Version is a festival focused on emerging art, technology, and social activism. Version examines local systems and external networks that use visual and conceptual art strategies, innovative social practices, creative uses of new technologies, effective organizing structures, emerging activist/artist initiatives, campaigns, public interventions and DIY projects.

We will convene in Chicago for a seventeen day open laboratory to activate our communities and amplify our ideas and practices.

Version presents a diverse program of activities featuring an experimental art exposition, artistic disturbances, exhibitions, networked urban events, screenings, interactive applications, performances, street art, presentations, talks, workshops, art rendez-vous, and action. Alternative spaces will be open for staging actions. Public spaces and corporate places will be terrains of intervention.

Version>06 will be held in galleries, clubs, the IIT campus, and alternative arts spaces throughout Chicago, primarily in Bridgeport, Wicker Park and the Loop.

April 20 - May 7, 2006