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Opening Celebration | Motherboards and Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot

handmade wired sculpture of a motherboard and adobe mud scrapped on a panel with embossed text cututuk

From left to right: Installation view of This Space Is for Lost Time: Hương Ngô at Tiger Strikes Asteroid Chicago, August 10–October 3, 2024. Photo by Tom Van Eynde.; Christine Howard Sandoval, Phonological Sketch II, 2024. Adobe on blind embossed paper mounted to panel, 23-3/4 x 17-3/4 x 5 inches. Image courtesy parrasch heijnen, Los Angeles. © Christine Howard Sandoval. Photo by Ed Mumford.

Opening Celebration: 6–9pm • Member Reception: 6–7pm
$5 after 5pm • Free for members

You’re invited to the opening celebration of Motherboards and Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot.

The opening celebration will feature music by Mild Monk and a special performance by Sarah Buckius at 6pm.

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If only she can cook as well as Honeywell can compute

Sarah Buckius’s If only she can cook as well as Honeywell can compute is a performance that reenacts Honeywell’s 1969 kitchen-computer ad, using a plushy reinvention to explore the intersection of technology, gender, and domestic labor. Through AI-generated instructions and playful irony, the piece spotlights both the limits and lure of automation and the enduring value of women’s work.

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Related Programming

Motherboards

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Motherboards explores the foundational contributions of women’s work to the technology industry. Featuring artists from California and beyond, the exhibition maps an extensive network of women’s work in technology, connecting Silicon Valley’s laboratories and garages to vital work performed at looms, desks, kitchens, and assembly lines across the globe.

Christine Howard Sandoval: Move the Plot

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Working with land-based materials, Christine Howard Sandoval excavates the conflicting knowledge systems and histories that are held in archives, architecture, and the land itself. Move the Plot brings the artist’s practice home to San José, where she grew up.