Maps and Diagrams
Diagrams in response to the US Presidential Elections 2008
Organogram of the Dept. of Applied Art of the Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, Saxony, Germany, based on a site visit and interviews with students and faculty, July, 2008
Drawings completed at the Banff Residency
"Peck School of the Arts Organogram 2008", INOVAINOVA INSTITUTE, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, March 28-May 18, 2008, Opening reception: Friday, March 28, 6-9 pm
"Here There Everywhere", diagram of texts about creativity, Cultural Center, Chicago, January - April 08
Textaportation Diagram, interpretation of the textaportation project, Caro D'Offay Gallery, December 8, 2007
Show [Title to be Determined by Symbols Not Yet Rendered], diagram interpreting the 3 day collaborative event as a graphic observer, Roots & Culture, November 23 - 25, 2007
"Rockford Art Museum Organogram 2007"
Group show: "Fast Forward - SAIC in the 21st Century", at the Rockford Art Museum, October 19, 2007 - January 6, 2008
A story telling game for Lakeview East, part of Art 44/46, October 13 - October 20, 2007
In May 2007, I diagrammed Kerry Schneider's Master's Thesis, in which she attempted among other things to develop a metaphor for arts administration based on her thinking about sound and on imagery of fluidity. Her colleague, Elzabeth Chodos, organized an exhibition as part of an Arts Administration Symposium at the Chicago non-profit gallery, ThreeWalls.
DIY, Columbia College Chicago, A & D Gallery
For the exhibition "Negotiated Localities" at the SAIC's Betty Rymer Gallery, curated by Cindy Coleman and Claire Pentecost, a diagram was drawn in two sections, with oil based paint markers on clear vinyl.
Preparatory readings for the drawings above led to this series.
For the exhibition "New Cartographies" at the non-profit LoBot Gallery, Oakland, CA, I created an Organogram that showed how the 12 residents of the warehouse building that also houses the gallery intersect with that gallery and with art worlds.
Students of National Teachers Academy in Chicago posed for photographs that were used to trace silhouettes.
A map of the Hyde Park Art Center, on the occasion of the opening of its new building with the "Takeover" exhibition.
Drawings on blankets after maps of Kim Mitseff's property in Colorado that were prepared by Kim and her family.
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I am soliciting sponsorship for digital, infinitly reproducable works of art, and in turn will allow the public free access to the source codes. The sponsor will receive a unique print, an image that says "sponsor" on it. The first print that was offered read: "esteemed sponsor #1". This print was available at the Bridge Magazine Auction in Chicago. It was purchased by Ruth Crnkovich. Inquire about subsequent prints at adelheidmers at earthlink dot net. After sponsorship has been acquired, the word "sponsor" will be replaced with the sponsor's name on the source file, which will then be made available, free of charge, via this website.
a game, commissioned by Mary Jane Jacob as part of a poster for a symposium, can be downloaded from Diagram 5.1, 2005
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"Backgrounds and Conversations", October 2004, City of Chicago Open Studio project and "Looking at/Looking through", Des Moines, Iowa, Drake University, Anderson Gallery (flyer, conversation between A. Mers and P. McGee, pdf, 5.4.MB). Diagrams after "Moral Politics - how liberals and conservatives think" by Georges Lakoff
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"HOME": diagrams after essays by Vilém Flusser, May 2003, Dorman+Torluemke, Hammond, IN also shown at the Flusser Archive in Cologne, at the INOUT festival in Prague, at Migrations at Legion Arts/CSPS, in Cedar Rapids, IA, and at Frühsorge Galerie, Berlin.
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Operation: Human Intelligence, curated by Matthew Girson, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, May 2003 and at the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis, TN
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"I AM", 10 graphics commissioned by the Hammond Arts Commission, July 2002
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digital paintings, acrylic on vinyl, in "nubo wave map (space) bubble", a group show curated by Barry Blinderman at at Illinois State University Galleries, January 2002
digital paintings, acrylic on vinyl, in "nubo wave map (space) bubble", a group show curated by Barry Blinderman at at Illinois State University Galleries, January 2002
installation of digital paintings at "The Stray Show", "magazine", curated by Pedro Velez, Chicago, 2001
installation view with digital paintings, "Collaborative Fusion", 450 Broadway Gallery, NY, September 2001
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abstract of the "Applied Aesthetics" lecture at the CAA conference, 2001; full paper (pdf)
publications:
"Sketches: Organizing Arts", Green Lantern Press, May 2007, contains a diagram after Duchamp's lecture "The Creative Act". 500 editions contain a screen print of the diagram. Download the pdf here.
The first issue of Bootprint, 2007 contains a translation of Vilém Flusser's lecture "Krise der Linearität" (Crisis of Linearity) and a text about my diagramming practice. Download the pdf here.
M /E / A/ N /I /N /G Online, Feb. 7, 2007, Feminist Art: A Reassessment. Edited by Susan Bee &Mira Schor - pdf of my contribution
posted 9/27/06: interview about Vilém Flusser on the luckypix blog
Diagram 5.1, 2005
Scale, Volume 01, Issue 8+9: Edited by Joel Swanson, Sept. 2004, select files: MP1.pdf, MP2.pdf, MP3.pdf
"Diagrams", "Quarter After Eight", Volume 8, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Spring 2002
"Applied Aesthetics" interactive CD-rom, “Publication with No Name”, Volume 2, Kopenhagen, Denmark, Fall 2001