Global Art Lab places five US social-practice artists in ad hoc residencies in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan to develop projects connecting their work to local cultural contexts and providing a bridge for the circulation of perspectives. Four cultural practitioners from Central Asia toured the US and invited artists whose practice engages the social in their exploration and critique of capitalism’s present sequence.

Please join us as we discuss liminal spaces, Afghan culture, the role of artists, and the future of South Asia:

Sunday, March 29, 2009 
3:00 pm film screening - 3:30 pm discussion

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Screening Room
701 Mission St @ 3rd
San Francisco, CA 94103

$7 General Admission

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's The Foundation and Manifesto of Futurism was published exactly one hundred years ago on the front page of the Parisian daily Le Figaro. It famously celebrated "the love of danger, the habit of energy and rashness.. feverish sleeplessness, the perilous leap, the slap and the punch" and proclaimed the beauty of

Lynn Hershman Leeson's The Dante Hotel (1973–74) is recognized as one of the pioneering site-specific public art installations in San Francisco. Originally presented in a real hotel room staged with remnants of fictional occupants, it was recast as Life² in the virtual world of Second Life in the course of collaborative project with SHL, funded by the Daniel Langlois Foundation. The resulting mixed reality work includes live images and online access to the project in the galleries alongside artifacts, prints, and documents from the original installation. 

A study and interpretation of visual art production by individuals of Asian ancestry in the United States from the mid-19th century to 1965.

A partnership between the Brazilian Lab of Digital Culture and the Stanford Humanities Lab

Life Squared (L²) re-animates the existing archive of Lynn Hershman Leeson, now housed in the Special Collections Library at Stanford University. Converting the archive into a digital format of hybrid genre will allow users of the content to dynamically revisit the past while simultaneously expanding the audience for this material. Life Squared dialogues with the work of Lynn Hershman Leeson in the form of a mixed-reality "animated" archive developed in Second Life.