7:00pm
Jun 24 2026
location:
Monkeybrains
933 Treat
San Francisco, CA
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Street parking only
Accessible space
DONATIONS MUCH APPRECIATED $5-$20 sliding scale. All proceeds go to our hosts monkeybrains
Michael Shiloh - Recent Experiments in Art, Technology and Students
For the past 10 years Michael has been living in the United Arab Emirates, working on his own projects and teaching something called Interactive Media at New York University in Abu Dhabi. He likes to build contraptions that move, and will talk about some of his projects, his experience getting students to build stuff with their hands, some gadgets he's developed, and how his principles feed into this.Michael Shiloh is an artist, engineer, and educator who creates electro-mechanical and conceptual works involving motion, mechanisms, sound, and robots, that often require audience participation. Michael is interested in exploring relationships with technology and relationships with each other around technology; initiating projects the outcomes of which he doesn't know; and relational aesthetics. Michael likes building things, especially using discarded or salvaged materials.
Jill Miller - An Eco-Humiliation Ritual
Hard Reset is a performance and video installation that stages a ritualized reckoning between artist Jill Miller and an anonymous tech executive, employing the raw materials of the industry as implements for punishment: graphite, lithium-rich water, and electronic waste. Drawing on months of field research at lithium evaporation ponds and mining archives, and rigorous training in BDSM practice, Jill has built a work that sits at the intersection of ecological critique, kink, and satire. This talk will dig into the making of the piece: the research, the materials, the performance methodology, and the unresolved question at the center of the work — whether ritual humiliation is critique, catharsis, or just really good content.Jill Miller is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans performance, video installation, augmented reality, and public engagement, investigating the hidden infrastructures of technological and patriarchal power through satire, material research, and the body. Her recent work addresses the ecological violence embedded in digital technology, including Carbonivore, a two-thousand-pound e-waste sculpture made with Asma Kazmi, and Hard Reset: An Eco-Humiliation Ritual, a BDSM-derived performance opening at Telematic Media Arts, San Francisco in June 2026.
Tony Parisi and Marina Berlin - AI God
He built the metaverse, she sold the first sculpture for bitcoin. Together they're creating an AI God and they need your helpTony Parisi is a Metaverse and virtual reality pioneer, inventor, entrepreneur, author and musician. He has co-created several international 3D graphics standards and authored several books on 3D and virtual reality programming, and has served as an executive in several technology startups and large companies.
Tony is also a musician, composer, producer and playwright, and is currently focused on his artistic pursuits full time, including several music projects. In 2023 Tony co-founded Metatron Studio, a content studio creating art, music and interactive projects for the Metaverse
Marina Berlin is an Industrial Ethereal Artist who creates unique hand-crafted sculptures and installations using wire mesh, a utilitarian material usually hidden under the structure but bringing it to the surface so that her work can have transparency about it, literally and figuratively. She uses light, wire, and shadow to express ideas of the world around her. Her work explores a wide range of subjects ranging from technology to wildlife conservation and women's rights.
Timothy Childs - Bits to Atoms to Bits
What happens when you point the tools of virtual reality and AI at the food system? At Nutri8 Timothy Childs is doing exactly that - using VR to design factories and machines before they're built, and AI to run grows, processing, and the business itself. The result is a working revolutionary model for driving down the cost of quality domestic nutrition while making regenerative agricutlure economically viable. This talk is a field report from the loop where digital tools reshape physical matter - and the lives connected to it.Timothy Childs is an OG food tech pioneer (one of the original food tech pioneers). He started in tech - early VR, pre-web internet, Web3D (and the infamous Web3D RoundUP), and machine vision for NASA's Space Shuttle program. Then in 2003 crossed into food as one of the first food-tech guys with founding TCHO Chocolate. His edge ever since: superchaging the food system with technology to make it better, faster, cheaper. Today he's the Founder and CEO of Nutri8 and Nutri8 Regen Nutrition Hub using VR, AI, and soon robotics to drive down the cost of high-quality domestic nutrition and transform regenerative agriculture for small to medium sized farmers. Bits to atoms, and back to bits.
