Clark Buckner
Clark Buckner (He/Him) PhD, is a cultural producer, who works as Director of Telematic Media Arts, an art gallery and production company in San Francisco’s SoMa District, where he focuses specifically on time-based arts, screen culture, and art’s intersection with technology. He taught for many years in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and has published extensively on art, philosophy, film, and video. His music has its roots in 1980’s New York, where he grew up playing in the post-punk and experimental performance scenes, under the influence (among others) of his uncle, the avant-garde baritone and producer, Tom Buckner. His compositions include The Sound of the Street (16th and Mission), a four-channel, 50-minute, documentary/musical, inspired by Robert Ashley’s opera for television, along with soundtracks to a series of short experimental films that he is currently developing into an expanded cinema performance. As a member of JPMW, he works to create soundscapes that provide supportive space for the other performers, complementing without overdetermining the rhythms of their movement, with particular attention to polyrhythm, phasing, and sculptural ambient tones.
Photo by Jennifer Perfilio