Tonight’s artist talk features internationally recognized media artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, whose work is in not one but TWO exhibitions at SFMOMA right now! The talk will be followed by a performance of experimental composer Seth Horvitz’s Eight Studies for Automatic Piano, a work inspired by simple iterative processes, elegant geometry, the idiosyncratic behavior.

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Image: Field Conditions installation view, featuring Lozano-Hemmer’s installation “Homographies.” Photo by Matthew Millman.

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Artist Talk: Trevor Paglen | SFMOMA | Thursday, Oct. 11, 7 PM

Alongside Litquake and Creative Time, the San Francisco Museum of Art will be hosting an Artist Talk with artist-geographer Trevor Paglen.  Paglen’s multimedia performance lectures connect to his latest book, The Last Pictures, for which he assembled one hundred images.  The images are intended to demonstrate and teach to an audience not of our civilization the existence of the people who “built a ring of communications satellites around Earth.” Paglen will be signing copies of the book from 6-7PM in the MuseumStore before the talk.

The Last Pictures lecture series is organized by Creative Time in conjunction with ten museums and non-profit spaces around the globe. Use the hashtag #TheLastPictures to join the conversation on Twitter, Tumblr or Instagram.

So excited for this talk tomorrow night! Get your tix here.

Yes, this is possibly the coolest project ever…

This fall, Creative Time will launch The Last Pictures, an archival disc created by artist Trevor Paglen, into outer space, where it will orbit the earth for billions of years affixed to the exterior of the communications satellite EchoStar XVI.

Intrigued? Come hear artist Trevor Paglen speak about this project at SFMOMA on Thursday at 7pm! He’ll also be signing copies of his book, The Last Pictures.

Acclaimed photographer Stephen Shore speaks at SFMOMA tonight at 7pm! Tix are free (and will be available starting at 5pm). If you hope to attend, get here EARLY— these tix are gonna get scooped up like hot cakes!

Pictured here: Shore’s 1974 photograph, Michael and Sandy Marsh, Amarillo, Texas, from the series Uncommon Places

Tomorrow night, sculptor David Best (1977 SECA Art Award), well-known for his fantastic art carsand immense temporary temple constructions at Burning Man, kicks off a new iteration of our One on One  talks with an in-gallery chat about Joan Brown’s Noel in the Kitchen. It’s going to be awesome.

(via SFMOMA | OPEN SPACE)

Tomorrow! Free and open to the public!

Lecture by Alec Soth
November 29, 2011 / 7pm
Phyllis Wattis Theater, SFMOMA

Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank and Stephen Shore. 

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