Karolina Sobecka - Human Moves, Animal Visions
 Karolina Sobecka: Human Moves, Animal Visions INSTALLATION Friday, April 20–Thursday, May 3 SuperFrog Gallery 1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchannan) As part of the Film Society’s ongoing KinoTek programming stream, trailblazing artist Karolina Sobecka will install several dynamic works at SuperFrog Gallery, just upstairs from the Film Society Cinema. A leading figure in the production of interactive installations, Karolina Sobecka uses animation, interface design and humor to comment on the ways that we use our bodies and gestures to navigate and understand our overtly mediated environments. Each KinoTek series program is accompanied by an original article commitioned by SFFS. Media theorist and critic Akira Lippit (Electric Animal) will disscuss Karolina Sobecka: Human Moves, Animal Visions in an article to be published on this page. | ABOUT KINOTEK The San Francisco Film Society’s KinoTek programming stream presents nontraditional, cross-platform and emergent media. Eight KinoTek programs will be presented throughout 2011 and 2012, each featuring the work of an artist or practice that challenges the boundaries of screen-based art. KinoTek is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation. |
Karolina Sobecka - Human Moves, Animal Visions
As part of the Film Society's ongoing KinoTek programming stream, trailblazing artist Karolina Sobecka will install several dynamic works—including an interactive mirror and "Pornographic Pursuit 2," a film loop of Marilyn Monroe disrobing that only runs to completion if gallery visitors jog in place—at SuperFrog Gallery, just upstairs from the Film Society Cinema. Read more...
April 20–May 3, 2:00–8:00 pm daily
Super Frog Gallery
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
1746 Post Street (Webster/Buchanan)
Karolina Sobecka's Immediacy
Essay by Akira Mizuta Lippit Karolina Sobecka has created, along with her studio Flightphase, a series of interactive objects and events that reach beyond the technical dimensions they deploy; in fact whose very point appears to be to reach beyond the technical limits of each work and to forge a point of contact between the work and its viewer. Read more...
