Stalking the lions of Pasadena City Hall
“The precise “why,” like all good conceptual art, is unfolding over time.” Larry Wilson of Pasadena Star News gives an overview of Lions, Tigers, And… a five-part series consisting of an interactive sound installation, video projections, musical performances, all responding to the presence of cast-stone lions on the façade of the City Hall building. See […]
Long Live L.A.: Bringing Video Art and Public Health Awareness to Mass Transit
Evan Seth on KCET ArtBound gives a concise overview as well as video sample by each artist in the 2014 round of Long Live LA: Mel Chin, Yoshua Okón, Poli Marichal, Ann Kaneko, John Jota Leaños, and Paolo Davanzo and Lisa Marr. “I think each of the artists really presents a new view of what public […]
Braingirls and Fleshmonsters
Holly Willis wrote a jam-packed feminist essay “Braingirls and Fleshmonsters” that appears as a chapter in Transmedia Frictions, The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities, edited by Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson, University of California Press, 2014. She describes and contextualizes my video installations work with Molly Cleator as well as the work of Linda Dement, […]
A series of discussions about Socially Engaged Art in L.A., Fall 2012
Say passé to the sculpture in the square; the leading edge of public art is changing. Art is passing from isolation, to intervention, to participation, to engagement, to integration. SOC(i)AL: Art + People is a free, public series of roundtable discussions and weekend events that explores socially engaged art in Southern California from East to […]
How Many Billboards?
Sara Daleiden conducted an interview with AB comparing billboards and art in Los Angeles. Billboards try to shape identity with their products but art questions one’s identity. For more, download the interview here.
Freewaves Partners with KCET Artbound
Anne Bray tackles the norms of art and advertising and questions where they infringe on the LA metro bus rider. With 91% of bus riders saying they do like art, there is a feeling of camaraderie but yet their numbers differentiate much further when it comes to identifying art. The average person adsorbs an average […]
::Artbound 2:: Rorschach Revelations vs. Israeli Jewish White Male
When we are presented with something new, we instantaneously judge with minimal information regardless of being wrong or right. Allowing our perception to be clouded by volley of information, we absorb what we can from art and strangers. The short art clips of Aaron Bourget’s Rorschach Revelations and Lior Bar’s Israeli Jewish White Male uses different methods but both […]
FREEWAVES BARGAINS BETWEEN ARTISTS AND AUDIENCES
by Anne Bray A carefully constructed placement of a screen can bring a difficult piece of video art into a framework that becomes comprehensible to the uninitiated.Place itself can serve as a segue between the known location and the unknown art. The tattoo parlour can reframe a graffiti video; the burrito restaurant offers a […]
Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes by Catherine Wagley
Freewaves turned 20 this year. The grassroots new media organization that began in 1989 with a gaping, loosely defined mission to show Los Angeles to itself celebrated its birthday on June 26 with Video on the Loose, a one-night festival at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In the wide-open plaza that links the museum’s newly built Resnick […]
Out The Window radio program
Christine Palma compellingly interviews Anne Bray of Freewaves, Mike Blockstein of Public Matters, and Paolo Davanzo of the Echo Park Film Center about Out the Window listen