Recent advancements in technology such as Google Earth and street-view, has given anyone with a computer and an internet connection the ability to collapse time and space. It is easy to sit in the comfort of your home and within just a few seconds, virtually place yourself anywhere in the world, that Google has imaged. This uniquely 21st century way of seeing may be relatively[…..]
As contemporary life embraces digital formats as a means of convenience, analog devices have become more and more scarce in contemporary society. Record albums have all but disappeared for mp3’s, newspapers for blogs (such as DailyServing) and printed books for Kindles and iPads. While there is a growing demand for these analog items for the nostalgic, these physical objects are equally fetishizied as they diminish[…..]
Roaming the streets of a metropolitan area, it is easy to become overwhelmed by the scale of urban architecture and the number of individuals that occupy the space. So often, the individual gets lost in the equation; attention is turned to the sum over the parts. For the past three years, San Francisco-based photographer Katy Grannan has walked the streets of Los Angeles and San[…..]
Today’s article is from our friends at Art Practical, where Christine Kesler discusses the new work from the arts book A Thousand Several by Emily McVarish recently on view at 871 Fine Arts Gallery and Book Store in San Francisco. I recently had drinks with a friend who’d just relocated from the Bay Area to New York City. We discussed the phenomena of connection and[…..]
In the first moments of our meeting, Nina Beier ambushed me. “Do you mind if we go over to the tea garden next door?” she asked, “Some friends of mine are there and we can all talk together.” I was alarmed at the prospect of a one-on-one interview conducted in a group, but I held my nose and jumped in. It was only through talking[…..]
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art announced their 2010 SECA Award winners yesterday: Mauricio Ancalmo, Colter Jacobsen, Ruth Laskey, and Kamau Amu Patton. The award honors San Francisco area artists who are “working independently at a high level of artistic maturity but who have not yet received substantial recognition.” Each artist will be featured in an exhibition at SFMOMA in fall 2011. Congratulations to[…..]
Today’s article is from our friends at Art Practical, where Michele Carlson discusses the spectator and visual language in Audience as Subject, Part I: Medium at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Audience as Subject, Part I: Medium, the first of a two-part exhibition at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, brings together a group of artists whose work complicates and calls out the participatory[…..]
