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PULSE Free Family Day and Expo

January 25, 2020 at 1pm–4pm Jepson Center
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Our most popular Family Day includes opportunities to experience all of the 2020 PULSE Art + Technology Festival exhibitions and experiment with technology teaching tools. This year’s PULSE Family Day and Expo will feature hands-on tech projects for all ages and creative tech demos from local schools and colleges.

Investment is provided by the City of Savannah and the Georgia Power Foundation.

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TechSpace: Second Nature

 Jepson Center
Technology often exists in opposition to nature, but it has also been used by scientists, artists, and designers to further understanding of the environment. Second Nature brings together technology-based art from Telfair’s permanent collection and new audiovisual works that reference nature.
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Machines of Futility: Unproductive Technologies

 Jepson Center
This exhibition of interactive and kinetic art highlights artists making machines that use humor and absurdity to question the usefulness of technology. The exhibition includes artist Neil Mendoza’s Robotic Voice Activated Word Kicking Machine, which humorously visualizes how machines hear or don’t hear what we say, substituting an absurd apparatus for the unseen technology in our pockets and homes.
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PULSE Art + Technology Festival 2020
January 22, 2020–January 26, 2020 Jepson Center
Start the year off with a bang as Telfair’s annual PULSE Art + Technology Festival faces the future with exciting exhibitions, lectures, and educational events for all ages. PULSE 2020’s theme “Futility to Futurity,” is explored by artists
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Deep “Hear the Pulse” Open Mic/Poetry Slam
January 26, 2020 at 2pm–4pm Jepson Center
This year’s Deep Center slam team will be joining forces with the Telfair’s Pulse Festival to bring you an afternoon of intense, literary performances, accompanied by live interactive visuals by artist James Gladman.
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Art Start: PULSE Art + Technology Festival
February 20, 2020 at 10:30am–11:30am Jepson Center
Start your day with art with our new and combined programs! Once a month, our youngest patrons are invited to the Jepson Center for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here.
exhibition

TechSpace: Second Nature

 Jepson Center
Technology often exists in opposition to nature, but it has also been used by scientists, artists, and designers to further understanding of the environment. Second Nature brings together technology-based art from Telfair’s permanent collection and new audiovisual works that reference nature.
exhibition

Machines of Futility: Unproductive Technologies

 Jepson Center
This exhibition of interactive and kinetic art highlights artists making machines that use humor and absurdity to question the usefulness of technology. The exhibition includes artist Neil Mendoza’s Robotic Voice Activated Word Kicking Machine, which humorously visualizes how machines hear or don’t hear what we say, substituting an absurd apparatus for the unseen technology in our pockets and homes.
Event

PULSE Art + Technology Festival 2020
January 22, 2020–January 26, 2020 Jepson Center
Start the year off with a bang as Telfair’s annual PULSE Art + Technology Festival faces the future with exciting exhibitions, lectures, and educational events for all ages. PULSE 2020’s theme “Futility to Futurity,” is explored by artists
Event

Deep “Hear the Pulse” Open Mic/Poetry Slam
January 26, 2020 at 2pm–4pm Jepson Center
This year’s Deep Center slam team will be joining forces with the Telfair’s Pulse Festival to bring you an afternoon of intense, literary performances, accompanied by live interactive visuals by artist James Gladman.
Event

Art Start: PULSE Art + Technology Festival
February 20, 2020 at 10:30am–11:30am Jepson Center
Start your day with art with our new and combined programs! Once a month, our youngest patrons are invited to the Jepson Center for story time, a special tour, and an art activity. Strollers, crying babies, toddlers, and older siblings are all welcome here.
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