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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/127780622281THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY TELEBRATION OF HOLE-IN-SPACE: A PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS SCULPTURE (1980) BY KIT GALLOWAY AND SHERRIE RABINOWITZ November 13, 2020, 1pm The 40th Anniversary Telebration of Hole-in-Space: A Public Communications Sculpture (1980) by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz The 40th Anniversary Telebration of Hole-in-Space: A Public Communications Sculpture (1980) by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz A telematic art event w...Continue reading

Peter Lunenfeld on the California Sun Podcast Jeff Schechtman talks to Peter Lunenfeld about his appreciation of Los Angeles as one of the world’s supercities. Even amid Covid, politics, and competition for the future from Silicon Valley, he sees a city thriving with reinvention. The metropolis he depicts in his book "City at the Edge of Forever" is certainly not your father's Los Angeles. https://californiasun.libsyn.com/peter-lunenfeld-0

CASEY REAS and Jan St. Werner win 2020 Lumen Prize Moving Image Award for "Compressed Cinema" Los Angeles based software artist Casey Reas along with music artist Jan St. Werner received the 2020 Lumen Prize Moving Image Award at the Lumen’s Virtual Awards Ceremony on Wednesday for his audiovisual work Compressed Cinema.... Compressed Cinema is a series of 5 audiovisual works created by deriving images from a set of film stills. Reas derived the images and Werner created the accompanying audio tracks. The collection of five videos are the result of over 3 years of experimentation and developing new techniques for creating cinematic media with generative adversarial networks (GANs). https://www.lumenprize.com/2020/casey-reas-amp-jan-st-wener

Ramesh Srinivasan spoke on Democracy Now! He discussed the intimate and alarming relationship between tech platforms and the forthcoming election as well as the administration's posturing toward big tech as Tuesday nears. Here is the link to the segment: https://www.democracynow.org//29/ramesh_srinivasan_big_tech

Julieta Gil winner of the Lumen Prize in the gold award category The global prize for art & technology. The Lumen Prize for Art and Technology is open to artists from around the world. All artists selected for the longlist, shortlist as well as the award winners are eligible... for opportunities with Lumen Art Projects, our parent company. See Julieta’s award winning work here. https://www.lumenprize.com/2020-winners/julieta-gil

Iman Person was recently awarded the ACT Award and will be participating in the 2021 STRP Festival next April. Here are the details: April 8th-11th, 2021 STRP Festival 2021, Eindhoven, Netherlands... The ACT Award, STRP supports artists and makers not only with the budget to realize a project plan, but also with guidance in the development, production, presentation, and distribution of the work. The jury picked the two ACT winners, Iman Person and Liam Young, out of 123 submissions from 24 different countries. Both artists will receive the prize money of 25,000 euros that will enable them to realize their submitted project proposals. The two new works will première, online and onsite, during STRP Festival 2021 from 8-11 April in Eindhoven. Iman Person will realize the artwork NewAir, an installation that considers interspecies and interspatial communication through the medium of wind data, sculpture, video, and sonic exploration. With her work, Iman engages with the soft boundaries/boundarylessness that exist within nature, the mind, and organisms of memory. Link: https://strp.nl/projects/act-award-2021-winners

Kristin McWharter RARA October 31, 2020 - November 29th, 2020... Exhibition Opening: October 31st, 5pm central Public performances on Saturdays in November, 5pm - 5:15pm central Enter the Exhibition here https://ldpresents-rara.glitch.me/ I would like to invite you to the upcoming exhibition RARA hosted by Langer Over Dickie Gallery in Chicago. Featuring a series of digital web performances throughout the month of November. RARA is available to view and participate remotely each Saturday at 5pm central. Looking at the rise of sports entertainment throughout the 20th century, RARA builds upon the particular forms of storytelling embedded within the game of football. Tumbling narratives of achievement, redemption, progress and the unknowns of improvisation, chance, and limitation. Inspired by the cultural crockpot of stadiums, mascots, chips and dips fuse into a slurry of capitalistic machismo, McWharter delves into the aesthetics of audience allegiance, superstition, hope, and cultural value. Imagining a dystopian future where the economic basis of the American football has collapsed, what becomes of the cheerleader? RARA playfully speculates on a reimagined future for the sport through live digital performance and a keen eye on the rhetoric of motivation. Web development and design by KT Duffy and Vitaliy Emelianov Sound Design by Davy

The New Museum just premiered the Cyberfeminism Index, an in-progress online collection of resources for techno-critical works from 19902020, gathered and facilitated by Mindy Seu, DMA BA 2013. https://www.newmuseum.org///first-look-cyberfeminism-index

SHARE SCREEN MFA FALL EXHIBITION ONLINE EXHIBITION October 29, 2020, 5:00 pm Screen is becoming a public space. In the context of the pandemic, we convene online and communicate through screens. The act of sharing screens is a public performance. Our desktop is both a home and a stage. There are times when we gather online and feel pixelated. Our voices are low-passed and we move with the speed of our network. Our image resolution becomes an important part of our presenc...e. Speakers speak for us and the video portraits are our new faces. In this situation where screens take over, the 2021 UCLA DMA MFA cohort presents their preview exhibition, SHARE SCREEN. SHARE SCREEN takes into account the screen as the main medium, and so the tension in digital space. Concrete interactions are made virtual as exchange of data, while conversely, a mouse click some distance away is also a remote yet intimate touch on the artworks themselves. This exhibition features eleven works by Alvaro Azcarraga, Tristan Espinoza, Zheng Fang, Zhengyang Huang, Zhengzhou Huang, Dasul Kim, Sam Malabre. Within the gaps between digital media and our mediated environments, these works make space for thoughts around the artificial and the biological, synthetic and organic, fantasy and reality, simulation and appropriation. We hope the entire extended DMA community of grads, undergrads, alumni, etc. will join us at 5pm. Please follow link. https://videolounges.com/sharescreen https://videolounges.com//sh//videolounges.com/sharescreen https://videolounges.com/sharescreen: Visit the Share Screen exhibition here: http://projects.dma.ucla.edu/exhibitions/sharescreen/

The 40th Anniversary Telebration of Hole-in-Space: A Public Communications Sculpture (1980) by Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz A telematic art event with key importance for the future of media arts was organized November 12-14, 1980 between Century City in Los Angeles and the Lincoln Center in New York. Making the impossible possible, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz created a futuristic communications infrastructure that connected two public outdoor spaces in real tim...Continue reading

Rebeca Méndez is an artist, designer, professor of design media arts and director of the CounterForce lab at UCLA. She’s also an activist who frequently advocates for a sustainable future, and in this presidential election year she’s had her sights set on the November election. As part of the League of Women Voters’ and the American Institute of Graphic Arts’ effort to empower the women’s vote, Méndez created an art poster called, There is More Space For Change And Growth. UCLA Newsroom spoke with Méndez about this work, the superpower of design and how we might begin to move forward from the divisiveness of the past few years. https://newsroom.ucla.edu//professor-uses-her-design-super

Wednesday, October 21st, 1PM PST FLAT Journal Workshop for Vancouver Art Book Month "Art Books for the Browser"... How is the art book as an object, and publishing as a medium, evolving in the context of the web? FLAT Journal will be hosting a presentation and workshop about rethinking the art book through online, interactive, and experimental means. Come learn how to code a basic website using Bindery.JS that becomes an interactive, printable book, no coding experience necessary! RSVP: https://bit.ly/35bfeKh WEBSITE: VABM WEBSITE: https://vancouverartbookfair.com/art-book-month/ FLAT WEBSITE: https://flatjournal.com/ IMAGE: