Freewaves Festival: Too Much Freedom?

HollyWould
LA Freewaves 11th Celebration of Experimental Media Arts

“HollyWould,” the theme for this year’s festival, is a playful and evocative turn on Hollywood, both as an international symbol of the American entertainment industry and as a Los Angeles neighborhood very much in flux. The festival will transform the iconic Hollywood boulevard into a massive, multi-faceted screening room for experimental videos, films and media art from every continent. Selected works will be projected onto buildings, displayed on LCD screens inside stores and installed in storefront windows

The showcase will present experimental media art from across the globe at art venues in HollyWould in October 2008 and through the Freewaves web site. Media art works include experimental video and film (narrative, documentary, art, animation, etc.), DVDs, web sites, simple installations, and video billboards. Works from the festival will also be video-streamed on the Internet. Competitive selection process was conducted by a group of international and local curators with diverse specialties and backgrounds.

Press Release (pdf)

Curators:

Magali Arriola
Art critic and independent curator sharing her time between Mexico City and Los Angeles

Ciara Ennis
Director and Curator of the Pitzer Art Galleries at Pitzer College

Suhjung Hur
Curator at Art Center Nabi, a non-profit media art center, as well as a writer,
based in Seoul, Korea

Julie Lazar
Independent curator and Director of International Contemporary Arts Network (ICAN)

Kenneth Rogers
Art history professor at UC Riverside, whose research is focused on artists' film and video production

Chris Scoates
Director of California State Long Beach University Art Museum

Thenmozhi Soundararajan
Executive Director of Third World Majority, as well as a filmmaker, singer, grassroots media organizer

Jennifer Teets
Independent curator based in Istanbul and New York, formerly Chief Curator of "El Cubo" at the Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros

Reggie Woolery
Curator of Education for the California Museum of Photography at the University of California Riverside

With curatorial advice from:

Muu Blanco
Performative multimedia artist based in Caracas, Venezuela

Antonio Pasolini
Brazilian film writer and video maker based in London, and editor of kamera.co.uk.

Too Much Freedom? (2006)
10th Festival
Re-examining freedom and its consequences with film, video, and new media exploring a multiplicity of cultural values, including artistic invention, political experience and human need.

How Can You Resist? (2004)
9th Festival
Provocative and evocative works exploring the struggles between protest and desire from the Americas, Southeast Asia, Africa, China and the Middle East.

TV or Not TV (2002)
8th Festival
Redefining the distances between daily life experience and televised reality, presenting puzzling questions and dynamic alternatives to corporate-filtered entertainment.

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