Sight Unseen
2nd Wednesday Art Series
Wednesday, March 13, 7pm
Curated by Susan Miller/New Langton Arts

Vision - the physical perception of the world around us, is inseparably linked with the subtle, often "unseen" mix of psychological filters, cultural lenses, and interpretive constructs that shape the focus of our attention and experience. The Exploratorium’s 2nd Wednesday Art Series continues on Wednesday, March 13 with Sight Unseen, curated by Susan Miller, Executive Director of New Langton Arts, from 7-9:30pm. In this evening of installation and performance, Bay Area artists infiltrate the blurred boundary of vision, staging subverted forays into the covert mechanics of the visible. That is, once we are past the mechanics of sight, there appears to be a vast and deep mine of possible influences that affect it. This event is free with admission to the Exploratorium.

Eight multi-talented and diverse curators, performers, musicians, videomakers, and artists will come together for a night to explore the nature of the seeing and the construction of visual perception. This 2nd Wednesday promises to be full of visual surprises, puns, and tricks.

Among them are Anthony Discenza’s large format video projection that captures and compresses hours of television channel surfing, offering a poetically annotated landscape of contemporary media imagery. David Goldberg and Meg Gardiner’s Postop is a software game that allows the viewer to manipulate and explore the forces of urban development on an abandoned San Francisco street corner. Lisa Jevbratt’s Mapping the Web Infome is a collaborative Web based software project that invited net artists from around the country to create graphic representations of the inner and unseen languages of the World Wide Web. Sound artist and composer Randy Nordschow proposes to create an audio portrait of a person through the sampling of the subjects record collection.

Additional installations to be announced.

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The Exploratorium is located inside the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco's Marina District. Museum admission is as follows: Members FREE; Adults (18-64) $10.00; University Students (with ID) $7.50; Senior citizens (65+) $7.50; People with disabilities $6.00; Youth (5-17) $6.00; Children Under 4 FREE. First Wednesdays of the month FREE. The Exploratorium's winter hours, from Labor Day through Memorial Day, are TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY 10amÐ5pm (WEDNESDAYS UNTIL 9:00pm), CLOSED MONDAYS, except for most holidays. From Memorial Day through Labor Day, the Exploratorium is open SEVEN DAYS A WEEK, from 10am-6pm (Wednesdays until 9pm). The Exploratorium is wheelchair accessible. For information, call(415) EXP-LORE.

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