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Location #1 Relax, have a fortune cookie, and get acclimatized.
Location #2 The Omnivorous Eye: Appetite and Identity in Art, Science, and Popular Culture
by Bryan Connell
Candied insects...meat-eating robots...snake wine...600-pound blocks of
chocolate and lard...digital dining...astronaut cuisine...these are a few
of the topics investigated in this study of how current developments in art
and science are framing the biological and psychological dimensions of our
contemporary cultural imagination.
Location #3 Edible Celluloid
Watch a collection of contemporary videos and then take a bite out of an
edible screen.
Featured Videos
Pie Fight 69 (2000, 8 min.), by Christian Bruno and Sam Green, combines
long-lost documentary footage with an original TV news broadcast of a 1969
incident in which an independent film production company took the San
Francisco International Film Festival by surprise with a truckload of pies!
Features filmmakers Peter Adair, Stephen Schmidt, Jak Newman, and David
Himmelstein.
Enjoy (1998, 14 min.), by Gordon Winemko and Julie Wyman, is the funny,
provocative story of the filmmakers' obsession with a shining emblem of
modern culture: a
gigantic, electric-neon Coca-Cola sign.
Zea (1981, 5 min.), by Andre Leduc. This 1981 Cannes Festival winner is a
perceptual surprise.
The Art of Eating (1999, 10 min.), by Hoang Truong Nguyen, documents the
filmmaker's journey to Vietnam to research the philosophical relationship
between food and time, sensuality, memory, and the body.
Destroy All Intellectuals and Intellectuals Strike Back,
by Dean Synder with Tony Merritt.
Special thanks to Xandra Castleton and the El Rio Outdoor Cinema for
inspiring this installation.
Location #4 Generations
by Tomoko
In Generations, the artist explores the changes in her Japanese family over
the years. She wants to believe that only the facade has changed, and not
the essential spirit.
Location #5 EchoStations
by Carlos Szembec, with Mark Bajuk
Made from honey sugar, this sonic installation processes field recordings
from tribal flute music to the buzz and whir of electronic sounds. This
work is part of a larger installation entitled EchoField. This work is a
meditation on how the senses can provoke memory, resonating and changing
over time.
Location #6 skinny minded
by Sarah Rosenthal
This installation invites guests to experience sensations of fullness and
emptiness,
connection and disconnection, peaceful reflection and risky journey, all
part of the creative process. Rather than presenting poetry as a consumable
product, the piece asks viewers to become active participants,
investigating their own ideas about
skinniness, both as reality and as metaphor.
Location #7 Can You Use a Hot Dog to Play Mozart?
Food as conductors: Can you complete a circuit with a hot dog? A radish? A
Twinkie?
Location #8 Space Medicine
by Richard Johnson
This installation plays with themes of experimental energy sources,
biotechnology, and visionary science. It uses a language of obsessive
scientific experimentation to create an environment that imagines a
futurist laboratory filled with self-automated experiments. Staged in isolated
conditions, these experiments are programmed with a singular purpose
that implies technology gone awry.
Location #9 Edible Architecture and Banana Botany
with Ken Finn
Discover the innermost secrets of a banana. Then use sugar cubes, peanut
butter, toothpicks, and marshmallows to build edible structures featuring
delectable arches, bridges, walls, and domes.
Location #10 Bubble Lounge
by Benji
Performing inside an inflated plastic bubble, Benji of Photoconstructions
combines the abstract sounds of instruments and sampled drums to create a
collage of electronic rhythms and melodies. The performance also includes
live singing via a cellular phone call and the creations of a sketch
artist, both working from inside their own spheres.
Enjoy free Blavod Vodka and Blowfish sushi this evening, courtesy of our
supporters.
Upcoming 2nd wednesdays
December 13, 2000
Moth Light: Artists experiment with illumination
January 10, 2001
(in collaboration with New Langton Arts)
Aerovox: Artists give voice to the air
February 14, 2001
Behind the Screen: Avant-garde cinema from the early 20th century to the
early 21st century
March 14, 2001
Ice: Bay Area artists try their skills with this unique and mercurial material
April 11, 2001
Chain Reaction Redux: MIT artist Arthur Ganson returns to create a new
giant chain reaction
May 9, 2001
The Prepared Exploratorium: Bay Area musicians and sound artists turn the
Exploratorium into a giant instrument
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