Telematic Media Arts (2025)

14/08/2025

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
Www.tttelematiccc.com

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Edited · 4h

31/05/2025

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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29/05/2025

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

15/05/2025

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

11/05/2025

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.

10/05/2025

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.

10/05/2025

Join us next Saturday, May 17th for "This is Doug Hall: A Conversation with Artist Doug Hall about his Recently Published Memoir"⁠
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Free and open to the public!⁠
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Doug Hall is an internationally known artist who has worked for over 40 years in a wide range of media, including performance, installation, video, and large format photography. In the 1970s he became prominent for his collaborative work with the media art collective, T. R. Uthco, which, among many other works, created the video and installation, The Eternal Frame, 1976 (in collaboration with Ant Farm), a reenactment of the Kennedy assassination, filmed in Dealey Plaza, Dallas. Following the dissolution of the group in 1979, Hall continued to work in video, performance, and installation. In the late 1980’s his interests expanded to include large format photography. His work in diverse media has been exhibited in museums in the United States and Europe and is included in numerous private and public collections.⁠
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09/05/2025

Thanks to everyone who came out Wednesday night to hear our panel discussion with Nicólas González-Medina and Kal Spelletich (and make some prints)! If you missed it, a video of the talk will be available soon on our website and YouTube channel.

We’re here in the gallery today and Saturday, 1-6pm.

ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN⁠
Demagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance⁠
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Featuring works by:⁠
Nic[o] Brierre Aziz, Christy Chan, Nicólas González-Medina, Doug Hall, and Kal Spelletich⁠
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April 19th – June 7th, 2025⁠

Upcoming Events

This is Doug Hall:
A Conversation with Artist Doug Hall about his Recently Published Memoir
Saturday, May 17th, 2:00 – 4:00 pm
Free and open to the public

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, 6:00 – 8:00 pm
Free with registration
Registration limited to eight people
(We encourage participation by BIPOCand LGBTQIA folk)

05/05/2025

THIS WEDNESDAY!!!, May 7th, 6 – 8pm

Art and Politics:
A Panel Discussion with
Nicólas González-Medina and Kal Spelletich

Discussing their art, activism, and opposition to the attempted authoritarian take-over of the country.

Nico will be printing live... bring a light colored shirt to get a free woodblock print!
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Free and open to the public!⁠

Presented in conjunction with our current exhibition:

ANTI-AUTHORITARIAN
Demagoguery, White Supremacy, and Resistance

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

April 19th – June 7th, 2025
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Nicólas González-Medina is an Oakland-based artist and activist whose political art practice reflects his experience of growing up undocumented. His energy and passion to make art accessible is reflected in the large scale prints that have been wheat pasted around the country. González-Medina believes his art belongs in the streets, amplifying the often unheard voices of people like him: q***r, undocumented immigrants. He has printed over 1,500 Defend DACA prints. ⁠
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Kal Spelletich has been a pivotal figure in the Bay Area machine art and robotics community throughout his 30 year career. He frequently collaborates with scientists, engineers, musicians and audiences to realize projects. His machines address the poetic nature of technology, scientific discovery and metaphorically illustrate how, just as movement, light and sound waves can be sent into the world, so also can ideas and emotions radiate out, with the potential for activating positive change. Spelletich builds interactive sculptures from the same elements of technology, hardware and software, used in everyday consumer, industrial, and military devices. However, he subverts the original intended use and breaks the barrier of exclusive access. ⁠
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04/05/2025

In case you missed it: you can now watch Alicia Escott’s In-Conversation with Marthine Satris⁠ on our YouTube channel! Link in bio.
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Alicia Escott is an interdisciplinary artist based in the land we currently call San Francisco, she/they practices in solidarity with thinkers across fields undoing the construct of “nature” as a thing separated from us and our world. Escott’s work is informed by how we each are intimately negotiating our immediate day-to-day realities and responsibilities amid an awareness of the overarching specter of climate chaos, mass-extinction and the social and political unrest this rapid change, unprocessed grief and latent anxiety produces.⁠
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Marthine Satris is the associate publisher at Heyday, the Berkeley-based nonprofit, nonfiction press dedicated to stories and books about California’s history, natural world, culture, and peoples. Her own writing has been published in The San Francisco Chronicle, Flyway Journal, Contemporary Literature, and elsewhere. She lives in Oakland.⁠

02/05/2025

We’re at the gallery today and tomorrow, 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

Art and Politics:
A Panel Discussion with Nicólas González-Medina and Kal Spelletich
Wednesday, May 7th, 6–8 pm
Free and open to the public

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

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)

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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