A Synesthete's Atlas: Cartographic (& other) Improvisations
Oakland, California, United States
Beauty Supply Arts
Please note: the venue doesn't wish to publish its street address so the location mapped is approximate. Please contact Eric Theise for specifics.
Theise will open the evening, solo, with a set of cartographic improvisations using projected, manipulated, OSM-based maps.
Second set features improviser/composer/cellist Fred Lonberg-Holm, solo.
Third set features an improvisatory quintet consisting of:
- multimedia artist and musician Tasya Abbot
- Avant-Jazz vocalist extraordinaire Lorin Benedict
- electronic music composer Nathan Corder
- Emily Pothast and David Golightly of the ambient synth duo Hair and Space Museum
The evening will close with a return to improvised cartography and ever-changing configurations–duos, trios, a full ensemble–of improvisers.
Saturday, June 13, 2026
doors: 8 / show: 9
$15; NOTAFLOF
Eric Theise is a San Francisco-based artist and geospatial software developer. Through video, performance, and works on paper he reinvigorates the perceptual inquiries of structural filmmakers, experimental animators, the Light and Space movement, and 60's light shows – with the occasional injection of letterform experiments inspired by visual poetry – as new possibilities in the realm of digital cartography.