Transmission Features

Transmission, Columbia's open air exhibition of provocative auto and auto-inspired art, will feature a ton of exciting work at this year's Manifest. Here are a couple highlights:

Breakdance Chicago
Location: Transmission Lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 4-7pm

The city's very own Breakdance Chicago will be at Manifest! These dancers have performed with some of hottest artists out there including T.I., Twista, and Lupe Fiasco. Come by the Transmission lot and learn some sweet moves and watch some of the best break dancers the city has to offer, perform!

Street Beats
Location: Transmission Lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 12-3pm

Come out to the Transmission lot from 12-3pm to see Street Beats! Street Beats is a street performing tap dance crew of all Columbia students. It's not your atypical tap dance performance - this innovative form of dance is a must see!

E Club
Location: Transmission Lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 11-9pm

The Entrepreneurship Club will be the "little blue business" of Transmission this year. They will be serving blue ice cream out of the trunk of a blue 1964 Ford Fairlane. They will also be doing caricatures and rad games. Your tongue may be blue, but you won't be.

Campus Crusade Confessional
Location: Transmission Lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 11-9pm

Confession has always been a one-way thing. But we at Campus Crusade believe that no one is without sin, especially the Christian Church. We want to confess our sins, to you Columbia, on behalf of Christianity everywhere. Because that's what God would want. Come to our car and experience a type confession you perhaps never have. Inspired by the book "Blue Like Jazz" by Donald Miller.

A+D Derby
Location: SPB Lot, Balbo Avenue and Wabash Avenue
Race Starts: 2:30pm

Originally devised as a way to improve A+D Shop Student Worker tool skills, the A+D Derby has since evolved into a 32 car, 48 foot long, demolition derby meets pine wood derby meets parade float fiasco. Join us as student workers from throughout the Art and Design Department battle A+D staff in head to head competition for bragging rights and a chance to hold the coveted Wideroe Cup.

International Student Organization
Location: Transmission lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 11-9pm

An International Cafe serving treats and fare from a myriad of continents and countries to help you explore cultures from across the world. Come for a taste and learn about the international community at Columbia College Chicago.

CarCam
Location: SPB Lot, Balbo Avenue and Wabash Avenue
Time: 11-9pm

Columbia knitters will be turning a 2000 Volvo Station Wagon into a knitted, live, working video camera called the CarCam. In front of the CarCam will be 3 full-sized, knitted Columbia students complete with tattoos and hipster attire. Guests will be invited to pose with our students.

The Graduate Film Student Organization
Location: Transmission Lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 11-9pm

Creating a film live with a group of fellow student filmmakers as a part of Transmission: Live Production on the day of Manifest. The Graduate Film Student Organization will be producing a film in and around a parked automobile.

Pulp Ink and Thread
Location: Transmission Lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 11-9pm

The PIT will presenting The Paper Car - a station wagon made entirely out of paper. By beating worn out clothing and rags to pulp, they have created large sheets of handmade paper and used it to cast a real Subaru Station Wagon.

Postal Jeep
Location: Transmission Lot, 9th Street and Wabash Avenue
Time: 11-9pm

Local Ohio-an Aaron Rush will be hanging out in the Transmission Lot with his 1975 DJ-5 Postal Jeep. The jeep drives on the right and began as a rolling memorial to the events of 9/11. First as a red, white and blue mobile, new paint work morphed the lady jeep into what it is now today - cooler than any jeep in your Hot Wheels collection.