Art Installation Inspired by SF’s Sinking Millennium Tower | Opening Reception

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Join in celebration of Postcommodity: The Point of Final Collapse in the Zellerbach Quad at San Francisco Art Institute’s Chestnut Street Campus. This sound-art installation sounds off at 5 pm each day beginning November 15 until the Millennium Tower is fixed or torn down.

The Point of Final Collapse is a sound installation and broadly conceptual work that focuses on the sinking Millennium Tower, responding to a scenario of capitalism contributing to the development of new conceptual frameworks of risk and accountability as a building falls, its value rises.

Postcommodity will engage the perspectives of a broad public by providing a call to prayer for relief from the economic stresses and dangers of a city in the throes of radical social, cultural, architectural, and economic transformation.

Postcommodity: The Point of Final Collapse
Friday, November 15, 2019 | 5 pm–8 pm (Opening Reception)
Zellerbach Quad, SFAI—Chestnut Street Campus
FREE wit RSVP

The installation uses computational algorithms that parse data representing the movement of the Tower. This movement data is then mapped to healing ASMR audio and soothing binaural beats, transforming the sonification of the sinking and tilting of the Millennium Tower into therapeutic sounds designed to encourage relaxation by extending the power of the city’s scenic beauty.

Long Range Acoustic Devices, installed in the tower at San Francisco Art Institute’s (SFAI) historic Chestnut Street Campus, will subtly broadcast this indeterminate and generative multichannel sound composition to North Beach and downtown San Francisco for a 4-minute duration each day at 5 pm.

The Point of Final Collapse renders legible the logic of technocracy and capitalism, which encode fear, desire, and the inability for the greater public to rationalize and control systems of power.

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