, November 6.
• Art detective Francesca Casadio recalls her latest adventure, the quest to solve the mystery of Picasso’s paint, something that has puzzled scholars for decades on Sunday, November 6.
• Author Rebecca Solnit offers insight into the complex and colorful Eadweard Muybridge, now considered the godfather of cinema on Saturday, November 12.

This list only scratches the surface. We hope that you find many more of our fall events of interest to you! Tickets are available online or by calling our box office at 312-494-9509, Monday through Friday from 10 am to 5 pm.