San Francisco Wharf Complex / American Industrial Center Carbonate Group

Data Clay: Digital Strategies for Parsing the Earth / Museum of Craft and Design / San Francisco, CA / Curated by Del Harrow and Joshua Stein / 2015

Left: Installation of San Francisco Wharf Complex / American Industrial Center Carbonate Group, Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA.

Center: Study: San Francisco Wharf Complex / American Industrial Center Carbonate Group / Towards a Geologic Narrative (Data Reservoir/Sheared), digital print on paper, 40 in. x 96 in., 2015

Video: San Francisco Wharf Complex/American Industrial Center Carbonate Group, single channel, color, 05:51:06

San Francisco Wharf Complex / American Industrial Center Carbonate Group, a work conceived for "Data Clay" as an extension of San Francisco Wharf Complex, 2008-present, is a spatiotemporal and material study of the exhibition's physical space. This study suggests a geologic/performative envelope for the data-driven materiality of the exhibition. Exploring an uber-set of material origin and transformation of the museum's site and architecture from calcium and other ions of Cretaceous seawater, their depositional construct and transport to Anthropocene displacements and sedimentations, San Francisco Wharf Complex / American Industrial Center Carbonate Group suggests an isomeric context of site's materiality and its constituents. Several players are at work topologically in this pseudo-narrative: a central column of the exhibition space (reinforced concrete as the pivot point of the video), phantom ships (as the geologic/material transport mechanisms of the site, architecture and works of the exhibtion) and ortho/topographic data of the site and structure (a story of denudation and fabrication) are interwoven protagonists.

Related SFWC Projects

San Francisco Wharf Complex - Geologic Analog/Research - Overview & Phase III Preliminary

San Francisco Wharf Complex / Sym.bi.osis


Passage: Displaced Sea/Seeking the Permanente