Please join us Saturday May 21 at 2pm for a screening of Surabhi Saraf’s video, Alaap, followed by a conversation between the artist and K Allado-McDowell. Light refreshments will be served.

2PM Video Screening

2:30PM Conversation between Saraf & Allado-McDowell

Surabhi Saraf is a media artist, composer and founder of Centre for Emotional Materiality. Her practice explores our complex relationship with technology using embodiment as a tool and the body as a site for transformation. Surabhi is the recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award by the Fleishhacker Foundation (2015), the Djerassi Resident Artist Award (2012) and the Artist + Process + Ideas Residency at Mills College Art Museum (2016). She was a 2019 Technology Resident at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, and 2020 resident at HarvestWorks, NY.

K Allado-McDowell is a writer, speaker, and musician. They are the author, with GPT-3, of the book Pharmako-AI, and are co-editor, with Ben Vickers, of The Atlas of Anomalous AI. They record and release music under the name Qenric. Allado-McDowell established the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI. They are a conference speaker, educator and consultant to think-tanks and institutions seeking to align their work with deeper traditions of human understanding.

Join Digital Combines curator Claudia Hart and Katie Hofstadter

LIZZIE O’SHEA: FUTURE HISTORIES
In conversation with Sam Dean
Friday, January 24, 2020 at 2:00pm
Honor Fraser Gallery
Join us for this special event where Lizzie O’Shea will discuss her recently published book Future Histories with Sam Dean from the LA Times.
Please RSVP to vestoprevents@protonmail.com

When was the last time you read a novel that so clearly, with such wit, simplicity, and imagination captured the rage, love, and absurdity of our current west coast times; a book that rides the precipice of documentary and fiction? I just did, and it’s called, I Hate the Internet by Los Angeles author, Jarett Kobek. On Saturday, February 15, 2020 at 12pm I will be in conversation with Jarett to talk about some of the images from his books and some of the images in my work on view at Honor Fraser. I hope you can make it.
– Joe Sola

Joe Sola‘s films, performances, pictures and objects have been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries and fairs. His most well known work is Studio Visit, in which he jumped out of a window during studio visits. This artwork is currently on view in the YUZ Museum Shanghai as part of the exhibition In Production: Art and the Studio System.

Jarett Kobek is an internationally bestselling Turkish-American writer who lives in California. His work has been translated into nine languages and published in twelve countries. His books include ATTA, I Hate the Internet, and Do Every Thing Wrong!: XXXTentacion Against the World.