Freewaves presents "Video on the Loose" June 26, 2010

As part of its 20th anniversary celebration, Freewaves will present Video on the Loose at LACMA’s Late Night Art Event on Saturday, June 26, 2010, from 8-11pm. The event will animate the museum’s north piazza with 20+ experimental media art works produced over the past two decades. The videos span perspectives from the identity politics of the 1990s to post-9/11 reality checks, from deep inside the mass media landscape to observations from media makers in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

The evening includes four programs, with over 20 artists’ videos that
move, amuse and bewilder:

Squirm: Body-related, uncomfortable but spellbinding images, sounds and narratives

Trouble: Artists willing to broach danger and take it on as a complex subject

Pop Cop: Playful and critical responses to television ads, news, and
authorities

Dual/Duel: Conflicts and contrasts coming from different points of view

Each of the 20+ videos will be looping continuously on separate monitors.

Featured artists

Brooke Alfaro; Barbie Liberation Organization; Caitlin Berrigan; Jaco
Bouwer; Portia Cobb; Tony Cokes; John Davis; Stephane Degoutin, Marika Dermineur & Gwenola Wagon; Matt Dibble & David Chung; James Duesing; Daniel Mason; Matthew McDaniel; Meena Nanji; Michael O’Reilly; Johanna Priestley & Joan Gratz; John Richey; Marlon Riggs; Janice Tanaka; Aaron Valdez; and Zhou Xiaohu.

Related program

A dialogue with Freewaves Director Anne Bray & media art theorist Kenneth Rogers

Art Catalogues in LACMA store at 9:15 p.m.

Join in a dialogue about the basic questions underlying the book Video on the Loose: “What are the most important changes in the medium over the last 20 years?” and “What do you want the field of media arts to become?”

Bray will highlight comments by many contributors in conversation with Rogers, who wrote the book’s primary essay about the problematic history of video art.