Art & Technology Inaugural Exhibition Tour (Downtown SF)

Submitted by the Event Organizer

a new art gallery has opened in Union Square dedicated to the intersection of art & technology.

our inagural exhibition is a really special one, featuring both pioneering / legacy new media artists alongside emergent creative technologists.

​in this event, we’ll walk through the artworks with the artists themselves:

• ​Andy Rappaport – Andy Rappaport (b. 1957, New York City) is a sound and video artist whose work draws on his experience as a photographer, musician, composer, and technologist. His newest project, not [TEXT], combines sound, images, and AI technology to explore the human compulsion to extract meaning from the smallest fragments of recognition.

  Andy’s solo and collaborative work has been widely exhibited and is in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, the Kramlich Collection, and 21C, as well as many private collections.

• ​Darren Zhu – Darren Zhu is a synthetic biologist and creative technologist in San Francisco with a B.A. in Biology from Yale University. He is a Thiel Fellow who has worked on several synthetic biology startups, including Hexagon Bio, Enevolv, and Synbiosys. Darren has directed research and creative projects supported by the Gates Foundation, Ethereum Foundation, Protocol Labs, Berggruen Institute, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, NEW INC at the New Museum, and the Digital Architectures Lab in Tokyo.

• ​Gabriela Silva Myers-Lipton – Gabriela Silva Myers-Lipton (b. 2001 San Jose, CA) is a Jewish, Latinx, lesbian artist based in San Francisco’s Mission District. Her work, crafted with acrylic paint, rhinestones, glitter, and glue, is rooted in a fascination with the body’s internal systems.

  Her practice draws parallels between human physiology and technological circuitry. Her compositions trace energetic pathways, nerve signals, spiritual thresholds, rendering transcendent states through sensory excess. In this glittering, electrified space, the body becomes both vessel and portal, a site where ecstasy, data, and identity converge.

• ​Greg Niemeyer – Greg Niemeyer is a data artist and Professor of Media Innovation in the Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley. He’s the former director and co-founder of the Berkeley Center for New Media. He started out with studies in Classics and Photography in Switzerland and switched to new media when he moved to the Bay Area in 1992.

  Niemeyer’s work is data-driven: Large datasets and data streams are raw materials for visual and sonic experiences. They act as mirrors, reflecting to us what we don’t see about our essential resources (air, water, care) from novel points of view. These patterns hold the hope that we can learn something new about what is to come and that we can evolve from the impossible present to more possible futures.

• ​Jeff Hawkins – Jeffrey is a data-driven artist and educator whose work sits at the intersection of data visualization, generative systems, and physical making. With a background in physics and creative coding, he builds visualizations that are not just informative, but aesthetically intentional — pieces that communicate clearly while holding their own as artworks. His current practice blends data visualization with generative art techniques, often extending digital outputs into physical form through diverse fabrication methods.

• ​Matt (NoCellCoverage) – Nocellcoverage is the studio practice of multidisciplinary artist and designer Matt Faller. The studio explores the evolving relationship between technology, nature, and materiality. By combining physical and digital media, Nocellcoverage investigates how digital tools can preserve, reinterpret, and expand our understanding of the material world. Projects created by the studio act as ongoing studies focused on preservation, perception, and participation.

• ​OKDesign – OKDesign is a two-person design team (Ben Oztalay and Andrew Kotite) with a skillset that spans the stack, giving us the ability to build hardware from scratch, equip it with custom electronics, and bring it to life with bespoke software.

more on the gallery: https://tiat.place/

tiat instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tiat.place/

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