Dear Friends,
I hope that 2014 has been treating you all just right! As for moi, I am shoehorning this late Spring dispatch into an already extremely busy year…
In The Beginning Was The End news, I have just been advanced to the next round of jurying for Bay Area Currents 2014, at Oakland’s Pro Arts gallery, and will be doing a studio visit with the brilliant Dena Beard of the Berkeley Art Museum shortly. VERY exciting. In April, I presented TBWTE at an Anthropology of Consciousness conference in Portland, and at the fantastic 20th Annual Science of Consciousness Conference at the University of Arizona. Engaging research on quantum physics, neurology and brain imaging, cutting edge debate between thinkers like Donald Hoffman, Daniel Dennett, and Alison Gopnik… I was invited to present again at the Science and Nonduality Conference this coming Fall in San Jose, but first, in May, I’ll bring TBWTE to Margaretha Houghwout’s Visual Culture and Technology: History of New Media course as a visiting artist at UC Santa Cruz. Stay tuned…
Back in January, the inimitable Scott Stark and I collaborated on an expanded cinema performance at Shapeshifters Cinema for an unbelievable, standing room only audience. Our dual 16mm projection piece, Nocturnal Symmetries (sound by yours truly, using field recordings by Byram Abbott), was performed again live at the 2014 Crossroads Film Festival here in San Francisco, but hey, see it in Wisconsin! (before it secedes), at the upcoming Milwaukee Underground Film Festival juror’s screening! or Chicago’s Nightingale Cinema! This June, I’ll be heading out to Austin to do the full show at the New Media Art + Sound Summit (support NMASS here!), and I am more than honored to be collaborating with such a masterful and thoroughly cool human being.
One of my heroes, cognitive scientist Piero Scaruffi, invited me to return as a LASER speaker (Leonardo Art-Science Evening Rendezvous) in June at UC Berkeley, but as this date coincides with NMASS I will be announcing my 2015 talk soon. Likewise, Counterpath Press in Denver, CO approached me to do a solo thing there this Spring, but this, too, is being moved into the future. More to look forward to.
Among several Springtime screenings, I had the pleasure of participating in the 2014 World Water Day Symposium, both at Artist Television Access in The Matter of Water, and at Oakland's MilkBar in Hydrologies + History: Water + Memory, and in ACRE TV's Test Patterns at Mana Contemporary in Chicago.
As always, thank you incredible people for reading, and for forever fueling my fires.
Thine true,
Allison
