Locations throughout the YBCA campus
FREE with RSVP: http://opencityartcity.tumblr.com
Open City/Art City Festival
October 4, 2014
YBCA, 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94113
11am - 8pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and The Institute for the Future (IFTF) are teaming up to engage the public through a creative and generative weekend that looks at how we transform a city. The weekend consists of IFTF’s Maker Cities’ Conference (Oct. 3) and the Open City/Art City Festival (Oct. 4)....
Locations throughout the YBCA campus
FREE with RSVP: http://opencityartcity.tumblr.com
Open City/Art City Festival
October 4, 2014
YBCA, 701 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94113
11am - 8pm
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and The Institute for the Future (IFTF) are teaming up to engage the public through a creative and generative weekend that looks at how we transform a city. The weekend consists of IFTF’s Maker Cities’ Conference (Oct. 3) and the Open City/Art City Festival (Oct. 4). Through a vibrant mix of art installations, speakers, participatory activities, performances, music, food, and play, IFTF and YBCA invite the Bay Area community to imagine how we can build a city that is more open, creative and inclusive.
The Open City/Art City Festival seeks to leverage the essential role we all play in civic life and the future of our city. We want to explore the infrastructures, assets, and places needed within cities locally and globally to enable access to artistic exploration, inspiration, participation, collaboration, and opportunity.
The Festival provides a unique occasion to connect with some of the most progressive leaders in the Bay Area who are on the forefront of socially engaged enterprises in the arts, the public sector, urban design, and technology. Join us in uniting our diverse communities together to help frame generative dialogue, identify opportunities for collaboration, community engagement, collaborative design of our public spaces, and inclusive, citizen-centered city models.
As dialogue, connectivity, advocacy, storytelling, and cross-disciplinary innovation are increasingly woven into projects produced by artists and civic technologists, the boundaries between passive and active participant are diminished in lieu of a civic-minded and interdependent community. We hope that by providing a venue for stakeholders and community members to facilitate discussion, we can amplify the broad range of perspectives that comprise our city, and inspire new ways to shape the future. We are truly excited to help foster new, resilient connections in the community and facilitate mutually beneficial relationships across disciplines and industries in the Bay Area. And more to come!
About the organizers
Institute for the Future (IFTF) is an independent, nonprofit strategic research group with over 46 years of forecasting experience. Our mission is to help organizations, communities, and individuals think systematically about the future. We pioneer tools and methods for building foresight and insight to drive more informed and thoughtful action today. IFTF is based in Palo Alto, California.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) was founded in 1993 out of an expressed need for an accessible, high-profile San Francisco venue devoted to contemporary visual art, performance, and film/video representing diverse cultural and artistic perspectives. Distinguished by its support for contemporary artists from around the world, YBCA is also recognized for the important role the organization plays in the San Francisco Bay Area arts ecology and in the community at large. From its award-winning youth arts and activism job training program, Young Artists at Work, to the acclaimed triennial Bay Area Now multidisciplinary arts festival, YBCA has established its leadership role as a champion of living artists working in the Bay Area.
Topics:
• Systems of Support and Strengthened Infrastructures for Vibrant Arts and Culture
• Uniting Civic Technology with Arts Civic Practice
• Digital Divide, Inclusive Technology Movement
• "Re-engineering" the Relationship between Art and Technology in the Bay Area
• Maker Cities - The “Maker Mindset” to the Complex urban challenges of health, education, food, and citizenship
• Economic Shifts and Gaps - Addressing Equity - Changes in Neighborhoods and its Impacts
• Public and Private Partnerships - Leveraging New Resources and Capital
Participating Organizations/Members:
• Deborah M. Cullinan: Executive Director, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Marina Gorbis: Executive Director, Institute For The Future
• Jen Pahlka: Founder and executive director of Code for America, former Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States
• Patricia Maloney: Art Practical and Daily Serving: Online magazines that enriches critical dialogue for the Bay Area visual arts and culture
• Shannon Jackson: Executive Director, Arts Research Center (ARC) U.C. Berkeley
• Kakul Srivastava: Chief Product Officer, WeWork, leading collaborative co-working, co-living space provider, Formerly CEO of Tomfoolery and General Manager of Flickr
• Tina Barseghian, Senior Editor at IDEO, formerly editor in chief of MindShift at KQED/NPR, Craft Magazine and Maker Faire, and ReadyMade Magazine.
• Heather Hood, Director of Programs, Enterprise Community Partners. 'Sharing the City'
• A Simple Collective: Led by Rhiannon MacFadyen
• Ebony Mckinny: Systems for Artists
• Invisible Venue: led by Christian L. Frock, Independent curator and writer
• Kapor Center for Social Impact, Cedric Brown
• GAFFTA, Reengineering Tech
• Facebook Artist in Residency, Drew Bennett, Program Director
• Jake Levitas, Senior Advisor, Market Street Prototyping Festival
• Place-It : James Rojas, Urban Planning in Low-income Communities
• Public Matters: Michael Blockstein and Reanne Estrada, Community Driven Arts Practices
• SPUR: Kristy Wang, Community Planning Director
• City of SF, Planning Department: Market Street Prototyping Festival
Alex Goldman, David Evan Harris, Matt Sussman, Vikram Chandra, Jason Kelly Johnson, Stephanie Syjuko, Lina Sheth, Tina Cheng, Neil Hrushowy, Tom Decaigney, Rebecca Foster, Todd Elkin, Kilimanjaro Robbs, Cedric Brown, Brigade DiscoTech, Taraneh Hemami, Dorothy Santos, Noah Weinstein, Danielle Siembieda-Gibben
Participating Artists:
• 15 Artists Envision Future Cities (Grand Lobby) Curated by Institute for the Future and Betti-Sue Hertz
• Tim Roseborough
• Black Spirituals - Zackary Watkins and Marshall
• Jason Wyman
• HERD
• Marlon Ingram Sagana
Gina Madrid, DJ Uni, DJ Patrick Lotilla, Andy Puls, and Many Others!!