Thu–Sat, Oct 23–25, 2008, 7pm // YBCA Screening Room

What links bees, Botox, bacteria, the economy, sex workers and Hollywood? Come find out, as Tiffany Shlain, filmmaker, founder of The Webby Awards and co-founder of The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, creates an all new live “performance-documentary” incorporating film, lecture and visual mapping software, with audience participation. Identified by Newsweek as one of the “Women Shaping the 21st Century,” join Shlain in the YBCA Screening Room as she invites us to examine the vast networks between causes, effects and unintended consequences in today’s interconnected world. Tiffany Shlain’s films have won over 20 awards and have been selected at over 100 film festivals, including Sundance and Tribeca.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts’ Bay Area Now Visual Arts exhibition is a triennial survey of local talent. It serves not simply as a survey, but rather it gauges the temperature of the regional art scene by generating artistic activity and a dialogue about the Bay Area’s significance as a cultural region.  Bay Area Now celebrates artists who challenge conventional aesthetics and are leaders in the endless forming and reforming of contemporary artistic expression. It has attracted international recognition for Bay Area artists in the past, helping launch the careers of many of its participants.

San Francisco Chronicle, May 23, 2008

Tiffany’s Performance with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Triennial art exhibition: Bay Area Now 5