..it is a snow inspired piece from a wonderfully cold studio—can it snow please?—–the sun goes down early——there are elk on valencia, there is a buffalo breaking store windows, there are hearts all around that are beating——-the countryside is down an alley—-ata is a wonderful place——the countryside is everywhere—-there is snowy wild about the city—–
Panel discussion on Bay Area Asian-Pacific-Islander-American poets and the avant-garde. In this panel, authors, editors, and educators will discuss APIA poetry, and their relationships with avant-garde poetries, the historical contexts for today’s poetries, and challenges or obstacles to writing with consideration to aesthetics and ethnic identity. Participants include Jai Arun Ravine, Margaret Rhee, Eileen Tabios,… Read more »
ATA co-presents: Other Cinema Kickstarter campaign On Sat. December 17th, ATA Gallery hosts a benefit celebration for its flagship programming project, Other Cinema. Grounding the gallery’s media arts exhibitions for some 27 years, OC will be feted by such long-standing collaborators as Anne McGuire & Wobbly, once again joining forces as the vocalist/electronics duo Freddy… Read more »
ATA presents an evening of expanded cinema, acoustics, and electronics, featuring a sonic performance and films by Thomas Carnacki and Sylvia Schedelbauer. The show will be grouped into 2 sections: The Thomas Carnacki ensemble deploying various and sundry devices, sound-emitting appliances, vibrating vessels, and odd found objects in a very rare live audio-visual collaboration among… Read more »
Join CCSF Department of Cinema’s Motion Picture Directing class for a screening of the 2011 final film projects. The showcase features a variety of narrative scenes starring Bay Area actors. Directing Students: Saara Annunen, Enrique Barrera, Ochi Batdavaajav, Francis Bautista, Alyssa Byrd, Scott Dietrich, Sarah Haugen, Norio Horikawa, Tanya Marino, Jimmy Nguyen, Alex Ortego, Lawrence… Read more »
Students at SFSU Cinema Department’s Experimental Documentary Workshop screen short film portraits from Fall 2011. In these short films, students use the language of cinema to tell you about someone – Dads; kids in trouble; loved ones lost; people between cultures; and ‘casual encounters.’ Doors at 6:30, Show at 7:30 Free
Come see your favorite local bands & support ATA! There will be a raffle with amazing prizes and limited edition tote bags designed by local artist Matt Furie Beach and/or formal attire encouraged! Shannon & the Clams Buffalo Tooth Primitive Hearts Chen Santa Maria Puce Moment Cool Ghouls American Splits Artists’ Television Access 992 Valencia… Read more »
Please join us for a night of videos, sound, performance, poetry, film and discussion about the Occupy movement. With work about: Occupy History Oakland General Strike Occupy San Francisco Media La comunidad de la Mission UC Davis student protests Why do we Occupy? Artists including: Molly Hankwitz Martha Colburn OccupySF Poets OccupySF Media David Cox… Read more »
The University of San Francisco’s Advanced Narrative Production and Motion Graphics Class end of the semester screening. The Motion Graphics Class is taught by Bryan Boyce and students will demonstrate their knowledge of After Effects, Photoshop, Green-screen, and other elements of digital motion. The Advanced Narrative Production class is taught by Danny Plotnick and features… Read more »
8pm-8:45pm ~ Diologu’in & Dance Party ~ Come early to meet the filmmakers and share some snacks & drinks! Featuring live DJ’d soundscapes from Commedia Sexy All’italiana, Vitamin Wig C. 9pm-10:45pm ~ Screening ~ Bring your friends, lovers, collaborators Fims by: • Luke Baldwin • Keith Ballard • Ama Birch • GC Erenberg • Aimee Goguen • Robert Hansen… Read more »
This retrospective of video artist Dayv Jones will include works first aired on his cable access shows stonewall warriors and artists’ television including 90’s riot grrrl bands and performance artists as well as Dayv’s experimental video works. It will also debut a couple of new works include a live video performance that will be accompanied… Read more »
Thirty years after the LeftWrite conference,Kaplan Harris sits down with the organizers of the conference to revisit some of the motivations, fractures and legacies of this seminal moment in Bay Area History.Kaplan Harris is writing a grassroots history of poetry and activism in the wake of the New Left. His recent work is found in… Read more »
JOHN DAVIS AND PAUL CLIPSON TASHI WADA AND MADISON BROOKSHIRE BEN BRACKEN AND JOHN DAVIS Passage: a new work in sound and light for two projectors by Madison Brookshire and Tashi Wada. Madison Brookshire is a Los Angeles-based artist whose interdisciplinary work investigates modes of perception and qualities of time. He has… Read more »
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 »