The other day I went out and braved the elements to go see "Homegrown: Bay Area Media Art" at the RX gallery on Eddy and Mason. It's a smart, well put together show. The show consisted of a variety of work based in and around electronic media.

There was just one little problem. Only about a 1/8 of the work can be turned on. It was pretty disappointing. I understand that electronic media can be fussy and difficult to set up, but the bugs can be worked out in enough time for a show. One also has to expect some things to go wrong during a show as well because that just happens, Murphy's law, but it's a problem if a patron shows up during regular gallery hours and nothing is on at all. I talked to the two individuals who were there at the time to see if we could get things going and only one work could be switched on. The rest of the work was functioning but the everyone present, including myself, didn't know how the pieces worked or how to turn the them on. Maybe this is a fluke and it was a bad day, which is what I am hoping, because I don't think this is how one should run a space and I think that if the artists knew how there work was being presented they would be very upset.

http://www.rxgallery.com/