Tiare Ribeaux

Creative Director

Curator/Producer

New Media

Digital Culture

Social Practice

Inclusion

Tiare Ribeaux has been a Bay Area based curator and producer of visual and new media arts exhibitions, projects and performances bridging art and technology focused on radical inclusivity and critical dialogue for over 7 years. She is the Founder and Artistic Director at B4BEL4B gallery, the co-founder of REFRESH, and curated the Soundwave Biennial in 2016.

Career Background and Selected Exhibitions and Festivals

B4BEL4B Gallery, Founder and Artistic Director: January 2014 – Present

B4BEL4B is an art gallery and community space for new media and interdisciplinary art with an emphasis on diversity, social engagement and network culture. We engage diverse communities including artists/designers, creative technologists, LGBTQI2-S activists, writers, architects, and more through a rotating calendar of exhibitions, events, groups, and workshops.

6+ Years experience in curation, management and administrative efforts for the production and installation of all new media projects, exhibitions, and events at B4BEL4B Gallery with a range of digital and interactive art including video, web-based art, immersive installations, performance, sound installations, AR, VR and XR installations. Exhibition and Performance Reel

ZERO1 American Arts Incubator - IZOLYATSIA, Kyiv, Ukraine, 2018 - Participated in an international cultural exchange initiative of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Curation of artist participants in hands on workshop series where Tiare taught 3D modelling, 3D scanning, speculative design, and fabrication. Led artist project development, artist management, installation, and produced the exhibition for Emergent Tributaries - an exhibition that focused on cultural identity and environmental issues in Ukraine. Works featured included AR, 3D printing, CNC milling, laser cut acrylic works, speculative architecture, and video installation.

Video Documentation

Softwar(e), Group Exhibition, B4BEL4B Gallery, 2018

Curation, artist management, project development and production for the exhibition Softwar(e) which featured artists exploring the ways we engage and access information online through VR, WebVR, projection mapping, video installation, and the creation of a text bot. Softwar(e) looks poetically at the authoritarian control of information for people enduring geographical predetermination or exploitation by the opaque, algorithm-driven society.

Vital Hybrids, Group Exhibition and Performances, B4BEL4B Gallery and Gray Area Art + Technology, 2017

Curation, project management and development, contracting, timeline development, and production for Vital Hybrids, a showcase of collaborative works by Bay Area and LA based women artists bridging visual arts, performance, and technology culminating as both an exhibition at B4BEL4B and a night of site-specific performances at Gray Area Art and Technology. These works centered issues such as womxn, non-binary, and transgender rights, visibility and safety, fighting actively against xenophobia, processing trauma — by exploring post-digital and post-gender identity, safety online and offline, anti-harassment, sousveillance, and more. Works shown included interactive and immersive installations, VR experiences, screen-based works, digital games, and more.

Soundwave Biennial, Artistic Director, Curator and Producer, 2015-2016

Soundwave is a festival of cutting-edge art and music experiences. Each two-year festival season investigates a new idea through sound, renowned for its thoughtful curation and unique programming in diverse spaces and venues.

Lead producer of the Soundwave ((7)) Festival ARCHITECTURE including curation, festival direction, project production and management for over 40 large scale audiovisual installations and performances bridging visual art, animation, sound, and technology over a two year program season. Knowledge and layout of exhibition and performance spaces in various configurations at venues including: de Young Museum, Contemporary Jewish Museum, California Academy of Sciences, Fort Mason Center for the Arts, Gray Area Art + Technology, and Grace Cathedral, among others.

Soundwave ((7)) Highlight Reel

Selected Site-Specific Activations

Aural Spatial Infinite Exhibition at Fort Mason Center for the Arts

Curation, project development, artist management, creating contracts, developing timelines and schedules, overseeing fabrication and production of Aural Spatial Infinite exhibition at 2 locations at Fort Mason Center for the Arts as part of the Soundwave Biennial.

SonicLabs Launch at Obscura Digital, June 2015 - Curation and production of immersive installations including projection mapped dome with audiovisual components, projection mapped dymaxion screen, and an interactive sound-reactive touch screen installation for a public event showcase as part of SonicLabs programming leading up to the Soundwave Biennial.

SonicLabs ((7)) Reel

CODAME ART+TECH Festival, Curator and Artistic Director, 2015

Curated, project managed, produced, created schedules and budgets, and oversaw all installations and performances for the CODAME Art+Tech Festival “Movement” at the Monument Venue, showcasing new works that demonstrate the fusion of art and technology including immersive and interactive installations, generative art, new media, innovative dance compositions, and concept pieces by local, national, and international artists.