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PRESS
RELEASE
For immediate release
August 7, 2006
Freewaves announces
its
10th Biennial Festival
of Film, Video and Experimental New Media
"Too Much Freedom?"
November 2006 in Los Angeles
And beyond at www.freewaves.org
Los Angeles, CA -- Freewaves unleashes “Too Much Freedom?”
its 10th biennial festival of film, video and experimental new media
art at Los Angeles venues in November. As a complement to the live
festival, Freewaves will also launch a next-generation exhibition
space at www.freewaves.org, collecting and redistributing the festival
selections for worldwide exposure.
Freewaves will parade 150 international artists’ responses
to the question, “Too Much Freedom?” selected by 10
curators from Los Angeles, Argentina, Korea, Egypt, Mexico, South
Africa and beyond. The festival events and website will connect
new media artists whose work is independently produced, technically
and conceptually inventive, and engages with a range of playful
to political themes.
The festival’s videos, films and web-based media examine
freedom and its conundrums, unpacking assumptions about artistic
invention, political intelligence, ethical dilemmas and personal
desires.
Freewaves’ executive director, Anne Bray, reflects on the
issues raised by media artists in “Too Much Freedom?”
and the broader tensions between art, technology, economics and
popular culture: “Collectively, the media arts push and pull
within dichotomies: Is art hastening the standardization or differentiation
of world culture? Is avant garde content or the creative dispersions
of art the most interesting front? What are the alternative voices
to U.S.-centric concepts and images? How can we initiate cross-cultural
conversations in Los Angeles and online?”
“Too Much Freedom” will open on November 3 and 4 in
the UCLA Hammer Museum’s central courtyard (the weekend prior
to the election), with two vibrating floors of simultaneous projections,
works on flat screens and video installations. Viewers can question
freedom’s transgressions, surpluses and omissions, as well
as confront its opposite: stereotyped or institutionalized control.
See www.freewaves.org for
streaming video, and information about participating artists and
programs. . .
* At the Hammer Museum, including opening weekend event and videos
available in the Video Library and Viewing Room
* At LACE
* On KCET TV
* On video billboards on Sunset Strip and Wilshire Boulevard
* At Pomona College Museum of Art
* At The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
Process
Freewaves received over 1,500 entries for “Too Much Freedom?”
from over 50 countries. Through a new networking process, Freewaves’
international curatorial team reviewed and selected works online.
The web-based process also allowed the curators to discuss entries
from their respective locations with the others via the internet.
Curators
Rodrigo Alonso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Independent commissioner and curator of technological art, and professor
at the University of Buenos Aires
Clare Davies, Cairo, Egypt
Associate curator at the Townhouse Gallery of contemporary art
Malik Gaines, Los Angeles, USA
Writer and performer who serves as an adjunct curator at LA><ART
Julie Joyce, Los Angeles, USA
Gallery director of the Luckman Fine Arts Complex at California
State University, Los Angeles
Inhee Iris Moon, New York, USA & Korea
Independent curator who has organized exhibitions in New York and
Korea, plus a freelance art writer for various international art
journals
Bruno Varela, Oaxaca City, Mexico
Independent producer, director and founder of the media organization
Arcano Catorce
Fabian Wagmister, Los Angeles, USA & Buenos Aires, Argentina
Director of UCLA1s department of Theater, Film and Television’s
Laboratory for New Media; chair of the Program on Digital Cultures
at UCLA\'s Latin American Center; and creator and principal investigator
of the HyperMedia Studio
With curatorial assistance from:
Houng-Cheol Choi, Seoul, Korea
Independent artist and current director of SMG Co. and former chief
curator at Moran Museum
Gabi Ngcobo, Cape Town, South Africa
Assistant curator at South African National Gallery
Valeria Ibraeva, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Director of the Soros Center for Contemporary Art
Toni Serra, Barcelona, Spain
Founding co-director of OVNI _ The Observatory Archives
Calendar of Events
Opening Weekend
Receptions, video installations and projections
Friday-Saturday, November 3-4, 2006, 7:00-11:00 p.m.
UCLA Hammer Museum
10899 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles 90024
Discussion, Screening and Reception
Local artists and curators
Saturday, November 11, 2006, 8:00 p.m.
LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90028
Screening and Speak Out
Media that Matters 6th festival and other youth videos
Saturday, November 18, 2006, 2:00-4:00 p.m.
The National Center for the Preservation of Democracy
111 N. Central Ave., Los Angeles 90012
Exhibition of two recent video works by Oliver Ressler
November 5 – December 17, 2006
Pomona College Museum of Art
333 N. College Way, Claremont CA 91711
Video billboard projections intermittently in November:
Key Club, 9039 Sunset Blvd. and Doheny Dr.
Kiosk, 8410 Sunset Blvd. opposite the Hyatt Hotel on the Sunset
Strip
Aroma Vision, 3680 Wilshire Blvd. two blocks east of Western Ave.
Freewaves
An online magnet for the media arts, Freewaves is a grassroots yet
global arts organization connecting innovative, relevant, independent
new media from around the world.
Freewaves is funded by 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,
The Peter Norton Family Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts,
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, and Los Angeles County
Arts Commission.
For more information contact Anne Bray, Executive Director
213.344.8910 or anne@freewaves.org or visit www.freewaves.org.
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