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Exhibition Detail Futurefarmers The Reverse Ark, the Flotsam & the Jetsam Pasadena City College 1570 E. Colorado Blvd. Pasadena, CA 91106 March 14th, 2008 - April 26th, 2008 Opening: March 14th, 2008 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
	Futurefarmers, The Reverse Ark, the Flotsam & the Jetsam © Courtesy of the artists and Pasadena City College Art Gallery

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Mon-Thu 12-8, Fri, Sat 12-4

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Futurefarmers, an interdisciplinary art collective based in San Francisco, presents an evolving, ecopolitical-themed gallery exhibition and a weeklong series of film screenings, lectures by scientists and related events.

Futurefarmers are the Pasadena City College artist-in-residence for 2008, marking the first time in the history of the college that the annual resident artist is a group rather than an individual. Futurefarmers' wide-ranging work embraces corporate design commissions, gallery exhibitions, Internet-specific projects, video game design, community seminars, direct social activism and even their own artist-in-residence program. The number of collaborators in Futurefarmers varies from project-to-project. For the PCC residency, the group includes Amy Franceschini, an artist and educator who founded Futurefarmers in 1995 (and co-founded another collective, Free Soil, in 2003); Michael Swaine, an inventor and designer who has worked with Futurefarmers since 1997 and Stijn Schiffeleers, a specialist in film, video and interactive installations who is also co-founder of Boutiquevizique, a new media collaborative in Belgium.

Futurefarmers will occupy the PCC art gallery with an evolving installation titled The Reverse Ark, the Flotsam & the Jetsam. "Futurefarmers will work with students to create a workshop and laboratory for the building of the ark and a social space for learning and inquiry," according to Franceschini. "To us, the ark embodies many conceptual references; mass transportation, archives/memory/database, global warming. We tend to make projects that bridge the analog and digital worlds; thus, we will think about the ark as a memory bank, but also a cabinet of curiosities."

Their residency at PCC will also include series of afternoon film screenings and lectures by invited guests of Futurefarmers. An integral part of the Reverse Ark project, the lecturers tentatively include an climatologist, a fiction writer and a minister. (An updated schedule of residency-related events is available online at http://www.pasadena.edu/dmc-pcc/collective/ or by phone at 626-585-3285.)

Futurefarmers' extensive exhibition record includes projects featured at the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Biennial, both in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the German new media space known as ZKM and the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany. Their design clients have included Adobe Systems, Swatch, Hewlett Packard, Nike, LucasFilm, PBS and MSNBC. The group has received numerous awards including a Webby and the Transmediale award. Additional details are available at their website, http://www.futurefarmers.com.

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