LOCAL>> Peter Burr: Responsive Eye

Headlands Center for the Arts, along with Telematic Media Arts, Minnesota Street Projects, and California College of the Arts, presents Peter Burr’s Responsive Eye: An Exhibition in Three Parts.

[Image: Peter Burr, “Black Square” video still, 2020 (detail)]

Perhaps best known as a master of computer animation, Peter Burr’s exhibition, “Responsive Eye,” consists of concurrent installations:

• People, Kid Games, and the Infinite at Telematic Media Arts (in-person)
• Black Square at Telematic Media Arts at Minnesota Street Project’s Black Box Gallery (in-person)
• theshapeofempty.space presented online

The multi-part exhibition examines contemporary life in the grid and animates a philosophy of perception through a series of optical illusions, highlighting the limitations of our awareness. Through a friction of artificial human bodies and technologically-driven abstraction, a portrait emerges of an anxious divided society testing the boundaries of attention.

Responsive Eye

Part I:  People, Kid Games, and the Infinite
Generative Art Works
* January 15 – February 20
Telematic Media Arts 
323 10th St. @ Folsom, in San Francisco’s SOMA
Tuesday—Friday, 11am – 4pm, or by appointment

Part II:  Black Square
A Film and Multimedia Installation
* February 6 – March 27
Telematic Media Arts at Minnesota Street Project’s Black Box Gallery
1275 Minnesota St in San Francisco’s Dogpatch
Tuesday—Saturday, 11am – 6pm

Part III: theshapeofempty.space
An Evolving Online Exhibition
co-presented by Telematic Media Arts and Headlands Center for the Arts
* January 15 – March 27
Find it at: theshapeofempty.space

Auxiliary On-Line Events:

Peter Burr In Conversation on People, Kid Games, and the Shape of Empty Space
* Saturday, January 23, 2:00 pm PST (5:00 pm EST)

Screening of Labyrinths: The Films of Peter Burr (2012 – 2020)
* February 3 – 10
co-sponsored by CCA

DIRTSCRAPER: A Generative Live Stream
* February 17 – 24
co-presented by Telematic Media Arts and Headlands Center for the Arts

Peter Burr, Artist Talk at California College of Art
* Friday, March 12
presented by CCA