The Bay Area Society for Art & Activism documents 50 years of alternative Bay Area spaces From July 9–August 20, 2015, the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism‘s fiscal sponsor, SOMArts Cultural Center, presents Making a Scene: 50 Years…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Beautiful Review from KQED Arts: ‘Dissidents’ Tackle Displacement and Surveillance in Two-Part Exhibition
Emily K. Holmes offered an incredibly thorough and thoughtful review of our current exhibition, The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers, in KQED Arts today: The Dissidents is more than a collection of facts to learn. These artists, addressing issues…
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Class, Curating, Found Online, Posts, Social Justice, Up&Out Lab
‘The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers’: Closing Panel Discussion
Please join us for The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers closing event and panel discussion, Sunday, June 14, 2015 from 4-6pm at Incline Gallery, 766 Valencia Street, San Francisco. Our special guests and esteemed panelists Nadia Kayyali (EFF), Erin…
EFF Digital Privacy Workshop: Recap!
Privacy was not necessarily on the top of my list of priorities until curating The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers. As a matter of fact, when asked to curate a show about privacy and surveillance in relationship to housing…
Tagged with: DDO exhibition, EFF, Liberating Ourselves Locally, Oakland Makerspace, public programming
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Events, Posts, Up&Out Lab
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Events, Posts, Up&Out Lab
‘Data & Displacement’: We’re reviewed in the East Bay Express!
Sarah Burke just published this review of The Disssidents, the Displaced and the Outliers for the East Bay Express: “Curator Dorothy Santos, aside from being a critical new media whiz, serves as an executive staff member for the Bay Area…
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Class, Found Online, Political Art, Posts, Social Justice, Up&Out Lab
Outdoor Film Salon: Recap
As a part of The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers transbay exhibition, the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism has created a public programming series that reflects the exhibition themes of privacy, surveillance, and gentrification that affect housing…
Tagged with: exhibition, outdoor film salon, public programming, random parts gallery
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Curating, Events, Up&Out Lab, Video
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Bay Area, Curating, Events, Up&Out Lab, Video
EFF Digital Privacy Workshop
On Saturday, May 23, the Bay Area Society for Art & Activism is proud to partner with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to offer a community workshop on protecting our digital privacy. “The Electronic Frontier Foundation is the leading nonprofit organization…
Outdoor Film Salon: ‘The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers’
Please join us, on Saturday, May 9, for an evening of short film and conversation. As part of the The Dissidents, the Displaced, and the Outliers curator Dorothy Santos will be presenting a selection of short documentaries and artistic works…
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Events, Political Art, Posts, Social Justice, Up&Out Lab, Video
Bay Area Society for Art & Activism in SF GATE
Dorothy Santos’s upcoming exhibition, The Dissidents, the Displaced and the Outliers received some excellent coverage last night from Kimberly Chun of the San Francisco Chronicle. This is shaping into a very exciting exhibition! The article appeared online via SFGATE: ‘The Dissidents,…
Posted in Art Exhibitions, Artist-Activists, Bay Area, Class, Curating, Events, Organization Update, Up&Out Lab
