Next Friday, April 5th will be our third exchange of Season 9! We hope to see you there. Please join us in conversation with Zekarias Musele Thompson, Jillian (Lee) Crandall, Alexa Bonomo.

Zekarias Musele Thompson (b. 1983, Washington, DC | they/them/theirs) is an artist based in Oakland, CA, and Reykjavík, IS, often working with sonic composition, photography, collaborative group practice & performance, writing, and mark-making. Their practice is concerned with humanity’s conceptual and emotional organizational structures and how we bring them into material form. They have presented work at venues including the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, The Lab, the Museum of the African Diaspora, the Yerb Buena Center for the Arts, Land and Sea, and Eternal Now in the Bay area — as well as Associate Gallery, Ásmundarsalur, and Open in Reykjavík, Iceland. Zekarias is a co-founder of Working Name Studios, a collectively owned and organized arts institution with the mission of building institutional stability and equity for underrepresented creative practices, ideas, and people. They are currently an MFA candidate in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley.

Jillian (Lee) is currently pursuing a PhD in Geography at UC Berkeley, broadly researching the effects of blockchain/crypto and digital technologies on infrastructures, lands, and lives. Their work intersects queer/trans/feminist digital geographies and political economies with a focus on socio-spatial design justice. Their current work in new media methods includes experimenting with new types of creative visualizations and narratives to depict distributed yet connected technoeconomic and sociospatial imaginaries with material actualities and lived experiences on the ground. Previously, they practiced as an architect for over ten years in NYC and Puerto Rico; and taught as a Lecturer in Architecture and Urban Theory at RPI.

Alexa Ann Bonomo is a tech artist and scholar with a deep interest in methods in preservation and archiving with an extensive skillset in creative technology. Her creative work primarily lives on the internet and other ephemeral settings in the form of net art, creative writing and other community driven projects. She is currently exasperating in existential thought about how she could “revive the Arts & Crafts movement, but for the internet”. She intermixes the use of creative lore, born-digital art and handmade craft. Allegorical imagery invokes serenity, safety and charitable love for flora and fauna. Alexa has taught various alternative and university level courses in digital design and creative coding. Currently she works on a few projects – she curates programming and teaches with Index, works on archiving and conserving new media works with Leonardo, and is an adjunct professor at University of San Francisco.

Where: Artists’ Television Access 992 Valencia St, San Francisco
When: Friday April 5th doors at 7 talks begin at 7:30pm

***In the spirit of community safety and accessibility, we are strongly encouraging attendees to wear a mask indoors.

Looking forward to being in exchange with you,

Brian and Kelley