This weekend: destructables.org Launch Party

Presenters announced for Destructables.org launch party this Saturday 4-7pm

Launch Party with Performances for the destructables.org website (more info about the site at the end of email)

Saturday October 15th from 4pm-7pm (demos start about 5pm)

In the Studio for Urban Projects.

3579 17th street (at Dolores) San Francisco

 

Destructables.org

http://destructables.org/

Demos starting at 5pm:

 

Center for Tactical Magic

Equal parts magic, private invetigatoion, ninjas, and artists, the Center for Tactical Magic will show us the steps to perform a Wells Fargo Embargo

http://www.tacticalmagic.org/

 

Larry Bogad

Performer and UC Davis associate professor Larry Bogad will share protest performance strategy and do some work-shopping

http://www.lmbogad.com/

 

Packard Jennings

Destuctables.org founder Packard Jennings will show how to make and how to use wheat paste (for putting up art, posters, altering billboards, etc.)

http://centennialsociety.com/durham.html

 

Lucas Murgida

Artist and locksmith Lucas Murgida will show us the technique to drill open a standard door lock.

http://lucasmurgida.com/

 

Jessica Dylan Tully

Artist, choreographer and public performer, Jessica Dylan Tully shares the process for making a temporary sidewalk stencil.

http://jessicatully.com/home.html

 

What is Destructables.org:

 

A user generated, Do-It-Yourself website for projects of protest and creative dissent.

 

Hello friends,

 

Please join me for the Destructables.org launch party. Several years in the making, now open for business.

 

The launch will feature several demos, including 'how to make and use wheat paste to put up posters', a demo from the Center for Tactical Magic, and more!

 

Destructables is a sort of online anarchist cookbook without the weapons and with a lot more art and humor. The site features user-generated, step-by-step instructions for performing a wide range of public actions, such as: shop-dropping (putting fake products in stores), protest strategies, wheat-pasting, making protest props, interventions, methods of civil disobedience, and many other forms of dissent. The projects range from the practical and tactical to the creative and illegal. We wanted to put these tools and resources into one convenient place. To make a living archive and resource for the art and activist communities where people can share what they’ve learned. The site already includes contributions from high profile groups the Yes Men, Crimethinc, and the Center for Tactical Magic.

 

Destructables.org was made possible through the generous support of Southern Exposure, Di Rosa and through tactical support from Crimethinc, and the Center for Creative Activism. Thanks to the Studio for Urban Projects

 

This weekend - Occupy the Web HackaThon

http://occupyhack.eventbrite.com/

The Hub
921 Mission St
San Francisco, CA 4103

Friday, October 14, 2011 at 6:30 PM - Saturday, October 15, 2011 at 7:00 PM (PT) 

From the site:
"There's a movement growing across this country. Thousands of people are saying that they've had enough of Wall St, DC, and an economy that only works for 1% of us. 

To support and expand this movement, we're organizing a last minute hackathon. Our goal is to get a room full of programmers, designers, artists and anyone else who's interested, all working on hacks and tools to make the movement stronger. 

We'll kick things off Friday night with some overviews of whats happening and form teams. We'll finish Saturday evening with presentations."

San Francisco Documentary Film Festival, Roxie Theater

Ken Rosenthal (past CIA Student)

 

Program Title:  A Matter of Body and Minds 

Crooked Beauty will be one of 5 films that "explore the connection, often missed, between the body and the mind and how society and social interactions interfere with it." 

Sunday, October 23 at 2:45pm
Monday, October 24 at 7:15pm

Program Details and Ticket Purchases:

http://sfdocfest.festivalgenius.com/2011/films/amatterofbodyandmind_variousdirectors_sfdocfest2011

Crooked Beauty Link:

http://sfdocfest.festivalgenius.com/2011/films/crookedbeauty_kenpaulrosenthal_sfdocfest2011

Rebellious Media

Rebellious Media http://live.rebelliousmediaconference.org/

Arab Film Festival - Oct.13-16 SF

http://www.arabfilmfestival.org/festival_schedule.php

Films at the Castro and Embarcadero Theatres

Gwen Allen - SFSU Art Historian- book signing and panel

WEST COAST BOOK LAUNCH FOR ARTISTS’  MAGAZINES

Southern Exposure  and THE THING Quarterly are pleased to host a two night West Coast Book launch for Gwen Allen's important book Artist's Magazines published by MIT press. 

October 12th 6-8PM:  3285 20th Street at THE THING Quarterly Office:  Book Signing for Artists' Magazines with author, Gwen Allen. Co-presented by Southern Exposure and THE THING Quarterly. 

Gwen will be on hand signing copies of her book.  We will have copies of the book available for purchase.  We will also be exhibiting a portion of Gwen's personal collection of Artist Publications from the 70's to present.  They will be on display in our office for the party and over the next two weeks.  We invite you to come down during our office hours and inspect them more closely.  Wednesdays 11AM-7PM, Thursdays 11-4PM and Friday's 11-4PM


October 13th 7-9PM:  3030 20th Street at Southern Exposure:  Panel Discussion and Book Launch with author, Gwen Allen. Co-presented by Southern Exposure and THE THING Quarterly

Southern Exposure and THE THING Quarterly will host a discussion of the history, present tense, and future of artists’ publications. Gwen Allen’s new book Artists' Magazines: An Alternative Space for Art (MIT Press), serves as the starting point for the conversation, which surveys American and European artists’ publications from the 1960s to the 1980s. Allen will give a presentation, which will be followed by a discussion of its relationship with a variety of contemporary publishing projects, from art journals to edition projects, and zines. Participants include Courtney Dailey, founding member of project MOBILIVRE-BOOKMOBILE project and the Bookmobile collective; Chris Duncan, founder of Land and Sea; Eleanor Hanson, co-founder of The Present Group; Jeff Khonsary, publisher of Fillip magazine, and will be moderated by Gallerist Steven Wolf.

Pamela Z - Sound & Video Lecture on work

Performative Sound and Video Lecture:

Baggage Allowance and other works by

Pamela Z

Thursday Oct. 6^th 2011, 6-8pm

Yerba Buena Center for The Arts

701 Mission Street (at 3rd Street)
SF, CA 94103

415.978.ARTS (2787)

Free with Gallery Admission

In Conjunction with the Exhibition:

Allan deSouza: Close Quarters and Far Pavilions

October 1, 2011 - January 8, 2012

Kal Spelletich Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interface

Lecture: Kal Spelletich : OCt. 10/Fear and Fun: Performing the Human-Machine Interfaceart & technology, uc berkeley http://atc.berkeley.edu/bio/Kal_Spelletich/