Threads of Connection: From Body to Cloud

Threads of Connection: From Body to Cloud is a multisensory exhibition weaving together craft, community, and technology. From family rituals to fractal geometries, from intimate handcraft to augmented reality, the exhibition explores how human connection is forged across physical and digital spaces.

The works navigate a pluralist “oneness,” unity born not of sameness but of difference, interrogating how technology reshapes the ways we see ourselves, our communities, and the world. Visitors encounter both tactile traditional media and immersive, interactive works, bridging craft, design, and code. Together, the featured pieces ask: what connects the warmth of touch, the shelter of space, and the cool glow of the screen?

Artist Scott Snibbe anchors the exhibition. A new media artist, author, and meditation teacher, Snibbe makes work that dissolves the illusion of separateness between self and other, art and audience, body and nature. His pioneering interactive art is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and he has collaborated with Björk, Philip Glass, Beck, and James Cameron. He is joined by four other Bay Area artists, whose work engages community. They were selected through an open call, with an eye toward balancing tactile and media-based practices.

Threads of Connection: From Body to Cloud has been coproduced by ArtSpan + AIASF and is hosted at the Center for Architecture + Design.