Bay Area scene report

Here is a quick list of some of the events and shows around the San
Francisco Bay Area.

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In San Francisco:

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts:
OUTLAWS AND OBSESSIONS
Tuesdays-Sundays, Sept 23-Nov 30
12 noon-5 pm Screening Room
Free with Gallery Admission

This film and video series celebrates the obsessive nature of "outsider"
artists, playing off avariety of themes in the Center's fall gallery
exhibition, Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being.

For 24-hour information, call (415) 978-ARTS / 978-2787

also at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts:

Henry Darger: The Unreality of Being Narrative watercolor scrolls and
collages obsessively detailed by an "outsider artist"–Gallery 1.

Three Great Walls Large scale multi-layered wall paintings and drawings
by Carolyn Castaño, Margaret Kilgallen and Shahzia Sikander–Gallery 2.

A-Volve: An interactive installation by Christa Sommerer and Laurent
Mignonneau wherein aquatic creatures virtually come to life–Gallery 3.

Ladies of the News: A humorous homage to the Bay Area's most prominent
women newscasters by Jim Winters and Jason Mecier–Terrace.

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In Berekeley:

At the Berkeley Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archive:

MATRIX Jochen Gerz: The Berkeley Oracle

Beginning on August 1, 1997 and running through May 31, 1998, MATRIX
presents a major new Internet-based artwork by the renowned German
conceptual artist Jochen Gerz. The exhibition in different forms will be
situated on an artist-designed area of the museum's web site and
throughout the museum itself. Gerz's interactive project calls for
questions to be posed by the global public, via the Internet, to The
Berkeley Oracle. These questions will be accessible on the museum's web
site, and a selection of approximately forty of them will be produced as
framed texts and inserted, guerrilla style, throughout the museum's
galleries and other public areas.

The gallery component of the exhibition will run from January 28 through
May 31, 1998.

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/oracle/

For a listing of the films and speakers for Oct
http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/pfa/filmnotes/sep-oct.1997.filmnotes.html

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In San Jose:

Exhibitions

"Go Figure! Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection," through
October 5, 1997.

"New Art in China, Post-1989," through November 2, 1997.

"Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology," October
18, 1997 - October 18, 1998.

"Holding Patterns: Selections from the Collection of W. Donald Head, Old
Grandview Ranch," October 18, 1997 - February 8, 1998.

"San Jose: A Museum of Reflections, Photographs by Joseph Schuett,"
October 18, 1997 - January 4, 1998.

"Flying Colors: The Innovation and Artistry of Alexander Calder,"
November 16, 1997 - February 1, 1998.

24-Hour Recorded Information Line: (408) 294-2787
Administrative Offices: (408) 271-6840
e-mail:[email protected]

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In Palo Alto:

Standford University is holding a seminar series on People, Computers
and design. Here is the tentative schedule for October.

Stanford Seminar on People, Computers, and Design (CS547)
Home page: (http://pcd.stanford.edu/seminar)
Video: (http://arum.stanford.edu/courses/cs547)

Tentative schedule for this fall.

Oct 10, 1997 - Marc Levoy, Stanford Computer Science
The Digital Michelangelo Project

Oct 17, 1997 - Don Gentner, JavaSoft, Sun Microsystems
The WebTop - HotJava Views and Beyond

Oct. 24, 1997 - Hanna Marais and Krishna Bharat,
DEC Systems Research Center
Supporting Cooperative and Personal Surfing with a Desktop Assistant

Oct. 31, 1997 - Trevor Darrell, Chris Bregler, Michele Covell and
Malcolm Slaney, Interval Research
Video Rewrite and the Magic Morphin' Mirror.

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