LA Public Art Practices Panel Discussion
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
@Otis College of Art and Design
PANELISTS:
Ava Bromberg curated LACE's exhibition "Just Spaces" with Nicholas Brown. As part of In the Field, her work begins by looking at, listening to, and learning from how people transform the spaces they inherit and build new spaces based on their needs and desires. We seek out and celebrate the enormous creativity of these ordinary actions. She is an editor of UCLA's Critical Planning Journal. The current issue is organized around the theme of spatial justice, which forms the basis of the exhibition. She will speak about her work with Mess Hall in Chicago and other current efforts here in Los Angeles.
www.justspaces.org... and www.inthefield.info...
Jeff Cain is an artist who investigates cultural, technological, and natural systems and creates work that intervenes and remodels these structures. His work has been presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Musee D'art Modern de Ville de Paris, Track 16, LAFreewaves, Leefalshalong at the New Chinatown Barbershop, CalArts, the Armory Center for the Arts, and other Southern California venues. He has made collaborative projects with Ron Athey, Carla Bozulich, Chris Goode, Rosanna Gamson, Doug Goodwin, Lauren Hartman, osseus labyrint, and Michael Sakamoto. Jeff was the director/curator of The Wedge, an installation project space founded in the historic Woman's Building near Chinatown. He is also the founder and inventor of RHZ Radio, which was nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. Jeff has a BA from Whittier College, an MFA in art and integrated media at CalArts and has completed research studies at Emory University and Homerton College at Cambridge University.
Sara Daleiden
The Los Angeles Urban Rangers are LA-based geographers, environmental and art historians, artists, curators, architects, and others who aim, with both wit and a healthy dose of sincerity, to facilitate creative, critical, head-on, oblique, and crisscrossed investigations into our sprawling metropolis and its various ecologies. Fashioned as a mobile and site-specific interpretive force, and appropriating the figure of the stereotypic park service ranger, they offer educational campfire programs and guided hikes throughout Los Angeles.
Cristina Velasco of bulbo was born in Tijuana. She graduated in Communication Sciences with the highest distinction from the University of California in San Diego. Velasco has directed and edited various documentaries for bulbo tv which includes: "Palencia", "The handsome suffer too", "Triping out tv", "My best friend is an alien", "The clothes shop" and "The mystery of the Coronado Islands". The bulbo collective has been exploring the possibilities of exchange and collaboration since it began in 2002. Each of the project's efforts, whether it has been a documentary, magazine or web stream, implied that people, who in their daily lives do not pursue an art practice, became a part of a creative process. This has supported the formation of a network which has exceeded the collective's expectations, and which contributes to new forms of enriching our communities through constantly shifting perspectives. bulbo's work emphasizes the importance and necessity of creative and innovative projects that use media with constructive aims and nurture's other ways of understanding the place where we live. One of bulbo's interest has been life in the border region of Tijuana and San Diego. Developed as an offshoot of Galatea Audio/Visual, a production company dedicated to the communication, production and promotion of audio and visual arts in the Tijuana - San Diego border region. bulbo has intervened media with bulbo TV (in all of Mexico); bulbo press magazine; disco bulbo record label; and the bulbo broadcast web streams and
Public Practice Panel
@Otis College of Art and Design
Photographed by Consuelo Velasco
10|25|2007
Panelists from left to right: Jeff Cain, Suzanne Lacy, Ava Bromberg
(Just Spaces), Sara Daleien (LA Urban Rangers) and Christina
Velasco (Bulbo).
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