We are thrilled to kick off Season 9 of Living Room Light Exchange with Anja Ulfeldt, Macro Waves and Miguel Novelo this month at Pallas Gallery in San Francisco!

Anja Ulfeldt is an artist, educator, and curator with a hybrid practice that floats between installation, performance, and unconventional art facilitation. Anja grew up in Berkeley, CA, and earned her BFA from California College of the Arts in 2001 and her MFA from Stanford University in 2014. She’s a founding member of two artist-run alternative spaces in California, one a Mojave Desert based curatorial project and the other a floating venue for visual art, research and performance built atop a converted potato barge in the Sacramento River Delta. She’s a recipient of VBC Artist Award and Residency at Headlands Center for the Arts, the Visions from the New California Award, the TSFF & SOMArts Murphy and Cadogan Contemporary Art Award,The AAF/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts, and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Emerging Artist Finalist Award.

Macro Waves is a California-based creative collective producing experiences that center on social equity through conceptual art, new media, and design. As artists, designers, and technologists of color, we embrace collaboration in our creative practice of transforming spaces into places for human connection, exploration, and play. In 2015, the collective was founded by Robin Birdd David and Jeffrey Yip, and includes members Anum Awan, Dominic Cheng, and Tina Kashiwagi. Through the use of technology and participatory design, Macro Waves experiments with augmenting spatial environments, disrupting human senses, and engaging in social discourse. Macro Waves' body of work encompasses a broad spectrum of projects, including interactive installations, site-specific performances, immersive theater production, exhibition curation, and other experiential-based projects.

Miguel Novelo is from Akimpech, and is currently based in the Bay Area. Miguel is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and community organizer. Novelo graduated from SFAI with a bachelor's in fine arts (2018) and an MFA (2022) at Stanford University. Miguel has exhibited pieces and given talks at museums, galleries, and film festivals worldwide, such as the de Young Museum, the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI), The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City, the Festival International de Cine de Morelia, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and many others. Novelo currently works on algorithmic movies on geological change ☄️ , game engine storytelling based on dogs-human-technology afterlife 🐶, technoshamanisims 👻 , technology displacement, and technophobias. 🫠

We are very much looking forward to hosting you all soon!

Where: Pallas Gallery, 1111 Geary Blvd, San Francisco
When: Friday February 2nd, 7PM
RSVP: All RSVPs through WithFriends
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***Given the current COVID spike and in the spirit of community safety and accessibility, we are strongly encouraging attendees to wear a mask indoors. There will be a large medical grade air filter running in the space as well.