| ANNUAL FESTIVAL - PROGRAM SUMMARY |
Overview
San Francisco International Mechanical, Kinetic and Electronic Arts
Festival – a series of events throughout the Bay Area taking
place in October.
Description
The Annual Festival will take place every October at venues throughout
the Bay Area. The goal of the festival is bring together dozens of
artists who are working with mechanical, kinetic and electronic art,
to bring to light the current transition taking place in contemporary
art related to these mediums. The Bay Area is one of the hottest places
on Earth for this type of art, yet there is currently no local forum
for it to be shared on a large-scale basis. This festival will become
that forum.
Only by way of a large festival that incorporates dozens of artists
and utilizes a variety of venues will a wide audience be able to realize
the diversity, the complexity and the inter-connectedness of the art
being created in the Bay Area. The festival will feature a wide variety
of performances, lecture demonstrations, film screenings, and hands-on,
meet-the-art-and-artist workshops. We will seek works of high aesthetic
quality and challenging concepts, with a focus on innovative, inventive,
extraordinary works of art that draw on new materials, new processes,
and new technologies.
The festival will incorporate Bay Area youth, bringing them in to
help out with event production, and working with a wide coalition
of youth organizations to put young people in contact with professional
artists, by providing youth-oriented shows, seminars, classes and
exhibition opportunities.
The future goals for the festival include bringing artists from around
the world to participate and collaborate with artists here in the
Bay Area.
Activities
Producing a world-class art festival to highlight the work produced
here. It will include:
- Performances
- Lecture/demonstrations
- Hands on demonstrations for youth and adults
- Documentary screenings
- Interactive gallery installations
Roles and Participants
The festival will be directed by QBOX, with other organizers coming
from YLEM, Rhizome, the Exploratorium, YEA, SF Running Crew, Precita
Youth Center, Spanganga, CELLspace, and others.
Impact
The impact of this festival on San Francisco will be quite dramatic.
It will bring together many divergent organizations working in the
Bay Area supporting performing arts, art and technology, mechanical,
kinetic and electronic art, youth and arts, and more. Even though
the Bay Area has one of the highest densities of artists working in
these fields, there has been no local forum for their work. Most of
these artists spend their summer on European tours instead of showing
their work here in our city. This festival presents an opportunity
to show the world that the arts in the Bay Area are not only alive
and kicking, but reshaping, redefining, and pushing the boundaries
of contemporary art world-wide. As the festival grows year after year,
we hope to build it into the preeminent festival of its kind in North
America, bringing artists from across our nation and across the world.
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