Peter Foucault work in Dissident Futures Art and Ideas Festival at YBCA!

A HUGE THANKS to everyone who came out and participated in this event on Saturday Nov. 23rd, what amazing projects and performances were happening at YBCA! Here are some pics of “Attraction/Repulsion:Redux XVI” my interactive robotic drawing machine that was set up in the Grand Lobby. It was a great success and  so many people participated in helping to make a brand new large scale drawing!

Grand Lobby, Screening Room, Third Street Courtyard, Youth Arts Lounge FREE w/ RSVP More info & RSVP at http://ybca.org/art-and-ideasYBCA invites you to participate in a one-day interactive festival in conjunction with the Dissident Futures visual arts exhibit in our Downstairs Gallery. The festival will bring our communities together to explore and investigate possible futures envisioned by artists, urban planners, environmentalists, scientists, robotic experts, designers, programmers, and food activists through dynamic workshops, lectures, performances, interactive media, music, and more.The worldwide effort to consider and shape the future is being conducted by a diverse number of artists, scientists, teachers, and activists. In the Bay Area, there are a wealth of future-facing projects, many involving practical innovations in technology and science. Some of these creative and pragmatic endeavors are informed by utopian dreams and fueled by a local culture that looks to the future with hope and optimism for what may come. The breadth of ideas and emergent forms ranges vastly, and given the rising pace of these activities and aspirations for the future, it is an exciting time for us to look critically at the participants in this conversation. We want to bring people together in dialogue with members of our Bay Area community who have the tools to envision a future that expands beyond the best of our aspirations and builds on our technological advances, while also keeping in check negative realities such as climate change, rising income inequalities, and gaps in power distribution and influence. We seek to look at the entire ecology and foster discussions that move us toward a world we can help to create. ——————— A Partial List of Participants: Architects /Designers /Planners for Social Responsibility (ADPSR) – Raphael Sperry and Deanna VanBuren Black Futurist Arts Collective Brontez Purnell Code for America – Mike Migurski CTO of CfA , Cyd Harrell, CfA’s UI/UX Evangelist Jaime Cortez with L.M. Bogad, Bill Hsu, and Jenifer Wofford Fantastic Futures Project Future Cities Lab (Jason Johnson and Nataly Gattegno) Peter Foucault GAFFTA – Josette Melchor Green House Project – Juan Carlos Cancino and David Gabriner Kyle Herbert with Jenifer Wofford Ray Gilstrap AMES NASA Kanari Productions Institute For The Future Future for Good Fellows: Milton Chen, Gabriella Gomez-Mont, Sam Gregory, Shannon Spanhake, David Thigpen, Ariel Waldman Walidah Imarisha Takehito Etani Long Now Foundation – Manual for Civilization Majos Maker Cities Dorothy Santos with An Xiao Mina and Ben Valentine DJ. Patrick Lotilla Pangea Kal Spelletich Young Artists at Work Young Gifted and Black Video Game Monologues Michael Zheng with Amber St. Germaine ————————————————- SCHEDULE: YBCA FRONT PLAZA Takehito Etani, “Transparent Footprints of Invisible Giants – Footprints from the Future” Front Plaza 12-8pm GRAND LOBBY Opening Remarks and Presentations 12pm-1pm ADPSR, Raphael Sperry and Deanna VanBuren, “Human Rights and Healing: Architects As Change Agents” 12:15PM Ray Gilstrap Opening Talk: “Where Science Meets Marginalized Communities” Forum Area 12:30-1pm ADPSR, Grand Lobby BOOTH 12-8pm GAFFTA, “The Crank” BOOTH 12-8pm Young Artists at Work, Ficto Criticism Gallery Tour 2pm Young Gifted and Black BOOTH 12-8pm Peter Foucault, “Attraction/Repulsion” BOOTH 12-8pm Fantastic Futures Project, “What Does the Future Sound Like?” Installation 12-8pm (plus workshop in RBI) Institute For The Future, “Creating a Future for Good: Join the Movement” BOOTH 12-8pm Takehito Etani, “Transparent Footprints of Invisible Giants – Footprints from the Future” Installation and Workshop 12-8pm SCREENING ROOM Presentations Future Cities Lab, Jason Kelly Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, “The Hydramax Trilogy” 1pm- 2:30pm Code For America, Cyd Harrell UX Evangelist and Michal Migurski CTO, “Designing a New Citizenship” 2:30-4:00pm Institute For The Future Fellows, “Creating a Future For Good: Join the Movement” 4-5:30pm Jaime Cortez , Larry M. Bogad, Bill Hsu, and Jenifer Wofford, “InsTED Talks” 5:30-7pm Lian Amaris, “The Video Game Monologues” Play Performance 8pm-9:15pm YAW LOUNGE Panel/Workshops Walidah Imarisha, “Collective Visionary Storytelling/Writing Workshop: How does Sci-fi inform social movements” 1-2:30pm Long Now Foundation, “The Manual for Civilization” 2:30-4:00pm GAFFTA, “Creative Technology for Social Good and Urban Prototyping” 3:15pm-4:00pm Green House Project, “Urban Agriculture – Rethinking Urban Density” 4:00pm-5:30pm Kal Spelletich, “Research and Survival In The Arts” 5:30-7:00pm Dorothy Santos, Ben Valentine, and An Xiao Mina, “The Honeymoon’s Over: Arts and Culture Criticism in the Age of Networked Power” 8pm-9:15pm SCULPTURE COURT : FOOD , MUSIC and PERFORMANCES MAKER CITIES booths Performance by Young Gifted and Black 1:30 pm and 7pm Performance by Kyle Herbert and Jenifer Wofford Time TBA Futuristic Pillow Fight with Brontez Purnell 2:30pm Sounds provided by DJ Patrick Lotilla 12-8pm Live Music provided by Kanari Productions featuring Majos and Pangea F.C. Black Futurist Arts Collective * For more info, call 415.978.2787 or visit www.ybca.org YBCA galleries are FREE to the public on the first Tuesday of every month. FREE First Tuesday is made possible in part by YBCA’s Directors Forum Members Enjoy same-day gallery admission with all YBCA paid events. Join YBCA:You and receive FREE admission to every YBCA performance, film, exhibition, and special event! www.ybca.org/you

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