My weekend in San Francisco was a blast. As evidenced by all the skinny ties and asymetrical haircuts at the Rickshaw Stop, my fellow robots are keeping the irobotnik spirit alive and well. Aside from the Il Flagranti show, and seeing good friends, one of the high points of my weekend was a visit to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts to see the Dark Matters show, a group exhibition of hi-tech installations, photography, video and conceptual projects that uncover the unexpected, the invisible and the hidden.

Two works that I found especially memorable were the internet-eavesdropping installation Listening Post (videos) by Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen and the beautiful collection of photographs in the Library of Dust exhibit by David Maisel.

In Library of Dust, each photograph shows a greatly eroded canister of cremated human remains found in the storage room of an old mental institution in Salem, Oregon.

If you're in SF, I highly recommend checking out the show which runs until 11/11/07.