Date and Time
- Saturday, Apr 4, 2026 1pm - 4pm
Location
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Details
April 4th at 1pm and 3pm
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 1990s 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.
