Events

8:00 PM, $5 suggested donation

101 featuring Shawn Campbell of CHIRP

101 is a monthly lecture series organized by Homeroom in partnership with youmethemeverybody (a Chicago arts and music podcast). Each event features a different speaker who, in open dialogue with the audience, will give a short talk about not just what they do, but how and why they do it. Occasionally, 101 speakers also discuss other arts and culture makers that inspire and influence them. 101 takes place the second Monday of each month at the Hungry Brain (2319 W. Belmont) from February through May.

Shawn Campbell, President and founder of Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP), will give a short talk about the newly launched web streaming radio station. Making “air” waves with more then just its live DJ sets and diverse musical output, Campbell will explain what being an independent station means to the organization, entailing everything from CHIRP’s legislative activism to their community building and beyond.

A long time champion of all things radio, Shawn Campbell has worked as a media professional for over a decade, formerly as a producer at Chicago Public Radio and a program director at WLUW

8:00 PM, $7 suggested donation

Songwriter Showcase featuring Lily Schaffer and Roy Ivy

Justin Petertil of Love Raid and Office hosts our regular Songwriter Showcase and Open Mic featuring Lily Schaffer and Roy Ivy.

Lily Schaffer is a Chicago songwriter who channels skepticism and self doubt into broad melodies and rigid pop forms. Her strong voice rarely reaches; Shaffer alternates between a sung/spoken style and an effortless, airy voice. Even in her louder songs, she always maintains a sense of intimacy and vulnerability.

Roy Ivy is a songwriter from Texas where he was a founding member of Polyphonic Spree and The Tah Dahs. Ivy’s songs are often whimsical and avoid typical song structures. But his lyrics reveal darkness, loneliness and a general disgust with the crudeness of humanity and his own flawed nature. Ivy is anything but apathetic – his songs teem with frustration and hope expressed through his warm voice and simple guitar work.

At Elastic Arts (2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Floor.)

7:00 PM, $7 suggested donation

The YouTube Assembly featuring Jon Satrom

The YouTube Assembly consists of screening web-based video for a live and participating audience. Each event features a guest host presenting a collection of YouTube clips that elaborate on a project or theme in which they have some expertise or interest. In the spirit of the popular YouTube interface, audience members are encouraged to comment on the videos they watch, except out loud and in real time with no anonymity. After the presentation the host then invites audience members to share their own clips. Like karaoke or a traditional performance open mic, the YouTube Assembly creates a situation in which people take turns entertaining each other, thus bypassing the arguably isolating aspect of online networks like YouTube and encourage real, face-to-face interaction.

The YTA is sponsored by Homeroom Chicago and is hosted by the Nightingale.

Jon Satrom performs realtime audio/video, spends time data-bending, makes kludgey work-flows, creates colorful glitch-ware, and enjoys working within collaborative projects and open systems.

He spends his days fixing things, making things work, and teaching. He spends his evenings breaking things, learning, and searching for the unique blips inherent to the systems he explores and exploits.

Satrom is a faculty member at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, runs a small production studio called Studio Thread, and is involved in various collective new-media efforts around Chicago.