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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Weekly Donation Yoga Classes:
Beginning: Monday, January 11th
6:00PM – 7:30PM
As part of our 2010 programming Gray Area Foundation for the Arts is pleased to announce the first in a series of weekly donation-based yoga classes, hosted by Iyengar Yoga Instructor, Tony Eason.
Tony has been a student of Yoga for fifteen years and as a road cyclist, came to yoga for the benefits of stretching. Classes are based on the traditions of B.K.S. Iyengar and work toward teaching students to bring attention to the alignment of their bodies, become aware of the breath, and control the mind.
Presently, Tony teaches classes, seminars, and substitute teaches at: James Howell Studio, Club One, and the San Francisco Tennis Club.
Classes are open to beginners as well as seasoned yoga students. Anyone interested is welcome to attend. Regularly practicing students are highly encouraged to bring their own mats, as GAFFTA will be equip with a limited supply and hopes to foster as many interested students as possible.
We look forward to seeing you soon!
Benefits of Iyengar Yoga on NPR: ‘Light on Life’: B.K.S. Iyengar’s Yoga Insights
Tags: Allison. Aubrey, B.K.S. Iyengar, Donation, Iyengar Yoga, NPR, san francisco, Tenderloin, Tony Eason
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Free Event:
California College of the Arts
Fall 2009 Biannual Interface Show
Friday December 11th
7PM – 10PM
California College of the Arts
Tecoah Bruce Gallery at the Oliver Art Center
5112 Broadway
Oakland Campus
Info: 510.594.3656
Interactive, kinetic, robotic, generative, and computer-based artworks. Hosted by the Media Arts Program.
Tags: California College of the Arts, cca, Computer-based, Generative, interactive, Interface Show Fall 2009, Kinetic, oakland, Robot
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Friday, December 11th, 2009
Sunday, December 13
Noon. Doors at 11:30 a.m.
$5 – $10 sliding scale or FREE with membership
What better way to nurse your end-of-weekend hangover (or for the teetotalers among us, the plain old Sunday blues) than with some monsters of noise and, yes, pancakes?
This popular rotating party visits The Lab with the following can-you-stand-it lineup: +DOG+, Nux Vomica, Anti Ear, Andrea Williams’ Anais Din, Z_Bug, Jolt Thrower, Voracious Garbage Vixens, and Mephitic Ooze. The bands will serve up slabs of noise, Godwaffle will serve up pancakes, and The Lab will serve up beer and earplugs.
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Tags: +DOG+, Andrea Williams' Anais Din, Anti Ear, Earplugs, Jolt Thrower, Mephitic Ooze, Noise, Nux Vomica, Pancakes, san francisco, the lab, Voracious Garbage Vixens, Z_Bug
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Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
Keywords School at YBCA is the San Francisco iteration of an interactive multimedia installation by Chinese artist Xu Tan that was launched in 2006 and has been previously presented in London, Stockholm, Guangzhou, New York City and at the 53rd Venice Biennale. Xu Tan’s work deals with the hidden motivations and intentions of individuals through a high-tech analysis of their vocabulary.
Searching for Keywords began with interviews of different groups of people who are active in Chinese society. The recorded interviews were then carefully analyzed and 100 keywords were identified based on meaning (social values), frequency (repetition), sensitivity (political) and popularity (trendiness). New words are added based on each iteration of the School.These keywords reveal the values and motivations of contemporary Chinese society, they give a pulse of the current social climate and present an insight into the collective social consciousness of China.
While Xu Tan is in residence at YBCA, he plans to hold classes in the gallery and teach the keywords to the public and students from local universities. These classes generate other keywords that help reveal the opinions and attitudes of a western audience towards the current status of China and its role in the global environment.
Gallery audiences are invited to interact with the keywords, which are presented by means of video projections and computer stations equipped with laptops, video cameras, and Internet connections. The goal is to have gallery visitors pronounce the keywords as illustrated in drawings and video clips, to ask questions of the artist through an on-line forum and message board, and to leave comments.
Keywords School is made possible by the Curatorial Studies and Social Practice programs at the California College for the Arts, San Francisco Art Institute and Vitamin Creative Space.
more…
Tags: Education, installation, keywords, language, san francisco, sound, xu tan, ybca
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
QUEENS NAILS PROJECTS PRESENTS:
Sutekh
Joshua Churchill
Virobot (TRACY JACOBS and CANNER MEFE)
Thursday October 29th at 8PM
@ Queen Nails Projects
3191 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110
in conjunction with…
Our Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine
A Sound Sculpture Installation and Solo Exhibition by Jacqueline Gordon
October 23rd – November 20th
Performances every thursday eve during exhibition
Gordon 19;s oeuvre contains installation work as disparate as inviting, womb-like interiors made of plush quilted fabrics and inaccessible, voyeuristic settings behind storefront glass. These seemingly opposite types of spaces merge in her newest installation at Queens Nails Projects: Our Best Machines Are Made of Sunshine. The 4-channel surround sound installation includes 24 speakers of audio sourced from two microphones mounted in front of the gallery. Gordon 19;s all-encompassing soundscape is housed in a matrix of white vinyl and speakers that whitewash the gallery walls. Replacing the white cube of the gallery with a white cube of Gordon’s own making, her piece teases out the irony of fascist strains within utopianism. The work references a gap between the lived experience of barebones environments such as sensory deprivation tanks and geodesic domes, as well as Brutalist architecture and the aspirational rhetoric that surround its production.
QUEENS NAILS PROJECTS Gallery hours – Friday & Saturday 12pm – 6pm
Tags: canner mefe, joshua churchill, performance, queen nails, robots, san francisco, sculpture, sutekh, tracy jacobs, virobots
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
This past Friday the San Francisco Arts Commission (working with artists, real estate owners and the city) unveiled art displays in vacant storefronts on Market Street. Now a similar initiative is in place to put architectural displays in vacant storefronts.
According to the SF Business Times, four San Francisco architecture firms will take up real-estate in vacant windows around Union Square this holiday season.
“Fearing that close to two dozen empty storefronts could dampen shopper zeal, the Union Square Association and downtown retail broker Karen Hoke have lined up Brand + Allen, Charles Bloszies Architect, Fee Munson Ebert and Gensler to do pro-bono windows in five Union Square vacancies.
The vacancies are “really quite alarming in a marketplace that usually has few vacancies,” Hoke said. “We’ve been talking about creating curb appeal (because) I realized that to the world … it definitely doesn’t look good.”
“Architecture in Windows” could help keep shoppers feeling jolly and spendy this season — the windows may prove an attraction in their own right, but they also will mask any reminders of hard times that vacant shopfronts represent.”
The down economy and the proliferation of vacant storefronts have been a big concern for the city. Until business improves we can expect to continue seeing these temporary pop-up spaces in abandoned storefronts as image and morale boosting alternatives. As for Friday’s Art in Storefronts launch, it was well attended and Mayor Gavin Newsom was on hand for the unveiling. On Friday, October 30th, the San Francisco Arts Commission will continue the Art in Storefront initiative by extending the projects to vacant storefronts in the Bayview. For more information on the Art in Storefront initiative see here.
Art in Storefront “Bayview Edition” – Friday, October 30, 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Third Street will come alive for the Art in Storefronts Bayview launch event, featuring an art walk, jazz by youth group Pop Lyfe, and light refreshments. The community celebration will kick off with an unveiling of the four storefront windows designed by San Francisco artists at 4900 Third Street.
Tags: architecture in storefronts, art in storefronts, down economy, san francisco arts commission, vacant storefronts
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
The Lab presents:
Looking for Lee Ming
A solo show by Seth Lower in the front gallery
Opening reception:
Friday, October 30, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Exhibition runs through Saturday, November 21
Gallery hours: Wednesdays – Saturdays, 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
FREE admission
In Looking for Lee Ming, Seth Lower uses a variety of media to recount his search for the sender of an email he received from Taipei in 2008. In the email, Lee Ming claimed to have met Lower in a dream before he was born. Lower traveled to Taipei in search of Lee Ming, consulting Facebook, fortune tellers, public databases, and other records along the way. While his search did turn up several Lee Mings, none was the sender of the email. The search was not without fruit, however, as Lower probed into the mechanics of storytelling, examining the way in which narratives are constructed and how they operate in our lives. This investigation into fictional devices and their intersection with lived experience includes a video dream sequence with a parade of strangers posing as Lee Ming constructed loosely in the style of a Taiwanese daytime drama, drawings purportedly created by one Lee Ming, oil paintings, color copies of fortunes, digital prints, and other artifacts. Each piece promises the truth but none delivers, pointing to the sometimes frustrating yet endlessly generative practice of representation.
Tags: Looking for Lee Ming, opening reception, Seth Lower, the lab
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Tuesday, October 27th, 2009
Open Call for Submissions:
Invisible Homes, presented by SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco.
Submission deadline:
November 6th, 2009, selected artists will be notified by November 13th, 2009.
Exhibition dates: December 11th, 2009 to January 22nd, 2010.
SOMArts Cultural Center seeks artworks in any media that deal with the issues of home, the search for home, and cultural hybridity. Please email the following in one single PDF document: three work samples, image inventory list, artist statement, and a bio/resume/cv to Justin@somarts.org. Or send a DVD/CD with three images, image inventory list, artist statement, and a bio/resume/cv to
Justin Hoover
SOMArts Cultural Center
Gallery Director / Curator
934 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Exhibition conceptual overview: Underlying Invisible Homes is the quest for integration, inclusion and a redefinition of the majority. It entails seeking the complete privileges of citizenship and of universal human rights. Home signifies the struggle to have one´s personhood actualized. In short, what Invisible Homes investigates is the extent to which ideas of otherness effect social and civic integration. More information about can be found at SOMArts Cultural Center or by emailing Justin@somarts.org.
Tags: call for entries, Invisible Homes, san francisco, SOMArts Cultural Center
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
Swissnex presents:
Innovation in Musical Instruments:
Friday October 30th
7:00 PM to 10:30 PM
730 Montgomery Street
San Francisco
From the classical guitar to abstract, digital era sounds, Gil Carnal and Barry Threw present their respective innovations to musical instruments: refinements to physical design and digital extensions to performance.
Traditional musical instruments and traditional performance on these instruments resonate too strongly to be disregarded in the modern musical era. But how can musicians bridge the gap between centuries-old instruments and today’s electronic compositions? Swissnex’s guests demonstrate the spectrum of adaptation, from refinements to the classical guitar to new techniques for performing computer-generated music.
Swissnex San Francisco connects the best of many worlds by bridging the knowledge, energy and competencies in science, higher education, art and innovation between Switzerland, the U.S.A and Canada. Initiated by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education and Research (SER) as a public-private venture, and managed in cooperation with the Swiss Department of Foreign Affairs, swissnex San Francisco is an annex of the Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco. Vital financial support is provided by public and private sponsors sharing swissnex San Francisco’s commitment to “connecting the dots.”
You must R.S.V.P. to attend this event
Tags: barry threw, Canada, electronic music, gil carnal, musical instruments, san francisco, swissnex, Switezerland, USA
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Monday, October 26th, 2009
LoveTech presents LearnTech:
A Live Electronic Music & Interactive Art Salon
Tuesday October 27th
Beginning at 7PM and ending around Midnight
2007 16th Street [at Utah]
San Francisco
Presentations by:
Michael Broxton – PhosphorEssence –
Eric Bateman – ColorSynth –
Colin Gleason – The DigiSax –
StarPause – Piggy Tracker –
Devin Becker & Steen – Custom VJ Controllers –
Larry Sheradon – Generative 3D Art –
Mary Franck – Aesthetics of Interaction w/ Digital Technology –
Artists displaying their work (additional to the speakers) include:
Daniela Steinsapi – Interactive Moon piece -
Steen Comer – Generative Visuals
Michael Ang – Water Light responsive to music
Interactive Art curated by Jean Rintoul
Digital Jam Lounge by Rich DDT (open all night!):
Bring your laptop, synth, or any electronic instrument, plug in and play! A perfect environment to teach one another new music hardware and software.
After the presentations we’ll start up the interactive dance party powered by the Digital Jam Lounge! Feat. a DJ set by Rich DDT
RSVP to bring your instruments
Pizza and other Italian food served from 7-9pm
Education and interaction have been integral parts of LoveTech since the beginning, with 1 hour workshops at the start of every event, interactive multimedia art installations, and a Digital Jam Lounge for trying out new audio (and visual) hardware and software and becoming a part of the performance. LearnTech expands on this idea by having engaging performers/presenters demonstrate their audio (or visual) craft and explore the technology behind it in an engaging and discussion friendly workshop, connecting the brilliant minds in our hyper creative community in a stimulating and fun environment.
LoveTech is not only an awesome party with visionary pioneers of live electronic musicianship – We create an engaging community building experience with a discussion oriented workshop, interactive art installations, and a Digital Jam Lounge for putting new instruments directly into your hands. We invite you to witness and discover the future of music performance & new innovations in multimedia technology!
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Tags: electronic music, Interactive Art, LearnTech, LoveTech, salon, san francisco
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