Sukkah Studio: Embodied Algorithms Patterns in Play | Miriam Dym

Thursday, Oct 17, 2019 | 11am–3pm

ADMISSION: Free

Free Open Studio

Artist Miriam Dym inhabits the Sukkah Studio, offering a look at what it means to be an artist who works with systems. Currently, Dym is working with the visual patterning system that emerged from a textile design process. This system recently expanded into a new form as an interactive, non-competitive, communication game. Join Miriam as she shares this game, played with very particular custom rubber stamps and a very large piece of paper, in the sukkah.

FEATURED ARTIST

Artist Miriam Dym is a self-taught systems thinker with a practice rooted in performance and drawing. Her systems address simple-sounding, yet complex questions. She uses strategies from design, engineering, and business. Dym's years’ long systems experiments include public and private "materials processing" performance, and performance by-products.

Dym’s work has been exhibited widely, including at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Weatherspoon Museum, the Oakland Museum of California, SFMOMA, and The Contemporary Jewish Museum. Learn more at miriamdym.com.

about sukkah studios

Inspired by the holiday of Sukkot, a Jewish holiday celebrating the harvest, The CJM has built its own sukkah (meaning “booth” or “hut”) for gathering and community building. The Museum invited six local artists to inhabit our Sukkah Studio as an open studio, providing an inviting space for the artists to share their practice with visitors and work with interested folks to make something together.

Each artist will inhabit the Sukkah Studio for one day. Drop by the sukkah in the Koret Taube Grand Lobby for one open studio or attend all of them!

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Accessibility

The CJM strives for a welcoming environment for all of our visitors. In addition to ample space for wheelchairs and a friendly environment for service animals, sign language interpretation (ASL) can be scheduled for all programs with at least two weeks notice.

FM assistive listening devices (ALDs) for sound enhancement are available for all talks and tours. Please note that we would like to maintain this as a scent-free environment, and encourage visitors to refrain from using scented products out of respect for visitors with allergies or chemical sensitivities. For additional accommodation requests, please contact The CJM’s Access and Community Engagement Manager at access@thecjm.org or 415-655-7856.

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supporters

Sukkah Studio is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Jim Joseph Foundation and the Walter & Elise Haas Fund.

The wood for this sukkah was donated in part by SapphirePine.

SapphirePine transforms some of the 100 million California trees killed by drought and tiny mountain beetles into beautiful furniture and durable lumber. The beetles that kill the trees also bring a blue-stain fungus that give the wood its stunning blue, green, and orange highlights. Sapphire Pine gives this wood a new life. For more information, please visit www.sapphirepine.com.