RTS is excited to present talks from our October artist in residence, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon, and new RTS member, Eric Toldi. Come join us on Monday, October 26th from 7pm to 9pm.
Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon works in sound, installation, sculpture and performance. Her work is devised around audio and spatial feedback systems that manipulate the visitor’s awareness of sound and space. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2004) and an MFA from Stanford University (2011) where her research focused on the history of communications technology and the physiological and psychophysical effects of music and sound on the body. Gordon has had solo shows at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2014, San Francisco), Pro Arts Gallery (2013, Oakland), Eli Ridgway (2012) and Queens Nails (2009, San Francisco). Gordon has received a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Award, a Center for Cultural Innovation Grant (2011, 2014) and a San Francisco Arts Commission Cultural Equity Grant (2009). She has participated in artist residencies at Skowhegan School of Drawing and Painting (2011), The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (2014), Djerassi (2013) and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (2008).
Eric Toldi asks questions about the meaning of humanity’s relationship to outer space. Eric received his Bachelor of Arts in the History of Science at Marlboro College in Vermont, and has published with the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and with the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is currently writing three books: one about the emerging private space industry, one about the wives of German rocket scientists during and after World War 2, and another about an unknown U.S.-Soviet cooperative space program. Eric will be speaking about the methodology of writing space history.