She moved to Chicago in 2013 to study Arts Journalism at the School of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC,) where she was awarded the New Artist Society Merit Scholarship. With that in mind, it will be interesting to see how this plays out in the Midwest, specifically Chicago, where the connection to lake culture is so strong.” Navy Pier chief program and civic engagement officer, Michelle T. Boone, agrees: “We think Chicago—and specifically Navy Pier—is a great fit for this installation, given that the city is known for its many beaches and iconic lakefront. Greek-born Vasia Rigou is a Chicago-based art critic and pop culture journalist, largely on the subjects of contemporary art, design, and fashion. The interactive installation, The Beach Chicago, is a reiteration of the New York-based design practice's blockbuster ball pit that took over the National Building Museum's Great Hall in 2015. Snarkitecture is a New York-based collaborative design practice established to investigate the boundaries between disciplines. In 2017, she founded and now serves as editor-in-chief of Rainbowed.—an independently published website focused on the visual and performing arts, digital media, and popular culture. Snarkitecture's work is focused on designing within existing spaces or collaboration with other artists and designers. in Washington DC, The Beach has traveled to Tampa, Florida; Sydney, Australia for The Sydney Festival; Paris, The Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, France; Bangkok, Thailand; Navy Pier in Chicago, Illinois and Detroit, Michigan. The Beach Chicago, Noah Kalina /Photo: SnarkitectureThe Beach Chicago, Noah Kalina / Photo: SnarkitectureThe Beach Chicago, Noah Kalina / Photo: SnarkitectureThe Beach Chicago, Noah Kalina / Photo: SnarkitectureGreek-born Vasia Rigou is a Chicago-based art critic and pop culture journalist, largely on the subjects of contemporary art, design, and fashion. And what better setting for The Beach Chicago than on the water, surrounded by 360-degree views of Lake Michigan from the Pier’s historic Aon Grand Ballroom?” she says. A pier extends out into the ‘sea’, allowing people to stand in the center of the space and watch others, while an island invites exploration and discovery. “The Beach” sees Snarkitecture assembling a 10,000-square-foot beachside stage set that will fill the museum’s Great Hall from July 4 through Labor Day with a shifting ocean of 1 million translucent … The Beach Chicago, Noah Kalina /Photo: Snarkitecture Navy Pier chief program and civic engagement officer, Michelle T. Boone, agrees: “We think Chicago—and specifically Navy Pier—is a great fit for this installation, given that the city is known for its many beaches and iconic lakefront. The Beach is an interactive installation that reimagines the familiar natural and cultural elements of a day at the beach, to create an unexpected and memorable experience for people of all ages. They aim to reuse or misuse existing architecture to make architecture perform the unexpected. “As far as inspiration, we look to the actual beach experience,” says Benjamin Porto of New York-based collaborative design practice, Bringing the outside in, the installation effectively reimagines the sensation of a day at the beach while providing a very different version—partly because of Snarkitecture’s clean, bright white aesthetic. For those looking to catch a break from the snow, Chicago's Navy Pier has been transformed into a giant ball pit. Join us for a talk by Alex Mustonen and Benjamin Porto of the New York-based collaborative design practice Snarkitecture. She grew up to appreciate art after years of carefully planned, culture-filled travel itineraries and museum-hopping around Europe with her family. With its latest and largest installation, Snarkitecture combined its sharp digital and messy organic approaches into a single installation at the National Building Museum that opened earlier this month. Thursday, January 17, 2019 | 6:00pm. “For us, it’s about designing environments or experiences that are most rewarding for visitors who take the time to engage in a very tactile and direct way,” Porto says.Snarkitecture takes its name from Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of The Snark,” a poem that describes the “impossible voyage of an improbable crew to find an inconceivable creature.” Similarly, in its search for their own version of the unknown, as they put it, the studio’s interdisciplinary practice spans large-scale projects, installations and objects with a conceptual approach that’s centered on the importance of experience: Creating unexpected and memorable moments that invite people to explore and engage with their surroundings. “But it will also be a fun and exciting process that will ultimately result in a truly unique experience for Chicago in the wintertime—we hope our guests are able to feel a sense of escape from the winter weather and a creative outlet through this installation.” After making its debut in Washington D.C. in 2015, as well as various national and international stops—Tampa, Sydney, Paris and Bangkok—the installation comes to Navy Pier in alignment with Besides its playful approach to public art and design that provides a fun-time activity for people of all ages—whether they choose to pretend-swim in an ocean of plastic balls, pretend-sunbathe on a lounge chair, pretend-play in the sand or simply enjoy a cold beverage while people-watching—The Beach works on multiple levels.

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