Smashing” is an upcoming art installation collaboration between Tiffany Shlain and Ken Goldberg. It will premiere at Daniel Libeskind-designed new Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco opening June 7th at DAWN 08

"Smashing": An interactive installation with video and sound, based on the breaking of glass in Kristallnacht and the Jewish wedding ceremony. By artist Ken Goldberg and Tiffany Shlain.  It will include projection, sound design and an interactive component.

DAWN ‘08

The Contemporary Jewish Museum will open the doors to its new facility in the heart of downtown San Francisco's Yerba Buena cultural district on Mission Street between 3rd & 4th streets on June 8th, 2008.

On the eve of this official opening, San Francisco's Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) http://www.jmsf.org/  and Reboot, are pleased to announce DAWN '08, an all-night, arts and culture festival  and celebration of Shavuot. at the grand opening of the Contemporary Jewish Museum, offering guests the opportunity to groove, learn, explore and mingle at the Museum's new building and exhibition space before the doors open to the public the following morning.

Dawn '08 will offer a modern twist to Shavuot’s traditional all-night rabbinical study sessions, Taking place simultaneously throughout the Museum, the evening will offer both ritual and offbeat revelry with ongoing headlining performances and events including live bands, theatrical and spoken word performances, premiere film screenings, visual arts, dancing, DJs, lectures, comedy and open-space discussion forums

Saturday, June 7, 2008, beginning at 8PM