Artists' Television Access

Archive for April, 2011

á La Node ~ An Evening of Electronic Performance

Join us for a wide-ranging evening of experiments in electronic performance, put on by students of SFAI’s ‘Signal to Noise’ class. Led by instructor Andrew Benson, the performers blur the lines between audio and video, the body, the circuit, and the signal. Featuring performances by Hannah Kirby, Emily Chaves, Travis Miller, Nick Thomas, Taylor Buttling,… Read more »

elementals of media UNCAGED.

The Free Form Film Festival presents an eclectic night of new performance, documentary and experimental works. Featuring the buzzing sounds of the earth magnet, a simple fellow and his epic battle to bring down a dead oak, an ode to the mortality and spirit of the chicken and more. Live musical guests: Bones and Balloons… Read more »

OpenScreening

ATA’s openscreening is the only monthly open submissions screening in the Bay Area.Get your work out there! Get feedback! Or just come and take it all in! One hour of shorts are accepted monthly on an open revolving basis, anything goes with the screened work, and the refreshments are pretty good too. $5, FREE admission… Read more »

George Chen’s 4/20 Show

A mix of talk show, comedy, and music performance. Hosted by George Chen publisher V. Vale (http://researchpubs.com/) comedian Chris Thayer (http://www.facebook.com/christhayercomedy) cartoonist Jason Shiga (http://www.shigabooks.com/) performance by Tastyville (http://www.mefeedia.com/watch/37358604) music by Spaceburn (Steve Santa Maria and Brian Tester) $5 all ages Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=154136854639400

‘Drawing Crowds: A Night Out with the Hillbillies of Valencia Street’

BAG IT

Try going a day without plastic. Plastic is everywhere and infiltrates our lives in unimaginable and frightening ways. In this touching and often flat-out-funny film, we follow “everyman” Jeb Berrier, who is admittedly not a tree hugger, as he embarks on a global tour to unravel the complexities of our plastic world. What starts as… Read more »

Radical Light: That Little Red Dot

Curated and presented by Dale Hoyt presented by SF Cinematheque in collaboration with Pacific Film Archive During its 30+ years of existence, the San Francisco Art Institute’s New Genres (formerly Performance/Video) department has produced innumerable high-caliber artists and has influenced performance and conceptual art on a global scale. Simultaneously, the department’s commitment to maintaining state-of-the-art… Read more »

Woven

A new short by Elia Vargas, Woven is textures of reality balanced in psychosis. It is a narrative driven as much by sound as by image that explores our relationship to the world through our perceptions. Those five wonderful sensory tools that extend our percepts. Woven observes Valentine as she undergoes an animalistic transformation in… Read more »

AMREEKA

Amreeka chronicles the adventures of Muna, a single mother who leaves the Palestinian West Bank with Fadi, her teenage son, with dreams of an exciting future in the promised land of small town Illinois. In America, as her son navigates high school hallways the way he used to move through military checkpoints, the indomitable Muna… Read more »

A Meeting of Minds

Julie Indelicato (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_lU43SQxs4) Julie ‘s song writing style lends to the great female artist like Ani DiFranco’s guitar playing and is often characterized by a signature staccoto style rapid fingerpicking and many alternate tunings. She delivers many of her lines in a speaking style notable for its poetic fashion.    Leo Suarez (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvHBkHhZK88) Leo started playing… Read more »