Fertile Grounds: A Survey of New Media work in SF

Wed, Mar 29
6:00P-10:00P
Free

March 29 - April 29, 2006
Opening Reception Wednesday, March 29, 6-10P

"Fertile Grounds"
JIM CAMPBELL, JIM HAYNES, JEFF HOEFS & PETER CHESTER, KRISTIN LUCAS,
HENDRIK LEPER & STIJN SCHIFFELEERS, SEAN TALLEY, MARY ELIZABETH
YARBROUGH

Fertile Grounds is a survey of current New Media work in San
Francisco by Bay Area artists. The exhibition examines a diverse
cross-section of practices and themes at the forefront of San
Francisco's pioneering artistic community. Included works are from
both established and emerging artists who find themselves immersed in
a diverse mixture of cultural factors; a mixture uniquely conducive
to New Media Art.

Defined by a half-century of activism and counterculture, San
Francisco exists within the American social and political landscape
as an autonomous zone. It is a place where lifestyle is reinvented
with an emphasis on personal freedom and cultural cognizance.
Alternately, San Francisco is known for its denizen's accelerated
relationship with technology. A product of its proximity to Silicon
Valley, the city is a playground for new technologies. A place where
technology is applied to human problems and integrated into
increasingly digital lifestyles.

The exhibited artists in Fertile Grounds combine and manipulate
technologies into synthetic mediums, rendering phenomena that are
dynamic and multi-modal. These artists are functioning in a mode
approaching the pre-Renaissance ideal of the natural-philosopher, a
mode epitomized by the re-unification of artistic and scientific
roles. They continue a tradition of multi-disciplinary thought and
they create the next step in the art world's continuing evolution.

Venue:

Rx Gallery
132 Eddy Street
San Francisco
415 474 7973
http://www.rxgallery.com

Eddy and Mason

Additional Info:

415 474 7973
http://www.rxgallery.com