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This Month at ATA

On view through May 2026 in ATA’s Galleries: short films of legendary video artist Copper Giloth

Copper Giloth, Modeling the Female Body 
courtesy of the artist and Microscope Gallery, New York.

Also on view:

Ballyoid Cardioids (1979)
Skippy Peanut Butter Jars (1980)
AS I SAID (1980)
Childhood Logic  (1980)
Alphabet Song of A Young Girl (1986)
The Red Table (1986)
Modeling the Female Body: A Survey of Computer Generated Women, 1980-1993 (1994)

Gallery hours: 2-5pm on Sundays in May
or, request an appointment to view: alex@atasite.org

Copper Giloth‘s Feminist Computer Art explores a formative decade in the work of artist Copper Giloth, tracing her pioneering contributions to early computer art. After encountering computers while working as a welder in Massachusetts, Giloth pursued graduate study at the University of Illinois Chicago’s groundbreaking Electronic Visualization Lab, becoming part of the first generation of Chicago new media artists. During this period, she also embraced feminist liberation politics, which became central to her emerging artistic approach.

Focusing on the late 1970s through the 1980s, the exhibition highlights Giloth’s experimental integration of video and computer graphics, emphasizing her innovative use of programming as a creative medium. Her works investigate the expressive potential of code, foregrounding elements such as the glitch, repetition, and the generative possibilities of early programming. Through these strategies, Giloth transforms digital systems into sites of visual and conceptual exploration.

Crucially, Giloth’s engagement with emerging technologies constitutes a feminist practice. Working within a field historically dominated by men, she asserts authorship over computational tools while challenging assumptions about gender and technical expertise. Her use of code as an open, generative system resists fixed hierarchies and embraces multiplicity, aligning with feminist commitments to collaboration, process, and the destabilization of authority.

By revisiting this pivotal era, Copper Giloth‘s Feminist Computer Art underscores Giloth’s influential role in shaping the language of early computer art and affirms the lasting impact of feminist perspectives within technological practice.

–Helena Shaskevich, curator

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Saturday, June 20, 2026, 7:00 pm, classic-editor

TINAFF: Program 4

This is Not a Film Festival (also know as TINAFF) is a monthly recurring film showcase, allowing local Bay Area filmmakers, artists and creatives to gather, connect, and present their work. No submission fees, no awards, no gatekeeping. Our goal is to provide a space where truly independent films can be shared and enjoyed the way they’re meant to be; with a live audience.

Program:

Pop Out! Music Video (03:50)
Official music video for the song “Pop Out!” off of the mixtape “BLAP4BLAP” by 7ILLA and RASEL..
Directed by Jovann Guevara

Postapoka (01:09)
Directed by Fabrice Ducouret
The Get Back (12:00)

A young man finds that leaving prison doesn’t mean that he’s free.
Directed by Jon Greenberg
It Won’t Happen Again (06:26)

Two frenemies encounter one misfortune after another.
Directed by Christian Linaben
Deville (3:12)

Deville is a coming-of-age comedy-drama set in early 2000s San Francisco. It follows Mikey and Alvin—two teenage friends navigating the challenges of inner-city life. As they contend with romance, peer pressure, gangs, and police encounters, the story explores themes of identity, ambition, and the
consequences of youthful choices.
Directed by Fego Navarro

Sunset (04:57)
Julio is in love with his collegemate best friend David, who is in the verge of moving out for work. Will he be able to declare himself in their last meeting in their usual bar?
Directed by Antonio Piccioni

Too Many… (00:37)
Directed by Hannie Saba

Truth Seekers (06:29)
When a Jewish teen is accidentally dropped at a Christian summer camp, his attempt to survive one awkward night turns into a mission to help his closeted roommate confront the truth.
Directed by Peter Wolfe

Missing Boy (13:39)
An amnesiac mother explores a distorted version of her home to find her missing son.
Directed by Nathan Aurellano

Saturday, June 27, 2026, 8:00 pm, classic-editor

Possibly Puppets

8 Fables, Shadow Puppet, Orchestra


With:
Rohini Moradi:
Rohini Moradi is an author, storyteller, and musician whose work explores the space where memory, myth, and imagination converge. Born in Tehran and shaped by a life lived between cultures, she creates songs and stories that weave together themes of wonder, grief, transformation, and the search for meaning. Whether through music, books, film, or immersive narrative experiences, her work invites audiences into worlds that feel both deeply personal and universally resonant. Through intimate songwriting and evocative storytelling, she seeks to illuminate the unseen threads that connect us to one another and to ourselves.
Risa Lenore of Possibly Puppets:

Risa Lenore Anderson Dye is known for her creative energy in teaching and for her engaging puppet shows for family audiences. She is the founder and artistic director of Possibly Puppets (www.possiblypuppets.com), a handmade visual theater company that received a Jim Henson Foundation grant in 2024.  Risa attended Jacques LeCoq’s school of international Theatre in Paris, France; the physical theater school and the laboratory of movement studies.

Risa creates all of her work by hand and has performed in museums, schools, libraries, theaters, music venues and parks  For over 20 years, she has been teaching theater, storytelling, creative movement, puppetry and visual arts at elementary schools, preschools and beyond in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her students inspire and shape her work and she loves sharing her passions with learners of all ages. 

Puppeteers of the 8 Fables Shadow Puppet Orchestra:

Emory Lewman:

Emory is a multimedia artist focusing in film and puppetry performance arts. She has been working teaching to children and adults art for over 10 years, and performing as a puppeteer since 2024. She first was drawn to work with puppetry as a form of expanded cinema performance. Emory is the creator of 8 Fables Shadow Puppet Orchestra and has written all the stories and built all of the puppets for their current performances and shows. She is inspired by collaborations with fellow artists and whimsical creative processes. She is currently looking forward to studying puppets with Peter Schumann at Bread and Puppet Theatre this summer!

Milo:

Milo is a performance artist in San Francisco.

Elisha Aflalo:

Elisha Aflalo is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in San Francisco. She attended Bennington College and received a BFA in 2022. Elisha’s work is driven by her relationship to the human body and nature with a focus on exploring the effects of the sexualization and commodification of the body. Her practice consists of writing, printmaking, textiles and wearable sculpture, photography, painting, and performance.

 

Sophia Grimani:

Sophia Grimani is a Bay Area based artist working in the mediums of dance, photography, and filmmaking. She obtained her BA from Bennington College in 2022 and is now freelancing in San Francisco. Within her multidisciplinary practice, the majority of her work orbits around the “feminine.” As a performer, she is used to being in the place of viewing, of being seen; this experience of the gaze becomes a throughline in her artistic work. In photography, this manifests as self-portraiture and portraits of careful observation that explore the relationship of nature and the body. Her work plays with forms found in nature, connecting those to forms within ourselves, and placing the cycles of nature in conversation with the cycles of femininity.

She works both as a solo and collaborative artist and is especially interested in interdisciplinary making. Her photographic work has been displayed at Harvey Milk photo center, KnK Gallery, and featured in publications of Pamplemousse magazine. As a choreographer and dancer, Sophia has shown work at Dance Mission Theater and SAFEhouse Arts and works as a collaborator with site- specific dance company Moving Ground.

Window Installations

Tuesday, June 30, 2026, 4:09 pm, classic-editor

Quinn Keck: Irrational Symbolic Thinking 

Irrational Symbolic Thinking 

On Display in June

An irrational number is a never ending, never repeating decimal.  An imaginary number exists1 and creates a complex system that explains observed phenomena.1, 2   Equations are symbolic representations of concepts, abiding metaphors,2 ideas, dreams,3 and thoughts.   

 

It can be tempting to imagine our skulls to be like the walls of the gallery – blank canvases to house our autonomous creations.  Like the gallery wall and Plato’s cave, our minds and bodies4 have contexts that determine possible interpretations of shadows on the wall, obscuring which questions are “unreasonable” to ask.5

 

But let’s peel back a few layers?  After all, knowledge is a collective pursuit.*

 

A detailed full proof here:

“Answers and Explanations — Do “Imaginary Numbers” Really Exist?” by Philip Spencer www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/answers/imaginary.html. 

And for some other helpful explanations: 

https://www.reddit.com/r/askmath/comments/z4qxsk/can_anyone_explain_what_imaginary_number_are_what/

2 See Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s discussion of abiding metaphors and science in her book The Edge of Space-Time: Particles, Poetry and the Cosmic Dream Boogie.

3 Srinivasa Ramanujan is regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time and the“the man who knew infinity,” as the film with the same title tells. He figured out the equations in his notebooks through mysticism, his faith and dreams.

4 The mind/body split that may seem natural or common sense to people in the Western philosophical traditions is not so universal and has been pushed back upon by many.   One place to start is Julian Frazier, PhD’s article “Indigenous Wisdom Reveals the Truth about the Mind-Body Connection”: https://medium.com/@julian.frazier.phd/indigenous-wisdom-reveals-the-truth-about-the-mind-body-connection-c8c5ec1b0451

5 For more on what questions are reasonable and unreasonable to ask, see the paper: Cognitive Sociology: between the personal and the universal mind by Eviatar Zerubavel, published by The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Sociology.

6 Nataille Wynn, ContaPoints, in her video essay “Conspiracy” makes this excellent point.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teqkK0RLNkI 

More on her work: https://www.contrapoints.com/

 

Artist Bio

 

Quinn Keck (they/them) is a multidisciplinary artist who investigates concepts in sociology, physics, technology and philosophy.   Working across printmaking,  artists books, creative coding, and installation, their work discusses memory, perception and grief through questioning the manifestation of systems.   They have been an instructor and  printmaker in residence at Women’s Studio Workshop, Kala Art Institute, and Zea Mays Printmaking and their work has been shown at Gray Area, Root Division, the Richmond Art Center, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.  Their process is one of constantly iterating on new and old images, just as we all are a series of imperfect versions of ourselves improving each iteration but never fully finished. 

 

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