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The Brain Portrait (2014): UCSF’s Sandler Neurosciences Center premiered the art installation Brain Portrait as part of the Mind Matters art exhibition. Watch a short clip about it here.
The Brain Portrait: How do the images around us affect our brains? How do they influence the ghost in the machine? In this exhibit, visitors will enter a photo booth and put on a portable brain scanner — a low resolution EEG that “uses sensors to tune into electrical signals produced by the brain.” They will then be shown film sequences of both compassion and violence. We will take the data from the scanner and create artistic interpretations of the patterns our brains experience for each. Visitors will leave with a unique photo strip from: The Brain Portrait. Read the press release.
More about the show: “Mind Matters: Mapping the Human Mind through Neuroscience” is organized by the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience in collaboration neuroscientists and area artists. Mind Matters is an interactive, visual and educational art exhibit. As an interdisciplinary exhibit at the intersection of arts, technology and science, it is designed to stimulate intense interactions between art and science, allowing each to follow its own route, from start to finish, in a rich and full-fledged manner, both artistically and scientifically. It comes to life as a fruit of the collaboration of small groups of artists and scientists—in many cases just duos or trios—working together. Find out more at mind-matters.org
The National Museum of American Jewish History premiered
Tiffany Shlain & Ken Goldberg's Film and Participatory Art Project
The Whole Cinemagillah
This film and participatory art project by Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg ran at the National Museum of American Jewish History December 2016 – March 2017.
Cinema: A sequence of images wound onto a reel and unwound to tell a story.
Megillah: A sequence of words wound onto a scroll and unwound to tell a story.
Description:
How has the American Jewish experience been represented in film and television? The Cinemagillah project, a 12-minute film and art installation by Emmy-nominated filmmakers Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg, offers some answers. The project was part of their OPEN for Interpretation Artist-in-Residence program, and includes contributions from the public collected via social media, a “cloud-sourcing” method Shlain and Goldberg have used in award-winning films such as The Tribe (2005) and The Making of a Mensch (2015). More info on the OPEN program here.
You are invited to share your favorite Jewish moments from TV and film history in the Museum’s recording booth or on Facebook.
Press Articles:
Jewcy (Arts & Culture) – Jewcy Interviews: The (Whole) Cinemagillah
eJewish Philanthropy – “The (Whole) Cinemagillah” premiers at National Museum of American Jewish History
The DaVinci Museum premiered an art installation of Tiffany's films and work - focusing on her films on gender equity.
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Smashing Video Art Installation
Premiered at The Contemporary Jewish Museum and was acquired by 21c Museum Hotels
An interactive art installation with video projection, step plate, custom electronics, and software.
Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain (electronics design by Danny Bazo)
Smashing is an interactive new media installation where motion triggers audio and video. Visitors are invited to make a silent vow and then to stomp on a floor plate. The impact triggers a projected slow-motion video of breaking glass accompanied by a musical track that responds to the quality of each impact.
Shattered glass has punctuated crises and transformations through history and across cultures from Kristallnacht to the Watts Riots to the breaking of a glass at the conclusion of the Jewish wedding ceremony.
Smashing debuted on opening night of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco on June 7, 2008. It was exhibited at the Pulse NY Contemporary Art Fair, in New York on March 5-8, 2009. The first edition was acquired by 21C, the contemporary art museum in Louisville, Kentucky supported by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson.
Sample installation photos: http://smashing.shutterfly.com/
Edition of 3. Represented by the Catharine Clark Gallery, SF, CA
Watch video highlights from the premiere.