100 Days Action “is a counternarrative to the Trump administration’s one hundred day plan…. Whereas the President’s 100 Days will seek to dismantle restrictions that protect our environment, public education, health, and jeopardize unprotected minority groups, 100 Days Action is a forum for resistance, an artistic coming together, an exercise in endurance, a call to […]
So excited to be teaching a new course called Topics in Permaculture this Spring. Students are learning whole systems design through an understanding of patterns in nature, climates and microclimates, food forest guilds, and flows of water, for example. We get outside to examine our built and natural environment a lot, and are developing proposals […]
Networks and Connectivity: This course is a co-taught foundations course that explores “human connectivity and technological networks, which replicate ongoing problems of colonization, modernity as well as opportunities for new understanding of conflict, difference, governance and protest.” Visualizing Bodies of Information: In this class, we will be talking about and making with data…. We will […]
The Coastal Reading Group traveled to Devon, England in June to explore the role of grief for the loss of the non-human in this specific historic and cultural moment. Bibi and I came to Devon a week in advance to sleep on the land and understand local relationships to sheep, deforestation, meadow plants, medicinal herbs […]
I am excited and honored to be in dialog with artist and poet Margaret Rhee in the third week of May on the –empyre– list. We will be discussing Social Practice and Social Reproduction, and in the host Kyle McKinley’s words “thinking about … social forms which, like the discussion of participation and of the […]
The Coastal Reading Group scooped up soil, seeds and clay in Stockholm this week for UNDISCIPLINED ENVIRONMENTS: International Conference of the European Network of Political Ecology (ENTITLE). We culled from the texts we’ve been reading — texts about human constructions of and engagement with wilderness, nature and ethics — stripped them of punctuation and cut […]
I gave a talk for Shaping San Francisco on caring, conflict and communication when it comes to “tending the urban wild.” You can hear my public talk and the community discussion on their website. Shaping San Francisco is a participatory community history project documenting and archiving overlooked stories and memories of San Francisco. We are committed […]
The Coastal Reading Group hosts three readers from three coasts who trouble the subjects of wilderness, speciation, humanness and ways of knowing through diverse engagements with (non)humans. bios Bibi Calderaro is an interdisciplinary conceptual artist and researcher whose work has been shown internationally since 1995 and most recently at PS1 MoMA and MinusSpace, NY. Curious […]
Connecting artistic ideas and procedural methods across disciplines, over time and in the studio Michael Shiloh, Margaretha Haughwout, J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira The Open Collaboration Lab is a hub for the study and practice of collaboration as it pertains to procedural art and algorithmic processes at California College of the Arts. This project emerges out of […]
The [ Guerrilla Grafters ] are at [ ISEA 2015: 21st International Symposium on Electronic Art ]. We are conducting a workshop, discussing issues of transparency when fostering the urban commons, demo-ing how to graft and distributing grafting kits! Come see us in Vancouver or catch us in San Francisco. More: – [ The proceedings that correspond with our project ]. – […]
Fall 2015: [ Math, Art and Logic ], [ Programming and Electronics ], [ Data and Networks ] and [ courses taught ] Math, Art and Logic: In this class, we will explore computation logically, historically and artistically by focusing on an early history of computation and cybernetics. Beginning with the birth of software and […]
This summer I taught a series of Electronic Arts classes at The Palo Alto Arts Center in Palo Alto, Ca. We had art shows at the end of each week of the two, displaying all of our creations. We made very simple circuits and built them out using lots of found materials, construction paper and […]
In the spring of 2015 I walked around the [ OMNI Oakland Commons ] a lot. The radical collective of radical collectives has been emerging and forming around this space in the Temescal district of Oakland and currently includes The Public School, a laterally organized school that emphasizes theory and languages, the small press Timeless Infinite Light, […]
Spring 2015: [ the course website ] and [ courses taught ] What should be in the toolkit for an artist working with new media? What do artists need to know, what skills do they need to have and what contexts are they working in? What is the 21st-century shaping up to be? With crises […]
Jennifer Glenfield, a Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism Master’s student, recently made a nice short video documentary about the Guerrilla Grafters and published it in Hoodline with accompanying text. Guerrilla Grafters from Jennifer Glenfield on Vimeo.
In Colombia: Conflict Collapse and Care / Natural Resistance
As a Guerrilla Grafter I traveled to Colombia to facilitate a discussion on how specific cultivation practices can resist capitalist regimes of sterility and control, to present how to graft urban fruit trees, and to teach participants how to employ their internet tools and different kinds of tagging — from graffiti to electronics — to […]