23five Image Archive:



2009
The Lab
San Francisco, October 30
Pedestrian Deposit (Los Angeles)
Acre (Olympia, Washington)
Brandon Nickell (San Francisco)
Work / Death (Providence, Rhode Island)
Infinite Body (Los Angeles)
2008
23five and The Lab present Relay
The Lab
San Francisco, November 8
Performing Artists:
Robert Millis (Seattle)
Keith Evans (Oakland)
Loren Chasse (San Francisco)

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)


2006
The Ninth Annual Activating The Medium Festival:
First Chapter: San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, February 10 & 11
San Francisco Art Institute Lecture Hall
Live Sound/Film Performances:
Laetitia Sonami (SF) and Sue Costabile (SF)
Ilios (Greece)
Screenings:
Phill Niblock (NYC)
Xabier Erkizia (Spain) + Dimitris Kariofilis (Greece)
Joachim Montessuis (France)
Leif Elggren (Sweden)
Michael 9 (SF)
Gordon Monahan (Canada)
Second Chapter: Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, February 12
Screenings:
Visual Noises: Sound Films by Stan Brakhage
Third Chapter: SFAI Graduate Campus Bay 2, February 13–27
Room 1 (Bay 2)
Installation: In Coherence by Christopher Musgrave
Room 2 (Bay 2)
Screenings:
New video works curated by SCOTT ARFORD, featuring:
Brigitta Bodenauer and Miguel Carvalhais
Fujui Wang
Sue C and AGF
LoVid
Joshua Azzarela
Brian O'Reilly
Masako Tanaka
Fred Szymanski
Fourth Chapter: Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, February 24
Screenings:
Phill Niblock, Xabier Erkizia, Dimitris Kariofilis, Joachim Montessuis, Leif Elggren, Michael 9, Gordon Monahan, Brigitta Bodenauer, Fred Szymanski, Masako Tanaka, Christopher Musgrave, Brian O'Reilly, Fujui Wang, Joshua Azzarella, LoVid, Sue Costabile and AGF.
Final Chapter: SFAI, Lecture Hall, Friday, March 3
Guest Lecture:
Gordon Monahan (Canada)


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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

2000
The Third Annual Activating the Medium Festival
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo, February 5
Sheri Simons and Neil Grimmer (Chico and San Francisco)
Randy H.Y. Yau (San Luis Obispo)
Scot Jenerik (San Francisco)
Scott Arford (San Francisco)

1999
The Second Annual Activating the Medium Festival
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo
Matt Heckert (San Francisco)
Kimihide Kusafuka (Japan)
Koji Tano (Japan)

1998
The First Annual Activating the Medium Festival
Cuesta College, San Luis Obispo
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)