Past
Exhibitions
FemTek: May 20 - June 24, 1999
The increasing frequency and intimacy of our interactions with new technologies are redefining what it means to be human. Within this era of new technology, women have been at the forefront in critiquing and challenging many of the assumptions of technological progress, reminding us of the human side of the human-technology interaction and revealing both the idealistic and dire aspects of the technology.
Contemporary woman artists are playing a leading role in exploring the technology's artistic potential for addressing and challenging gender stereotypes, political issues, and cultural discourse. All the artists represented in the exhibition are stimulating technological advances in highly innovative ways.
The Bay Area, as a technological crux is providing the fertile environment for encouraging women to experiment with and employ the emerging technologies in an unconventional and creative manner.
"Adam & Eve"
by Durer
"Private_Loves/Public_Opera"
Installation Artby Barbara Lee & Beverly Reiser
"Private_Loves/Public_Opera" is a garden laboratory,
where we construct and reconstruct ourselves,
and our context en continuum.
It is a seething swarming construction zone,
a postmodern Hieronymus Bosch altarpiece.
The "PLPO" Garden Installation includes:
10 videos playing from electronic trees which can be viewed while comfortably reclining in Phill Evans' contemporary garden sculptures. Video themes include: Romance, Kitchens, Gardens, Cages, and Intimacy.
COLLABORATING VIDEO ARTISTS:
"Aggie & Dale" by Barbara Lee
"Ambient Erotic Manefesto" by Keith Hennessy
"In the Kiss" by Donna Schumacher
"Kitchen Tapes" by Perry Bard
"Letter to E.J." by Gaia J. Bogue
"The Finalists" by Ray Wang
"The Object of My Desire" by Anya Lew
"Through A Rose" by Patricia Tavenner
"Untitled" by Jennifer M. Kroot
"Vesten for Her" by Heidi Arnessen
A "Private_Loves/Public_Opera" website where you have a chance to contribute your own private love story, as well as, be enchanted or disturbed by the words of our collaborating writers:
"Drugs for Ellen" by Paulina Borsook
"Sleepwalker" by Beth Cardier
"Interimlovers" by Joshua Ellis
"Camouflage" by Thaisa Frank
"The Red Bed" by Molly Hankwitz
"Geographies" by Judith Kerman
"Breeding Lilacs" by Daniel Marcus
"Sacrament" by Elise Matthesen
"The Errant" by Sam Rose
"Love Behind the Grill" by P. Segal
"Love Leaks From My Heart" by Jamez L. Smith
and "Bosch and Stuff" by Lenore Weiss.
In addition to the ambient garden sound track, you can select from 2 audio headphone experiences, either the individual readings of each writer's private love story or the public opera-styled four channel love mix.
Additional Garden Sculptures provided by Marque Cornblatt.
"Mom's Eat In"
by Carol Fabert
"Emotional Machines
of the Obsessive Type"
Kinetic Sculptureby Carol Fabert
"Emotional Machines of the Obsessive Type" are kinetic, lighted, mixed media sculptures utilizing either wood, metal, cloth, clay, motors, electricity, or found objects.
"All my life I have searched for meanings in people's eyes and actions, for truths that go across the types of individuals, and yet I always knew that each person's truth is uniquely their own. If you stop and feel I will tell you of those I have known and loved..."
"The Poet
Approaches 2000"
Paintingsby Deanna Beye
I am a mixed media painter and a new media artist in multimedia digital formats. I am currently working in Studio 105 at the Alameda Artworks, an artist collective of Bay Area artists here in San Jose. I am an art education consultant to Art-Tech's educational programs and Membership Gallery. I teach Claymation at several elementary schools in Palo Alto, including the Nixon School at Stanford for the Palo Alto Arts Council. Additionally, I teach art classes at my studio and at the Milpitas Community Museum. I have a Masters Degree in Educational Technology. I have been showing my work for the past twenty years in Los Angeles, San Diego, Chicago, San Francisco and San Diego.
Inge Morath
and Arthur Miller
INGE MORATH
"37 Years of Collaboration with Arthur Miller"
The works include photographs from 1952 to 1992, including her most famous photos as well as several unpublished pictures which have been found in the course of investigation for this exhibition.
Inge Morath was born in Austria and, together with the photographer Ernst Haas, left Vienna to work for the photo agency "Magnum" located in Paris, New York, London and Tokyo.
Her wide variety and intensity of work for Magnum has taken her to all continents.
She has published highly regarded books about Spain, Russia and China and other books about special topics. Inge Morath is the first woman to receive the Austrian Prize for Photography. The exhibition is acccompanied by a book.
Inge Morath
Glenn McKay
1980s (sequence)
Glenn McKay - Video Art
"No Strings Attached" contains six pieces that showcase McKay's art in a never-before-experienced manner. Each image is uniquely created and melded to music. The music varies from classical, 17th Century Celtic, to modern Indian, to New Age.
"Altered States" documents the evolution of Glenn's art from the 60's through the 90's. Jefferson Airplane, Knox Bronson, Dean Evenson and Greg Jalbert are the featured musicians.
Glenn McKay Untitled, 1969
(at Whitney Museum of Modern Art)
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