| 2008
The Eleventh Annual Activating The Medium Festival:
First Chapter
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco
Performing Artists:
Zbigniew Karkowski and Ulrich Krieger
Tim Catlin (Australia)
Jason Kahn (Switzerland)
Francisco Meirino (France)
Ulrich Krieger (Germany)
Second Chapter
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, February 22
Artist Lecture:
Phill Niblock (New York)
Third Chapter
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, February 23
Performing Artists:
Phill Niblock and Thomas Ankersmit (New York and Berlin)
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2007
The Tenth Annual Activating The Medium Festival:
First Chapter
The Exploratorium
San Francisco, January 26 - 27
Performing Artists:
Olivia Block (Chicago)
Keith Evans (Oakland)
Camilla Hannan (Australia)
BJ Nilsen (Sweden)
Steve Roden (Los Angeles)
Matt Shoemaker (Seattle)
Tarab (Australia)
Aaron Ximm (San Francisco)
Second Chapter
Recombinant Media Labs
San Francisco, January 28
Performing Artists:
Scott Arford (San Francisco)
Joe Colley (Oakland)
Hazard (Sweden)
Third Chapter
The San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, February 16
Performing Artists:
Antimatter (San Francisco)
Jim Haynes (San Francisco)
Jeph Jerman (Cottonwood, Arizona)
Seth Nehil (Portland, Oregon)
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2006
The Ninth Annual Activating The Medium Festival:
The San Francisco Art Institute and The Yerba Buena Center for The
Arts
San Francisco, February 10 - 27
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, February 24
Performing Artists:
Laetitia Sonami and Sue Costabile (San Francisco)
Ilios (Greece)
Video Screenings:
Phill Niblock (New York)
Xabier Erlizia + Dimitris Kariofilis (Greece)
Joachim Montessuis (France)
Leif Elggren (Sweden)
Michael 9 (San Francisco)
Gordon Monahan (Canada)
Stan Brakhage (USA)
Installation Artists:
Christopher Musgrave (USA)
Video Installation Screenings:
Brigitta Bodenauer, Fred Szymanski, Masako Tanaka, Brian O'Reilly,
Fujui Wang, Joshua Azzarella, LoVid,
Sue Costabile and AGF.
Guest Speaker:
Gordon Monahan (Canada)
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2005
The Eighth Annual Activating the Medium Festival:
SomArts, San Francisco, February 12
Cuesta Fine Arts Gallery, San Luis Obispo, February 14 - March 18
Performing Artists:
Chop Shop (New York)
The Haters (San Francisco/Los Angeles)
Blackhumour (Seattle)
AMK (Los Angeles)
Installation Artists:
Joe Colley (San Francisco)
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2004
The Seventh Annual Activating the Medium Festival:
SomArts, San Francisco , February 6-7
Cuesta Community College, San Luis Obispo, February 20
Cuesta Fine Arts Gallery, San Luis Obispo, February 9-29
Performing Artists:
Jean-Francois Laporte (Montreal)
John Bischoff (Berkeley)
Kenneth Atchley (Oakland)
Trevor Paglen (Oakland)
Solid Eye (Los Angeles)
Thomas Dimuzio (San Francisco)
Michael Thomas Jackson (North Carolina)
Joe Colley (San Francisco)
Coelacanth (San Francisco)
Installation Artists:
Ted Apel (San Diega)
Aaron Ximm (San Francisco)
Matt Heckert (San Francisco)
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2003
The Sixth Annual Activating the Medium Festival:
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 7, 8 and 9
Mills College, Oakland, February 10
Cuesta Community College, San Luis Obispo, February 15
Cuesta Community College Exhibition, San Luis Obispo, February 5-22
Performing Artists:
Michael Gendreau (San Francisco)
Brandon LaBelle (Denmark)
Leif Elggren (Sweden)
Carl Michael von Hausswolff (Sweden)
Achim Wollscheid (Germany)
Infrasound: Scott Arford + Randy Yau (San Francisco)
Bret Parker and Jennifer Parker (Los Angeles)
Installation Artists:
Achim Wollscheid (Germany)
Christina Kubisch (Germany)
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2002
The Fifth Annual Activating the Medium Festival:
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 15 and 16
California State University, Chico, February 17
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, February
21
Cuesta Community College, San Luis Obispo, February 22
Beyond Baroque, Venice, February 24
Performing Artists:
Scott Arford (San Francisco)
Sensorband: Zbigniew Karkowski, Edwin van der Heide, Atau Tanaka
(Europe/Japan)
Paul DeMarinis (San Francisco)
Keynote Speaker:
George Legrady and Stephen Pope (Santa Barbara)
Installation Artists:
George Legrady and Stephen Pope (Santa Barbara)
Christopher Musgrave (New York/San Francisco)
Paul DeMarinis (San Francisco)
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2001
The Fourth Annual Activating the Medium Festival:
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, February 17
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, February
22
Cuesta Community College, San Luis Obispo, February 23
Beyond Baroque, Venice, February 24
Performing Artists:
Achim Wollscheid (Frankfurt, Germany)
Damion Romero (Los Angeles)
Joe Colley (Sacramento)
Keynote Speaker:
Douglas Kahn (Sydney, Australia)
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2000
The Third Annual Activating the Medium Festival
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, February 5
Performing Artists:
Sheri Simons and Neil Grimmer (Chico and San Francisco)
Randy H.Y. Yau (San Luis Obispo)
Scot Jenerik (San Francisco)
Scott Arford (San Francisco)
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1999
The Second Annual Activating the Medium Festival
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, February 6
Performing Artists:
Matt Heckert (San Francisco)
Kimihide Kusafuka (Japan)
Koji Tano (Japan)
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1998
The First Annual Activating the Medium Festival
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, February 6
Performing Artists:
John Duncan (Italy)
Steve Roden (Los Angeles)
Cheryl E. Leonard (Oakland)
Scot Jenerik (San Francisco)
Geoffrey Brandin (Los Angeles)
Brandon Labelle and Loren Chasse (Los Angeles and San Francisco)
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