(From left to right) Lucinda Barnes, Nate Boyce, Margaret Tedesco, George Chen. Photo by Laura Flippen.

Artist Nate Boyce talks about some of his introductory encounters with the San Francisco scene in the early 2000s, including a performance by experimental musician Maryanne Amacher at the “high-tech bunker” known as the Compound, and a revelatory screening at the San Francisco Cinematheque.