Here's a quick look at a just a couple of the shows/events happening
around the San Francisco Bay Area.

+ + +

San Francisco:

SFMoMA (http://www.sfmoma.org):

Police Pictures:
The Photograph as Evidence
October 17 - January 20

Over 150 photographs from the 19th century to the present that represent
the different forms of photography used in police work to identify the
criminal and aid in his capture.

Surveying the First Decade:
Video Art and Alternative
Media in the United States
October 23 - November 23, 1997

A special video series that traces the history of experimental and
independent video in the United States.

Tatsuo Miyajima:
New Work
October 10 - February 3

A media art installation of the SFMOMA commissioned, site-specific work
Counter Line, which grapples with the complexity and instability of time.

Present Tense:
Nine Artists in the Nineties
September 13 - January 6

A presentation of new directions in the art of our time through the work
of nine contemporary artists who explore common themes such as mourning
and loss, beauty and craft, celebration and elegy.

+ + +

Berekely:

Berekly Museum of Art and Paciific Film Archives (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/exhibits/):

Selected Current Exhibitions:

MATRIX Jochen Gerz: The Berkeley Oracle

Beginning on August 1, 1997 and running through May 31, 1998, MATRIX
presents a major new Internet-based artwork by the renowned German
conceptual artist Jochen Gerz. The exhibition in different forms will be
situated on an artist-designed area of the museum's web site and
throughout the museum itself. Gerz's interactive project calls for
questions to be posed by the global public, via the Internet, to The
Berkeley Oracle. These questions will be accessible on the museum's web
site, and a selection of approximately forty of them will be produced as
framed texts and inserted, guerrilla style, throughout the museum's
galleries and other public areas. The gallery component of the
exhibition will run from January 28 through May 31, 1998.

+ + +