Hi,
I will be in Berlin May
14-17.
Lecturing at Technical University Dortmund in Dortmund, Germany on May 18.
Lecturing, doing a workshop/performance at Folkwang University in Essen, Germany, May 19.
May 21 I head to the Foundation Maeght to be an artist.
May 26 off to Cadaques, Spain and in and out of Barcelona to research Marcel Duchamp’s old haunt and to breathe.
Let me know if you are nearby!
Kindest of Regards,
Kal
I am giving a talk/performance with the radical political scholar Eddie Yuen this Saturday, April 15, 7-9 P.M. at ProArts gallery in Oakland, California across from City Hall.
150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Oakland, CA 94612
510-763-4361
info@proartsgallery.org
There will be FREE libations and food served by machines and robots from 3-5PM
https://proartsgallery.org/event/the-new-situationists-bb-q/
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SITUATIONISTS TALK WITH EDDIE YUEN
1.1ST ENCOUNTERS WITH SITUATIONISM.
2. HOW WAS I ALIENATED, MIDDLE CLASS CHRISTIAN REPUBLICAN UPBRINGING. HATRED OF CONSUMERISM, STUPID JOBS, WAR, TV…BOREDOM.
3. HOW I BROKE OUT OF THIS, PUNK ROCK AND CREATING THE CULTURE I WANTED.
4. HOW DOSE ONE(I) USE THE SPECTACLE?
a. TV/FOX NEWS.
b. Levi’s add./LA Gear
c. Movie parts
d. Military $ offers. How to separate out what is selling out.
e. Decision to go with technology, interactivity and robotics.
f. Humor, fear, play.
g. It’s easier to have an artistic revolution than a military or political revolution.
Eddie Yuen teaches Critical Studies at California College of Arts. His most recent work is on the discourse of climate change in the book “Catastrophism: The Apocalyptic Politics of Collapse and Rebirth”, (2012). He is the chief editor of two books on social movements and globalization and is a contributing producer for “Against the Grain”, a syndicated radio program featuring in-depth interviews with prominent critical thinkers. His talk will be on some aspects of Situationist political ideas and their relevance for 21st century capitalism. I am looking forward to robot improvisation and accompaniment.
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Fox News Video
Wine Pourer
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Work in the Gallery
This is a video shot of me by the FOX “news” network in 1999. I had recently won funding from the Franklin Furnace in NYC. They were in part supported by the NEA. The right wing were still hounding arts organizations about any public support whatsoever. They contacted me for an interview and I jumped at the opportunity. They came to my performance asking endless questions attacking and inciting me. I answered the questions in the way I wished were asked instead. I flipped the TV crew and they did an OK piece, I think.
Exhibited with this video document is the Portable Small Scratchy Claw Machine, something to get 
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Performances: Thursday, April 6-9, 2017. 8:00 P.M.
Sunday April 9 Matinee 1:00 Afternoon time!
At:
The Lab 2948 16th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
415-864-8855
http://www.thelab.org/info/
https://kaltek.wordpress.com/split-brain-robotics/
thelabsf@thelab.org
@thelabsf / #thelabsf
The Lab is wheelchair accessible and is located 1/2 block from the 16th and Mission BART.
A hacked and customized EEG reads right side and left side brainwaves to make the two robots move, collaborate, interact, fight and even “kiss”. This live streaming brain data will run the two robots. Volunteers’(you!) thoughts brought to life through robotic actions.
When they do “correctly” interact, symbolic and metaphoric events will happen, activating, lasers, lights, fog, robotic eye views projections, sounds, chaos.
This project has been funded by the San Francisco Arts Commission.
and The Zellerbach Foundation.
This performance piece is a collaborative project of Kal Spelletich (artist, robot maker), Masahiro Kahata (brainwave control hardware/software), and Mitch Altman (integration hardware and software) and Jonathan Foote, Willi Döring, Silver Kuusik, Robert Langer.
Some of the concepts we are exploring are;
Can we translate human emotions into robot actions?
Can this demonstrate to us a new way to instill consciousness?
Can we create empathy for a robot?
What are robot best at? What are humans best at? What about the grey area where these two things are evolving?
Is there a role for hybrid human machine systems?
Can a robot respond to, represent or convey one’s inner desires?
Can enlightenment be achieved through robotic interactions?
Is this the next step in health care and education?
Some Video Here;
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Downtown Oakland on the Frank H. Ogawa Plaza directly across from City Hall.
150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, Oakland CA 94612 (Ground Floor Gallery.)
I HAVE A PIECE AND VIDEO IN THE SHOW.
https://proartsgallery.org/
Exhibition Dates: March 3 – April 28, 2017
The New Situationists exhibition and related program of events is the first major survey of Bay Area avant-guarde art and countercultural activities, influenced by the ideas, theory and techniques of the Situationist International movement (1957 – 1972.) The Situationists aimed for integration of art and life, and worked to critique consumer capitalism and mediated experience. At their core, they challenged the idea of ‘art.’ It would be traditional to present this work in 2018, a tidy 50th Anniversary celebration, as one does for institutions like monarchs, museums, fast food chains, and your grandparents’ marriage. The New Situationists is literally avant-guarde in that it is occurring in 2017, a year prior to the semi-centennial of Situationism’s acme.
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In conjunction with this exhibit, ON APRIL 15 at 3-7 P.M. I will run a walking BB-Q (BB-Q for free!)
and whiskey and Wine pouring machines AND give a talk about my work and Situationist mayhem in my life.
Talk at 7 P.M.
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and on April 6-9, 2017
https://kaltek.wordpress.com/split-brain-robotics/
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Jovi Schnell “Electric Space Gardeners”
January 5–February 18, 2017
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 5, 2017 (5-7:30PM)
Collaborative Piece between Kal Spelletich and Jovi Schnell, “Wine Pourerer” Press button and bouquet starts swinging and Said Bouquet will pour, drip and spray delectable nectar libations to the public.
Gregory Lind Gallery is pleased to present Electric Space Gardeners, Jovi Schnell’s fourth exhibition with the gallery. The assembled works include large-scale canvases and works on paper that present a hybridized botanical world where the codes of nature, humanity, and technology flow freely. Schnell’s imaginative interplay of amorphous flora, botanical shapes, and micro patterns offer speculations from a corpus of research that includes automatic gardens, plant physiology, herbariums, parallel plant species, and botanical folklore.
For the reception Wendy Farina will project four short electric space gardening animations with music composed by the band Electronic Death Registry.
https://electronicdeathregistry.bandcamp.com/
https://wlfarina.wordpress.com/
Kal Spelletich and Jovi Schnell have collaborated on a “Bouquet of Mechanical Flowers”. Said Bouquet will pour, drip and spray delectable nectar libations to the public. If they dare!
Collaborative Piece between Kal Spelletich and Jovi Schnell, “Wine Pourerer”
Gallery Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 11–5:30 PM
Link to view works:
http://gregorylindgallery.com/exhibitions/2017/schnell/
Gregory Lind Gallery
49 Geary Street, Fifth Floor
San Francisco CA 94108
info@gregorylindgallery.com
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