One way to look at the world is to see it as an intricate ensemble of gestures, utterances, and protocols. Language is but one element in this florid semaphore of self. Anne Walsh, a recent addition to UC's Art Practice Department, has an unstoppable curiosity about how we acquire the tics of communication, then parcel them out as social transactions. This has led her to create wry and perceptive videotapes, installations, and sound works dealing with the subtle but magisterial ways we announce our identity to the world. Her examination has been free ranging, from the jocular but striking Two Men Making Gun Sounds (1996), in which young men mimic the sounds of war with their mouths, to The Parrot Suite (2001), in which a robotic parrot is tragically trapped within the limits of its software. Walsh, along with collaborator Chris Kubick, also conducts the ongoing project Art After Death, a series of interviews with spiritual mediums who conjure deceased artists such as Yves Klein and Joseph Cornell. The way in which the dead are reconstructed from uncanny intuition says much about the otherworldly residue of art. Expect an intriguing evening with an artist who works with more than one medium.