Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

The migration to a hybrid experience of life, one that combines the physical and the digital worlds, is well underway. The newest RBI installation, New World, New Sequence, channels the intersections of organic and engineered experiences in our era of ever more mediated realities. Using sound and sensory exploration, live projection, painting, sculpture, and interactive online resources, it asks what our shared responsibilities should be in the freer new world that is emerging.

William Cordova works in installation, performance, sculpture, film, photography, and drawing. He focuses on architecture and landscapes, and reconstructs, reconsiders, and reconnects past events to reveal their relevancy in today’s social climate. Creating ephemeral monuments, Cordova sees the visual arts as a platform for discussing our common experiences, needs, and struggles.

This month, YBCA’s Film Curator Joel Shepard celebrates Czech animator, Jan Svankmajer, celebrated for his blending of stop–motion animation, claymation, puppetry, and live action. Join YBCA:You as we delve even deeper into Svankmajer’s works and the world of stop–motion animation. San Francisco filmmaker Hilary Goldberg will discuss Svankmajer’s work, stop–motion animation, and the use of dark humor and puppetry to create political satire in conservative times. Goldberg is the creator of The Deer Inbetween— a stop-motion claymation episodic web–series that tells the story of Stew and Usher, two factory–working deer whose jobs are to determine the future of human souls. She’ll screen Season 1 of The Deer Inbetween as well as clips from Svankmajer’s shorts.

Dinner and drinks provided.