Set in Stone: A Self-Monumentalizing Workshop
Monumentalize yourself! This open-format workshop will show you how to capture and render dynamic poses of yourself and others in 3D using just a cell phone.
Set in Stone: A Self-Monumentalizing Workshop
SCHEDULE
- Doors: 7PM
- Scanning Demonstration: 7:30PM – 8:00PM
- DIY Scanning Activity in Custom Sets: 8:00PM – 9:00PM
HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE EVENT
- Participants will need to download the app Aboun: https://aboundlabs.com/
View our FAQ page for more info, or contact us at [email protected] with any accommodation requests.
On May 15, join us at Gray Area for a special, performative workshop from Cy Berspace (AKA Ambrose Trataris) where you'll learn how to 3D scan yourself and others with your cell phone.
Audiences will explore immersive sets created by Cy Berspace, and have the chance to create virtual monuments based on 3D-scanned poses within these elaborate environments. Afterwards, hang out with the artist and members of the local drag community in a cocktail social hour.
Set in Stone and the associated public program are presented with support from the San Francisco Arts Commission as part of the Shaping Legacy initiative: a multi-year equity-focused commitment to critically examine the monuments and memorials in San Francisco’s Civic Art Collection.
About the Set in Stone Project:
Set in Stone is a virtual archive of living monuments captured through 3D scanning technology and photographically documented, building a library for future sculptures and laying the foundation for a virtual landscape of monuments accessible online through video and Virtual Reality formats. This intervention of San Francisco’s monument collection draws on Drag, nightlife, dance, performance, and other hubs of queer community, centering the cultural legacy of San Francisco as a home for the LGBTQIA+ community and the building of queer institutional memory across generations.
Monuments are often made as a reflection of a bygone past through the interpretation of an artist. Set in Stone builds a pathway for community members to represent themselves and would uplift the importance of Queer and Transgender history from the lived perspective.
About the Artist
Ambrose Trataris aka Cy Berspace
Ambrose Trataris aka Cy Berspace (he/they) is a trans conceptual artist, technologist, and Drag performer based in the Bay Area. Through sculpture, installation, and performance he gives form to semiotic and social boundaries meant to govern our identity, sense of worth, and communal relations. His practice explores social movements occurring in Virtual Reality and mixed reality mediums as a safe space for trans people to explore identity, embodiment, and community building.
He is an Artist Advisor to the San Francisco Arts Commission in collaboration with Gray Area as part of the Shaping Legacy: San Francisco Monuments & Memorials program funded by the Mellon Foundation. They are an artist in residence at the 2025 Space Program, 2024 Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency (D.E.A.R.), and 2023 CounterPulse Combustible Artist in Residence. They are the recipient of the 2024 Kenneth Rainin Foundation New & Experimental Works Program, 2024 MAP Fund, and 2019 YBCA 100 Award. He has been exhibited at the San Francisco Art Institutes 100th Anniversary Exhibition at the Walter & McBean Galleries (SF), Minnesota Street Project (SF), EFA Project Space (NYC), and exhibited public works in Greece as part of the Lakkos Artist in Residency program.
Participants
Drag Show Cast
Princess, Tito Soto, Lisa Frankenstein, Monster Show, KaiKa Bee Michaelsi, Oliver Branch, Clutch the Pearls, Churro Nomi, Mira, Major Hammy, Sir Acha, Sir Vesa, Fuchsia, Pillows, Rebel Kings of Oakland, VERA!, Jota Mercury, Helixir Jynder Byntwell, Jaeson Trouble, Joey Gelato, Oaklash, Beatrix Lahaine, Mama Celeste, Glamputee, Obsidienne Obsurd, Evian, Reparations, Nicki Jizz, Mudd the Two Spirit
Partners
CAPTCHA collective
CAPTCHA collective is an amalgamation of creatives and thinkers experimenting with art and technology to imagine our intersecting collective futures. Working in dance, music/sound, Virtual Reality, Drag, visual art, performance, and immersive experience based practices we engage futurism through a queer techno spiritual lens while questing the boundaries of identity and ownership in the realm of collective work, with each other and technological beings.
San Francisco Arts Commission
The San Francisco Arts Commission is the City agency that champions the arts as essential to daily life by investing in a vibrant arts community, enlivening the urban environment and shaping innovative cultural policy.
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