Currently on view at YBCA, San Francisco is “It Only Happens All of the Time,” a solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon featuring works in sound, installation, and sculpture. Her work is often devised around audio and spatial feedback systems that manipulate the visitor’s awareness of sound and space, incorporating the physical and sonic qualities of surrounding architecture to engage the viewer’s senses. Gordon investigates sonic and architectural applications of cybernetic systems in the 20th and 21st centuries to technological design, from anechoic chambers to the military’s use of Long Range Acoustic Device (LRAD) speakers. Reverse engineering those implements of social control; the dissonant spaces she creates uncover how such systems regulate human subjectivity, mobility, and perception.

Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon, Everyone Will Be Here Now But Me, 2013 (footage), courtesy of Machine Project.
Courtesy of YBCA. 

“It Only Happens All of the Time” is on view through June 15, 2014.

For more information visit YBCA, San Francisco.