100 Years of Robot Art and Science in the Bay Area
de Young Museum, San Francisco
Free music, cash bar, kids welcome.
6:30-9pm, Friday, 20 Nov, 2015
http://deyoung.famsf.org/calendar/friday-nights-de-young-25
Co-Sponsored by the CITRIS “People and Robots” Initiative:
http://robotics.citris-uc.org
Friday Nights at the de Young are after-hours art happenings that include a mix of live music, dance and theater performances, film screenings, panel discussions, lectures, artist demonstrations, hands-on art activities, and exhibition tours. Local artists conduct drop-in workshops, debut new commissions, display their art in the Kimball Education Gallery, and take part in conversations about the creative process. The café offers a delicious prix-fixe menu and specialty cocktails, and the Hamon Tower observation level is open
until 8 pm.
This event, in conjunction with the 100 year anniversary of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, is being organized by Kevin Chen from the de Young in collaboration with Ken Goldberg from UC Berkeley and Alexander Rose from The Long Now Foundation.
The evening will feature in the Theater a series of 10-minute conversations between local artists, researchers, writers, and curators, with artist Jenny Odell as “visual jockey” providing live images:
Introduction – Ken Goldberg
Zander Rose & John Markoff
John Markoff & Terry Winograd
Terry Winograd & Josette Melchor
Josette Melchor & David Pescovitz
David Pescovitz & Karen Marcelo
Karen Marcelo & Kal Spelletich
Kal Spelletich & Catharine Clark
Catharine Clark & Tim Roseborough
Tim Roseborough & Dorothy Santos
Dorothy Santos & Pieter Abbeel
Pieter Abbeel & Zander Rose
Discussing robots, art, and science from historical and contemporary perspectives. The full exhibition reassembles more than 200 works by major American and European artists, most of which were on display at this defining event (http://deyoung.famsf.org/