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DESCRIPTION:Natalie and James Thompson Gallery\n\nExhibition Opening: Click
  on My Mouth: Language and Technology\n\nMarch 17 - May 22\, 2026\n\n \n\n
 The Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery at San José State University i
 s pleased to present Click on My Mouth: Language and Technology (March 17
 – May 22\, 2026). Guest curated by Tanya Zimbardo\, the exhibition featu
 res artworks made in the Bay Area by Anxious to Make (Liat Berdugo + Emily
  Martinez)\; Ahna Girshick\; Asma Kazmi\, Jill Miller and Kathy Wang\; Jud
 y Malloy\; Jenny Odell\; Genevieve Quick\; Abram Stern\; and Christine Tam
 blyn.\n\n \n\n“Click on my mouth” playfully intones a video image of C
 hristine Tamblyn (1951–1998) as the virtual guide for the menu of her in
 teractive work She Loves It\, She Loves it Not: Women and Technology (1993
 \; with Marjorie Franklin and Paul Tompkins). As an outgrowth of her cultu
 ral criticism\, Tamblyn explored how the interactive CD-ROM format could a
 llow her to augment her writing with found pictures and audio/video clips 
 ranging from science fiction films\, comics\, computer magazines and books
  about robots. For this feminist\, nonlinear essay\, she subverted the use
  of Macromedia Director\, associated with corporate training\, to discuss 
 the “historical exclusion of women from the technological realm. However
 \, it also attempts to create a place for women within cyberspace by const
 ructing a revisionist history.”\n\n \n\nA newly reauthored version of Sh
 e Loves It\, She Loves It Not is the springboard for a group exhibition th
 at explores the ways in which artists have worked with appropriation and a
 rchives associated with technology. Artists Asma Kazmi and Jill Miller wit
 h designer Kathy Wang have created with an intersectional\, feminist lens\
 , a web-based repository of handmade 3D modeled objects that span a wide r
 ange of identities\, abilities\, and affinities. Their Missing Objects Lib
 rary (2023-ongoing) proposes an alternative to commercial\, status quo sto
 refronts that provide digital assets for game design and special effects. 
 Genevieve Quick’s promotional format video for her Cel Bell (2023-ongoin
 g) project describes a speculative global telecom that allows viewers to s
 end voicemail messages to their ancestors or future generations.\n\n \n\nA
  pioneer of electronic literature\, Judy Malloy in the 1980s formed her ow
 n research and development companies to acquire vendor information like an
  insider of the Bay Area tech community. She collected information about g
 enetic engineering research and development to make a series of reports an
 d products – small experimental books that combined words and images and
  were distributed as free handouts or by mail\, documented here in the OK 
 Genetic Engineering Briefcase (1991). Decades later\, Jenny Odell created 
 Neo Surreal (2017)\, a suite of prints drawn from the imagery of 1980s per
 sonal computer advertisements from BYTE magazine\, which Odell encountered
  during a residency at the Internet Archive in San Francisco. Anxious to M
 ake invites visitor participation through Bitcoin Futures (2018)\, a funct
 ional ATM that dispenses crypto prophecies like a fortune-telling machine.
  Visitors see their reflection in the mirror of Ahna Girshick’s Bias Ref
 lector\, II (2025) entangled with the machine-learned lexicon of visual pa
 tterns that dictate perception.\n\n \n\nFinally\, Abram Stern’s new vide
 o will surface their research and emulation process of working with Tambly
 n’s digital artifacts\, including related archival material from Stern
 ’s mentor Margaret Morse. The exhibition offers students and the public 
 the opportunity to learn about key contemporary works made locally by a ra
 nge of artists\, several of whom\, like the late critic Tamblyn\, have add
 itionally contributed to the field as writers and educators. This group sh
 ow will complement several exhibitions in San José this spring that highl
 ight the intersection of art and technology.\n\n \n\nShe Loves It\, She Lo
 ves It Not: Women and Technology is the latest case study in a collaborati
 on between Rhonda Holberton\, SJSU Associate Professor\, Digital Media Art
 s\, Vanessa Chang & Alexa Bonomo (Leonardo/ISAST)\, Elvia Arroyo-Ramirez (
 UC Irvine)\, and Abram Stern (UC Santa Cruz). Funded by the Knight Foundat
 ion and stewarded by SJSU CADRE Media Lab and Leonardo/ISAST\, invited art
 ists work with students to reauthor works using several novel methods bein
 g developed by the archiving team. Tamblyn’s reauthored work will be ava
 ilable as both an emulation and a web-based version archived on New Art Ci
 ty\, a virtual exhibition toolkit originally developed by Don Hanson\, an 
 MFA candidate in the Digital Media Art program at SJSU\, during the COVID 
 Pandemic in 2020.\n\n \n\nThis Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery pres
 entation is part of a series of exhibitions and events planned for the 202
 5-2026 academic year that mark the occasion of the 40th anniversary of SJS
 U’s CADRE (Computers in Art\, Design\, Research\, and Education) Media L
 ab\, the hub of Digital Media Art activity at San José State University w
 here students\, faculty\, and visiting artists gather to explore the futur
 e of technology and art.\n\n\n \n\nLOCATION: Natalie and James Thompson Ar
 t Gallery\, Art Building\, San José State University\n\n(Near 9th / San C
 arlos Streets)\n\n \n\nEXHIBITION DATES: March 17– May 22\, 2026\n\n \n\
 nCurator Presentation and Opening Reception:\n\nTuesday\, March 17\, 2026\
 n\nCurator Presentation: 5-6 pm\n\nOpening Reception: 6-7:30 pm\n\n \n\nNa
 talie and James Thompson Art Gallery\, Art Building\, San José State Univ
 ersity\n\nFree and open to the public\n\n \n\nGALLERY HOURS: Tuesday 12 pm
  - 7 pm\, Wednesday 10 am - 4pm\, Thursday 10 am - 1pm\n\nand by appointme
 nt (Monday - Friday).\n\n \n\nFURTHER INFORMATION:  Alena Sauzade\, Galler
 y Director\, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery\, San José State Univ
 ersity
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LOCATION:ART 127: Thompson Gallery
SUMMARY:Natalie and James Thompson Gallery: Click on My Mouth: Language and
  Technology Opening Reception 
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.sjsu.edu/event/natalie-and-james-thompson-gall
 ery-click-on-my-mouth-language-and-technology-opening-reception
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions\, Performances\, Installations
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