Various upcoming & ongoing events, programs, performances, films, etc
ED COOLIDGE MACHINE EYE VIEW
Saturday October 29 - December 2, 2005
TELIC
975 Chung King Road, LA, CA 90012
(213) 344-6137
Machine Eye View is the first solo exhibition for Ed Coolidge in Los Angeles. At Telic, he will present a new large-scale installation -- made specifically to interact with the architecture of the gallery -- along with two earlier pieces. Each of these works integrates video and sculpture to bring views of the inside out. In the three works presented, appliances and machines are altered, so that their intended uses are drained or bypassed. Using video loops or feeds, these machines look back at themselves, monitoring, inspecting and displaying their own reasons for being.
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DORKBOTSOCAL 8
Bleecker/Brinson, Stearns, Johnson
December 3rd 2005 @ 1pm (Saturday)
Machine Project
1200 D North Alvarado Street, LA, CA 90026
After a short hiatus, Dorkbot-socal is revived with a new home, a new time, and new structure - and some great presentations/demos for December! Come out to the event at 1pm on Saturday the 3rd.
Julian Bleecker & Peter Brinson: Vis-a-Vis Games
Phil Stearns: TI99/4a Circuit Bending
Jay Mark Johnson: Robotic Spherical Lens Camera 3D Invention
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AUTOMATA at the Velaslavasay Panorama presents
Magical Projections
Curated by Steve Anker
8:00pm Saturday December 3rd
The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street, LA, CA 90007
A program of 'trick' films made at the turn of the last century, when cinema was new and everything about it was magical. Fantastical apparitions, impossible occurrences and startling transformations flitted across the screen in a new sleight of hand no one had ever seen before. Filmmakers will include Georges Meiles, Ferdinand Zecca, Louis Feuillade, Emil Cohl, Ladislas Starevitch, Edwin S. Porter, J. Stuart Blackton and D.W. Griffith. Live musical accompaniment by Severin Behnen!
Tickets $10/$7 students and members
reservations: automata-la@sbcglobal.net
For more information call Automata at (323) 377-6049
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UCLA Live presents
Forced Entertainment: Bloody Mess
Thu-Sat, Dec 1-3 at 8pm
Sun, Dec 4 at 7pm
Freud Playhouse, UCLA
Over the last 20 years, this inspired British company has created “theatre that smashes all conventions” [The Guardian, U.K.]. A darkly comic epic, Bloody Mess is a pop artistic, physically demanding, camp trashy visual spectacle that tries to describe the modern world in all of its beauty, horror and complexity. A kind of manifesto for the future – the mess they’ve made this time is big, bloody and beautiful.
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RAID Projects presents
Opening Exhibitions: Fultjacks Blot
December 3 - 31, 2005
Opening: Saturday, December 3, 7 - 10
602 Moulton Ave, LA, CA 90031
(323 441-9593
Featuring Heimir Björgulfsson, Ida Ekdlad, Peter Hallberg, Onkel Känkels, Lars Larsson, Jonas Liveröd, Iwo Myrin, Oskar Nilsson, Andreas Nilsson, Anders Nordby, Jonas Ohlsson, Fredrik Söderberg, Pär Strömberg, Helgi Thorsson
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Create:Fixate Four Year Anniversary
Spring Arts Tower, 453 S Spring St
Sat December 3 (7pm-2am) $10
323.466.5141
Create:Fixate celebrates its fourth anniversary with this, its 24th exhibition of audio and visual art installations. The group's Optical Lounge and Audio Lab take residence in the Spring Arts Tower, an Art Deco bank in the Downtown gallery district, offering works that run the gamut from Mear One's live painting and video art to Fumiko Amano's bricolage of Japanese comics, textiles, and architecture. Throw in body painting and some dubious hippy electronica, and it's a veritable Burning Man, only without the long drive, sunburn, and hefty price tag.
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Machine Project presents
Prometheus and Pandora - The Resistance
an ether-based puppet show
Saturday December 10th 8:00pm
Hands on, build your own sound circuits workshop - Sunday December 11th
Machine Project, 1200 D N Alvarado, Los Angeles, CA 90026.
(213) 483-8761
Ladies and gentlemen, see the Resistance perform the ancient creation/apocalypse/technological suicide myth of Prometheus and Pandora onstage inside their hand-built electronic Hatebox with screaming light-puppets. In a one-time, special to Machine Project performance, the Resistance has come out of hiding to unleash their ether-based puppet show onto the masses in a new, improved, and lengthened paradigm-shattering performance. There will also be two brief, yet informative, presentations. One on the myth of Prometheus and Pandora, one on the phototheatric uses of astable-mode timing ICs. And!!! there will be snacks that may somehow hint at man's misuse of pious technology.
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FESTIVITIES TO CELEBRATE THE WINTER SOLSTICE
S A T U R N A L I A
Saturday, 10th of December 2005
Bring a $5 offering to afford you a Laurel Crown & a Tasty Chance!
To the common people of Ancient Times, the Winter Solstice meant a happy get-togehter and a Lord of Misrule was appointed for the duration of the days-long ceremony. Forget your grudges and quarrels! Interrupt your back-breaking toils! Postpone your wars and join us!
The Velaslavasay Panorama
1122 West 24th Street, LA, CA 90007
(213) 746-2166
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filmforum los angeles
at The Egyptian Theater
THE FILMS OF JOSEPH CORNELL, PART ONE
6712 Hollywood Blvd.
Sunday Dec 11 at 7:00pm
$8, $6 students/seniors
presented in conjunction with REDCAT
Essential cinema, fragments, and rarities.
The films of the reclusive artist Joseph Cornell (1903-1973) are as unique as his famous box constructions. Though rarely exhibited during his lifetime, these mysterious works nonetheless have had a deep and lasting influence on the world of avant-garde filmmaking... In person: filmmaker and film historian Jeanne Liotta
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REDCAT presents
Jack H. Skirball Screening Series
JOSEPH CORNELL: FILM CONSTRUCTIONS AND FANTASIES
December 12, 2005
Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater
631 West 2nd Street, LA, CA 90012
This program of rarely seen works--many of which are screened for the first time in Los Angeles--includes recently-discovered collage films as well as pieces shot by Stan Brakhage, Rudy Burckhardt and Larry Jordan under Cornell’s direction. In person: filmmaker and film historian Jeanne Liotta
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The Beall Center for Art and Technology presents
Five (5)
October 4 - December 10, 2005
Claire Trevor School of the Arts
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2775
(949) 824-4339
Curator Pamela Winfrey, of San Francisco's Exploratorium, joins forces with the Beall Center to bring together this charming, international celebration of the new media arts. Featuring: Boutique Vizique / Camille Utterback / Christa Sommerer & Laurent Mignonneau / Keiko Takahashi / Smart studio, Interactive Institute
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REDCAT presents
DAMIÁN ORTEGA: THE BEETLE TRILOGY AND OTHER WORKS
November 3, 2005-January 15, 2006
For this project, Damían Ortega will present The Beetle Trilogy as well as develop a new work that expands on his fascination with conceptual practice, social organization, and humor. In collaboration with the exhibition at REDCAT, MOCA will present The Cosmic Thing, the first episode of The Beetle Trilogy, created in 2002 and featured in the Venice Biennale that same year. In addition to new work, REDCAT will present documentation of the two remaining components of the trilogy: Moby Dick, a heroic action involving the artist’s Beetle, a live band, ropes and pulleys, and Beetle ‘83 Escarabajo, a ritual return to the vehicle’s place of birth.
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LACE presents
JOE SOLA | TAKING A BULLET
Thursday 6 October - Saturday 31 December 2005
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood Blvd., LA, CA 90028
A solo exhibition of recent works, including video, performance, installation, and drawings by Hollywood-inspired & Los Angeles-based artist Joe Sola. The exhibition will kick-off at the opening reception with a one-night performance titled "Film Actors Make Conceptual Art." Here Sola acts as director, requesting four Hollywood actors to use provided materials to create artworks live onstage; the results of which will be on view throughout the exhibition. Sola will also present the video work, "Studio Visit," a compilation of meetings inside the artist's studio with an international cast of museum curators and gallerists; a screening at the Egyptian Theatre of the 35mm film "Army Ranger Reaching for New Spirit Warrior (from the Mankind Project) Near Mulholland Drive, Los Angeles," a meditation on the grand narratives of Hollywood cinema and the fantasies that support them; and a new series of watercolors inspired by coming-of-age films.
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