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S.S. VALLEJO
On the North end of the Golden Gate Bridge lies a small town called Sausalito. Well known as an artists enclave, Sausalito hosts an eclectic community due to the extensive houseboats and live-aboard boat residents....
PLACE
On the North end of the Golden Gate Bridge lies a small town called Sausalito. Well known as an artists enclave, Sausalito hosts an eclectic community due to the extensive houseboats and live-aboard boat residents....
HAPPENING
The name make sense after looking at the tag line - "people doing strange things with electricity ". Dorks are usually perceived as strange, and bots, well they do things with electricity. Dorkbot is much like it ...
HAPPENING
California College of the Arts (CCA), has a long standing reputation for turning out some of the San Francisco Bay Area's finest talent. The annual MFA exhibition is a showcase for the graduating class. The show featu...
PLACE
The north side of the Golden Gate Bridge is a tourist mecca - classic San Francisco post card material. Just beyond the tourists there is a quiet and serene valley which was once used by the military during the world ...
HAPPENING
Public art that's engaging, thought provoking, and socially energizing is, unfortunately, rare. Often cities contract big name artists for public art projects resulting in self important works out of touch with the...
HAPPENING
In the spring of 1981 Trudy Myrrh began promoting a gathering for like minded artists - an event which she dubbed Ylem. "Ylem" is a Greek word used to describe "the material from which the universe emerged". Myrrh wa...
PLACE
Entering the Albany Bulb feels a little like trespassing on private property. The paths are not paved or clearly defined like other bay-side parks – it's raw, overgrown, and strewn with industrial refuse. As yo...
PEOPLE
Bruce Conner is a multimedia artist of the highest order. Mixing mediums since the late 1950's, Conner has broken ground in film making, assemblage, photography, sculpture and illustration. His work spans San Franci...
HAPPENING
A curious question proposed by Philip K. Dick in his landmark 1968 book of the same title, later adopted to became the sci-fi epic "Bladerunner". The concept of computers evolving to obtain consciousness seems almost ...
THINGS
"The history of art is simply a history of getting rid of the ugly by entering into it and using it. After all, the notion of something outside of us being ugly is not outside of us but inside of us. We are working wi...
HAPPENING
The definition of anarchy is, "a state of society without government or law". To some, the idea of anarchy is a frighting chaotic existence where order and normalcy doesn't have a place, but for the fifteen-thousand w...