Telematic Media Arts

Telematic Media Arts Telematic Media Arts is a San Francisco art gallery, which exhibits and supports time-based arts.

We’re open this Sunday, September 28th during Folsom St. Fair! Come see ‘s PET: Projected Emotional Technologies in exh...
09/26/2025

We’re open this Sunday, September 28th during Folsom St. Fair! Come see ‘s PET: Projected Emotional Technologies in exhibition.

📍 Telematic Media Arts
323 10th St. San Francisco, CA 94103

PET is a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Arvida Byström, curated by Alice Scope, that examines the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and shaped by datasets reflecting male desire.

Arvida Byström (b. 1991 Sweden, Stockholm) is a digital native with an intrinsic relationship to pink. Exploring femininities and its complexities, often tied to online culture, she travels in an aesthetic universe of disobedient bodies, selfie sticks and fruits in lingerie. Her photography and endless instagram scroll has been in art shows all over the world as she starred both behind and infront of the camera of numerous influential brands and magazines.

Alice Scope is a Ukrainian new media art curator and researcher based in Los Angeles. She explores the realms of Posthumanism, Postgenderism, and authenticity in machines. Scope is currently working with Serpentine Arts Technologies and Vellum LA, a women-led new media art gallery. Her passion is to create speculative worlds through gaming, XR, blockchain, and performance. She is a contributor to Future Art Ecosystems (FAE), an annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure, published by Serpentine R&D Platform, and serves as a juror at the Denver Digerati Festival.

Telematic Media Arts is a black box gallery, art book publisher, and production company in San Francisco’s SoMa District with a focus on time-based arts, screen culture, and art’s intersection with technology.

Thanks so much for coming to our PET In Conversation with artist and curator ! PET: Projected Emotional Technologies is...
09/16/2025

Thanks so much for coming to our PET In Conversation with artist and curator !

PET: Projected Emotional Technologies is on view at Telematic Media Arts through November 8th! Come see the work during our hours on Fridays or Saturdays from 1-6pm 🐾

PET is a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Arvida Byström, curated by Alice Scope, that examines the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and shaped by datasets reflecting male desire.

Thanks for coming out to our opening for PET: Projected Emotional Technologies by curated by 🐾This Sunday, Sept 14th, ...
09/13/2025

Thanks for coming out to our opening for PET: Projected Emotional Technologies by curated by 🐾

This Sunday, Sept 14th, don’t miss and In Conversation from 2-3pm at Telematic Media Arts

Co-presented by Gray Area for Gray Area Festival 2025: TO THE MAXX!!

PET is a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Arvida Byström, curated by Alice Scope, that examines the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and shaped by datasets reflecting male desire.

Arvida Byström (b. 1991 Sweden, Stockholm) is a digital native with an intrinsic relationship to pink. Exploring femininities and its complexities, often tied to online culture, she travels in an aesthetic universe of disobedient bodies, selfie sticks and fruits in lingerie. Her photography and endless instagram scroll has been in art shows all over the world as she starred both behind and infront of the camera of numerous influential brands and magazines.

Alice Scope is a Ukrainian new media art curator and researcher based in Los Angeles. She explores the realms of Posthumanism, Postgenderism, and authenticity in machines. Scope is currently working with Serpentine Arts Technologies and Vellum LA, a women-led new media art gallery. Her passion is to create speculative worlds through gaming, XR, blockchain, and performance. She is a contributor to Future Art Ecosystems (FAE), an annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure, published by Serpentine R&D Platform, and serves as a juror at the Denver Digerati Festival.

Telematic Media Arts is a black box gallery, art book publisher, and production company in San Francisco’s SoMa District with a focus on time-based arts, screen culture, and art’s intersection with technology.

We’re installing ’s PET Projected Emotional Technologies curated by today! Excited to see y’all for the Opening on Frid...
09/11/2025

We’re installing ’s PET Projected Emotional Technologies curated by today!

Excited to see y’all for the Opening on Friday and our talk with Arvida and Alice on Sunday! RSVP to both in our bio 🔗

Co-presented by Gray Area as part of Gray Area Festival 2025: TO THE MAXX!

PET is a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Arvida Byström, curated by Alice Scope, that examines the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and shaped by datasets reflecting male desire.

Join us for a talk with the artist, Arvida Byström, and curator, Alice Scope on PET: Projected Emotional Technologies. T...
09/10/2025

Join us for a talk with the artist, Arvida Byström, and curator, Alice Scope on PET: Projected Emotional Technologies. Talking about artificial intimacy: What happens when emotional labor is automated, when the interface becomes the object of desire, when “talking to someone” no longer requires anyone at all. And what if a ‘better than nothing’ relationship becomes better than anything?

📅 Sunday, Sept 14th
🕑 2 - 3pm
📍Telematic Media Arts, 323 10th St.
🦠 Co-presented by Gray Area as part of Gray Area Festival 2025: TO THE MAXX!

PET is a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Arvida Byström, curated by Alice Scope, that examines the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and shaped by datasets reflecting male desire.

Arvida Byström (b. 1991 Sweden, Stockholm) is a digital native with an intrinsic relationship to pink. Exploring femininities and its complexities, often tied to online culture, she travels in an aesthetic universe of disobedient bodies, selfie sticks and fruits in lingerie. Her photography and endless instagram scroll has been in art shows all over the world as she starred both behind and infront of the camera of numerous influential brands and magazines.

Alice Scope is a Ukrainian new media art curator and researcher based in Los Angeles. She explores the realms of Posthumanism, Postgenderism, and authenticity in machines. Scope is currently working with Serpentine Arts Technologies and Vellum LA, a women-led new media art gallery. Her passion is to create speculative worlds through gaming, XR, blockchain, and performance. She is a contributor to Future Art Ecosystems (FAE), an annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure, published by Serpentine R&D Platform, and serves as a juror at the Denver Digerati Festival.

This Sunday, September 14th! Join us for a talk with the artist, Arvida Byström, and curator, Alice Scope on PET: Projec...
09/10/2025

This Sunday, September 14th! Join us for a talk with the artist, Arvida Byström, and curator, Alice Scope on PET: Projected Emotional Technologies. Talking about artificial intimacy: What happens when emotional labor is automated, when the interface becomes the object of desire, when “talking to someone” no longer requires anyone at all. And what if a ‘better than nothing’ relationship becomes better than anything?

📆 Sunday, Sept 14th
🕑 2 - 3pm
📍 Telematic Media Arts

PET is a solo exhibition by Swedish artist Arvida Byström, curated by Alice Scope, that examines the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and shaped by datasets reflecting male desire.

Arvida Byström (b. 1991 Sweden, Stockholm) is a digital native with an intrinsic relationship to pink. Exploring femininities and its complexities, often tied to online culture, she travels in an aesthetic universe of disobedient bodies, selfie sticks and fruits in lingerie. Her photography and endless instagram scroll has been in art shows all over the world as she starred both behind and infront of the camera of numerous influential brands and magazines.

Alice Scope is a Ukrainian new media art curator and researcher based in Los Angeles. She explores the realms of Posthumanism, Postgenderism, and authenticity in machines. Scope is currently working with Serpentine Arts Technologies and Vellum LA, a women-led new media art gallery. Her passion is to create speculative worlds through gaming, XR, blockchain, and performance. She is a contributor to Future Art Ecosystems (FAE), an annual strategic briefing that provides analytical and conceptual tools for the construction of 21st-century cultural infrastructure, published by Serpentine R&D Platform, and serves as a juror at the Denver Digerati Festival.

Telematic Media Arts is a black box gallery, art book publisher, and production company in San Francisco’s SoMa District with a focus on time-based arts, screen culture, and art’s intersection with technology.

Opening Friday, Sept 12th, at Telematic Media Arts!⁠⁠PET: Projected Emotional Technologies⁠⁠Arvida Byström⁠⁠Curated by A...
08/14/2025

Opening Friday, Sept 12th, at Telematic Media Arts!⁠
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PET: Projected Emotional Technologies⁠
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Arvida Byström⁠
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Curated by Alice Scope⁠
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Opening Reception: Friday, Sept 12th, 6 – 9 pm⁠
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September 12th - November 8th, 2025⁠

Created in collaboration with YWGI Studio .w.g.i

Produced and presented by Clark Buckner
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Co-presented by Gray Area⁠ in conjunction with the 2025 Gray Area Festival

Poster by ⁠
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RSVP to attend the Opening Reception, link in bio.⁠
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In PET, Swedish artist Arvida Byström explores the emotional structures and dynamics of AI companionship through a cast of anthropomorphized digital avatars—animal-coded, face-swapped, and trained on male desire.⁠
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Telematic Media Arts
San Francisco, California
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We’re here today until 6:00!⁠ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN⁠Demagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance⁠⁠Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Chris...
05/31/2025

We’re here today until 6:00!
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ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN⁠
Demagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance⁠
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Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Christy Chan, Nicólas González-Medina, Doug Hall, and Kal Spelletich⁠
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Closing Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 2 – 4pm⁠
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An exhibition of political art, registering the re-election of D*nald Tr*mp as an attempted authoritarian take-over of the country. The show adopts a historical lens on our current crisis, foregrounding the authoritarian tendency in American politics, tying this tendency to the white supremacy integral to our country’s past, and highlighting these artists’ voices as protests against the ever-present threat of authoritarianism – now taking hold of our society.⁠
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Image Credit: Christy Chan, large scale public video projection
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We’re at the gallery Friday and Saturday, 1-6pm!ANTI-AUTHORITARIANDemagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance Nic[o] Br...
05/29/2025

We’re at the gallery Friday and Saturday, 1-6pm!

ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN
Demagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Christy Chan, Nicólas González-Medina, Doug Hall, and Kal Spelletich

Closing Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 2 – 4pm

An exhibition of political art, registering the re-election of D*nald Tr*mp as an attempted authoritarian take-over of the country. The show adopts a historical lens on our current crisis, foregrounding the authoritarian tendency in American politics, tying this tendency to the white supremacy integral to our country’s past, and highlighting these artists’ voices as protests against the ever-present threat of authoritarianism – now taking hold of our society.

Image Credit: Nico Gonzalez Medina, selected woodblock prints



Thanks to the artist s who participated last night in Christy Chan’s workshop on Large Scale ProjectionArt! The course c...
05/15/2025

Thanks to the artist s who participated last night in Christy Chan’s workshop on Large Scale ProjectionArt! The course continues next week.✨

Don’t miss your opportunity to sign up for “May There Be Light: A Two-Part Workshop on Designing and Planning Large Scal...
05/11/2025

Don’t miss your opportunity to sign up for “May There Be Light: A Two-Part Workshop on Designing and Planning Large Scale Projection Art”⁠
presented by Christy Chan!⁠

Free w/ registration
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This two-day event will be an intro course on designing and planning a large-scale, site-specific, outdoor projection. We’ll look at the history of projection art and its cultural implications; talk about site selection; aesthetic and spatial considerations; methodologies for prepping images; and documentation approaches. There will be homework assigned in the first session, for critique in the second session. ⁠
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Note: there will not be any instruction on video editing or video mapping software. ⁠
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We enthusiastically encourage participation by BIPOC and LGBTQIA folks.⁠
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Registration Required⁠: only eight spots available. ⁠
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Required for registration: Interested participants, please email [email protected] with a short paragraph (under 75 words) explaining your interest in taking the class. ⁠
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By registering, you are committing to attend both sessions. Please reserve only if you can participate fully.⁠
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Dates & Times: ⁠
(Session 1) Wednesday, May 14th, 6:00–8:00 PM⁠
(Session 2) Tuesday, May 20th, 6:00–8:00 PM⁠
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Location:⁠
Telematic Media Arts⁠
323 10th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103⁠
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About the Artist:⁠
Christy Chan is a visual artist, filmmaker, and community organizer. Using a combination of video, installation, performance, object-design, community engagement and public art interventions, her public space projects are often participatory, large-scale, city-wide platforms that aim to draw citizens from under-represented communities together to speak their truths. ⁠
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She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, Creative Capital Award, and California Arts Council Fellowship. Her work has been presented at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Mills College Art Museum, and Southern Exposure in the San Francisco Bay Area; Wassaic Project x NY Council of the Arts in New York; Film Independent in Los Angeles; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art in Salt Lake City; Bemis Center for Contemporary Art in Omaha; and on NPR, among other institutions.

We’re at the gallery today from 1-6pm!ANTI-AUTHORITARIANDemagoguery, White Supremacy, and ResistanceNic[o] Brierre Aziz,...
05/10/2025

We’re at the gallery today from 1-6pm!

ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN
Demagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance

Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Christy Chan, Nicólas González-Medina, Doug Hall, and Kal Spelletich

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19th 6– 9pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, June 7th, 2 – 4pm

Upcoming Events

May There Be Light:
A Two-Part Workshop on Designing and Planning Large Scale Projection Art
Presented by Christy Chan
Wednesday, May 14th and Tuesday, May 20th, 6 - 8pm
Free with registration, limited to eight people – see our website for more info
(We encourage participation by BIPOC and LGBTQIA folk)

This is Doug Hall:
A conversation with artist Doug Hall about his recently published memoir
Saturday, May 17th, 2-4pm
Free and open to the public

An exhibition of political art, registering the re-election of D*nald Tr*mp as an attempted authoritarian take-over of the country. The show adopts a historical lens on our current crisis, foregrounding the authoritarian tendency in American politics, tying this tendency to the white supremacy integral to our country’s past, and highlighting these artists’ voices as protests against the ever-present threat of authoritarianism – now taking hold of our society.

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