The University of California, Davis, will be the only college or university art department represented at the inaugural Art Silicon Valley/San Francisco taking place this weekend.

The fair is the newest art exhibition created by the Art Miami International Contemporary & Modern Art Fair. Taking place at the San Mateo County Event Center Oct. 9-12 it will feature booths by 75 international galleries and art institutions from around the U.S., Europe, South America and South Korea showing work by about 750 artists from 42 countries.

The UC Davis contribution is titled “The Invitation,” a reference to the way the work was made as well as the way it will be experienced, said organizers.

“The title is both an invitation into the artists’ studios and workplace for collaborations and an invitation for those attending to take part in an interaction and conversation,” said organizer Tim Hyde, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Art and Art History. “The title and the images will draw people into the conversation.”

Visual artists, composers, aeronautical engineers, English professors and communications researchers, most from UC Davis, were among the collaborators making works for “The Invitation.” The collaborations take the physical form of 40 photographs of the collaborations among 20 art department faculty and students and 20 people who are not visual artists.

Part of the exhibition is a modular system/sculpture “Hexagon/Pentagon” created by Hyde and artist Andrea Galvani that can be move around by visitors and will facilitate conversations sparked by the art.