This Friday, a new sound will echo through downtown San Jose, connecting the city to the world at large in new ways, when Beta Space: Trevor Paglen opens at SJMA. The installation can be heard emitting from the museum’s clock tower for the next year. Paglen, a 2017 MacArthur Fellow, has spent the last decade and a half addressing issues of global surveillance, data collection and other government activities in a myriad of mediums. Beta Space continues this work through sound by vocalizing sets of data from entities such as Cal Fire and the UN.

Beta Space: Trevor Paglen
Fri, 6pm, Free
San Jose Museum of Art

German multimedia artist Hito Steyerl’s latest exhibition, Factory of the Sun, debuted back in August at the San Jose Museum of Art, and has wowed art lovers with a distinct vision of techno-political dystopian threat and utopian potential. Next month, the museum will debut Trevor Paglen’s latest experiment in disruptive installation art with a new sound-based commission, playing a collage of information from the museum’s clock tower for 45 seconds several times a day, like a digital church bell. The two artists hold a riveting conversation as a virtual panel hosted by SJMA.

Hito Steyerl + Trevor Paglen
Tue, 12pm, Free
Online Event