Performing Abstraction

Join us for an extraordinary afternoon of live art and music with digital art pioneer Samia Halaby and members of the internationally acclaimed Kronos Quartet. This special collaboration brings together Halaby’s digital abstractions and the quartet’s original music to create live compositions.

Halaby coded her “Kinetic Painting Program” in the early Protected content in the computing language C, turning her keyboard into a live painting instrument through which she can manipulate colors and movement as vibrant abstractions that shift, collide, and dissolve across the digital projection. Responding to Halaby’s ever-evolving visuals, three members of Kronos Quartet — David Harrington (violin), Gabriela Díaz (violin), and Paul Wiancko (cello) — will respond sonically, improvising to the rhythm, velocity, and textures of Halaby’s kinetic paintings. At times meditative and dynamic, audiences will be immersed in a performance where light, motion, and melody unfold together in moments of unique artistic dialogue.

We can enjoy the performance then tour the museum. There are a few cafes on site we can have lunch at.

**Please purchase a ticket to the museum for Saturday April 4th and include the performance. The performance is included with admission but you must RSVP for it here: Protected content **