Presented by The America India Foundation, (AIF) Young Professionals, Emmy-nominated film, ”The Revolutionary Optimists ” captures the inspiring stories of young South Asians as trail-blazing agents of change. In the slums of Calcutta, Amlan Ganguly and his proteges – Shika, Salim, Kajal and Priyanka – use street theater, dance, and data as their tools to mount vaccination drives… Read more »
Archive for July, 2014
Works by Dell Martinez
Dell Martinez, “Drawing upon influences from portraiture,psychology, sex and surrealism Martinez assembles momentary statements of personal iconography and transcendental associations. After studies in Chicago and a lengthy tenure in New York, Dell escaped to San Francisco where he paints in the Lower Height and skateboards whenever his knee lets him.” Opening Reception: Wed, July 2nd, 6-9pm… Read more »
ATA Window Gallery: Marya Krogstad
Marya Krogstad Gallery Opening and Screening Friday July 18. Opening 7:30PM Screening 8:30PM Marya Krogstad is a San Francisco based multi-media artist working in installation/environments, sculpture, film, video, audio, photography, and performative work. At times, the installations may position the viewer as a participant or subject of the work. Krogstad addresses concepts of transience and the… Read more »
This Week at ATA: The Revolutionary Optimists + POOP IS ART…+ OpenScreening + Dr. Hawaii & Jezus: El Teror! & Death Wish 6: The Eviction + SF Cinematheque presents : Pablo Marin In Person
This Week at ATA: The Revolutionary Optimists + POOP IS ART…+ OpenScreening + Dr. Hawaii & Jezus: El Teror! & Death Wish 6: The Eviction + SF Cinematheque presents : Pablo Marin In Person —-Thursday, July 31, 2014, 7:30 pm The Revolutionary Optimists Presented by The America India Foundation, (AIF) Young Professionals,”The Revolutionary Optimists, ”… Read more »
Cyclone!
Sistha Sinema: Celebrating Black Lesbian motherhood
Inspired by the lives of Audre Lorde and StaceyAnn Chin, Sistah Sinema compiled this collection of shorts celebrating Black Lesbian motherhood. Celebrating Black Lesbian Motherhood If She Grows Up Gay: A blue collar African American mother talks about her pregnancy and raising her daughter with her lesbian lover. Brooklyn’s Bridge to Jordan by Tina Mabry: After… Read more »
Wednesday August 6/6pm: “POOP IS ART AND VICE VERSA”
I POO YOU PRESENT: “POOP IS ART AND VICE VERSA” OPENING: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6TH 2014 6 – 10PM ATA GALLERY (Artists Television Access) 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110 “POOP IS ART AND VICE VERSA” is an exhibition featuring the latest works by internationally uncelebrated artists, Guillermo Sanchez and Rafael Saenz, founders of IPoopYou.com…. Read more »
STARVELAB W/ PATRICE SCANLON + RAJA THE RESIDENT ALIEN
A night of intermedia with Michael Trigilio’s project SUGAR, a collection of analog modular synthesis music, made of sounds that are dreamy, druggy, sweet, gnawing and served with doses of noise to run down the edges of each patch. is a collection of analog modular synthesis music, made of sounds that are dreamy, druggy, sweet,… Read more »
Works by Marya Krogstad (opening & screening)
Marya Krogstad is a San Francisco based multi-media artist working in installation/environments, sculpture, film, video, audio, photography, and performative work. At times, the installations may position the viewer as a participant or subject of the work. Krogstad addresses concepts of transience and the encounter. Situations are proposed in which we may see ourselves and the… Read more »
Periwinkle Cinema: Form-Function-Fluffer
Dip Me In Honey’s Video Show Show #1 The Video Show Show #1 is a multi-media affair highlighting the work of intersectional creators. An homage to 1+1=3. Artists turned scientists, biologists turned designers, cultural rabble-rousers, punk scholars, poets, music makers, performers, choreographers, and the queerly engaged. Highlighting the creative ingenuity, critical thinking, love, joy and… Read more »
Marya Krogstad’s Figurations at Artists Television Access
Works by Marya Krogstad Friday July 18, 2014, 7:30PM-Opening for Window Installation (installation viewable July 2- 30, 2014) 8:30PM-Screening (4th in the Systems-Power-Identity series, curated by Claire Bain) Free. Donations accepted to benefit ATA’s 30th Anniversary celebration, September 2014 Marya Krogstad is a Bay Area artist who has exhibited nationally and internationally. She is currently… Read more »
Thursday, July 31, 2014, 7:30 pm The Revolutionary Optimists
Thursday, July 31, 2014, 7:30 pm Presented by The America India Foundation, (AIF) Young Professionals, Emmy-nominated film, ”The Revolutionary Optimists ” captures the inspiring stories of young South Asians as trail-blazing agents of change. In the slums of Calcutta, Amlan Ganguly and his proteges – Shika, Salim, Kajal and Priyanka – use street theater, dance, and data as… Read more »
Saturday, July 26, 2014, 4:00 pm, Cyclone <<>> poetry
Friday, July 25, 2014, 8:00 pm: Sistah Sinemah celebrating Black Lesbian motherhood
Friday, July 25, 2014, 8:00 pm Inspired by the lives of Audre Lorde and StaceyAnn Chin, Sistah Sinema compiled this collection of shorts celebrating Black Lesbian motherhood. Celebrating Black Lesbian Motherhood If She Grows Up Gay: A blue collar African American mother talks about her pregnancy and raising her daughter with her lesbian lover. Brooklyn’s Bridge… Read more »
Cyber Beach Party & nanobites
Cyber Beach Party, Gary Fembot, 20 mins. Cyber Beach Party is a celebration of e-waste. Techno-trash just has to end up somewhere, what better place than Cyber Beach with host Bibi Brioche, co-host Selexa and the danseparc dansers? Using laptops as go-go platforms and routers as beach balls, the gang parties until the break of digital dawn…. Read more »
Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
The world scandalized James Broughton, a sartorial-minded pre-Beat filmmaker and poet, so he, in turn, scandalized it. In Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, directors Eric Slade and Stephen Silha detail Broughton’s courage and impertinence in rejecting the heteronormative life of the 50s onward with its emphasis on frenetic consumerism and careerism. He embraced the… Read more »
see also: Right Window
Saturday, July 19, 2014, 8:00 pm: STARVELAB W/ PATRICE SCANLON + RAJA THE RESIDENT ALIEN
STARVELAB W/ PATRICE SCANLON + RAJA THE RESIDENT ALIEN Saturday, July 19, 2014, 8:00 pm, $7-10 sliding A night of intermedia with Michael Trigilio’s project SUGAR, a collection of analog modular synthesis music, made of sounds that are dreamy, druggy, sweet, gnawing and served with doses of noise to run down the edges of each… Read more »
July 11, 8pm … Cyber Beach Party & nanobytes
Cyber Beach Party & nanobites Friday, July 11, 2014, 8:00 pm, $7 Cyber Beach Party, Gary Fembot, 20 mins. Cyber Beach Party is a celebration of e-waste. Techno-trash just has to end up somewhere, what better place than Cyber Beach with host Bibi Brioche, co-host Selexa and the danseparc dansers? Using laptops as go-go platforms… Read more »
OpenScreening: U-Matic night
Next Open Screening we will screen short films from the past. We’ve been digging in the ATA U-Matic archive, and found interesting, hilarious, stunning shorts from the 80’s and 90’s. Shorts films includes the following titles: Spiraling and Spoiling, Short Attention Span, Ameba on the Floor, Is this your Park?, Jonathon, Grief Class. You can also submit your shorts! ATA’s openscreening… Read more »
Marya Krogstad: July Window Installation and Screening
Combination screening and opening for the July window installation by Marya Krogstad. Opening July 18 at 7:30PM…Screening at 8:30PM Window installation: July 2 – 30, 2014… A short program of S8/16mm film (DVT) and video– includes the new film, “108,” influenced by Maya Deren’s “Meditation on Violence.” Krogstad addresses concepts of transience and the encounter…. Read more »
Opening Reception: Works by Dell Martinez
Dell Martinez, “Drawing upon influences from portraiture,psychology, sex and surrealism Martinez assembles momentary statements of personal iconography and transcendental associations. After studies in Chicago and a lengthy tenure in New York, Dell escaped to San Francisco where he paints in the Lower Height and skateboards whenever his knee lets him.”
Thursday, July 10– Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton
Thursday, July 10, 2014, 8:00 pm, $7-$10 Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton The world scandalized James Broughton, a sartorial-minded pre-Beat filmmaker and poet, so he, in turn, scandalized it. In Big Joy: The Adventures of James Broughton, directors Eric Slade and Stephen Silha detail Broughton’s courage and impertinence in rejecting the heteronormative life… Read more »
Wednesday July 2, 6:00pm Opening for works by Dell Martinez
Wednesday, July 2, 2014, 6:00 pm Opening Reception: Works by Dell Martinez Dell Martinez, “Drawing upon influences from portraiture,psychology, sex and surrealism Martinez assembles momentary statements of personal iconography and transcendental associations. After studies in Chicago and a lengthy tenure in New York, Dell escaped to San Francisco where he paints in the Lower Height… Read more »