“Open City/Art City” Art & Ideas Festival | SoMa

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) and Institute for the Future (IFTF) present Open City/Art City Festival from 11 am to 8 pm on Saturday, October 4, 2014.

Enjoy a vibrant mix of art installations, speakers, participatory activities, performances, music, food, and play. IFTF and YBCA invite you to help them imagine how to build a city that is more open, creative and inclusive.

Topics Addressed:

• Systems of Support and Strengthened Infrastructures for Vibrant Arts and Culture
• Uniting Civic Technology with Civic Arts 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
• Creative Economies – Free, Sharing and Collaborative Economy
• Public and Private Partnerships – Leveraging New Resources and Capital

Confirmed Member and Organization Participation:

• 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
• Shannon Jackson: Executive Director, Arts Research Center (ARC) U.C. Berkeley
• Kakul Srivastava: Chief Product Officer, WeWork
• Tina Barseghian of IDEO, previously with MindShift, Make Magazine and Ready Made
• Heather Hood, Director of Programs, Enterprise Community Partners
• A Simple Collective: Led by Rhiannon MacFayden
• Ebony McKinny: Director, Emerging Arts Professionals SF
• Kapor Center for Social Impact
• Gray Area Foundation For the Arts (GAFFTA): Re-engineering Tech
• Drew Bennett: Program Director, Facebook Artist in Residency
• James Rojas, Place-It : Urban Planning in Low-Income Communities
• Market Street Prototyping Festival: City of San Francisco
• SPUR: Kristy Wang, Community Planning Director
• Public Matters: Community Driven Arts Practices
• Alex Goldman, Research Manager, Technology Horizons, IFTF
• Kilimanjaro Robbs: Hidden Genius Project
• Vikram Chandra: Author, Novelist, Short Story Writer
• Raquel Gutiérrez, In Community Program Manager, YBCA
• Jason Kelly Johnson, is a founding design partner of Future Cities Lab
• Mariah Rankine-Landers, Educator
• Rebecca Foster, FuseCorps Executive Fellow; Senior Advisor, San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Civic Innovation
• JD Beltran, Conceptual Artist, Filmmaker, Writer, Educator, and Public Art Administrator
• Neil Hrushowy, PhD, MS, Manager, City Design Group, Citywide Planning
• Jova Vargas, Youth Arts Manager, YBCA
• Lina Sheth, VP for Strategy and Operations, ZeroDivide
• Confirmed Artist Participation:
• 15 Artists Envision Future Cities (Grand Lobby) Curated by Institute for the Future and Betti-Sue Hertz
• Tim Roseborough: Tim Roseborough is a digital artist and musician
• Black Spirituals: Zackary Watkins and Marshall Trammell
• Jason Wyman
• Future Cities Lab
• HERD: Gene A. Felice II, Kate Spacek, Nathaniel Ober, Eve Warnock
• Chinaka Hodge, Poet, Educator, Playwright and Screenwriter
• Evan Bissell, Artist and Educator
• Todd Elkin, Artist, Writer, Researcher, Activist, Educator
• Ernest Jolly, Artist
• Stephanie Syjuco, Artist and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Visual Arts Fellow
• Christine Wong Yap, Artist
• Favianna Rodriguez, Artist
• Patrick Lotilla: DJ
• DJ Uni aka Cynthia Blancaflor

Disclaimer: Please double check event information with the event organizer as events can be canceled, details can change after they are added to our calendar, and errors do occur.