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 LA Freewaves is dedicated to the creative exhibition of the most innovative and culturally relevant independent new media from around the world. LA Freewaves facilitates cross-cultural dialogues by inventing dynamic new media exhibition forms at experimental and established venues throughout Los Angeles. LA Freewaves is building one of the largest online archives and Internet new media resources. LA Freewaves also presents local workshops and develops educational material, advocating creation and access to ground breaking alternative media. Presently, LA Freewaves is extending its reach to more international artists and audiences. |
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Anne
Bray, Executive Director and Secretary Anne Bray has been working in the field of media arts since the mid '70s as an administrator, artist and art teacher. With representatives of other communities, she founded the concept of LA Freewaves and has administered the program since inception. As the Executive Director, she has continued to see the organization through the technological, social and aesthetic changes of the 1990s to now. Creating intersections of public art and media art has been her path to providing art for many people much of the time. She teaches graduate seminars in new genres and public art at Claremont Graduate University and the University of Southern California. Her own multimedia artwork is widely exhibited. |
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Juan Devis,
President Colombian-born Juan Devis writes, directs, and produces collaborative multimedia projects focusing on social and political accountability. His public media interventions are produced, from inception to realization, with local communities. In all of his projects, Devis acts as an educator, editor and translator, embracing a conception of art that has concrete social goals. Devis was nominated for a 2003 Rockefeller Fellowship for his experimental film The Dirt on the Road and was awarded Best Columbian Documentary (Ministry of Culture) for his documentary Ice. The bilingual Devis has also written and directed for film, theater and television, both in the United States and Latin America. |
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Lori
Fontanes Abner Zurd (AKA Lori Fontanes) has written, produced and directed a range of projects in various media. In 2003, she ran for governor of California (alas, she lost…) and created a documentary feature of her adventure called "The Day Arnold Schwarzenegger Kicked My A**." While pregnant with her first child (!), she directed the digital feature "Scream at the Sound of the Beep," starring Katharine Towne, Tamara Mello and Merrin Dungey, which is currently in post. Her live-action 35mm short film "Independence Day", which she wrote and directed, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and also screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival and the Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema, among other venues. She produced a number of projects with Peter Sellars and the Los Angeles Festival including the award-winning "Seven Deadly Sins" HD video co-production with Opera de Lyon and the video component of "St. Francois d'Assise" for the Salzburg Festival. |
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Gabriela Jauregui Gabriela Jauregui is a PhD. candidate in comparative literature with an emphasis on critical theory at University of California, Irvine. She was born and grew up in Mexico City. Her critical art writings have been widely published in current pop culture journals, such as Spot and Marvin magazines in Mexico City and Boiler magazine in Milan. In addition to bringing current critical theory to the Board, Jauregui brings international arts knowledge, curatorial and critical connections and a more youthful perspective to the mix of ideas on LA Freewaves' Board of Directors. |
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Roy Montibon, Treasurer Roy Montibon's career has encompassed design, animation, art direction and creative direction. His work has been recognized and featured in the Graphic Design Annual, ID Magazine of International Design, Computer Graphics and Applications Magazine, the Communication Arts Illustration Annual, The Los Angeles Times, ABC News and Fox News. Montibon has also produced, directed and moderated international design symposia. Over the last decade, he has co-founded and served as Creative Director for Vox Mundi, a digital media studio; New Archetype, Inc., a media property development company; and Morpheus Worldwide, LLC, an online marketing agency. |
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Christopher Holmes
Smith, Senior Lecturer USC Annenberg School of Communication
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André Blas, Video Maker and Writer André Blas is a freelance video maker and editor focusing on experimental documentaries about artists, urban spaces and post-modernist culture. Anthropology describes his point of view, contemporary art his interest, music his source of energy and inspiration. Blas was raised in Brazil and now resides in Los Angeles, California. In addition to English and Portuguese, he speaks Spanish, Italian, German and Hebrew. His diverse cultural experiences lend themselves to subjective and objective perspectives, which he applies to his biographical and anthropological experimental explorations. His professional experience stems from his work in both mainstream media conglomerates and non-profit cultural organizations. He has worked for AOL Time Warner, the Getty Information Institute, and has produced two video documentaries about iconic Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle and about a utopian, monumental housing complex designed by the legendary modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer in Brazil. |
[Freewaves] remains true to the original spirit of independence... Fearlessly taking risks, the artists showcased throughout the festival celebrate new ways of seeing... The result is truly visionary.
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| Freewaves TV We have been investigating the feasibility of mass
distribution of the
media arts through: This led to the extensive rethinking and reshaping of the project into the Web concept. Though we still feel that someday a whole arts channel would be even a better idea. Outstanding Issues: Creativecommons.org has some of the answers. Current thinking about freewaves.org: |
| Website Credits Design:
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The videos, films and web-based
media examine freedom and its contradictions, revealing artists’
ruminations on this political ideal as well as experiments testing
the limits of their own artistic freedom. The works celebrate freedom
by their very existence, keenly crafted in response to the raw material
of our sensory-rich and dynamic visual culture. |
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