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In June, a large-scale set up by MAS Context, a nonprofit targeted on city design and the constructed setting, and architectural cartoonist Luis Miguel Lus Arana, generally known as “Klaus,” opened at 150 Media Stream, a 150-by-22-foot sequence of 89 LED panels within the foyer of 150 North Riverside Plaza in Chicago. Titled Welcome to Tribuneville, the hand-drawn animated movie imagines an alternate historical past of Chicago, the place 60 of the 263 entries to the 1922 Chicago Tribune Tower competitors have been constructed, along with elevated walkways, monorail tramways, flying machines, and different fantastical interventions dreamed up by the artist.
A course of photograph from the hand-drawn animation. Photograph © Klaus, courtesy 150 Media Stream and MAS Context
Photograph © Michael Salisbury, courtesy 150 Media Stream and MAS Context
The work was first conceived in 2021 as a drawing, after which produced as a brief movie for MAS Context’s 2022 occasion honoring the one centesimal anniversary of the competitors. Working by December 30, the drastically expanded animation on view at 150 Media Stream consists of Eliel Saarinen’s second-place proposal in addition to entries from Bruno Taut, Adolf Loos, Walter Gropius, and others among the many period’s main architects. “My unique concept was to make the movie considerably narrative,” says Lus Arana, who can be a school member on the Universidad de Zaragoza in Spain. “Nonetheless, due to the display’s sheer dimension and fragmentary form, the narrative ingredient steps again, and the set up has a fishbowl impact, the place the viewer has the sensation of wanting into one other world by a huge barred window.”
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