An art parade, temporary housing structures, independent contemporary art space networking, one day only exhibition formats, video sweat lodges, an artist run art fair, a reincarnation of the depression era Public Works of Art Project, a social networked free public school, impressive performances, boring theoretical nonsense, the revamping of a local community center, mapping projects, a design agency for social movements, and korean polish bar-b-qing are just a few of the projects and phenomena we will present during Version>09 : Immodest Proposals April 23 to May 2, 2009. You are cordially invited to join us for an informal presentation and meeting about this years Version. It takes place Sunday January 25, 6:30pm at Co-Prosperity Sphere, 3219 S Morgan St. If you plan on attending please email edmarlumpen(at)gmail.com so we know how much pizza to order. Version is co-produced by Public Media Institute which puts out Proximity Version focuses on cutting edge art, media, technology and social movements. It combines the visual and performing arts with social activism and creative uses of new technologies. It explores new aesthetic movements, strategies, and interventions for improving artist run culture. Each Version features more than 100 projects and initiatives and 300-400 participating cultural workers, over 10-16 days. Past Version themes include dark matter, digital commons, utopian and dystopian uses of technology, parallel art worlds, desire, and insurrection. Last year's Version: http://www.versionfest.org Magazine, produces the Select Media Festival and manages the experimental cultural center, Co-Prosperity Sphere. Image Credit: "Democracy .. a challenge." Illinois WPA Art Project. Work Projects Administration Poster Collection (Library of Congress).