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COLLABORATION
OneBeat 2014 OneBeat is an incubator for music-based social entrepreneurship, where innovative musicians from around the world launch collaborative projects designed to make a positive impact on local and global communities. An initiative of the U.S. State Department's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs in collaboration with the groundbreaking New York-based music organization Bang on a Can's Found Sound Nation, OneBeat employs collaborative original music as a potent new form of cultural diplomacy. Read More >> |
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PROJECT
Justin Lowman: Untitled (Belvedere Temple) Lowman's installation was conceived as a contemplative space where visitors were invited to consider the passage of time as the colors and textures of the Belvedere Temple and the various views it frames transform as a day and the seasons progress. Materials like redwood and Plexiglas, and their associations with the timber industry/construction and fiber optics respectively, reference both the history, present and future of Saratoga, a lumber town of the 1850s that became a wealthy bedroom community for upper-middle class Silicon Valley tech workers. Read More >> |
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EXHIBITION
L O V E: Creativity, Connection, Community This exhibition considered the challenges of extending ourselves to commune and connect with others, with an installation of video, drawings, sculpture, and other works. Participating artists explored the bonds of friendship; the important role of empathy in our lives; the intersection between desire and new technologies; and the complex relationships between love, belonging, identity and community. Read More >> |
