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p.U.l.s.E. 2 – santa barbara rEviEWArtweek (september 1990) By Josef WoodardP.U.L.S.E. 2 has taken over Santa Barbara, filling spaces at University of California, Santa Barbara, and downtown with art by People Using Light, Sound and Energy. Right down to the title’s clever acronym, the show is a marketable proposition: art that moves or interacts almost automatically ensures populist appeal. The numbers speak volumes: the show lasts four months; eighty-six works by more than fifty artists are on display (including several large-scale sculptures), dispersed in six galleries around town, as well as scatteredpublic locations. The most extensive exhibition ever undertaken in Santa Barbara P.U.L.S.E. 2— whatever its final effect—fulfills the purpose of a broad-based exhibition filtering out into the community.“This art will either stand on its own and be recognized for being the quality that it is and being a part of our civilization, as it should be, or it will die. I’m going to try to make it live.” (Interview with Mary Anne Christy, “Art & Auction”)Right: JONES/GINZEL Atoll – Pacific Lagoon Project 199084