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Hiya!

I am in an exhibit at San Francisco State University honoring the late great Artist, writer, educator and all around amazing man Stephen Wilson.
I will be exhibiting my Handshaking Machine.

1. Robotic hand senses that you are approaching and extends it’s open hand.
2. When a volunteer hand grasps the robotic hand it clasps volunteers hand in one of three grip strengths according to your heartbeat.
3. It then decides when and how often to shake hands.
4. Robotic hand then decides when to let go.

It opens Tuesday, February 21, 2012.
4:00pm – 6:00pm

A new exhibition at San Francisco State University’s Fine Arts Gallery. Works by Jim Campbell, Maggie Orth, Alan Rath and Gail Wight are highlighted Feb. 21 – March 15 in “SmARTspace at the Intersection of Art and Technology,” a show conceived by the late SF State Professor and Leonardo Board Member Stephen Wilson, a prolific artist in the field and among the first to chronicle those who successfully bridged art, science and technology.
For more than 30 years, Professor Stephen Wilson was widely respected at SF State and beyond for his innovative drive and intellectual curiosity, as it pertained to art and technology. To pay homage to his work and legacy, the Fine Arts Gallery presents an exhibit that builds on Professor Wilson’s ideas and writings and includes diverse works by several well-known West Coast artists. This interactive exhibit includes motion-activated sculpture, walk-through “environments,” performance events, a panel discussion and more.

The NEW hand!

Feb. 21-March 15, 2012
Gallery Hours: Wednesdays-Saturdays, 11am-4pm
Admission: Free

http://gallery.sfsu.edu/

“SmARTspace” features work by four pre-eminent West Coast artists who work at the interface of art and technology: Jim Campbell, Maggie Orth, Alan Rath and Gail Wight.

Wilson proposed “SmARTspace” based on artists featured in his books “Art and Science Now” (Thames and Hudson, 2010) and “Information Arts: Intersections of Art, Science and Technology” (The MIT Press, 2003). Conceived by Wilson, the exhibit is organized by Paula Levine, Mark Johnson and Sharon Bliss with the assistance of students from San Francisco State University’s Art Department. The exhibition celebrates the legacy of Steve Wilson’s work as a teacher, artist, writer and thinker while commemorating the one-year anniversary of his death.

Admission is free to the exhibit and all related events. As part of the opening, Pamela Z will perform solo works for voice, electronics and video Feb. 21 at 5 p.m. in Knuth Hall. A robotic hand by SF State Lecturer Kal Spelletich will greet visitors to the opening reception. Related exhibitions will take place at The Lab and Root Division galleries (both in San Francisco).

http://creativearts.sfsu.edu/events/3345/smartspace-intersection-art-and-technology-opening

Date:
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – 4:00pm – 6:00pm
Venue:
Fine Arts Gallery
Cost:
Free
Contact:
Fine Arts Gallery
Email:
gallery@sfsu.edu
Phone:
415-338-6535
Website:

http://gallery.sfsu.edu

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SFMOMA December, 7, 2011

Space Lime Light Modulatoror

http://kaltek.wordpress.com/sfmoma-december-7-2011/

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An Exhibit I am currently in,

in Praha, Czech Republic

The Prague Contemporary Art Festival

http://www.tina-b.eu/en/stranka-exit-89

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I am thrilled and honored to be invited and presenting at The Berkeley Center For New Media.

here is a funny article on the talk:

 http://aotn.us/post/11364932802/kal-spelletich

I am going to be ATTEMPTING to test my new handshaking machine, showing video of past work and having a discussion about it all.

http://bcnm.berkeley.edu/?p=1599

ATC Lecture: Kal Spelletich, “Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interface”
Monday, 10 October 2011, 19:30 to 21:00
Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC Berkeley
Admission is free and open to the public

AND,
I have a piece I collaborated on with my friend Ajit Chauhan. This exhibit opens tomorrow, Sat. Oct. 8, 2011.

PICTURES:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150371544953281&set=a.57221863280.53196.828338280&type=1&theater

http://www.sightschool.com/
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=204695779596186
Sight School
5651 San Pablo Ave.
Oakland, CA 94608

“Don’t Be Upset—I’m Only Crying in English””
October 8 – November 8, 2011

Opening: Saturday, October 8, 7-10pm

For its final exhibition, Sight School is pleased to present a new installation by San Francisco-based artists Kevin Killian and Ajit Chauhan. Long time admirers of each other’s work, the artists have collaborated on an elaborate call and response project in connection with the work of the late US poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911—1979). In her lifetime, Bishop was the awardee of every honor, including the 1957 Pulitzer Prize, but since her death a general consensus has placed her at the very top of Olympus, perhaps the preeminent postwar American poet. A writer of mystery as well as of ordinary things, a poet of landscape who traveled widely and deeply, she could also let divine poetic accidents into her highly stylized workshop; during her lifetime she published only a handful of books, 101 poems in total. Often thought of as a Boston poet, or a Key West poet, or as an American poet in exile in Brazil, where she spent most of her 40s and 50s, but she lived in San Francisco for two tumultuous years, during the “youthquake” of 1968-1970, in a quiet apartment on Pacific near Polk.

The exhibition takes its name from an anecdote that typified her grace, humor, and practical mind. James Merrill visited her at Casa Mariana, in Brazil & she was glad to be able to speak English with someone as it had been weeks. It brought out a recent sorrow & she was in tears. A young Brazilian painter & guest stumbled upon them & stopped dead in his tracks. Elizabeth immediately wanted to console him & said switching to Portuguese “Don’t be upset, I’m only crying in English.” Through collage, photography, sculptural deskilling, through music, poetry, electronica and voice, Killian and Chauhan bring to life a forgotten chapter in Bay Area history, the time when Elizabeth Bishop lived among us on the other side of the Bay.

Ajit Chauhan (b. 1981) is a Kansas-born, San Francisco-based artist. Kevin Killian (b.1952) is a poet, novelist, playwright, critic, and editor whose next book, Tagged, will be a collection of his own photographs.

AND, please remember to OCCUPY EVERYTHING and support your local occupiers.

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Industrial ROBOTICS PERFORMANCE

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Pics from show;

https://picasaweb.google.com/111684120175129318784/KaltekRobotParty

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Saturday, September, 3, 2011
8:00PM until Midnight
1043 Marin St.,
S.F., Ca. 94124
cross street Illinois St.

General Admission: $10 or what u can pay…
Students and Seniors: $7

Live Audience Experiments with Machines and Robots

WITH! Dj Big Daddy, tip him!

YOU VOLUNTARILY ASSUME THE RISK OF SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH BY ATTENDING THIS PERFORMANCE!

This is a BYOB event, there will be no alcohol served, bring some if you want some, the nearest plaCe is 8 or so blocks away at Reno’s.

http://www.yelp.com/biz/renos-liquor-store-san-francisco

Directions:
From the freeways
Cesar Chavez (Army St.) exit from 101 or I-280  North or South, take Cesar Chavez East, go about a mile from 101, 2 blocks from 280, go through intersection of 3rd St., immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.
Look for the red light, ya can’t miss it.

FROM DOWNTOWN
South on 3rd. Left on Cesar Chavez, immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.
Look for the red light, ya can’t miss it.

FROM THE MISSION
East on 16th street from Portrero St./the mission, take a right on 3rd., go south a couple of miles, Left on Cesar Chavez, immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.

Or, go East on Cesar Chavez FROM THE MISSION, go through intersection of 3rd St., take immediate right onto Illinois St., go one block, building is kitty corner, on your right.

kaltek.org
Neither Kal Spelletich, KALTEK nor anyone associated with this event shall be held responsible or liable for any LOSS, DAMAGE, INJURY or DEATH arising from any activity organized, sponsored or promoted by Kal or the presenting organization anywhere in the universe, forever.
EVIGILO FABRICA LABORIS EXERCITUS SODALITAS

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WHERES my JETPACK!?

Kal Spelletich

WHERES MY JETPACK!?

Machines, Robots, jetpacks, video and photographs.

Opening Saturday, July 9th 6-9PM

Closing FRIDAY August 12th, 2011 6-9 PM

Beer & BB-Q

Jack Hanley Gallery

136 Watts, N.Y., N.Y. 10013

646-918-682  http://www.jackhanley.com/

Go on Canal St. West, way west, 2 blocks past Hudson, left on Watts.

Neither Kal Spelletich, Jack Hanley Gallery nor anyone shall be held responsible or liable for any LOSS,

DAMAGE, INJURY or DEATH arising from any activity organized, sponsored or promoted by Kal or

Jack the presenting organization anywhere in the universe, forever.

£££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

I am giving a short talk This Monday, 9 May 2011

Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous of May 2011

Constructive Interference of the Arts and Sciences

http://www.scaruffi.com/leonardo/may2011.html

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A drawing I bought, made in the 1950's, right down the steet in Praha

Prague press release

Arbor Aeronautics & Telepresences

An Article on my show in Praha:

http://www.praguepost.com/night-and-day/galleries/8128-mechanical-conifers.html

some videos here;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owEigh0VIgU

More here;

http://kaltek.wordpress.com/prague-jan-april-2011/

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Kal Spelletich, visiting artist from San Francisco, Ca. will be exhibiting machines and robots built from trees at the MEETFACTORY.
The exhibit is about technology and its role in our lives and its role with the environment. There will be flying trees, machines you can operate and a wine pouring machine to serve you a glass of wine!
Opening Reception;Thursday March, 24, 2011 18:00 on.The Exhibit closes on April 15, 2011
I am doing 3 walk though’s with special, ahh, effects shall we say, in conjunction with other events at the MEETFACTORY, on 6.4 -18:00, 9.4 -14:00 and 14.4 -18:30.
http://meetfactory.cz/MeetFactory opsThe glassworks 3213/15, Prague 5 – Smíchov

Also in the exhibit will be the amazing work of Richard Loskot

http://sites.google.com/site/richardloskot/Home

Hello,

I am attending a residency and exhibiting in Prague from Jan. 17 to April 18, 2011.

http://meetfactory.cz/

As well as a few probable other cities on the continent.

If you are around Prague or Europe then let me know.

If you know of anything going on or places i should go to or people to see-

lemme know!

I feel lucky that during my 50th revolution around the sun I get to still keep making art, all over this planet.

all the best

kal

A GREAT DRAWING I BOUGHT RIGHT DOWN THE BLOCK from the 1950′s

A drawing I bought right down the steet in Praha

WHERS myJETPACK!?

Space Lime Light Modulatoror

The NEW hand!

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~ by kaltek on January 19, 2011.