Name: Sublimation
Start: 2022-10-22T18:00:00-07:00
End: 2022-10-23T19:30:00-07:00
Location: Glass Sculpture Studio

Sublimation

Kinetech Arts, founded in 2013 by scientist Weidong Yang and dancer and choreographer Daiane Lopes da Silva, combines the work of dancers, scientists, and digital artists to create innovative and socially responsible performances. Kinetech Arts work has been supported by Zellerbach Family Foundation, CA$H Grant, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, and CounterPulse. Each year, KA produces multiple performances and over 50 other public event.At Kinetech Arts, we strive to heal the division of communities by bringing them together and helping them connect, create and learn from one another. Our weekly open lab is a safe environment for people with different backgrounds to ask questions, explore, collaborate and create through a collaborative process. Our monthly Featured Artist Presentation (KAFAP) invites two artists and scientists to share their work and research.Since 2014, KA organizes the annual Dance Hack Festival, in collaboration with CounterPulse since 2016. This Festival is a two day of experimentation and workshop free for local and international participants. Over 80 participants work closely in teams here in SF and more in Amsterdam, London and other locations, create and share their prototypes in a spontaneous and vibrant environment.

Kinetech Arts

Kinetech Arts in association with Djerassi Resident Artists Program presents the world premiere of
Sublimation

Glass Sculpture Studio

<h2>Sublimation </h2><h3>O﻿n Oct 22nd-23rd from 6 - 7:30 pm PST</h3><h3>At David Ruth Glass Sculpture Studio</h3>1135 57th Ave, Oakland, CA 94621(Performances will begin promptly at 6:00pm and finish at 7:30pm. Audience is invited to freely walk through the warehouse to witness all installations and site specific performances. Tickets to Sublimation range from $15–$50.)A﻿BOUT THE WORKJoin Kinetech Arts for a site specific performance on October 22-23 with Sublimation, staged at David Ruth Glass Sculpture Studio in the traditionally industrial area of East Oakland. Sublimation explores the transitory nature of modern time and technology. It asks the centuries old question of how technology impacts humans, but under the light of AI (Artificial Intelligence), which is advancing unimaginably quickly, as Moore’s law predicts. Its exponential growth of doubling every two years is certain to bring unimaginable transformations.With the support of Creative Work Fund and Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Kinetech Arts has been immersed in a three-year research on AI history and its impact on humanity. Sublimation is the culmination of this research, which inspired the creation of installations, performances, texts, interactive sound devices, AI diaries and site-specific dance performances.Taking from the playbook of today’s information-overloaded world, the show is comprised of multiple overlapping threads of dances, installations, images and soundscapes, both inside and outside of the large warehouse. The audience is invited to freely walk through the warehouse to witness all installations and performances, making choices and curating their own experience.During the performance, the performers inquire into this curious trend: while machines become more intelligent, humans become more disembodied. It is a paradox that the progress of technology made it possible for us to travel around the globe, but we are progressively becoming more disconnected from our own bodies and from each other, causing isolation and anxiety. Throughout history, people fantasized inanimate objects coming to life as intelligent beings. As that draws closer to becoming reality, do humans become more disconnected with their bodies? Where is the exponential advancement of AI taking us to? A﻿BOUT KINETECH ARTSFounded in 2013, Kinetech Arts, directed by choreographer Daiane Lopes da Silva and scientist Weidong Yang, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that combines the work of dancers, scientists, and digital artists to create innovative performances on the intersection of movement, science and technology.Kinetech Arts work has been supported by Zellerbach Family Foundation, CA$H Grant, The Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation, Rainin Foundation, and Creative Work Fund. Each year, KA produces multiple performances and over 50 other public events, including Open Labs, Y-Exchange public talks and Dance Hack Festivals. KA residencies include Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Headlands Center for the Arts, Estalagem da Ponta do Sol in Madeira, Dancing Lab: Immersive Media Through Cunningham at NCCAkron, ODC Theatre, SAFEhouse Arts, Temescal Arts Center and CounterPulse. KA was a guest artist at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, Sonoma State University and USF.Sublimation is supported by the Djerassi Resident Artists Program and Creative Work Fund.

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