"Through making, looking and thinking, this interdisciplinary class (based in the photo department) will examine artistic, personal, scientific, political, and philosophical ideas of nothingness. Critiques will be around open projects determined by basic guiding principles and questions (example: “The Ephemeral - create a piece that literally becomes nothing while it is being viewed�?). And although this is primarily a production class, films, television shows, lectures, readings and excursions will supplement production and guide discussions and need to be taken seriously."
For this class we have gone on many excursions, last week we actually visited the Red Gate Woods which as this blog is titled, holds the remains of the world's first nuclear reactor. It was rebuilt at these woods and buried beneath this monument! Located a mere 30 miles outside of Chicago it is an absolutely AMAZING sight to see!!!!!!!!
here is a link you can go to for more information about this site
http://www.lm.doe.gov/documents/sites/il/site_a/inspecrpt/site_a_inspect2005.pdf
and of course... images are below
