Alexander Rose, photo by Katy Raddatz / SFC

SOLD OUT!! Wednesday, August 18, 6:30 – 8:00pm, talk and short reception following at SFAC Gallery

Jeannene Przyblyski of The Bureau of Urban Secrets in conversation with Alexander Rose of The Long Now Foundation.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the incredible popularity of this event, we can no longer take any reservations. Thank you to everyone who signed up!

This conversation will juxtapose a linear approach to time with a not so linear approach. Participants will talk about moments as an events and the culmination of events as a single moment. Curated and moderated by Gallery Assistant Shannon Green, these conversations will introduce the artists’ work in the exhibition and the guests’ demarcation of time in their own professions. As the events unfurl, the discussion will be opened up for audience participation. The aim of this programming is to make the art of Now and When and ideas of time more accessible and meaningful.

Jeannene Przyblyski is an artist and also the Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs and Chair of the History and Theory of Contemporary Art program in the School for Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is also the Executive Director of the San Francisco Bureau of Urban Secrets – an urban and visual arts think tank that promotes art and political intervention in city life. For Now & When the Bureau created podcasts that document the sites of eight instances of encapsulated history, sealed as sound an image, at eight different moments from 1776 to the present (the Bureau modestly acknowledges its well-established expertise in time travel). These time capsules may be accessed through the SFAC Gallery web site: www.sfartscommission.org/gallery/2010/bureau.

Alexander Rose is the Executive Director of The Long Now Foundation (established in 1996 to creatively foster long-term thinking and responsibility in the framework of the next 10,000 years) and the Project Manager for the 10,000 year clock. He has facilitated numerous projects including the 10,000 year clock, seminars about Long Term Thinking and the Rosetta Project. He has also been an artist in residence at Silicon Graphics Inc., a project manager for Shamrock Communications, and a founding partner of Inertia Labs. http://www.longnow.org/