The San Francisco Art Institute | Fort Mason campus presents an intriguing graduate lecture series in the Gray Box Gallery on Pier 2 at Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture. The lecture series features artists who have graduated from or exhibited at the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) , as well as other prestigious academies.

The first lecture features SFAI graduate and exhibiting artist Aaron Terry, who discusses “Art In The Age of #Instagood Production” on Monday, June 25, 2018, from 6:30 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Terry works in printmaking, installation, and sound art, and is also a DJ and musician. He reflects on how the current rapid-fire and often excessive media barrage of images, sound bites, and questionable content influences his art and perceptions of truth and art. (RSVP online)

Celebrated new media artist, curator, and cultural activist Rudy Lemcke follows with a lecture on Monday, July 16, 2018, 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. addressing “The New World: Of Video Games and Museums. Lemcke creates immersive installations, video games, and experimental videos that he uses to explore temporal and spatial shifts and displacement. (RSVP online)

The next lecture on Monday, July 23, 2018, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. presents abstract painter Benjamin Britton commenting on “The Incandescent Sub-Present.” Britton’s acrylic and oil paintings use colorful surfaces and complex forms to depict fluctuating transitions between memory, cognition, sensation, intention, and future perceptions. (RSVP online)

In “The Thread Of Operations Is Broken,” Sofia Cordova introduces her imaginative science-fictional universe, which she has created with video, performance, music, sculpture, and multimedia installations. Her lecture on Monday, July 30, 2018, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. draws connections between her work and contemporary histories, speculative cultural models, dance and music cultures, the Internet, mysticism, theories of mutation and extinction, migration, climate change, and the relationship of all these subjects to capitalism and technologies. (RSVP online)

Free Admission (please RSVP in advance)