Tonight: ScreenLab
If you are looking for something to do in The Mission this evening, check out the Studio for Urban Project(ion)s on 17th. The evening will include storefront video and drawing performance.
Screens have become a ubiquitous presence in nearly every aspect of waking life. They fragment physical space: operating as windows, mirrors, portals and vessels for light and information. These works consider and engage with cultural, spatial, temporal, cinematic, performative and historical elements embodied in our relationships to the screen. While some of the artists address the technological screen and its social implications, others choose to work with notional definitions and functions of the screen. Considering the spectrum from spectator to blogger, which modes of interaction and use do we privilege? How do they define our activities as artists, and how do they shape the larger social environment? Where do we feel compelled to intervene?
ScreenLab is a group of artists experimenting with the ideas and manifestations of the screen. Artists include:
Alex Beckman, Georgia Carbone, Ben Guttin, Kaif Ghaznavi, Lauren Marsden, Klea McKenna, Ranu Mukherjee, George Pfau, and Laura Sackett
April 24, 2009
8 – 11 pm
Studio for Urban Projects
3579 17th Street between Dolores and Guerrero
8:10 Video shorts
8:50 Drawing performance
9:30 Video shorts
10:10 Google pilgrimage
Kimberly Kradel
Bryan Stillman
Staff Writer