PUBLIC PRODUCTIONS
Heal Hear Here, a healing art event by 30 artists selected by 30 organizations, music, processions, movement, sound, sculpture, and interactive works at LA State Historic Park, 2023
X-aMEN-ing Masculinities, a multi-faceted artistic extravaganza examining masculinity from a wide range of perspectives and through multiple mediums at LA State Historic Park, 2022
Dis…Miss, a public visual art exchange about gender in Los Angeles, on tour and online using videos, postcards and social media, 2016-22
Designing Equity, a collaborative artist-in-residence to develop public media art projects that help build agency and market for creatives of color in Milwaukee with MKE<->LAX, 2014-2020 which included Racial Radical: Generating New “Woke” Words at USC and Kaos Cafe
Lions, Tigers And … , sound installation over 5 months with opening and closing musical performances and video projections at Pasadena City Hall about the building facade’s lions including 500 public interpretations. 2015-16
Know No, sexual violence meets gender equity, a multifaceted arts engagement at Arizona State University, 2015-16
Long Live LA, health videos by artists shown on buses, at clinics, online and at events, 2014-16
Out the Window, art videos shown on 2000 city buses to 1.1 million viewers daily, 2011-14
Take Cover, Take Over, poem micro-projected on audience at ArtNight Pasadena, 2014
Pairs, Pares, 2-word poems micro-projected on audience at ArtNight Pasadena, 2013
Happy Meals as part of Navilandia al Sur: Collaborative installation with Tricia Ward and Cuerda Producciones at the Udaondo Gastrointestinal Hospital in Parque Patricios area of Buenos Aires, organized by cHelA Art & Technology Center, 2012
Intersection, live video mixing on 7 story building at GLOW art festival by Santa Monica, 2010
Video on the Loose, outdoor exhibition at LACMA with launch of book and 4 curated DVDs, 2010
If, a TV pilot program of video art, co-director and executive producer, 2004
Inter-State, Video to Go, a second TV pilot, executive producer, 2004
*Double Burning Jagged Extremities, video installation at USC’s Spring Art Festival, 2002
Rainy Days and a Raised Skirt, video performance at Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica CA, 2001
*Double Burning Jagged Extremities, video installation at Cinematexas 6, Austin TX, 2001
*Weight & Volume, multiprojection performance/installation at Armory Center for the Arts, 2000
Personals, collaborative performance/installation with Fiona Tan at the Brewery Project, 2000
*Dis Miss, War Party, dueling video projections with live music mix at Sonopticon, an evening of sound and light organized by Foundation for Art Resources, (FAR) 1999
Intermission Images II & III, slide projections at Laemmle movie theaters in downtown L.A. at every screening via Side Street Projects Jan-Mar, April-May
*The Wallflower and the Weedwacker, performance with video as part of Hot and Sticky curated by Deborah Oliver at Highways in Santa Monica CA, 1999
*Double Burning Jagged Extremities, video installation in Old Town Pasadena mall October 15-Nov 15, 1998 sponsored by NewTown
*God Doesn’t Have A Mouth, slide audio video installation/performance, Civitella Ranieri, Italy, 1996
*The Gap, audio installation at mall at Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum as part of Backtalk, Women’s Voices in the 90’s curated by Marilu Knode & Erica Daborn, 1993
It’s Dizzying, artist billboard at four L.A. sites, funded by LACE & Patrick Media, 1990-91
Single-handedly: 40 second animation on electronic billboard in Times Square, NYC, every 6 mins. for 1 month, Public Art Fund, 1989
Cry, That: a two-sided banner, CRA commission in Downtown L.A. 1987
Arm Me: storefront slide projections, nightly for one month, sponsored by LAICA and FAR in L.A. and Installation in San Diego, 1987
White Out: 500 commercial signs on 42 adjacent stores covered in white at busy LA intersection for 1/2 day with owners’ consent, 1985
Air Space Borders #2: audio tape at site with night panorama of L.A., 1985
Space Left for Us: a billboard on La Brea in LA, LAVA sponsored, 1985
Together: video installation for a restaurant, 1984
W.H.A.T.: performance with slides, audio, props at UCLA, 1983
Past Fear: performance, 3 weekends outdoors with Open Window, 1983
It’s Everywhere: 13 audio cassette installation, 1983
Air Space Borders: a slide/sound/text piece in a concert forum, 1982
Urban Graves: 3 tape loops in 2 pedestrian areas of LA, 1982
Where do You Shop: slides, sounds, text, performers, mannequins in storefront windows at Boston’s First Night public art festival, 1981
Media Eyes: billboard/slides with Antoni Muntadas at SkyArt Festival at M.I.T., 1981
Full Service Facility: 7 anti-gasoholic performances at a gas station, Cambridge River Fest, 1981
Guns or Butter or: slide/text performance at Cambridge Festival, 1980
Net Works: aerial slide installation, First Night Celebration, 1979
Lost Contact Lens: slide/environmental poem with Mark Mendel at MIT, Franklin Furnace, video disc, Harvard Sq., Minneapolis College of A&D. 1979
Stare Well: slide/stairwell piece in hotel, NY Avant Garde Festival, 1978
Guerilla Lights: slides on people, taxis & buildings, Cambridge Festival, 1978
* are collaborations with Molly Cleator
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
2020 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Research Fellowship (2 years)
2018 City of Los Angeles, Dept. of Cultural Affairs, Cultural Trailblazer award
2017 UCLA Confucius Institute commission and travel grant to Dunhuang, China
2015 NEA Our Town grant
2013-15 Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Artistic Innovation and Collaboration Grant
2012 Recognized nationally by the Americans For The Arts’ top Public Art Year in Review 2012
2011 Digital Media Lab grant from John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
2011 Ranked in LA Weekly’s “Top Art Moments of 2011”
2010 Irvine Fellowship for Sally and Don Lucas Artists Residency at Montalvo Arts Center
2009 Goethe Institute Travel Grant to attend Transmediale in Berlin
2006 American Finalist for INPUT: International Public Television Screenings, Taipei
2005 travel grant from Tel Aviv – Los Angeles Partnership of the Jewish Federation
2003 nominated for Leonardo Award for Excellence, MIT Press
2002 California Arts Council Artists Grant
1999 Durfee Sabbatical Fellowship
1997 nominated for Art Matters Grant and residency at Headlands Center for the Arts
1996 Civitella Ranieri Foundation artist in residency in Umbria Italy
1996 Artist Nominated Award for contributions to the arts, Side Street Project
1995, 96, 97 nominated for Pace Roberts Fellowship
1995, 01 nominated for Rockefeller Media Arts
1994 Commission from the Pasadena Art Alliance
1992 Artist Project commission from Santa Monica Museum of Art
1992 Artist Fellowship from Art Matters
1991 Vesta Award for contribution in media arts in Southern California, The Woman’s Bldg.
1990 LACE Artists Projects Grant funded by NEA & Rockefeller Foundation
1990 artist grant from City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
1990 Artbulletin commission from LACE and Patrick Media
1989 commission from Public Art Fund
1987 commission from the Community Redevelopment Agency, City of Los Angeles
1982-85 fellowships from UCLA’s Department of Art and Art Council
1983 documentation in Lucy Lippard’s touring lecture “Political Art”
1981-82 corporate donations from Maxell, Gulf Oil, Polaroid, Ackerley, Bonwit Teller, Buhl & Colortek
1981 photographs in the collections of Polaroid and R.I.S.D.
1978-82 annual commissions from Cambridge Arts Council and First Night Celebrations
CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE FIELD
1989-now
Executive Director of Freewaves, a media arts network with an experimental public art festival presented in Los Angeles area and online with intermittent events
2020
Public Art Juror to City of Los Angeles, Dept.of Cultural Affairs
Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Department
USC Arts in Action 2020-2023
2014
Art Juror to Herb Alpert Award
Center for Creative Innovation
6th Street Bridge Public Art committee
Trust Challenge, 5th Digital Media and Learning Competition, supported by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC
2012
SOC(i)AL, 15 public discussions organized, recorded and posted online about social engaged art
2010-12
Board of Directors of University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA)
2011
Art Juror for City of LA and California Community Foundation Fellowships for Visual Artists
2011-12
Advisory Board member of www.socialpracticesartnetwork.org
2009-15
Curator of 2 channel video program for Moscow Film Festival, K-PST New Orleans Film Festival, Artopia and 1830 in Los Angeles,
2005-12
Public art consultant for See Change, permanent video walls of 80+ screens at LAX airport
2008
Curator and designer of Hotbed, Video Cultivation beside the Getty Garden, 20 artists video projections on exterior of Getty Center as part of California Video
2008, 09
Juror for Projections on Lake, outdoor permanent video art screenings
2004
Juror for Creative Capital
2003
Producer of 9 public panel discussions TV or Not TV about art on TV at MOCA and LAPL
2002
Curator of the Extremely Shorts V for Aurora Picture Show, Houston Texas
2002
Juror for Durfee Foundation and Herb Alpert Foundation
1999
co-founding director of Open Studio/LA: internet training program for artists and arts organizations
1994, 95 98, 99, 01
Nominator or Juror for the Rockefeller Foundation
1998, 99, 01
Nominator or Juror for the California Arts Council in Media Arts
1997-99
Juror for Headlands Center for Arts
1997,99,01
Juror for California Digital Arts Workshop
1997
Nominator or Juror for Seattle Arts Commission, Art Matters, UNESCO, L.A. County Arts Commission
1996
Juror for Civitella Ranieri Foundation and Brody Arts Fund
1994, 95, 2012
Nominator for Herb Alpert/Calarts Award, Washington Public Art Media, and AFI/Maya Deren Award in Media Arts
1993
Producer of two programs for Deep Dish TV, an alternative national satellite network
1993-97
Advisor for the Interdisciplinary Arts Caucus, panelist for their Arts in Crisis Summit
1990-92,95, 99, 05, 11
Juror for City of Los Angeles, Cultural Affairs Department, media and public art
1990, 93
Curatorial Advisor to the L.A. Festival
1989-93
Artist advisor to High Performance quarterly magazine for the new arts
1988-95
Juror for American Film Institute: Visions Competition
1988-91
Juror for AFI Independent Filmmakers Program
1985-89
Video Coordinator of LACE: video exhibitions, archive, workshops and artist access program
1989
Moderator of media criticism panel at National Alliance of Media Arts & Culture conference
1989
Juror for Jerome Foundation, Utah Media Arts Center and Long Beach Museum of Art
1988
Juror for Atlanta Film & Video Festival,
1988-92
Juror for L.A. County Arts Commission
1986,89-98,02
Curator of video programs for KCET (public television in Los Angeles)
1985-86
Production Director of large scale performance of Suzanne Lacy at Wight Art Gallery
1985-86
Board of Directors of Foundation for Art Resources (FAR)
1985
Assistant Director of Development for New Music America ’85
1985
Producer of evening of 35 performances & installations at UCLA
1982-85
Coordinator of Art Lecture Series at UCLA
1983,84
Director of Arts & Crafts, L.A. Street Scene Festival, City of Los Angeles
1979-82
Administrator of Art Institute of Boston’s artist lecture series
1981-82
Author of articles about media arts in Video Guide and Views
1981
Producer of interactive video disc, Side 3, about images for Vision Machine Corp.
1979-82
Assistant coordinator of international slo-scan art events at MIT
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1991,92,95-2018
Claremont Graduate University: new genres art, Visiting Artist and Graduate Advisor
2007-10, 2014-2018
USC Media Arts and Practice: multimedia makers forum “Digital Art Symposium” or Multimedia Honors Thesis production class
2016
Occidental College: Public Media and Alternative Exhibition Strategies
1995—2012
USC: Public Art Studies, School of Fine Art, Visiting Lecturer
2009, 11
Claremont Graduate University: cultural studies: Public Media Art Practicum
2005
CalArts, Art School: “Context Revolt”
Vermont College new genre mentor
1997-00
Pomona College: media literacy in Media Studies Department, Visiting Lecturer
1993, 5, 6, 7,
CalArts, Film School: one minute video critiques, video production and history of video
1993, 98
UCSD: video production and video critique, Visiting Artist
1994, 01
CSUN: a large lecture course comparing contemporary art & mass media, Lecturer
1993, 89-90
UCSB: contemporary art, video and photography, Visiting Artist
1991-92
UCLA Design Department: Video Imagery & Video Production, Assistant Professor
1990-91
Video at Art Center
Photography at Pomona
Mixed Media at CSULA, Visiting Artist
1989-90
California State University Northridge, Video/Film Art, Art and Mass Media, Lecturer
1988
Otis Art Institute, Video Instructor
1983-85
UCLA, performance art, video, photography & theory, Teacher Assistant
1978-82
The Art Institute of Boston, Photography Instructor
1977-79
Project Arts Center and Cambridge Center, Photography Instructor
1972-76
Language Instructor in London, Osaka, Copenhagen and Paris
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
2020
“Modes of Performance and the ‘Live’ under COVID” as part of “Mis/Taken Identities: Power, Privilege, and the Politics of Art,”
organized by Amelia Jones for USC Institute for Theatre and Social Change
2018
China Onscreen Biennial, Fowler Museum, UCLA, Projected Dunhuang
USC, Race Arts and Placemaking class of Annette Kim
Scripps College
Drawing Together, mental health meets the arts, Pasadena CA
2017
USC, Race Arts and Placemaking, “ART SPACES in the City: Desegregating Art Geographies”
Echo Park Film Center, “How Can You Resist?”, realized and unrealized projects
Cypress College Art Gallery
2015
Pitzer College
2014
World Conference for Public Administration, Daegu, South Korea
University California Berkeley, LA Lab with Margaret Crawford
LA Seminary for Embodied and Civic Arts with Fritz Haeg
USC Civics and Social Media, South Pasadena Arts Council, Occidental College,
Pasadena Art Alliance, California Endowment, and UCLA Public Health,
2013
Smithsonian Institute: “Learning in Motion: Sharing Stories on Public Transportation” http://museumstudies.si.edu/webcast_102813.html
University of Illinois, Champagne Urbana: festivals and non-festivals
Occidental College: media arts in public space
Cal Arts: visiting artist
Art Center College of Design: Art Matters
Cal State University Los Angeles: media arts in public space
2012
UCSB Art History: media arts in public space
Antioch College: Creating Public Space
SOC(i)AL at LACE with IMLab: Can Artists Use Technology to Create Communities?
Otis College of Art, Graduate Public Practice: visiting artist
Occidental College: media arts in public space
Emerging Arts Leaders of Los Angeles: visiting artist
USC Fisher Gallery of Art: Sight Specific and the Politics of Community
2011
Digital Media and Learning Conference by MacArthur Foundation: locative media project
Occidental College: media arts in public space
Otis College of Art: LAX public art
2010
Los Angeles County Museum of Art with Kenneth Rogers re: new book and DVD: Video on the Loose, Freewaves and 20 Years of Media Arts
Los Angeles Public Library and SCI-ARC as part of How Many Billboards? by Mak Center moderator, art vs ads in public space, available online as podcast
EU Media Facades Festival in Berlin: International Video Screening Conference
Farmlab, art vs ads in public space
Art Center College of Design Graduate School: Screen Culture
USC Institute of Media Literacy, Digital Studies Symposium
UCLA Urban Planning’s Community Scholars Program
Occidental College, media arts in public space,
Otis, LAX public art
2009
USC Annenberg School of Communication, art in private vs public space,
College Art Association, Video Hits the Streets: Art, Surveillance, Marketing, and Mobile Media
UC Riverside and Claremont Cultural Studies, video art now
2006, 08
Orange County Museum of Art, CSULA and CSSSA: current state of media arts
2007
Occidental College: Imaging Los Angeles
National Association of Arts Organizations conference: art and technology
2005
Center for Contemporary Art, workshop: Media Arts conjunct Public Art, Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv Cinematheque, screening of How Can You Resist?
CHELA and Museum of Modern Art (MAMBA), Buenos Aires,
Huffmann’s House, Valparaiso, Chile, Encuentro Internacional de Espacios Independientes
California College of Art, San Francisco
Plenary speaker at international conference Augusto Boal’s Theater of the Oppressed
Grantmakers in the Arts National Conference
2004
Supersonic: “Micromedia in the Age of Megalomedia” symposium by SoCCAS,
Santa Monica Museum of Art
USC Annenberg/Getty Art Journalism panel
Pitzer College
National conference of NALIP
2003
MAK Center/Schindler House,
Cal Arts Film/Video School
2002
Artist response to Collection at Getty Museum of Art
UCLA Graduate Arts
Cal Arts
UCLA Hammer Educational Program
California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA)
2001
Artist lectures at USC School of Cinema-TV
Cal Arts
CSUN
Pomona College
1999
Artist lecture at Cal Arts Interdisciplinary program re: collaboration
Panelist for Society of Photo Education conference re: public art
1998
Panelist in “Fire in the Library” discussion at SCI-Arc
visiting artist at Cal State L.A.
1997
Panelist for About Production’s “Cross Genres -Collaboration-Unexpected Presentations “
Visiting artist at Universities of California Irvine and Riverside
1996
Visiting artist at University of Kansas
Kansas City Art Institute
Pomona College
Art Center
Panelist re: Rethinking Exhibitions at National Alliance of Media Arts & Culture’s conference
Video lectures at Forum for Contemporary Art-St. Louis, LACE, Self Help Graphics, SMMOA,
1995
Panelist, digital art at L.A. County Museum of Art,
Conference of Social Theory, Politics & Art
1994
Artist lecture at USC Public Art Forum
Video lecture at USC School of Cinema & TV
1993
Video lectures at MOCA-San Diego
Armory Center
Filmforum
Otis Art Institute
CSULA
1992
Southern California Women’s Caucus for the Arts: Women in front of & behind the Camera
Artist Lectures at Art Center
Otis Art Institute
UCI, UCLA, UCSB,
Santa Monica Art Museum
Video lectures at Laguna Art Museum and CSUN
Communication Workshop at Armory Center
1991
Plenary address to Far West Conference of National Federation of Local Cable Programmers
The Woman’s Building Vesta Awards Ceremony: Media, Art & Media Arts
Artist Lectures at Art Center College of Design, CSULB, Claremont Graduate School
Panelist at Society of Cinema Studies at USC
1990
Artist Lectures at Pomona College,
Chapman College
University of California at Santa Barbara
1989
Moderator of media criticism panel at National Alliance of Media Arts Centers conference
Panelist at Long Beach Museum of Arts’ Artists Access Panel
Panelist at American Video Conference
1988
Panelist re: video art at CSULB, AFI, CalArts, National Association of Arts Organizations
ADVISORY and/or CURATORIAL CAPACITIES
USC IML thesis projects, Digi Daze, Blue Line Televillage, SPE 96 and 99, Artists & Activists CD-ROMs, Privatization of Culture Pros & Con, Freespeech TV, Filmforum Advisory Committee, Women and Multimedia National Conference, Artists’ CD-ROMS, Community Technology Fund, Billboard Live, Getty Multicultural Summer Internships, L.A. Edge Festival, California Summer School for the Arts, Aurora Picture Show, USC DIY conference, Sidestreet Projects, GYST workshops
BOOKS, SELECTED ARTICLES and INTERVIEWS
2023
book: Dis…Miss Gender? a visual anthology edited by Anne Bray, MIT Press
book: Co-Creative Placekeeping in Los Angeles: Artists and Communities Working Together by Brettany Shannon, David C. Sloane, and Anne Bray, Routledge Press
book: Drawing Beyond the Lines of Gender, a coloring book about gender, by Stella Ramos and Nestor Guerrero, produced by Anne Bray, LA Freewaves published
2022
chapter: The Moving Image as Public Art, Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment, Palgrave Macmillian by Annie Dell’Aria
2021
chapter: Moving Image Artworks Along Sites of Transit: Enchantment and a Sense of Place by Annie Dell’Aria in Levande bilder – levande stad (Living pictures – living city)
2018
article: Expanding Our Definitions of Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality by Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic, July 25, 2018
2017
podcast: How the Art World Works: Artist Anne Bray and LA Freewaves with Karen Atkinson
2016
podcast: LA Freewaves’ Anne Bray on Media as Exchange, LA #Hashtags Itself by Brettany Shannon with USC Price’s Bedrosian Center on Governance, 90 minute interview
article, Stalking the Lions of Pasadena City Hall, by Larry Wilson, Pasadena Star News
2014
chapter, Braingirls and Fleshmonsters, by Holly Willis, Transmedia Frictions, The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities, edited by Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson, University of California Press,
2012
article, A Massive Multi-Faceted Screening Room: LA Freewaves Curates Hollywood Boulevard by Matt Reynolds in Civic Spectacle, Public 45, Art Culture Ideas, Toronto, Canada
2011
book, Pixels and Places, Video Art in Public Space by Catrien Schreuder,
NAI Publishers, Amsterdam, NL
article, A Plea for the Media Arts by Mirjam Struppek in Public Art Review
review, Moving Videos by Eve Wood in Artillery Vol 6 Issue 3
2010
Interview Visual Relief in A Blank Billboard by Sara Daleiden in How Many Billboards Art In Stead book by Mak Center
Review Freewaves: Video Between their Toes by Catherine Wagley in Art 21 Blog
Heidi Zeller interviews Anne Bray, Video on the Loose, Freewaves and 20 Years of Media Arts
2009
Article Freewaves Bargains between Artists and Audiences in Filter issue 69, Australia
2008
Article A Different Side of Hollywould, LA Times by Mindy Farabee, Oct 9
2006
Article LIVE! Reconnecting the Histories of Live Multimedia Performance by Patricia Zimmerman, CLOSER UP by NAMAC
2005
People Brainstormed and A Cloudburst Erupted, LA Times. Current section by Bob Sipchen 12/25
Chapter, The Big Squeeze: Micromedia in the Age of Megalomedia, with Holly Willis, edited by John Welchman for Recent Pasts: : Art in California from the 90s to Now
Article, Artists, Activists, Workers and Community Members ~ ‘How Can You Resist? by Margie Nicholson in Community Media Review, Vol 27 #3, pp 26-27
2004
Interview, It’s Not TV and It’s Not HBO, by Victoria Looseleaf, LA Times, Nov 4, 2004
Interview, The State of Resistance in Res by Shana Ting Lipton 7/04 issue
Interview on Politics of Culture at KCRW public radio with Paul Holdengråbber
Interview on Sound Exchange at KPFK Pacifica radio by Jay Kugelman
Profile in Video Systems magazine by Kristinha H. Amding’s column, Video Discourse
2003
Chapter re: L.A. Freewaves by James Moran in The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in L.A. edited by David James for Temple University Press
Interview: Changing Channels: Anne Bray and LA Freewaves, X-Tra, Vol 5, No3
2002
Article The Community is Watching, Leonardo Journal of Art, Science & Technology, Vol 35
Chapter re video in Parallels & Intersections: A Remarkable History of Women Artists in California 1950-2000 by Carole Ann Klonarides, Nancy Buchanan, Joann Hanley by U.C. Berkeley Press
2001
Catalogues with essays by Holly Willis for Pomona College Museum of Art and Cinematexas 6
Reviews by Holly Willis in Res Magazine and L.A. Weekly
Interview in Practical Handbook for the Emerging Artist by Margaret Lazzari, Harcourt Brace World and Thames & Hudson 3rd edition
2000
Catalogue American Dreams by Meta Gabrsek Prosenc, Umetostna Gallery, Maribor Slovenia
Catalogue Personals by Theo Tegelaers and John O’Brien, Brewery Project
Preview L.A. Weekly Pick of the Week by Peter Frank, 3/24-30
1999
Article Centers on the Periphery by Tyler Stallings, Poliester, Spring/Summer issue
1998
Article L.A. Times San Gabriel Edition, by Paul Clinton 10/16/98
Article in Jamming the Media by Gareth Branwyn, San Francisco: Chronicle Books
1997
Chapter Virtually Female: Body and Code by Margaret Morse in Processed Lives, Gender & Technolgy in Everyday Life , London & New York: Routledge
Chapter Los Angeles : The Search for Identity by Nathan Shapira in QA 19 Quaderni dell ‘Architettura,
Article MAIN, National Alliance of Media Art Centers Journal, Nov-Dec.
1996
Article in The Independent July issue with Laura Marks
1995-2011
www page at www.instantclassics.com
1994
Catalogue LAX/94 coordinated by Ed Leffingwell
Catalogue, Collaborations, Inside the Armory, Out on the Street by Karen Moss
Review L.A. Times by David Pagel, 12/15
Review L.A. Weekly Pick of the Week by Peter Frank, 12/9-15
Article Pasadena Star News by Larry Wilson, 11/5
1993
Artist pages in Felix media arts journal
Catalogue Backtalk by Lucy Lippard,
Catalogue Angles of Incidence, Video Reflections of Multimedia Artworks by Sara Diamond
Catalogue Utopian Dialogues by Betty Ann Brown
Review Santa Barbara News Press review by Michael Darling, 9/24
1992
Photo essay Artforum by Larry Rinder, November
Article MAIN, National Alliance of Media Art Centers Journal, Nov-Dec.
Review Visions by Jacki Apple, 9/92
Review Visions by Betty Ann Brown, 6/92
Review Le Devoir by Daniel Carrière, 7/4 (Montreal daily)
Review The Gazette by Paul Wells, 5/16 (Montreal daily)
Catalogue Images du Futur ’92 by Hervé Fischer and Ginette Major
Review L.A. Times Calendar by Susan Kandel, 2/6
Review Artweek by Phillip Bergen 2/13-20; and interview by Holly Willis Nov 19
Review L.A. Weekly Pick of the Week by Peter Frank, 2/14-20
1991
Articles L.A. Times by Don Snowden, 2/27 and 11/18/89
1990
Article Artwork by Betty Ann Brown, 2/8-15
Article L.A. Times Art News by Shauna Snow, 12/16
1989
Catalogue Public Art Fund Inc 1988-89
Review Daily News by Yardena Arar, 10/26
Article L.A. Weekly Local Heroes by Alison Dickey & Deirdre Dube, 4/21-27
Review Santa Barbara News Press, Scene by Joan Crowder, 12/1
Article Artweek by Connie Fitzsimons, 12/7-13
1988
Artist statement, Artpaper, Art in the Public Realm, May
1987
Catalogue Dark Rooms, by Dan Walworth, Artists Space
Review Afterimage by Robert Morgan, Summer
Review L.A. Weekly Good Times, 2/6-12
Review Downtown News by Marc Zaseda, 9/29/87
1986
Artist page, Spectacle, Fall
Article L.A. Times by Zan Dubin, 10/22
1985
Review Evening Outlook (Santa Monica daily) by John Clendening, 5/20
Evening news on TV Channels 2, 5, and 11 in Los Angeles, 5/19
Article L.A. Weekly, Art, by Kathi Norklun, 10/25-31
Review L.A. Herald Examiner by Mark Werrick, 5/20
Review L.A. Times Metro Section by Kenneth Fanucchi, 5/23
1982
Catalogue Dadakin by Gary Garrels, Hayden Gallery at M.I.T.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2019
Orbits, photographs at Tiger Strikes Astroid gallery, Los Angeles
2018
Manifesto: A Modest Proposal at Pitzer College Art Galleries, curated by Ciara Ennis, funded by NEA
2017
Shepherding-gnidrehpehs, video loop shown at FAR Bazaar in LA and Turbulent Landscapes at Modified Arts in Phoenix
2010
A Book of Days, concert by Eve Beglarian with a screening at Stanford Lively Arts
Play Nice, music and video collaboration with Eve Beglarian at NewTown and Silent Cinema
2006
From America, curated by Mela M., Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk Belarus
2003
The Color of God, group exhibition at Laband Gallery at LMU curated by Christine Morla
Past Forward, digital slam by Visual Communications at Japan American Theater
2002
Glass Membrane: Scanner to Screen at UCR California Museum of Photography
Violence online festival at www.a-virtual-memorial.org/start1.htm
2001
Pressure Drop, video installation at Pomona College Museum of Art curated by Rebecca McGrew
2000
American Dreams, 6th International Triennial of Art & Ecology at Umetostna Gallery in Maribor Slovenia, curated by Nancy Buchanan and Meta Gabrsek Prosenc
1999
OUTRAGEOUS: Spectacular Visual Commerce and its Discontents, group show curated by Bruce Yonemoto for Society of Photographic Education at Otis Art Gallery
BroadCast, group show of works for the public, curated by Kim Abeles, Eagle Rock Cult Ctr
1996
Temporary Eternity, Aspects of L.A. Developments, video and slides curated by Nathan Shapira in Milan, toured to Rome and Trieste
1994
*ColLAborations: Inside the Armory, Out on the Street, curated by Karen Moss, photo installation at Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena in the LAX series.
1993
Ashes, Ashes, audio installation at L.A. Municipal Art Gallery, curated by Betty Brown
*Easy Chair, Electric Chair in Video Reflections of Multimedia Art Works at Banff Center, Alberta, Canada
1992
*Easy Chair, Electric Chair, video installation w/ Cleator at Santa Monica Museum of Art
*Easy Chair, Electric Chair in Images du Futur, Cité des Arts et Nouvelles Technologies de Montreal, Canada
1991
Cause and Effect, group screening of video, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley
1991
*Easy Chair, Electric Chair, California State University, Northridge Art Galleries
1989
Faculty Exhibition, indoor billboard, University Art Museum, UCSB
1987
Dark Rooms, slide sound installation, Artist Space, NYC
1985
I Don’t Buy It, installation, Wight Art Gallery, UCLA
1982
Text/Picture Notes, documentation, Visual Studies Workshop, NY
Dadakin, documentation, Hayden Gallery, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA
Disarmament Video Survey, video, The Kitchen, NYC
1981
Anti-WWIII, documentation, Hunter College, NYC
Art of the State, Massachusetts Council on the Arts, fellowships show
1980
Zone Pink: performances with Women in Photography Group, Boston
1975-78
Photography in one person & group shows in Boston & Paris
EDUCATION
1985
M.F.A. New Forms and Concepts, Art Department, U.C.L.A.
1974-76
History of photography at Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris
1972
B.A. in French Literature, Colgate University, New York
1968-71
La Universite de Geneve, Colgate University, Skidmore College
FOUNDER and DIRECTOR of FREEWAVES
whose previous highlights are
2016-22 DIS…MISS
a public visual art exchange about gender in Los Angeles, on tour and online using videos, postcards performance art and social media,
2015-16 LIONS,TIGERS, AND
sound installation with opening and closing musical performances and video projections at Pasadena City Hall about the building facade’s lions including 800 public interpretations
2014-16 LONG LIVE LA
health videos by artists shown on buses, at clinics, online and at events
2011-14 OUT THE WINDOW
artists’ videos shown on 2000 LA buses over the years
2012 SOC(i)AL
15 events about socially engaged art
2008 HOLLYWOULD
11th Festival at 50 stores, restaurants and art venues over 5 days showing 200 artists on Hollywood Boulevard at screenings, performances, exhibitions and airings on 2200 city buses.
2006 TOO MUCH FREEDOM?
10th Festival at Hammer Museum, LACE and Center for Democracy and online archive
Includes 200 artists from 50 countries in 45 projections and web site navigable by theme.
2004-05 HOW CAN YOU RESIST?
Freewaves 9th Festival at MOCA, REDCAT, SAJE, Chinatown, TV, billboards and online. Programs from 5 continents, Programs traveled to Israel, Argentina, Chile and online as broadband programming
2003-04 INTER-STATE, VIDEO TO GO and IF: 2 one-hour pilot TV programs
2002-05 FREEWAVES: LATIN AMERICA
9 video programs from the U.S., Central and South America, shown at MOCA and Iturralde Gallery, Programs traveled to New York; San Jose, Costa Rica; Havana, Cuba; Melbourne, Australia; Bogotá, Colombia; Zaragosa, Spain, and San Juan, Puerto Rico
2002 TV OR NOT TV
LA Freewaves 8th Festival TV or NOT TV in Los Angeles, 365 artists from 20 countries in 70 shows, public TV, LA Channels 36 & 56 TV. video billboards, 9 panels about creating a culture TV channel, 2 digital programs shown at cyber cafés.
2001 TV OR NOT TV
3 half hour videos about the media arts in LA with a curriculum guide. Aired on Public TV and distributed widely for free
2000 AIR RAIDS
7th Celebration of Experimental Media Arts: 65 events at 35 venues, video bus tours, billboards, half-hour programs on public television, on-line exhibitions and artists’ CD-ROMS at MOCA, panel discussions, and a video finale at a karaoke club.
1999 OPEN STUDIO/LA
free workshops on Internet and web design for 500, followed by an in-depth residency
1998 ALL OVER THE MAP
Freewaves 6th Celebration of Independent Video and New Media included video screenings, installations, performances, CD-ROMs and website exhibitions at MOCA as well as 6 video bus tours.
1998 INTERNET AND WEB DESIGN WORKSHOPS
25 free Internet and Web Design workshops specially designed for video makers, visual artists, writers, and musicians.
1998 LIBRARY/HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM
8 video programs were distributed free to 75 Los Angeles public libraries and 40 high schools with curriculum guides.
1996 WEBSITE LAUNCHED & 1st CD-ROM
of shareware, artists’ manifestos and websites produced (900 copies).
1996 PRIVATE TV, PUBLIC LIVING ROOM
Freewaves 5th Celebration of Independent Video, Etc. 150 installations, videotapes, CD-ROMS, and artists’ websites at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary. Programs traveled to 15 Southern California art centers and 32 cable stations.
1996 LIVE N.U.D.E. ARTISTS
An evening of in-person presentations of 9 artists’ CD ROMs at Inscape
1995 DIGI DAYS
Low-cost workshops, panels, lectures, and demos of digital video and interactive media held at AFI
1995 ARTISTS AND ACTIVISTS CD ROMS
workshops at USC re: production & distribution of artists’ CD-ROMs
1995 LIBRARY/HIGH SCHOOL PROGRAM
8 video programs sent to 66 L.A. libraries and 40 city high schools
1994: TV AT LARGE
4th Celebration of Independent Video: video projection and live performance at the John Anson Ford Amphitheater
5 programs at the AFI’s Video Festival, cable TV throughout Southern California
A regional media resource guide.
1993 YOUTH MEDIA & RESOURCES
a catalog of So Cal Youth Media Programs and 2 videos about LA Uprising & youth
1992 3rd CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENT VIDEO
75 programs of 425 artists, 8 cable programs broadcast on 29 cable stations, curated by 60 curators. Commissioned video-installation-performances at California Plaza. Brought together a broad-based quick response to the Los Angeles Uprising.
1991 2nd CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENT VIDEO
100 arts organizations, cable stations, media centers, and schools. 44 thematic programs plus 150 tapes by students were exhibited. First Los Angeles media access guide created.
1989 1st CELEBRATION OF INDEPENDENT VIDEO
Launched at the AFI’s National Video Festival with 35 L.A. media and arts organizations. During the 3-week festival, unique events were mounted at 30 sites, while 4 thematic programs, called “Road Shows”, traveled throughout L.A.