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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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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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Felicia
Filer, Treasurer Felicia Filer is the Director of the Public Art Division of the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs. She has overseen the commission of over 150 permanent public art projects throughout the city, including the City's Airport, Animal Services, Bureau of Engineering, Fire, Library, Police, Recreation and Parks, Transportation and Zoo departments. The Public Art Division includes the, Public Percent for Art, Private Percent for Art, City Art Collection, Murals, and Music L.A. programs. Previously, Ms. Filer worked at an arts non-profit organization, ARTS Inc., as a Senior Management Consultant and Loan Fund Manager, providing management consulting in financial management, board governance, marketing, survey design and analysis, and long-range planning, to small and mid-sized non-profit arts organizations. Felicia is a native of Los Angeles. She graduated UC Santa Cruz with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, and Claremont Graduate University, Peter F. Drucker/Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management with an MBA in Finance and Marketing. |
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André
Blas 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. |
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Gabriela Jauregui,
Vice President Gabriela Jauregui is the author of a poetry collection, Controlled Decay (Akashic Books/Black Goat Press, 2008). She holds an MA in Comparative Literature and Critical Theory from the University of California, Irvine and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of California, Riverside. She is currently a Soros New American Fellow and a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California, where her research focuses on the grotesque in contemporary Film, Literature and Visual Arts. Her critical and creative work has been published in anthologies, journals and magazines in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. She lives in Los Angeles and Mexico City and is working on a novel. |
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Kelley Jr., President Bill Kelley, Jr. is a Los Angeles based educator and independent curator and critic. He has worked at such Los Angeles-area institutions as LACE, the Museum of Latin American Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. He currently teaches 19th century and contemporary Latin American art history at California State University, Los Angeles and UC Riverside. He is also the former Director and current Editorial Advisor of LatinArt.com, an online journal focusing on Latin American and Latino art. Kelley is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Contemporary Theory and Criticism from the University of California, San Diego. His current research focuses on contemporary collaborative art practices. Most recently he was juror for the IX Cuenca Biennial, 2007 where he also presented the collaborative project Public Space and its alternatives in communication media. He curated a solo exhibition of Venezuelan artist Alexander Apóstol's recent photographs and videos at LACE, September through December, 2006. He received his Master's degree in 19th Century Colonial Art Studies from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque in 2001. |
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Kimmel Carly Kimmel is a graphic designer and writer living in Los Angeles, California. In addition to holding a BA in English Literature and an MFA in Creative Writing, Carly studied site-specific sculpture and performance with Dan Collins, Laurie Lundquist, and Charles Garoian at the Deep Creek School in Telluride, Colorado. She has several years of experience working in the entertainment industry; producing music videos and commercials, coordinating art departments, and acting as a graphics producers on the Comedy Central show, Crank Yankers. Over the years, she has worked with a wide variety of musical artists including Prince, Britney Spears, Snoop Dog, The Vines, Phantom Planet, Eminem, The Flaming Lips, Yoko Ono, and Beck as well as esteemed directors like Phillip Atwell, Honey, Roman Coppola, Wayne Isham, Mike Piscetelli, Ruben Fleisher, and Olivier Gondry. In 2007 she was the non-fiction editor and layout designer for CRATE, a literary magazine based out of the Inland Empire. She is currently finishing a novel. |
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