We are Here: We Could be Everywhere: Media Arts and Activisim in Los Angeles and Beyond
I’ll be moderating an excellent panel discussion next month as part of the [ALOUD] public lecture series at the Los Angeles Public Library.
We are Here: We Could be Everywhere: Media Arts and Activisim in Los Angeles and Beyond
Are the media arts a sensitizing force? What is media art’s capacity to respond to political conditions? Cultural practitioners and scholars explore the role artists play as innovators of media technology and instigators in the public and media art realms.
Panel Discussion with Aniko Imre, Henry Jenkins, Reed Johnson, Fabian Wagmister
Moderated by Kenneth Rogers, Media and Cultural Studies, UC Riverside
Mark Taper Auditorium-Central Library
Tuesday, June 14, 2011 7:00 PM
Co-presented with Freewaves
Lecture at Scripps: “Attention Deficits: Self-Regulation and Self-Medication in the Biotech Era”
Giving a lecture tomorrow at the Scripps Humanities Institute as part of their fall 2010 lecture series: Engagement: Mind, Body, and Soul
Video on the Loose: Freewaves and 20 Years of Media Art
presents
VIDEO ON THE LOOSE
June 26, 2010 at the LACMA plaza
Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the LA-based new media arts organization Freewaves, with international experimental media art from the past 20 years, and a preview of the new John Baldessari retrospective. Enjoy food, drinks and a live DJ!
THE EVENING INCLUDES FOUR PROGRAMS, WITH OVER
20 ARTISTS’ VIDEOS THAT MOVE, AMUSE AND BEWILDER
Squirm: Body-related, uncomfortable but spellbinding images, sounds and narratives
Trouble: Artists willing to broach danger and take it on as a complex subject
Pop Cop: Playful and critical responses to television ads, news, and authorities
Dual/Duel: Conflicts and contrasts coming from different points of view
Each of the 20+ videos will be looping continuously on separate monitors.
FEATURED ARTISTS
RELATED PROGRAM
A dialogue with Freewaves Director Anne Bray & Assistant Professor at the UCR Media and Cultural Studies Department, Kenneth Rogers
Art Catalogues in LACMA store at 9:15 p.m.
FREEWAVES 20TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK + DVD
On the occasion of its anniversary, Freewaves has published a special edition book and DVD in recognition of its two decades of promoting access to and participation in new media arts. “Video on the Loose: Freewaves and 20 years of media arts” raises provocative questions about the nature of the medium, while arguing its contribution to broader social processes. Artists? perspectives are interspersed throughout. Along with the book is a DVD documenting the evolution of the media arts as a medium for activism and aesthetic experimentation. The book + DVD may be purchased at LACMA’s Art Catalogues store.
TICKETING
Freewaves is a grassroots yet global nonprofit arts organization connecting innovative, relevant, independent new media from around the world. The organization is funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; CHORA/Metabolic Studio/Annenberg Foundation/Lauren Bon; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The James Irvine Foundation; City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; Getty Grant Program; Pasadena Art Alliance; National Endowment for the Arts; Los Angeles County Arts Commission; and Freewaves members.
For more information about Freewaves, visit www.freewaves.org or contact Anne Bray at anne@freewaves.org and 323.871.1950.
Decolonial Practices, Political Space, and Digital Culture
A Roundtable presentation and discussion with Michaeline Crichlow (Duke University); Dalida María Benfield (UC Berkeley); and Kenneth Rogers (UC Riverside)
May 5, 2010 2 – 4 pm INTN 4023
The panelists will discuss different articulations of space and decolonial thinking at the beginning of the 21st century.
They offer perspectives inspired by the “will to place” emerging from complex creolization processes in the Caribbean; the articulations of gender and decolonial practice through the appropriation of a global digital realm; and “open-source” pedagogical initiatives in the continental United States.
Michaeline Crichlow is Associate Professor in the African American Studies Department at Duke University. Her most recent book is Globalization and the Post-Creole Imagination: Notes on Fleeing the Plantation (Duke UP, 2009). Dalida María Benfield is a media artist and scholar. She has worked extensively in the fields of digital media and community technology education, and co-founded the media activist collective Video Machete. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Ethnic Studies at the University of California-Berkeley. Kenneth Rogers is an Assistant Professor in the Media and Cultural Studies Department at UCR. He serves on the board of directors for LA Freewaves and is a founding member of the public practice collective Third Rail. His current book project is /Economies of Attention: Media Technology and Biopolitics/. Ken is also currently writing and directing a feature length documentary, /Art Appreciation/, about the intertwined histories of speculative capitalism and the contemporary global art market.
Generously co-sponsored by the Mellon Group on Decolonization Studies; the Ethnic Studies Department; Global Studies; the Institute for Research on World-Systems; and the Center for Ideas and Society. For more information please contact Freya Schiwy (freyasch@ucr.edu)
