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April 27, 2012 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ASTERISK SAN FRANCISCO GALLERY PRESENTS, Cholas to Picasso: The 3D Artworks of Rio Yañez Exhibition runs: Thursday, May 3, 2012 – Friday, June 1, 2012 Opening Reception: Thursday, May 3, 2012 7PM -9PM 3156 24th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 Gallery hours: Wednesday to Saturday, from 11am -7pm Asterisk […]
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There is SO much going on BUT I had to take the time to share a few photos I took during my studio visit with new media artist, Allison Holt. I’m looking forward to settling down and writing a piece about my conversation and visit with Holt. Her re-telling and artworks of the different energies and […]
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Change the instruments, and you will change the entire social theory that goes with them. ~ Bruno Latour, 2009 Besides ghosts and the government, data is ubiquitous. Consider the abundance of data we interact with on a daily basis (i.e., talking to Siri, logging on Facebook, Tweets, etc.). It’s undeniable, data is a commodity. From […]
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Last weekend, Eric Slatkin, founder of High Beam Media and co-founder of the Disposable Film Festival, sat down with me to discuss his current projects and technology’s effect on our culture. Below, you will find our conversation. Please share your on thoughts on the subject, check out Heart 2 Heart (and consider submitting your conversation, […]
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Please pardon the photography. I took these photos on my phone and didn’t want to wait too long to post a few of my favorites from Open Studios this weekend. I highly encourage visiting their sites and taking a look around. Obviously, their work is so much better in person but these were definitely some […]
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Check out the following, Asterisk SF Magazine and Gallery Eric Slatkin, Artist, Filmaker, and new media guru Colpa Press, Artist Duo/Printmakers Extraordinaire Carrisa Potter, Artist/Printmaker Luca Antonucci, Artist/Printmaker Oliver Lerone Schultz, Scholar
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III. Individual + Society | Morals + Culture Anne Harrington, Harvard Professor of History of Science presented her research of the human experience within a physical body. Science, predominantly, looks inside the body to understand what it means to human but very rarely do people explore the exterior parts (i.e,. skin) and the multitude of […]
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This write-up is LONG overdue! Caught up with other writing assignments and, well, being human (probably half the time being a human doing). In any case, here’s my lengthy piece on the conference. I had to break up the posts into two parts. Here’s the first part of my reflections along with an introduction. Comments, constructive […]
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The other night, I went to Herbst Theatre to check out the City Arts & Lectures: On Art & Politics series ~ Jonah Lehrer in conversation with Dan Schifrin. Aside from learning Jonah Lehrer is quite good-looking in person (he really does look like his photographs!), he told some really engaging stories about creativity in the post modern world. Here […]
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Here’s my augmented reality piece for the I Am Crime exhibition currently showing at SOMArts Cultural Center! This piece was made during the Making Art with Augmented Reality workshop taught by John Craig Freeman. With the help of Bay Area new media artists DC Spensley and Scott Kildall (artist attacked by my Golden Knife above), I […]
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 