Project Archive
Curation, Film and Art Reviews, Festival Direction
Detropia, dir. Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady, courtesy of Roco Films
Architecture + the City
Film Series Curator
The Architecture and The City Festival is produced by the San Francisco branch of the American Institute of Architects. The yearly event includes free films at the SF Public Library, architectural tours, exhibitions, lectures, and tours. I curated three film series for this festival.
Home
2014
The 2014 theme, Home, was a particularly timely and poignant subject, given San Francisco’s housing shortage, the rapid expansion of cities all over the world, and the shifting roles of planners and architects in multi-family and single-family housing. In this series, the films selected show different shapes and types of home, and along with it, different meanings of home. The films explore the idea of home as a high-rise apartment, the American Dream, a mansion, a never-ending renovation, a romantic notion, and even a whole city
Play
2015
The 2015 theme was Play: Design in Action. Play is a dynamic and essential element of the creative process for design arts, and this year the festival explored how San Francisco’s design community uses play and playfulness to create and inspire and to connect design with other fields (health, education, economic development). The film series included documentaries about the joys of playing in built environments and animated shorts that celebrate the joys of architecture.
Resilient City
2016
The 2016 festival theme, Resilient City: Strength by Design, investigates the ways in which architecture and design arts can proactively respond to resiliency challenges that affect our environmental, social and economic sustainability. The film series included documentary films, public art projects, and archival footage that explore the ways in which design collaboration and community participation contribute to the resiliency of our built environment. The films also explore how the multi-generational recording of the changes in our neighborhoods strengthen our collective memory of places as we move forward.
Posters credit: Ellen Reilly
Le Meraviglie, dir. Alice Rohrwacher, courtesy of Oscilloscope Labs
Art Writing
I love to write about film and other visual arts. Pieces from selected publications below.
Droste Effect Magazine
On the Fence
Room to Grow
Droste Effect is a contemporary art magazine on paper and a web platform for art news from all over the world.
Art Practical
Tavares Strachan
CAAMFest 2016
Art Practical was an online magazine that enriched critical dialogue for the Bay Area visual arts by providing comprehensive analysis of events and exhibitions.
Soundwave
Soundwave is a Bay Area non-profit organization promoting innovative voices in sound with the most captivating sound art and performance experiences. I served as Managing Director for two production seasons.
Soundwave ((6)) Water
2014
Soundwave promotes innovative voices in sound with the most captivating sound art and performance experiences. Soundwave ((6)) explored sonic connections to water by commissioning over 40 experiential performances and works from over 100 artists, composers and musicians to investigate water’s ecologies, stories, and properties through sound.
Soniclabs ((7)) Architecture
2015
SonicLabs is the development year for Soundwave, San Francisco’s acclaimed innovative art and music biennial, produced by MEDIATE Art Group. 2015 explored the relationships between Architecture and Sound.