I cordially invite you to the closing event on Saturday 2/15 12:00-2:00, for my exhibit of ‘Strawberry Creek and Science Obscured’ at The Catharine Clark Gallery. Chester Arnold and I will be in conversation with Catharine Clark about the environment, our work in the exhibit and our upcoming collaboration.
Chester and I plan to create an homage to the Napa River that reveals different views of this waterway that has survived the wrath of channelization, bulldozing and reshaping of it’s flow. We will create a new site specific installation that incorporates one of Chester’s paintings, along with video, sound, and robots in the manner of Strawberry Creek which is in The Catharine Clark media room now until February 15th. Nature prevails!
Then we party!
Science Obscured, on display in The Catharine Clark back room, is a series of individual laser carved paper images that subtly unveil the monumental contributions of dismissed scientists. Next to these a robotic sculpture meditates on waves: light waves create sound waves create gravity waves, all activated by light, like from the flashlight on your phone. See ‘Descartes’ Laws of Motion’ in action: https://youtu.be/By7dRZGnYv0
‘Waves’ is a black on black carved paper image in an edition of 15. There are only a handful of these left!
Inquire at the gallery or ask me or see the attached image (more on this work at the very bottom of this email).
Saturday, February 15, 2020 At 12:00-2:00 P.M.
The conversation commences at 1:00 sharp!
248 Utah St, San Francisco, CA 94103 415.399.1439
https://cclarkgallery.com/exhibitions/chester-arnold-complications-kal-spelletich
There will be drinks and snacks and treats. All for free.
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An Exhibit at The Center For New Music
“Hacked, Found, Repurposed 3,” an exhibit of experimental instruments curated by Bryan Day and Kirk Pearson. A menagerie of cardboard synthesizers, wire kinetic sculptures, musical bicycles, and other loveable audio oddities .
It is my sublime Cymbal:
https://youtu.be/90WAHYdgj6A?t=8
On display at San Francisco’s Center For New Music
through the end of February–always free to the public.
Keep a look out for the closing!
55 Taylor St
San Francisco, California
https://centerfornewmusic.com/
Call (415) 275-2466
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Hybrid Tenders
A performance with Ronja Ver http://soluja.blogspot.com/ and Kal Spelletich at CounterPulse San Francisco.
Tuesday, April 14, 7pm-9pm
http://counterpulse.org/event/matchbox-lab-4-hybrid-tenders/
Control your surveillance
You are invited to tend to the fragile equilibrium of life in an era of environmental emergency and mass extinction. Collaborate with the artists to operate robots and create sounds live, on stage, as we explore the intersection of surveillance, machines, and our sentient selves.
Plant the wood for your coffin or a tree that remembers the touch of your hands when all human life is gone.
7pm: Reception
7:30pm: Participatory Performance
Come early to sign up to be a part of the experience.
Ronja Ver: Movement and voice
Kal Spelletich: Robots and sound
About the Artists
Ronja Ver is a dancer, dance maker, teacher, mother, and activist. A perpetual student of performance as a way of participating in community and a tool for social change, they are deeply inspired by physical, social and mass movement, and its capacity to create meaningful impact on a personal and global scale. Ver holds an MFA in dance from Hollins University and is proud to be spinning underwater in Steve Paxton’s DVD Material For The Spine.
For almost 4 decades Kal Spelletich has built interactive machines and robots. Spelletich’s work enacts a liberated awareness and pushes his audience toward creative responses to technology in their lives. His work explores the interface of humans and science to put people in touch with philosophical interactive experiences.
Matchbox Labs
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ANNNNDDDD….Nevada Museum of Art in Reno
I have 6 artworks at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno Nevada in an exhibit called: Where Art and Tech Collide
January 25, 2020 – June 21, 2020
I am keeping some excellent company, for also in the exhibit are some fellow comrades Andy Diaz-Hope, Trevor Paglen, Leo Villareal, and Gail Wight, among others.
The show highlights the various ways that artists use technology to inspire wonder and curiosity.
I will talk about ‘Robotics, Technology and Empowering Humanity’ at the Museum
on June 5, 2020 12 – 1 pm, followed by a meal and drinks! Hello Reno.
https://www.nevadaart.org/event/artist-kal-spelletich-on-art-robotics-technology-and-humanity/
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Despite the chaos and mayhem sown by our political system, art prevails and is the workaround that brings joy, insight and provocation to this broken society we all live in. Go see some music, art. Theater, film, dance and, heck, something experimental!
See you around!
k
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Laser Carved Paper Edition ‘Waves’ at The Catharine Clark Gallery
Here is a work on paper I have in the exhibit. It is laser carved paper in a series of 15. No two are alike. They are priced at $350.00 each! The other works on paper are one of a kind and priced quite a bit more. The image represents two sets of waves. As they travel out they can reinforce each other to create a larger wave or do the opposite and cancel each other out. A wave can be liquid, sound, light, gravity or even a thought. This is how change happens. Oftentimes it may take eons for that change.
Every action has a reaction.
Sea and ocean waves are caused due to gravitational energy of moon. If we harness them, we are indirectly harnessing the energy obtained due to moon’s mass.
Waves are described by a wave equation which sets out how the disturbance proceeds over time. The mathematical form of this equation varies depending on the type of wave. Further, the behavior of particles in quantum mechanics are described by waves. In addition, gravitational waves also travel through space, which are a result of a vibration or movement in gravitational fields.
This wave can then be described by the two-dimensional functions
(waveform traveling to the right)
(waveform traveling to the left)
or, more generally, by d’Alembert’s formula:[3]
Here we are representing two component waveforms and traveling through the medium in opposite directions. A generalized representation of this wave can be obtained[4] as the partial differential equation
Waves; sound, light and physical waves. Water waves and sound waves are examples of mechanical waves. Light waves are not considered mechanical waves because they don’t involve the motion of matter. Light waves are just one type of electromagnetic wave. Sound waves exist as variations of pressure in a medium such as air. They are created by the vibration of an object, which causes the air surrounding it to vibrate. … Sound waves travel through air in much the same way as water waves travel through water.
Light, sound, energy, water waves, ripples, (wave interference)
Nothing that contains energy is “outside of time.” The reason is that the energy of any object is linked, by quantum physics, to the rate of oscillation of its wave function. Thus, if you have energy E (including any rest energy mc2), then your quantum wave function is oscillating with frequency f=E/h where h is Planck’s constant. So if you exist (and I take that to mean that you have some non-zero energy) then you vary in time.
Light is a transverse, electromagnetic wave that can be seen by the typical human. The wave nature of light was first illustrated through experiments on diffraction and interference. Like all electromagnetic waves, light can travel through a vacuum.
Light waves are different from mechanical waves, however, because they can travel through a vacuum. Light waves are just one type of electromagnetic wave. Other electromagnetic waves include the microwaves in your oven, radio waves, and X-rays.
In fact, there are two main types of waves: transverse and longitudinal. Longitudinal waves are where the vibration moves parallel to the direction the wave is traveling. Sound vibrations travel in a wave pattern, and we call these vibrations sound waves. Sound waves move by vibrating objects and these objects vibrate other surrounding objects, carrying the sound along. … Sound can move through the air, water, or solids, as long as there are particles to bounce off of.
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“Light was not either a wave or a particle but was both a wave and a particle. Knowledge of both these very different aspects was necessary for a complete description of light; either one without the other was inadequate.”
– Niels Bohr
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