Track Number Records Showcase: Opening DJ @ 8pm: Estevan Carlos Benson
Track Number Records Showcase Featuring a live performance from ERAS
Opening DJ @ 8pm: Estevan Carlos Benson
Friday May 18th, 8pm - till the cops shut it down
BIP 650 N. Hoover St. and Melrose Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90004
$5 at the door
What does it sound like? electronic, shoe gaze, noise, glitch
THE WORLD IS DOWN, 10 Works by Eddo Stern
“The World is Down: 10 Works by Eddo Stern” marks a rare solo presentation of Stern’s work in Los Angeles and will feature some of his most important projects from the past two decades.
Regarded as a legend within the digital arts, Stern creates hybrid forms that bridge a wide array of methodologies and influences—from video games to classical sculpture; appropriation to Chinese shadow puppetry; performance to animated painting.
At the heart of his practice is a concerted investigation into the themes and metaphors that are often associated with video gaming culture, and the ways in which electronic media has come to dominate our lives. The pathology of machismo, violence and magic & fantasy are just some of the areas that he returns to time and again, often combining such ideas with pointed political references and outright humor.
“The World is Down” will feature three recently completed projects including the interactive game, “Goldstation (2012)”, a new sculptural version of “Portal, Wormhole, Flythrough” (2008-2012), and the 3D sensory deprivation game, “Darkgame (v3.0) (2012) (Note: the full selection of works will be on display at the June 8th opening)
Opening: Thursday March 17, 2012 6-8:30pm
Through July 27, 2012
YOUNGPROJECTS Gallery
@Pacific Design Center #B230
8687 Melrose Ave. (San Vicente and Melrose Ave)
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(Parking Avail @ West Hollywood Library)
323-377-1102
Peter Lunenfeld gives Digital Humanities Lightning Talk, Thursday 2:00
The Digital Humanities program is pleased to present a second round of lightning talks: five-minute talks designed to showcase work in progress. This round will feature Professor Peter Lunenfeld (UCLA Design and Media Arts), and a special guest, Professor Harold Short (King's College London Humanities Computing).
Thursday, May 17
2:00 p.m.–3:00 p.m.
Research Commons Classroom (11630F), Young Research Library
UCLA Game Art Festival reviewed in LA Times
A homeless seven-year-old in Russia named Pjotr is addicted to cigarettes. He must navigate the streets of St. Petersburg, doing whatever he can for a smoke -- steal liquor to give to his prostitute mother for a few bucks and trade Mercedes hood ornaments to black market dealers for a spare stoge. If he goes for a minute without nicotine, he falls to the ground shivering and then dies.
The storyline becomes a little less messed up when you realize that it forms the narrative backbone for a video game called Ultitsa Dimitrova, designed by Lea Schönfelder. The sad part is that it was inspired by a real anecdote she heard from her brother, a social worker in St. Petersburg, Florida. But in real life, it is oddly cute -- maybe because of the plot's absurdity, but also because there's an airy flute playing in the background and all the characters are drawn with blue pen ink. Ultitsa is one of dozens of new, offbeat games featured at the 2012 Game Art Festival, which took place this past Wednesday and Thursday nights, at the Hammer Museum and UCLA's Broad Art Center respectively.http://blogs.laweekly.com/arts/2012/05/caines_arcade_ucla_video_game_art.php
Robert Israel in the May issue of Dwell Magazine
PUBLIC ART AT JOHNS HOPKINS
Yesterday the Johns Hopkins Hospital officially opened its new building, the Charlotte R. Bloomberg Children's Center, bringing an empathetic and curatorial eye to civic architecture by inviting 70 artists to create more than 500 on-site installations throughout the structure.
Read more:http://www.dwell.com/articles/public-art-at-johns-hopkins.html#ixzz1urwLaKaI
Phoebe Hui wins Award for Young Artists
Phoebe Hui won this year's “Award for Young Artists” in the media arts category organised by the Hong Kong arts development council (ADC) and co-presented by Television Division of Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK), was held on 9 May 2012 at the Lyric Theatre of the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.
Eddo Stern and David Elliot in Daily Bruin about Annual Game Lab Event
The Game Lab is a single room in the Broad Art Center littered with half-finished game components, lined with computer monitors and occupied by a select handful of dedicated game developers at any one time. A lot of magic happens in this room.
In the past weeks leading up to the Game Art Festival, which is opening tonight at the Hammer Museum and running again Thursday night at the Experimental Digital Arts space in the Broad Art Center, a lot of that magic has been focused on preparation. Half-finished game components include arcade cabinets that will be on display. Computer monitors are aglow with games that will soon be playable, and the dedicated occupants are the ones making sure that everything goes smoothly. To continue reading this article please visit:Vasa Sculpture in Exhibit
Lancaster’s Museum of Art and History (MOAH) opens its new dedicated space with “Smooth Operations: Substance and Surface in Southern California Art,” an exhibition looking at the use of new and untraditional materials in the fabrication of art objects. “Smooth Operations” will concentrate on the postwar years in and around Los Angeles, when experimentation with such unorthodox, even radical materials and qualities led to the emergence of movements such as “finish/fetish” and light-and-space. Among the artists whose work will comprise “Smooth Operations” are Peter Alexander, Larry Bell, DeWain Valentine, Ronald Davis, Craig Kauffman, Judy Chicago, Roland Reiss, VASA, Norman Zammitt, Fred Eversley, Jerome Mahoney, Doug Edge, and Terry O’Shea.
Saturday, May 5 – Saturday, August 18, 2012
Museum of Art and History
665 West Lancaster BLVD
(Corner of Ehrlich Ave. and Lancaster BLVD)
Lancaster CA 93534
Nova Jiang wins Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica 2012
UCLA DMA alumna Nova Jiang has won a Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category in the Prix Ars Electronica 2012 competition (Linz, Austria). Her winning entry, "Ideogenetic Machine", is an interactive installation that incorporates portraits of participants into an algorithmically generated comic book.
For more information on Nova's innovative work, see:
Erkki Huhtamo's new book on Media Archaeology Reviewed
Read what a reviewer says about UCLA DMA Professor Erkki Huhtamo's new book Media Archaeology: Approaches, Applications, and Implications (University of California Press, 2011):
Rebeca Mendez 2012 National Design Award announced in UCLA Today
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has named Rebeca Méndez one of 10 winners of the 2012 National Design Awards, which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines. The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Oct. 17 in New York.
Rebeca Méndez Winner of 2012 National Design Award / Communication Design
Today, Cooper-Hewitt Director Bill Moggridge announced the winners of the 2012 National Design Awards, which recognize excellence across a variety of disciplines. The award recipients will be honored at a gala dinner Wednesday, Oct. 17, at Pier Sixty in New York.
“The National Design Awards program is Cooper-Hewitt’s largest and most widespread educational initiative and celebrates the full spectrum of American design practice, said Moggridge. The provocative work of this year’s winners truly shapes the way we experience the world.
David Wicks interviewed in Turnstyle News
At first glance, you might simply recognize David Wicks’ artwork as maps, but on further inspection, a data set embedded in the art becomes visible. Wicks writes software to generate art.
http://turnstylenews.com/2012/05/01/artist-turns-enviro-data-into-art-drawing-water/
Lauren McCarthy and David Wicks will present a realtime portrait of Minneapolis at night at Northern Spark 2012
Northern Spark is an active celebration of the creativity of artists and the creative programming of cultural organizations. Last year, during the night of June 4, 2011, there were 50,000 visits to 100 projects by more than 200 artists in collaboration with 60 cultural organizations and sponsors at 34 venues in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Northern Spark was a one-night creative explosion.
June 9 - 10, 2012
Mill City Silos
Minneapolis, MN
Rebeca Mendez moderates BIG CITY FORUM: DESIGN THINKING
BIG CITY FORUM: DESIGN THINKING
WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 2012.
7 – 9 PM
ARMORY CENTER FOR THE ARTS
145 North Raymond Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91103
Big City Forum presents the third conversation in the Mapping LA series, a set of four discursive events that features speakers from a similar creative practice sharing a lively discussion around livability, sustainability, community, and the politics of place in Los Angeles.
The forum will explore how design based thinking can be used as creative process that informs our way of engaging with public and social space. A group of design practitioners and educators will explore issues around design as a set of solutions that can be applied towards social innovation, and the argument for and against it. It will also look at design thinking as a pedagogical and cognitive approach to engage with larger issues.
Featuring:
Nik Hafermaas - Chair Graphic Design, Art Center
Marc Mertens - Principal, SESO Design
Kali Nikitas, Chair Communication Arts, OTIS
Joseph Prichard - Principal J Prichard Design and Graphic Designer, Public Affairs, Cal Arts
Moderated by: Rebeca Mendez, faculty UCLA Design/Media Arts
Lauren McCarthy - Sosolimited opens "Patterned by Nature" in North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
The artwork, a collaboration between Sosolimited, of which Lauren McCarthy is a member, Plebian Design, and Hypersonic Engineering & Design, celebrates our abstraction of nature's infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time. 10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass.
Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass. The content cycles through twenty programs, ranging from clouds to rain drops to colonies of bacteria to flocking birds to geese to cuttlefish skin to pulsating black holes. An eight channel soundtrack accompanies the animations on the ribbon, giving visitors clues to the identity of the pixelated movements.
David Leonard interviewed on KTLA
Casey Reas, David Wicks, Jonathan Cecil, Rhazes Spell, and Lauren McCarthy credited for MIRADA ADC Gold win
Casey Reas is credited for our (MIRADA) ADC Gold win! There is an audience award - and people need to vote! Feel free to spread the word - and this link!
http://www.adcglobal.org/archive/voting/?v=1&id=3004#.T5cek0FmZO8.twitter
David Leonard interviewd on KPCC
David Leonard was interviewed on KPCC about his upcoming exhibition Parker Center. Join us with your comments and questions as we talk with photographer Gary Leonard and his then fourteen-year-old son, artist David Leonard, about their unique experience photographing the events in the weeks between April 29 and May 9, 1992, as well as educators who teach the riots in their classroom. On April 29 from 12 to 5 p.m., Gary Leonard and his son, David Leonard, will display works as part of "Parker Center," their LA Riots retrospective at Take My Picture Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles.
Casey Reas interviewed by MutualArt.com
The Future of Art: Computed Creations
With all the innovative artists we have explored recently, breaking ground in new media from books to rubbish, we’ve seen that there are no limits to a creative mind in action. Then what could stand out more than an artist who not only dreams up unique artwork, but one who even invents the media used to execute it? Casey Reas is a Los Angeles-based who employs self-invented software to produce work that seamlessly blends art, science and technology. We pointed out Reas as a 2012 trendsetter for his multimedia designs that we came across on the Creator’s Project website, where he is credited along with Ben Fry as the inventor of the open-source programming language Processing.