Excited to finally share some images from our 2021-2022 project Timeline of Greatness: Courage During Covid. This was our first MAP project coming out of the Pandemic and we were able to once again engage with the public. This project was made possible from a generous grant from the Valley Medical Foundation.
If you are in the LA area please check our our performance at part of High Beams #4!
EXHIBITION
Saturday, July 17, 2021, Noon – 3pm
at Torrance Art Museum overflow parking lot
SF Artists Alumni (SFAA) is very pleased to participate as an artist collective in this large public art exhibition organized by High Beams called Ultra!, sponsored by the city of Torrance and Torrance Art Museum (TAM).
High Beams is a series of one-night outdoor exhibitions that began in September 2020 on the rooftop of a parking garage in Los Angeles’ Fashion District. As part of a larger festival called Ultra!, which is sponsored by the Torrance Art Museum and the city of Torrance, SFAA is thrilled to be part of the High Beams #4 as one of 16 prominent artist collectives from around Los Angeles, Northern California, and Colorado including longtime participants, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Durden and Ray, and Last Ditch, as well as SFAA as newcomers along with MOTOR, Hyperlink, and La Backyard.
The event will be held in the overflow parking lot behind the Torrance Art Museum. The Main Gallery will also feature additional works by some of the Ultra! artists.
VIEW THE EXHIBITION
Time:
Saturday, July 17, 2021, Noon – 3pm
Location:
Torrance Art Museum overflow parking lot. 3320 Civic Center Drive., Torrance, CA
Please follow the local safety requirement while you are enjoying the exhibition.VIEW THE EXHIBITION ONLINE
FEATURED SFAA ARTISTS
FUTURE FACTS
by The Factronauts (Peter Foucault MFA 2005)
The Factronauts are a collective made up of Bryan Hewitt, Vita Hewitt, Peter Foucault, and Chris Treggiari. The pieces they create explore the political and cultural tensions and divides in contemporary American life through imagining and enacting how a pair of astronauts who have time-traveled from a utopian future would see here and now.
BY ANY OTHER NAME
by Joshua Hashemzadeh (BFA 2016)
By Any Other Name is a video installation originally created for a public Pacific Standard Time salon, in Culver City, CA. The artwork, whose title echoes Shakespearean literature and an episode of the famed 1960’s TV series, Star Trek, manifests audible language as a cyclical yet fractured device capable of classification, affirmation, and misinformation.
EVERYTHING MUST GO
by David Otis Johnson (MFA 2004)
Everything Must Go is the installation created by David Otis Johnson. It has been showed at Blum and Poe, for Acid Free Los Angeles and also at SFAI.
A huge thanks to everyone who came out and visited our interactive printmaking installation at the Getty Museum in LA in July! Happy to announce we’ll be back on Sunday August 11th, Tuesday August 13th and Saturday August 17th. Please stop by and make make a free poster!
What if a low-budget version of the imagined future came back to analyze the present? Who would it send? It would send The Factronauts.
The Factronauts are intrepid explorers sent by their parent agency, Nor-cal Artists Seeking America (NASA) into the unknown and unfamiliar world of the contemporary United States. Their mission is to collect, analyze and interpret the facts they encounter while maintaining their good humor and belief in the effectiveness of their process. A nation they no longer recognize as a familiar and safe landscape becomes other-worldly, a surreal and at times hostile place that is fractured by social, economic and politic divisions. They have become foreigners in their own backyards.
The Factronauts comprise a series of performances, docu-fiction hybrid videos that function simultaneously as documentation of the performances and part of the piece, photos and other ephemera. Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari most frequently wear the customized explorer suits while Vita and Bryan Hewitt work primarily on the media and documentation aspects. Special measuring devices created for the CODAME performance by James Brunner.
Meet The Future. Two Feet In The Now. Eyes On The Horizon.
Join CODAME at “Intersections” as part of Leonardo/ISAST 50th year celebration of visionary collaboration between art and science.
Projection, installation, and performance art will enliven the beautiful Fort Mason campus at San Francisco Art Institute together with bold, curious, and talented crew of artists, scientists, and technologists for an unforgettable cross-disciplinary evening. At the San Francisco Art Institute, Fort Mason, San Francisco, Saturday, November 3rd, 2018, from 6pm to 10pm.
In “Intersections,” CODAME showcases work that defies boundaries: Where art meets technology, experiment and play collide, and new media wander curiously in the footsteps of old. Featuring gallery installations, screenings, and performances, “Intersections” explores the surprising, inspiring, and challenging crossings of art, science, and technology.
What is the purpose of creative vision in a world dominated by science and technology? Though commonly thought to inhabit distinct worlds, the “two cultures” of art and science have long collaborated for common purpose. The middle of the twentieth century saw many surprising partnerships bloom across the realms of art, science and technology. In the decades hence, these boundary-defying explorations have contoured many creative landscapes. Contemporary work in new media art finds its roots in these early collaborations.
For tickets and more info please visit: http://codame.com/events/intersections
The Factronauts will be embarking on their latest mission at the stARTup Art Fair on Saturday April 28th at 6pm. Please stop by and check out their journey into a brave new world!
What if a low-budget version of the imagined future came back to analyze the present? Who would it send? It would send The Factronauts.
The Factronauts are intrepid explorers sent by their parent agency, Nor-cal Artists Seeking America into the unknown and unfamiliar world of the contemporary United States. Their mission is to collect, analyze and interpret the facts they encounter while maintaining their good humor and belief in the effectiveness of their process. A nation they no longer recognize as a familiar and safe landscape becomes other-worldly, a surreal and at times hostile place that is fractured by social, economic and politic divisions. They have become foreigners in their own backyards.
The Factronauts comprise a series of performances, docu-fiction hybrid videos that function simultaneously as documentation of the performances and part of the piece, photos and other ephemera. Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari most frequently wear the customized explorer suits while Vita and Bryan Hewitt work primarily on the media and documentation aspects.
Meet The Future. Two Feet In The Now. Eyes On The Horizon.
We made it to the Moon! 3/23/2018
Please join us for the LAST Festival. The Factronauts will be exploring exciting new territory at 6:30pm on Friday March 24th and will have a multi-media installation set up on Saturday March 23rd. We Hope to see you there!
The Life Art Science Technology (LAST) Festival on March 23-24, presented by Stanford University in the futuristic setting of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory to celebrate Frankenstein’s 200th birthday, will combine a program of science talks and art installations to discuss how technology is changing the nature of humanity and what role Silicon Valley is playing: How far can biomedicine extend life? Can a machine make art? Can we hack consciousness? What will virtual worlds do to our real world?
Speakers include:
Stanford geneticist Michael Snyder;
Stanford nanotech scientist Jennifer Dionne;
Ken Goldberg, founding director of the Center for New Media at UC Berkeley;
Maya Ackerman, who teaches computational creativity at Santa Clara University;
Virtual/Augmented Reality evangelist Melissa Merencillo;
cultural historian and festival founder Piero Scaruffi;
Dave Deamer of UC Santa Cruz, a pioneer of research on the origins of life;
consciousness hacker Mikey Siegel;
UC Berkeley developmental psychologist Alison Gopnik, author of “The Philosophical Baby”;
Burning Man Festival cofounder John Law;
Steve Omohundro of the Institute for Blockchain Studies;
and theoretical neuroscientist Vivienne Ming.
Art installations by:
Amy Karle
Anja Ulfeldt
Tony Assi
Brian Reinbolt
Carlos Castellanos
Daniel Stefanescu
Gary Boodhoo
Jiaqi Zhang/Anton van Beek
Jonathon Keats
Kal Spelletich
Kathleen Deck
Lucy Solomon
Melanie Piech
Pantea Karimi
Peter Foucault/Chris Treggiari/Vita and Bryan Hewitt
Purin Phanichphant
Raphael Arar
Raul Altosaar
Scott Kildall
Steve Durie
Alexander Reben
Artists are from Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto and as far away as the Netherlands and Germany.
Curated by digital media art pioneer Joel Slayton.
Full program/schedule: http://www.lastfestival.org
Free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-life-art-science-tech-last-festival-tickets-42748838928
Plenty of parking at SLAC.
You need to bring your ticket and a photo id to enter premises.
Sponsored by:
Medicine and the Muse, GES International Culture Exchange, China Thinkers Bureau, Stanford Continuing Studies, Office of the Vice President for the Arts, Office of Science Outreach, Dean of Engineering, Dean of Humanities & Sciences, Dean of Medicine, Dean of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
We invite you to join the NASA (NorCal Artists Seeking America) Factronauts Peter Foucault and Chris Treggiari for a special live press conference at Root Division at 8:15pm (PST) on Saturday February 10th. They will be discussing highlights of their Missions in 2017 and their current trajectory into the New Year. This Press Conference will be moderated by video artists Bryan and Vita Hewitt and is part of Root Divisions 15th Anniversary Evening of Performance.
ROOT DIVISION’S 15-YEAR ANNIVERSARY // EVENING OF PERFORMANCE
Performance Event & Closing Reception: Saturday, February 10, 7-10 pm
Exhibition Dates: January 10 – February 10, 2018
Our anniversary celebration continues! This one-night event will feature performance work by 15 Root Division Studio Artist Alumni. Offering a rare opportunity to highlight our alumni and current studio artists working in this capacity, you don’t want to miss this lively evening of performances and interactive projects! On view in the gallery during the performance event will be our 15-Year Anniversary Exhibition.
Participating Artists (confirmed to date):
Greta Lynn Anderson*
Jeremiah Barber
Lizzy Brooks
Susa Cortez*
Mel Day
Hunter Franks*
Guta Galli*
Plinio Hernandez
Mike Krouse
Vreni Michelini Castillo
Raphael Noz
Surabhi Saraf
Chris Treggiari
Jessica Tully
Beatriz Vasquez*
* Current Studio Artist
Schedule of Performances
Front Gallery:
7:00 – 9:30 Mike Krouse: Tiptoeing the line between Art and non-Art
7:00 – 10:00 Guta Gali: brid(g)e (a live stream of her performance from 5th/ Market St towards RD)
8:00 – 8:45 Raphael Noz: Double Portrait
First Level – Rear Area:
7:00 – 9:00 Hunter Franks: Fear Doctor
Mezzanine Level:
7:00 – 7:15 Jeremiah Barber: Horizon Waver *This performance contains nudity
8:40 – 8:55 Greta Anderson: quin·ce·a·ñe·ra *This performance contains nudity
Back Gallery Stage Area:
7:15 – 7:25 Lizzy Brooks: All Our Mothers Are Mysteries
7:30 – 7:40 Beatriz Vasquez: Identity
7:45 – 8:00 Jessica Tully: Museum of Broken Relationships
8:15 – 8:30 Chris Treggiari, Peter Foucault, Bryan Hewitt & Vita Hewitt: Factranauts
8:30 – 8:40 Mel Day: Wall of Song
9:00 – 9:15 Suraabhi Saraf: Audio-Visual Performance
9:20 – 9:30 Plinio Hernandez: Tomorrow Already Came (2014 – Present)
9:35 – 9:45 Susa Cortez: Sueño Americano
9:45 – 10:00 Chhoti Maa (Vreni Michelini-Castillo): Mala Fama
Hello Friends,
Please stop by the Oakland Museum and visit the memorial MAP artists Chris Treggiari and Peter Foucault built to honor their colleague Alex Ghassan and other victims of the tragic Ghost Ship and San Pablo Fires.
This year, OMCA’s biennial Days of the Dead exhibition, curated by Guest Curator Evelyn Orantes, is inspired by the lifecycle of the Monarch Butterfly. Known for its mass migration each winter, this butterfly’s journey spans several generations, all of whom follow the same routes their ancestors took. In Mexico, the returning Monarchs also symbolize the returning souls of loved ones who have passed away.
In Metamorphosis & Migration: Days of the Dead, explore ofrendas and artworks inspired by the Monarch’s migration and themes of tradition and transformation. View rarely-seen butterfly specimens from OMCA’s collection alongside newly commissioned artworks. Artist Hung Liu honors her mother’s passing through a series of heartfelt paintings. Favianna Rodriguez ponders migration and immigration in a new way using her “Migration is Beautiful” butterfly imagery. Chris Treggiari and Peter Foucault honor colleague Alex Ghassan, who lost his life in the tragic Ghost Ship fire. A new mural by Jet Martinez welcomes visitors in the Oak Street Plaza. Fernando Escartiz’s giant papier maché sculpture depicts a traditional Día de los Muertos calavera. And, traditional Days of the Dead altars by Bea Carrillo Hocker and Rafael Jesús González, as well as installations by Oakland International High School with Sara Stillman and Thornhill Elementary School with Kathrine LaFleur, energize this communal space for reflection and empowerment in these turbulent times.
Don’t miss our 23rd Annual Days of the Dead Community Celebration on Sunday, October 22! Learn more.
Metamorphosis & Migration: Days of the Dead is supported in part by the Oakland Museum Women’s Board.
Here are some press articles featuring our Alter piece in this exhibition:
https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/02/dia-de-los-muertos-altars-honor-victims-of-the-ghost-ship-fire/
http://www.ktvu.com/news/3m-grant-to-buy-space-for-arts-groups-in-oakland
http://www.ktvu.com/news/ghost-ship-artists-and-musicians-may-have-died-but-their-work-lives-on
http://people.com/human-interest/ghost-ship-oakland-fire-tribute/
http://abc7news.com/emotional-artwork-vigils-for-ghost-ship-victims-mark-1-year-anniversary/2725798/
Community Sourced is a multi-media installation documenting the exploration of two Oakland neighborhoods: Santa Fe and Frank Ogawa Plaza. The installation will feature a tiered cityscape that includes video images, photographs, quotes from participants and an interconnecting map.
Content for the micro-portraits of each area are constructed from interactions and interviews with residents and businesses in a 5 block radius, resulting in a live pop-up variety show performed on a custom-built, public stage anchored to a portable flatbed trailer. Using a “hands-on” approach to community engagement, the shows are collaboratively developed with participants from the host neighborhoods. Each episode of the Community Sourced show celebrates the unique stories and talents of the community, connects neighbors, and addresses pertinent issues.
The first community event took place July 2017 in Santa Fe, hosted by Boonation Custom Cycles, a neighborhood bike shop operated by David Boone out of his street level garage.
The second episode will be created during a curatorial lab residency at Pro Arts Gallery, featuring bi-weekly public projects in Frank Ogawa Plaza between 12:00 – 1:30 PM on Tuesdays and Thursdays in September.
Inside Pro Arts, both episodes will air; one monitor featuring community members from the Santa Fe district, and the second highlighting individuals from the area surrounding Frank Ogawa Plaza. The second episode will be developing over the course of the exhibition, so be sure to return and see the work progress. To complement the two video installments, books featuring photographs and stories from each neighborhood will be on view.
Community Sourced is produced in partnership with The Center for Investigative Reporting (CIR).
https://proartsgallery.org/event/mobile-arts-platform-victoria-mara-heilweil-community-sourced/
MAP: Mobile Arts Platform 