18th Street Arts Center is Southern California’s premier alternative contemporary art and artist residency center, supporting emerging to mid-career artists and arts organizations dedicated to issues of community, diversity, and social justice in contemporary society. 18th Street’s programs include residencies for Los Angeles artists and art organizations, residencies for international visiting artists, two galleries for visual arts exhibitions, and free events for the public. Jan Williamson, Executive Director.
www.18thstreet.org
Cain’s work crosses multiple disciplines and approaches, including participatory performances/installations and media projects. He will be part of the Busan Biennial in Busan, Korea, and was included in California Video at the J. Paul Getty Museum both in 2008. In addition to his own artwork, Cain is an organizer, curator and activator who engages artists and audiences in fresh dialogue. He has been included in many group exhibitions and video screenings throughout California. Cain received an MFA in Integrated Media from CalArts.
Grant Davis aka VJ Culture has performed and presented light and sound programs throughout the world, including working with Magnetic Poets at the 2006 Winter Olympics, with StarCulture at the Forum Mexico and a world tour with Beck in 2006. He is the co-founder of Video Salon, that provides free audio-visual education. His VJ work has been recognized with many international awards and citations and has been rated one of the world’s top ten VJs in 2004, 2005 and 2006 by DJ Magazine.
www.vjculture.com
Deleporte creates work in many forms, including electronic media, performance, painting and installations. Her work is in the permanent collection of many institutions including the Centre Pompidou, Paris and the Musee d’ Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva. She has had numerous solo exhibitions including venues such as Contemporary Art Center, Sete, France, 2008 and Exit Institute, Peja, Kosovo, 2006. Deleporte is included in the upcoming Prospect One biennial in New Orleans. She lives in New York and Paris.
www.annedeleporte.com
Greenmeme’s work is born from a love of nature, a dedication to reinventing urban ecologies and a fascination with emerging technologies. Mixing technology with natural elements allows them to produce living, breathing, and responsive sculptures that inform people in a whimsical fashion of the environmental conditions within their surroundings. Greenmeme creates artworks that reduce pressures on our natural resources, use alternative energy and actively engages the public through the artistic interpretations of environmental data. (...)
(...) The team has exhibited both nationally and internationally, and has recently been featured in the publication Transmaterial 2 for their “Live Within Skin” project in Santa Monica.
www.greenmeme.com
Usman Haque has invented a unique form of interdisciplinary practice that is informed by architecture, interactive media, sculpture and group psychology. Haque’s projects invite the audience into a dynamic and responsive conversation that generates an enormous sense of shared experience and joy. Open Burble, created for the 2006 Singapore Biennial was an airborne sculpture constructed of 1000 helium filled balloons each fitted internally with sensors and light emitting diodes (LEDs). Responsive both to air currents and the movements of 50 people holding levers, Burble, with its ever-changing colors, (...)
(...) was visible for up to two miles when it obtained the height of a ten-story building.
Haque’s work is celebratory and festive in the very best sense of the terms and his ability to reach new audiences with his accessible yet complex creations make him a perfect fit for Glow, where he will premier Primal Source, specifically designed for the Glow site and audience.
Haque often describes his work as “softspace”—design enabled by advanced technologies that create fluid and ephemeral structures, subject to constant mutation in response to public and environmental stimulation. (...)
(...) Softspaces are a realm of new media in which matter becomes a responsive condition rather than a fixed form. The time-based aspect of the performing and media arts is given three-dimensional form in Haque’s projects. Through the life of an artwork, be it several hours or months, Haque’s creations remain in an ever-evolving, ever-changing mode.
Trained as an architect, Haque specializes in responsive environments, interactive installations, digital interface devices and mass participation performances. His skills include the design of both physical spaces and the software and allied systems that bring them to life. (...)
(...) In addition to Open Burble, his principal projects include Evolving Sonic Environment, with Robert Davis of the Psychology Department, Goldsmiths College (displayed at the Netherlands New Media Institute, 2007), Project Unspecified, a low-tech inflatable in Washington Square Park, New York City, 2007, and Reconfigurable House, with Adam Somlai-Fischer/Aether Architecture and the Reorient Team, at the InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo, 2008. In addition to exhibitions in Europe and Asia, Haque is the recipient of several prestigious awards including the Wellcome Trust Sciart Award, the Swiss Creation Prive, Asia Digital (...)
(...) Art Award (Grand Prize) and a grant from the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology. Haque was borne in Washington D.C. and currently resides in London.
www.haque.co.uk
Shih Chieh Huang’s deft installations and sculptures transform mass produced objects into glowing and dynamic creatures that refer both to the common source of their origin (as humble as a garbage bag) as well as to the extraordinary marine environment so much of his work evokes. Huang is a magician at taking everyday products and recycling them into mesmerizing, enchanting and slightly unnerving artworks. Huang will be creating a unique environment for Glow: a Neptunian lair along and above the pedestrian and bicycle path beneath (...)
(...) the Santa Monica Pier. Huang’s appreciation and integration of global commerce and culture are particularly appropriate for a project in Santa Monica, on the eastern edge of the Pacific Ocean.
Born in Taiwan, Huang spent much of his childhood in California, earning a BA from the University of California, San Diego and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York City, where he currently resides. His art has been exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, including institutions such as the New Museum of Contemporary Art; Queens Museum; Des Moines Art Center; Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai; (...)
(...) Fine Arts Museum of Taiwan. Dresden Art Museum; and, Museum of Contemporary Art, Malaga. Most recently, he was one of four artists in the ATOPIA exhibition at the 2007 Venice Biennale, organized by the Taipei
Among the many awards and residencies Huang has received are Skowhegan Fellowship; Manhattan Community Arts Fund Recipient; New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship; Rockefeller Foundation New Media Arts Fellowship and Joan Mitchell Foundation Fellowship. In Fall 2007, Huang was one of the twelve artists in the inaugural year of the Smithsonian Institution’s artist-in-residence program. (...)
(...) The two-month residency allowed Huang an opportunity to study the Smithsonian’s collection of marine animals and plant forms that have iridescent and light emitting characteristics. This serendipitous timing allows Huang to create the commission for Glow, fresh from his research in Washington.
www.messymix.com
Moon Theater is the first collaboration between Jiang and Kontopoulos.
Kontopoulos exhibited “Mechanosphere” in the Three Rivers Arts Festival Gallery in Pittsburgh, PA in 2007, and was included in RE/ACT Festival, Heidelberg, Germany, 2006 among other venues where he has exhibited and or participated in screenings. Jiang participated in “Screen Slam” at the Orange County Museum of Art in 2007 and is currently exhibiting work at the Medialab Prado in Madrid and the Sonar festival in Barcelona.
LA Commons engages communities in the creation of art for public spaces that tells their unique stories and serves as the basis for dialogue,
interaction and a better understanding of Los Angeles. Karen Mack, Executive Director.
www.lacommons.org
SHINE
Started as a support group for women who drum, SHINE (Sisters Healing Inspiring Nurturing Empowering) Mawusi now stands as a unique force in Los Angeles’ drumming world. Focusing on the traditional rhythms of West Africa, the ensemble now includes drummers and dancers who bring a powerful energy to Glow drawing on centuries of syncopation as well as the creativity of the female spirit.
Viver Brasil
Viver Brasil is an award winning dance company firmly rooted in the traditional and contemporary forms and techniques of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. The company specializes in bringing to life the beautiful and complex stories of the orixa, African sacred
energies that are the engine of Afro-Brazilian culture. They will be joined by Swing Brazil for this special event.
www.viverbrasil.com
Lustre is an interdisciplinary group addressing socio-cultural issues
through the convergence of arts and technology. Blurring the lines between an art studio and an art+design collective, Lustre explores such issues as the transformation of human identity, sensory revitalization of space, human interaction with media and the synthesis of design with new and old technologies to facilitate engaging audio-visual experiences. Lustre’s works such as Beyond and This Way Up have been presented at venues including the (...)
(...) 404 International Festival of Electronic Art in Rosario, ICEBOX Durban International Film Festival, and the NeMaF New Media Festival in Seoul. The group’s installation-based works Echo and Flow:Spirit Life of Koi have also been recently exhibited at the Los Angeles Downtown Artwalks.
www.lustrecreative.com
Shiva Mandell is an artist and architectural designer
who crosses disciplines to produce works that include dance, “Blue Moments” at Scripps College, Claremont, CA., 2006, movement and sculpture, “Solstice Sculptures”, an outdoor performance in Malibu, and “Makenings”, a collaboration with Mary Beth Trautwein and reDiscover that included clothing design, collage and clay play. Since 2005 Mary Beth Trautwein has served as Director of reDiscover where she leads hands-on programs for educators,
parents and children with the themes of creativity, design, community and resource conservation. Trautwein has extensive experience as an exhibition designer, including work at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the J. Paul Getty Museum.
www.rediscovercenter.org
Dave Quick's recent exhibitions include: “Unpredictable Dialogue”, Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica, CA; and, “Seriously Funny”, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, CA. His one person exhibition venues include the Museum of Neon Art and Thinking Eye Gallery, both in Los Angeles, CA, and the Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA. Quick served as Artist-in-Residence at the Yosemite Museum, and he is the co-author of Motion Motion: Kinetic Art, published in 1989 by Peregrine Smith Books.
Elena Mary Siff has exhibited widely with solo and (...)
(...) group exhibitions across the USA and internationally. She is co-founder of “Women/Beyond Borders”, an international exhibition of work by women from over 30 countries which has been traveling since 1995. Siff has also curated many exhibitions, some of which are ”The Magic Show” and “Southern California Assemblage: Past and Present” for the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and the Museum of Santa Cruz County and “Radiant Spaces: Private Domain” for Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica and the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA.
Arthur Nakane One Man Band features a contemporary playlist with (...)
(...) vocals accompanied by an assemblage musical instrument (keyboard, strings and percussion) of his own creation. In addition to regular appearances as a street performer in Southern California, Nakane plays on college campuses and has been a guest on the Jimmy Kimmel TV show.
www.elenamarysiff.com
Caroline Maxwell and Tal Yizrael both received MFA degrees from Claremont Graduate University. Maxwell’s exhibition “Villa of the Mysteries, Department of Eagles” was at the Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, 2007. She has been in numerous group shows including “BINOscapes” at the Berlin Kunst Projekt and “Contemporary Visions: Southern California Artists” at Kromeriz, Czech Republic. Yizrael exhibited work at Sharq Gallery in Pacific Palisades in 2007, and has participated in various group shows including “Photo Chimera” at the Brand Library in 2007. (...)
(...) Her international exhibition record has included “Abstract Contemporary Photography” at the Porque-Base Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, and “Women Photographing Women” at the Wieizman Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, and “Jaffa Art” at Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.
www.talyizrael.com
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Karyl Newman has had recent one person exhibitions at Dangerous Curve, Los Angeles and Kolonie Wedding, Berlin Germany. She has performed and been in group exhibitions in venues including REDCAT, Los Angeles; Espace DBD, Los Angeles; Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA; and San Antonio Children’s Museum. Newman received an MFA from Yale University.
www.karylnewman.com
Tagtool project started out as an independent research endeavor of a group of friends from various backgrounds, who live and work in an old monastery building by the side of the Danube near Vienna, Austria. They have recently founded the company OMA International GmbH to pursue their various artistic projects on a worldwide level. The activities of OMA International usually concern art, music and open source technology.
www.oma-international.com
infranatural is an art team composed of Jenna Didier, Oliver Hess and Marcos Lutyens. With backgrounds as different as Water Engineering, Themed Entertainment and Artificial Intelligence, the team works best where their skills balance out in complex concepts explored in real world experiences. Recent projects include the programmable water and fog effects for the newly opened East Los Angeles Government Plaza and a major commission on two bridges over the 101 freeway in downtown Los Angeles in collaboration with Ned Kahn.
www.infranatural.com
br />Frank Rozasy has exhibited his art at such venues as the Athenaeum at California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA; California Wildlife Center, Malibu, CA; Eastern Washington University, Cheney, WA; and, the San Bernardino County Museum, San Bernardino, CA. Rozasy has been a long-distance ocean swimmer for the past twenty years and knows the Glow site intimately from both the water and land sides.
www.rozasy.com
SASSAS and dublab Cindy Bernard, Director, SASSAS Alejandro Cohen, CuratorTonalism is the first collaboration between two organizations well known for their support of experimental practices: SASSAS has been programming concerts in the greater Los Angles area since 1999, including the well regarded concert series sound. utilizing venues such at the Schindler House, REDCAT, the Ford Amphitheatre and now the Loof Hippodrome carousel building on the Pier, and dublab, a collective (...)
(...) of DJs and musicians founded in 1998 who organize music and art events as well as run an internet radio station.
The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound
(SASSAS) serves as a catalyst for the creation, presentation and recognition of experimental art and sound practices in the Greater Los Angeles area. Programs include sound. concerts; sound. workshops; the online concert archives soundNet.org and YouTube.com/sassasdotorg; and soundNet recordings, CD compilations drawn from sound. concerts.
dublab is a web radio and positive music collective (...)
(...) that has been broadcasting independently since 1999. More than 300,000 international listeners connect to its streams & podcasts monthly. Unlike traditional radio, the dublab DJs have total freedom of selection. Listeners experience many different sounds but find they all have the same soulful root. dublab has extended its creative action to art exhibits, film projects, event production and record releases
Performances by Albert Ortega, Steve Roden, Unrecognizable Now and White Rainbow; video by Jessica Bronson, Cal Crawford, Carole Kim and Matt Sheridan; dublab DJs Ale, Katie Byron,
Sam Cooper, Frosty Hoseh, Carlos Nino, Jimmy Tamborello plus Part Time Punks DJ Michael Stock
www.sassas.org
www.dublab.com
Peter Tolkin Projects is an interdisciplinary architecture studio based in Pasadena, CA. The staff of PTP have a diverse background in the visual arts which guides their architectural practice and distinguishes their work. Among PTP’s projects are Metlox Town Square in Manhattan Beach, CA and Saladang Song Restaurant in Pasadena, CA. Architectural Record named Peter Tolkin one of the ten emerging international architects in 2002 for its “Design Vanguard” issue. Lighting design services for Dunnage Ball are provided by Horton Lees Brogden Lighting Design.
www.HLBlighting.com
Since 2003 Machine Projects has blithely and hysterically defied categories and become a sui-generis organization/phenomenon committed to art and community development. It’s mission states:
“Existing to encourage the heroic experiments of the gracefully over-ambitious, Machine Project presents workshops, events, installations and performances on a semi-regular basis.”
The humor in Machine Projects is an abiding quality of its programming and it is joined by an ambitious attitude of outreach,(...)
(...) learning, experimentation and cross-fertilization of genres, from the scientific to the artistic. Mark Allen, Executive Director. www.machineproject.com
It’s four projects and their artists are:
Composer: Daniel Corral
Ferris Wheel Orchestra
Daniel Corral has composed three melodies to be performed by a live orchestra from the baskets of the Pacific Wheel. From a puppet opera to a player piano concert, from film scores to chamber works, Daniel Corral is an award-winning composer and multi-instrumentalist who specializes in music for unconventional media. Glow will premiere his latest (...)
(...) piece, written specifically for the Pacific Wheel.
Poets: Joshua Beckman, Anthony McCann and Noelle Kocot
Glow Project: Poetry Boat
Anthony McCann is the author of Moongarden (Wave Books, 2006) and Father of Noise (Fence Books, 2003). In addition to these two collections, he is one of the authors of Gentle Reader! (2007), a book of erasures of the English Romantics, along with Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Los Angeles and teaches poetry at CalArts and ESL to immigrants. He is also the ceremonial and acting poet laureate of Machine Project. (...)
(...) Joshua Beckman is the author of five books, including Shake and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer: Nice Hat. Thanks. and Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty. He is the recipient of numerous other awards, including a NYFA fellowship and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in Seattle and New York.
Noelle Kocot’s latest collection, Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems, was published by Wave Books in 2006. She is the author of 4 and The Raving Fortune, and the recipient of several awards, including an NEA fellowship. She lives in Brooklyn, where she was born and raised. (...)
Musicians: Over thirty musicians and singers
Glow Project: Pirate Lullabies
Thirty musicians will perform traditional sea shanties and their own maritime ballads of love, loss, and longing throughout the night.
Jiacong “Jay” Yan’s media-based work is in the permanent collections of Guan Yi Contemporary Art Archive, Beijing, China and the Sachiko Kodama Art Collection in Tokyo. He was had one person exhibitions at Telic Gallery and INMO Gallery in Los Angeles and has been included in numerous group exhibitions in South America, Europe and the Unisted States. In 2008 he will be a featured artist at ARTtoday in The Hague, The Netherlands; the 404 Festival in Trieste, Italy; and at FILE, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Yan received an MFA from UCLA in Design and Media Arts.
www.jay-yan.com
