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The Analog Hole (or “Abundance”)* is a new installation for RIGHT WINDOW Gallery by Chicago-based artist John Neff. The term “analog hole” refers to the difficulty of controlling rights to non-interactive digital media during playback.  Coined by the Motion Picture Association of America, “analog hole” was quickly corrupted by the vernacular into “*a-hole”*. Neff’s recent digital-to-analog photographic process involves shooting digital images, creating hand-collaged acetate internegatives from those images, and printing his negatives as cyanotype photographs (or blueprints.) At RIGHT WINDOW gallery, the artist’s elaborate print-making process embodies the rich possibility offered by the analog hole.

In* The Analog Hole (or “Abundance”)* Neff will apply acetate negatives to the space’s front windows, transforming their panes into interpenetrated representations of an enlarged computer desktop and a small business storefront. Inside the gallery, prints made onto found fabrics will hang from lines stretched across the space. (Cyanotype prints are developed in a water wash). Sorting, washing, folding, and hanging images out to dry, Neff will transform RIGHT WINDOW Gallery into a laundromat of sorts. As with his recent series, *Bathers and Other Liquid Pictures* (2007), Neff’s new project foregrounds watery depictions of nude male figures.

Neff was one of three artists commissioned to create special projects for Photo Miami this year, and Art Papers critic Anthony Elms called Neff “the most ambitious emerging artist regularly exhibiting in Chicago.” Curated by Cassie Riger of Right Window Gallery, this exhibition is Neff’s first San Francisco showing.

More info: http://rightwindow.blogspot.com/
or contact Cassie Riger cassie.h.riger@gmail.com

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Reknowned dogologist and inventor, made famous by teaching a mastiff how to play the piano, and later notorious for his insane ambition to create singing fruit. During a period of utter destitution, brought about by his compulsive gambling habits, an ill advised bet in a high-stakes poker match cost him his body.

With the aid of modern technology, his brain lives on. A mental transmitter , based loosely on Bleak”s own crackpot ideas(fig.6), send a live feed from within Bleak”s living brain to a video monitor ! There is much to be learned from the mad dreams of Irving Bleak

CELEBRATING SARAH JACOBSON Tuesday March 30th. 7pm and 9pm. admission

$5. A screening in memory of filmmaker and writer Sarah Jacobson, an important voice in independent and underground film who passed away in February 2004 at age 32. This program of her work is a repeat of a show curated by Jacobson herself, and includes her riot-grrl-era masterpiece Was A Teenage Serial Killer, early Pixelvision shorts, TV spots, her documentary about Ladies and Gentleman, the Fabulous Stains, Mary Jane’s Not a Virgin Anymore, and much more. 7pm SHORTS PROGRAM 9pm MARY JANE’S NOT A VIRGIN ANYMORE