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Hear artists, curators and other cool, smart people discuss the art in SMoCA's exhibitions and learn about the Museum.

You can:
	Visit SMoCA and use your cell phone to call (480) 281-9922 to access the audio information while you view the art. Call (480) 281-9922 anytime, from anywhere, to hear audio selections from current exhibitions. Listen to past and current audio guides online by clicking on the prompt.

Menu for Audio Guides Archive: southwestNET: film & video; Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth Seriously Funny Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting Flip a Strip Car Culture southwestNET: Melinda Bergman Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up Behind the scenes at SMoCA Architecture and Public Art at SMoCA

southwestNET: film & video; Looking Through the Other End of a Telescope on view August 29, 2009 - January 24, 2010
	Hear from the artists:
	Aaron Rothman Why are these photographs singled out? (not available yet) Jennifer West How did West make a film of a sunset using marmalade?(not available yet) Why did she soak her film in a hot spring?(not available yet) Jon Fisher and Jeff Shore What were Fisher and Shore doing when they were 15 and skipping school?(not available yet)

Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth on view July 30 - November 29, 2009
	Whose job is it to brush the sculptures’ hair? How many people did it take to put the Polar Bear in place? How long does it take to make a Soundsuit? How does a Soundsuit stand upright? Why use human hair? How does ceremonial dress influence Nick Cave? How does it feel to dance in a Soundsuit? How do buttons communicate with sound?

Seriously Funny on view February 14 - May 24, 2009
	Alejandro Diaz Naked Artist Inside Alejandro Diaz Make Your Own Damn Tortillas Kjellgren Alkire's "artist crush" on Alejandro Diaz's Make Your Own Damn Tortillas Kjellgren Alkire Martin Kersels Headache Martin Kersels on Nina Katchadourian's The Genealogy of the Supermarket Nina Katchadourian The Genealogy of the Supermarket Nina Katchadourian Monument to the Unelected Nina Katchadourian on Dan Perjovschi's The Arizona Drawing Lara Taubman, independent art critic and curator, on Dan Perjovschi's work Dan Perjovschi Dan Perjovschi on Maurizio Cattelan's Frank and Jamie Arlene Shechet Arlene Shechet talking about her sculpture technique Arlene Shechet on Amy Sillman's paintings

Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting on view September 20, 2008 - February 1, 2009
	Why is this artwork in such an unexpected place? How is the red rubber on the floor actually a portrait? Why does the artist think of this piece as a drawing? How is art-making also often a social comment? How is this crocheted grid inspired by midtown Manhattan?

Flip a Strip on view October 5, 2008 - January 18, 2009
	Hear from the curator:
	Why is an art museum doing an exhibition on strip malls? Why is urban farming a hot issue today? Hear about the competition that led to Flip a Strip.
	Hear from Aptum Architecture, Zurich and Urbana- Champaign, Illinois:
	How might cities become friendlier? Can an old strip mall be a chance for a new suburban landscape? How can weird, unused spaces become transformational? How did the Plaza Reial in Barcelona inspire this project?
	Hear from cityLab/Roger Sherman Architecture & Urban Design, Los Angeles:
	Why piggyback on existing architecture? Can you shop and enjoy nature at the same time?
	Hear from Gould Evans, Phoenix:
	Why did the designers collaborate with a banker? What should you do with this free notebook? Why did the architects embrace pop culture? Why should the strip mall stay stripped down?
	Hear from Marlene Imirizian & Associates, Architects, Phoenix:
	Why do we love strip malls? Is divert architecture or just a marketing plan? How does this design let you meet your neighbors?
	Hear from the Miller Hull Partnership, Seattle:
	Can strip malls help save the planet? How would this crop canopy grow? neighborhood?
	Hear from Studio Luz, Boston:
	Why put a big roof over the strip mall?
	Hear from AEDS Ammar Eloueini, New Orleans, Louisiana:
	How about using robotic parking in the suburbs?
	Hear from Architecture-Infrastructure-Research, Inc., Scottsdale, Arizona:
	What is The B-Side and what does it offer you? space to hang out?
	Hear from MOS, New Haven, Connecticut:
	Why use algae? How does Urban Battery promote “urban healthfulness”?
	Hear from Avery Architecture & Design, Chicago:
	Is the strip mall sustainable architecture? Why leave a building “unfinished”?

Car Culture on view January 18 - April 27, 2008
	Hear from the artists:
	Margarita Cabrera Amy Stein how she finds people stranded on the side of the road to photograph the special story of a young girl named Peri Liz Cohen what major mechanical modifications she made to her low-rider why she wanted to turn a Trabant into an El Camino
	Hear from the collaborators:
	Don Barsellotti, owner, Elwood Body Works Salvatore Seno, sales manager, AAA Yellow Cab Arizona
Click here to download the compiled podcast for Car Culture.
southwestNET: Melinda Bergman on view January 30 - April 27, 2008
	Listen as the artist describes:
	her story her title, Every way in is a way out walking in Phoenix her unexpected use of materials
Click here to download the compiled podcast for southwestNET: Melinda Bergman.
Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up on view February 8 - May 27, 2008
	Hear from the artist about:
	Michael Stewart, who inspired the artwork, St. Michael Stewart where the flour sacks from Untitled (Blow Up Painting) came from and why how the horrific crimes of Jeffery Dahmer inspired "The Watering Hole"
	Hear from the author Sarah Lewis about:
	what art has to do with love and war
Click here to download the compiled podcast for Lyle Ashton Harris: Blow Up.
Behind the scenes at SMoCA:
	Listen as SMoCA staff describes:
	SMoCA's history SMoCA's mission SMoCA's board of directors contemporary art why you should be a member of SMoCA how the community shapes SMoCA what you can do to help the Museum protect art how a docent can help me navigate contemporary art
Click here to download the compiled podcast for Behind the scenes at SMoCA.
Architecture and Public Art at SMoCA:
	Hear about Scrim Wall by James Carpenter Design Associates and James Turrell's mesmerizing skyspace:
	how Scrim Wall casts rainbows what you will see in Knight Rise why light is poetic for Turrell
SMoCA's cell phone tours are generously made possible by N. Bud and Beverly Grossman, Nancy and Art Schwalm and Karen and John Voris. For additional information, please contact smoca@sccarts.org.

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