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DESCRIPTION:Arts Benicia is hosting an Artist Talk with Kal Spelletich, the first solo 
 Arts Benicia Artist in Residence.  Spelletich is an internationally 
 recognized machine artist working and living in San Francisco. Regarding 
 the site specific installation the artist created for the ABAiR Project, 
 “Morning Glory” Spelletich stated:\n“I built an interactive 
 installation using robotics, sensors, video, audio and local found objects. 
 I composed a functioning composition in the gallery using technology and 
 locally sourced materials. There is a “Vine” stretched across the room, 
 with a robotic arm playing it controlled by the viewer’s aura, or the 
 robots react from sensory experience and input not a computer brain, hence 
 they are run by the audience by touch, sound, wind, heartbeat, etc.; a new 
 way to instill consciousness.\nI am interested in work that encourages 
 dialogical interaction and confronts complex issues concerning identity, 
 agency, responsibility, and the many varieties of communication. To explore 
 new forms of interpersonal communication through touch, force-feedback 
 technology, intimacy, social interaction via technology, machines, robots, 
 fear play, human and animal interaction, rite of passage and 
 empowerment.\nI propose to crowd-source public fields of energy. To harvest 
 human energy and tap into the power of intention.  To use the public as a 
 tuning fork. To explore a variety of experimental approaches for the 
 investigation of unexplained phenomena that might help to enlarge our 
 scientific view of the world. Can technology do spiritual work? Can 
 technology get us back in touch with a deeper level?”\nKal 
 Spelletich\nJuly 30, 2013\n\nNow in its fourth year, the ABAiR project 
 (Arts Benicia Artists in Residence) continues to provide a rare opportunity 
 for artists working in the field of site-specific installation to have 
 extended time to work out concepts in a gallery space. There are two phases 
 in this project. The first phase is the installation and residency phase, 
 July 11 - July 28, and the second phase is the exhibition phase, August 1 - 
 August 18. During the first phase, the public is able to observe the artist 
 at work and engage with him and his art making processes. During the second 
 phase the public is invited to view the finished installation.\n\nArts 
 Benicia, a non-profit visual arts organization, gallery and arts education 
 center, is located at 991 Tyler St., #114 in Benicia’s historic Arsenal 
 district. For more information regarding this exhibit and other Arts 
 Benicia events, please call 707-747-0131, e-mail info@artsbenicia.org, or 
 visit www.artsbenicia.org. \n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/03/18740924.php
SUMMARY:ABAiR (Arts Benicia Artists in Residence) Project: Kal Spelletich Artist Talk
LOCATION:Arts Benicia\n991 Tyler St. #114\nBenicia, CA\n94510
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/08/03/18740924.php
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