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In April of 2025, Marco Cochrane’s “R-Evolution,” a 45-foot tall sculpture of a nude woman in a yoga pose, was installed on public land at Embarcadero Plaza for a planned six months. The project was the brainchild of Shannon Riley, CEO of the art agency Building 180, and Sid Sijbrandij, a founder of the software maker GitLab.
In the history of the arts in San Francisco, one vexing reality comes up repeatedly: the paucity of public support the city has provided to its artists. At the same time, this fact has always been offset by a local arts community that generates support of its own.
Without independent art schools, what will the Bay Area’s art ecosystem become? What is vanishing is not only a pair of historic institutions, but a way of shaping artists in relation to the city, the Bay Area, and beyond.
The term Artificial Intelligence is largely a misnomer, implying that there is a sentient entity that exists in machine form. Where does this idea of computers being “intelligent” spring from? From the earliest days of digital media the question arose as to whether computers could actually think.
