Audio Art

Heather Dew Oaksen's Still Point installation opens at Jack Straw Friday night and continues through Feb. 12 of next year. She'll give a talk on Jan. 23. Until then, you can visit during regular gallery hours (Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.) to experience her AV collage of T.S. Eliot, and string theory. (What is it about string theory that's such catnip for artists? For all that people talk about it, how many actually understand it?) The exhibit promises to explore "the layered fluctuations and tension between dependence and independence;and the palpable connections between past and future." Which reminds me of a certain acid trip in the desert...but that's a different blog post.

Jack Straw New Media Gallery, 4261 Roosevelt Way N.E., 634-0919, www.jackstraw.org. Free. 7 p.m.