The gallery Root Division in San Francisco exhibited a group show of sound art, titled Sound Device, for a short time, from March 5 - 22, ending this past Saturday. I made the opening night reception, but didn’t have an opportunity to return before the exhibit shut down. I do have photos I shot that […]
An installation by Oliver diCicco, titled Sirens, filled the large hall at the gallery and performance space SomArts (somarts.org) in San Francisco from January 10 through February 14 of this year. I missed the opening, but was fortunate to be almost entirely alone when I stopped by a few days later. Sirens consists of 11 […]
Recent Items from the World of Sound Art: Interview with early sound-art figure William Furlong, founder with Michael Archer of the publication Audio Arts, by Ilari Valbonesi (at ecopolis.org): “The tape was also an economic form of production and distribution.” … Interview with Adam Nash, whose sound work has been exhibited within the online simulation […]
The following text, under the heading “We met in London last year,” appears on the wall above the exit from the new Gilbert & George retrospective at the de Young Museum in San Francisco:
We began to dream of a world of beauty and happiness of great riches and pleasures new of joy and laughter of […]
The photo below shows a piece from the new exhibit of Ward Schumaker’s mixed-media paintings at the Meridian Gallery in San Francisco.
The exhibit is titled Books and Drawings and runs from January 24 through March 1, 2008. The photo captures all but the very edge of the work, which is titled “Small Record Player.” […]
There’s a lot of street art in San Francisco, so much so that the art has long since filled the streets and, hungry for additional bare walls, begun to take over the city’s galleries.
Last month, driving by Fifty24 — that’s a modestly proportioned two-floor gallery in San Francisco’s Lower Haight area, a mecca neighborhood for […]
Quick News, Links, Bits: (1) Brian Eno is advising the British Liberal Democrats leader Nick Clegg on “youth issues” (bbc.co.uk). … (2) The sign for the Long Now Foundation’s museum and store at the gate of Fort Mason in San Francisco reads: “Open Daily, Weekly, Millennially.” The clock-like sign in the window reads “Will Return […]
Cut to the chase, the clock’s ticking on 2007 as I type this. That previous sentence is intended to provide an alibi: making note of the circumstances under which a “best of” list is produced gives me an out down the road, when I might change my mind. In any case, this year’s “best of” […]
From the website of the organization Ear to the Earth, eartotheearth.org:
Modern ecologists may have reached a limit on how effectively they can convey messages to the public, and they may now need to draw upon the emotional vibrancy offered by the arts.
The purpose of Ear to Earth is “to engage the public in environmental issues […]
The Los Angeles-based sound artist Steve Roden isn’t just a master of quiet music, the coiner of the related term “lowercase sound,” and a thoughtful and meticulous visual artist.
He is also a flea-market regular. Roden is a major diver into the literal dustbin — make that the dumpster — of history. And a few days […]