recent work
"Magic bus", 2010, san francisco CA.
A ninety minute multimedia adventure on a bus, evoking the era and politics of the Summer of Love. Click here to be taken to the dedicated Magic Bus website.
"Magic bus transports the audience on a magical mystery tour to a more hopeful era with a bliss-inducing soundtrack." Robert Hurwitt, San Francisco Chronicle.
Click here to read the SF Chronicle's review of "Magic Bus"
"Transforming Art - The Art of Chris Hardman", January - june 2008, presidio officers' gallery, san francisco CA.
An art exhibition exploring perception and dimensionality by Chris Hardman. Click the 'Transforming Art' logo above for a gallery of images from the show.
"Hardman's works induce a sustained delight in the pleasures of making, experiencing and never quite grasping visual illusions." John Rapko, art week.
Click here to read Art Week's review of "Transforming Art"
The ecological calendar projects
Antenna Theater has been producing Chris Hardman's beautiful ECOlogical Calendar since 2005. Instead of a grid-based calendar, the ECOlogical Calendar shows the days running from left to right, with tides, flora and fauna then the sky and stars represented above.
ECOtime, a series of radio pieces based on the calendar and narrated by Chris Hardman has been heard as part of Living on Earth on National Public Radio, as well as on Green 960am in the California Bay Area.
Please click to visit Living On Earth. This link takes you to the show that aired starting October 24th 2008, where you will find the first ECOtime to air on NPR.
Antenna is currently working with Robosoft Technologies to develop ECOcal, a version of the calendar for iPhone which will be available in December 2008. ECOcal is an immersive daily calendar of the Earth and sky with extensive scientific information about astronomical and terrestrial events. Users of ECOcal will be able to tap on the detailed images of animals and plants to read about how they adapt to winter's cold or summer's heat, zoom in on a constellation to see the magnitude of a star, or scroll through the Sky Chart to find out when the next meteor shower will peak.
Please visit www.ecocalendar.info for information on the ECOlogical Calendar projects.