Sunday November 17th will be our first exchange of Season 10! We hope to see you there. Please join us in conversation with Zeina Barakeh, Rosa Park, and Jasmine Zhang.

Where: Confloptus, downtown Oakland. RSVP for address
When: Sunday November 17th doors at 7 talks begin at 7:30pm

Zeina Barakeh (b. Beirut) is a Palestinian Lebanese artist whose work is influenced by her upbringing amidst numerous conflicts in Lebanon. While her artwork broadly engages with the discourse of war, her research delves into military emerging technologies, the blurred boundaries between humans and machines, human enhancement, and the evolving nature of warfare––encompassing kinetic and cyberwarfare. Notable public artworks include PsyClone Calafia, commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission, and Standard of Capital, for the Salesforce Tower Top, SF, and ZAZ Corner Jumbotron, Times Square, NY. Her work has been featured at Mucem, Marseille, France; Schneider Museum of Art, OR; Zimmerli Art Museum, NJ; Peabody Essex Museum, MA; Asian Art Museum, SF; Yinchuan MOCA, China; Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University, NJ; Hamzianpour & Kia Gallery, LA; Middle East Institute, DC; San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art; and published in Art Journal Open to name a few. Notable screenings include the 11th Harlem International Film Festival; 13th Blue Plum Animation Festival; and 15th Another Hole in the Head film festival. Residency awards include Perspectives: Here and There, Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University; and Vermont Studio Center. Barakeh is a recipient of the 2024 SF Bay Area Artadia Award.

Rosa Sungjoo Park is a sound artist and designer whose research focuses on the physicality of sound, algorithmic composition, experimental film, and expanded cinema. Her work is deeply rooted in her cultural identity, memories, and religion, often addressing themes such as Korean traditional rituals, shamanism, acoustic memories, and the nature of life and death. Park's work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Kala Art Gallery, MUMUTH Haus für Musik und Musiktheater in Austria, the Asia Digital Art & Design Association Conference in Korea, LG Art Center, and the Charlotte New Music Festival in New York. She holds master’s degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design, University of British Columbia Okanagan, and Seoul National University. Currently, Park serves as an Associate Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, where she teaches courses in sound design, interactive cinema, and experimental filmmaking.

Jasmine Zhang is an interdisciplinary artist based in Oakland California. Her artistry changed during its course of development, that she was conflicted about, if it’s about the self, or if it’s the others, or, this notion of duality doesn’t even exist, the idea of the self can’t be established w/o others and vice versa. She questions postmodernity structure and categories - mostly contemporary language, idea and ideology - as well as she utilizes its frameworks to impose her questions; Jasmine strives for pushing boundaries in contemporary art, that one idea can be easily translated into another form. Jasmine doesn’t think artists create, rather than artists discover. Her most recent intention is still to connect with individuals, shine lights to their heart, and her work is to remind her audiences who they are. Jasmine has been an adjunct teacher at California College of Arts since 2022, she received MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2020. She currently focuses on media such as light, sounds, sculpture and performance. She has been working with institutions like the Lab, Di Rosa Art Center, Minnesota Street Project, etc, she has been showing both domestically and internationally in Chengdu, Suzhou, London, LA, SF and Milan. Jasmine believes in reincarnations.

***In the spirit of community safety and accessibility, we are strongly encouraging attendees to wear a mask indoors.

Looking forward to being in exchange with you,

Brian and Kelley