Art talk Art: 2004/2005
Picture I.D.!
:: Placing, Naming, Shaping
(an open conversation)
Museum of Contemporary Art
June 9, 2005 8 pm
MOCA Theatre
Panel:
Neil M. Denari
Jeffrey Inaba
Miwon Kwon
Kristi VandenBosch
The Foundation for Art Resources concludes its Picture I.D! series with
an evening program sure to be of interest to artists, architects, designers
and anyone concerned with the challenges of doing creative work in the
context of contemporary mass culture. Four exceptional panelists lead
this interdisciplinary discussion exploring how image and identity are
produced and negotiated today.
About the program: Placing, Naming, Shaping
Is the boundary between product and place eroding or simply being redefined?
Brand identity may now apply as readily to individuals and destinations
as it does to packaged goods. What does this mean for our understanding
of “consumption” and how does it affect practices in art,
architecture and advertising?
About the Panel:
Neil M.
Denari
Neil Denari is an architect and principal of Neil M. Denari Architects,
Los Angeles. NMDA is involved with projects of diverse scales and locations
ranging from single family houses to rebranding programs for large corporations.
Recently completed projects include offices and screening room for the
Endeavor Talent Agency and the renovation of a large branch in Tokyo for
the Mitsubishi Trust Financial Group. Current projects include a 12-story
luxury loft tower in New York, an art gallery also in New York, and a
2,000 square foot house in West Los Angeles. He has received both the
Richard Recchia Award and the Samuel F.B. Morse Medal for architecture
from the National Academy of Design in New York for distinguished work
in the field. Denari is the author of two bestselling books, Interrupted
Projections (TOTO 1996) and Gyroscopic Horizons (Princeton 1999). He is
a registered architect in New York and California and from 1997-2001,
was the Director of SCI-Arc, the Southern California Institute of Architecture.
He has taught at various schools including Columbia University, the Bartlett,
SIT Tokyo, and UT Arlington. Neil Denari teaches in the Architecture and
Urban Design department at UCLA.
Jeffrey
Inaba
Jeffrey Inaba is a partner of Hola, a firm specializing in strategy development,
planning, and architecture based in Los Angeles. He and his partner, Heather
Flood, work with clients to create strategies and designs for cities,
buildings, and brands. Their projects range from urban plans to scented
hairbands. Hola’s clients include Axe, Coca Cola, Nissan Infiniti,
Greater State Street Council of Chicago, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Berlin
Cameron Red Cell and TBWA/Chiat/Day. He has written essays in Volume,
Archis, Content, and Assemblage and co-edited the Harvard Project on the
City’s urban research publications, The Harvard Design School Guide
To Shopping and Great Leap Forward (Taschen, 2002). Currently, he and
Peter Zellner are completing a book on suburbs worldwide entitled Culture?
Suburbia and the Systematic Rejection of Taste. He is the Program Director
of SCI-FI, the post-graduate studies program at the Southern California
Institute of Architecture and the Director of the Columbia Laboratory
of Architectural Broadcasting, at Columbia University. From 2000 - 2003,
Inaba was a principal of AMO Inc, a think tank based in New York and Rotterdam
founded by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.
Miwon
Kwon
Miwon Kwon is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History at
UCLA and is residence faculty in the MFA in Visual Art Program at Vermont
College. Her research and writings engage several disciplines including
contemporary art, architecture, public art and urban studies. She is a
founding editor and publisher of Documents, a journal of art, culture,
and criticism and serves on the advisory board of October magazine. She
is the author of One Place after Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational
Identity (MIT Press, 2002).
Kristi
VandenBosch
Kristi VandenBosch is President of TBWA\Worldwide TEQUILA\. Kristi has
run TEQUILA\ since its launch in the United States in 2002. The Agency
was founded on a unique premise: understand how to connect brands and
consumers, across the entire spectrum of possibilities. As brands find
their traditional communications landscape fractured, they increasingly
look to agencies like TEQUILA\ to find ways to become truly relevant with
a target audience. TEQUILA\ works for leading edge brands such as Nissan
and Infiniti, Sony PlayStation, Sony Qualia, Apple, Pepsi, Energizer and
the World Poker Tour, deploying brand (and business) building work across
an unlimited range of marketing disciplines — including a few that
didn’t exist before the agency proposed them. A big believer in
the power of context, Kristi pushes TEQUILA\ to continually seek new and
innovative ways to place brands into environments that elevate their connective
nature and, ultimately, make them famous.
About the Picture I.D.! Series
While questions of identity have had a prominent place in the cultural discourse of the last two decades, the varied processes of identification by which identities are established and rendered have not always been explored with equal urgency. Far from abstract concerns, identity and identification figure prominently in a range of interrelated debates from security to sovereignty, from multiculturalism to marketing. Picture I.D! has been organized as a series of round table discussions addressed to the creative communities of Los Angeles and the broader public. We hope these programs may draw from a vital spectrum of work currently underway to push these discussions into new territory.
Picture I.D!
:: History, Fantasy & Perception
(an open conversation)
December 12, 2004
2:30 p.m.
The Municipal Gallery
Barnsdall Art Center, Hollywood
Los Angeles, California
Admission: Free and open to the Public
(donations to the Municipal Gallery appreciated)
About the Picture I.D! Series
Far from abstract concerns, identity and identification figure prominently
in a range of interrelated debates from security to self-representation,
from border-crossings to marketing. Picture I.D! is organized as a series
of three monthly panel discussions. The panels look at distinct topics,
possibilities and challenges faced when trying to understand interrelated
concerns within the Southern California context and within a larger global
circuit of culture.
Our December 12th panel explores fluid intersections of art, fashion,
film and architecture. Framed as an open conversation, the panel brings
together five leading practitioners from diverse fields with a shared
interest in crossing conventional boundaries. Artist Simon Leung, writer
Leslie Dick, curator Brooke Hodge and photographer Dino Dinco will share
their perspectives.
History, Fantasy, Perception
The imaginary has real effects. This discussion invites panelists and
audience to consider the interplay of identity and imagination across
spheres of film, fashion, art and architecture. When it comes to embracing
that which is "out of reach", can there be such a thing as misrecognition?
About the Foundation for Art Resources
The Foundation for Art Resources (F.A.R.), an artist-run nonprofit organization,
was founded in 1977 to facilitate the production and presentation of work
by artists who challenge and expand the boundaries of established notions
of art and art making within the Los Angeles region. F.A.R. aims to act
as a catalyst for activities that foster dialogue and interaction between
artists and the public.
F.A.R.’s Art-Talk-Art Program is the longest-running non-academic
art lecture series in Los Angeles, with more than twenty years of programming
history. It aims to engage distinguished contemporary artists and thinkers
in conversations of lively interest to the creative communities of Los
Angeles and the broader public.
Don’t miss our January 13th panel…
Placing, Branding, Shaping
(January 13, 2005)
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, L.A.C.E.
Is the boundary between product and environment eroding or simply
being redefined? Brand identity may now apply as readily to
individuals and destinations as it does to packaged goods. What does
this mean for our understanding of "consumption" and how does
it
affect practices and production in architecture, advertising and music?
Art talk Art:: picture id panel
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The Foundation
for Art Resources and LatinArt.com Announce the
First Picture I.D! Panel Discussion at the Museum of
Contemporary Art
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Panel Discussion, 7:00 p.m.
The Museum of Contemporary Art, California Plaza
250 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles 90012
Post-Panel Celebration (immediately following panel)
The Mountain Bar
475 Gin Ling Way, Los Angeles 90012
The Foundation for Art Resources (F.A.R.) and the internet-based art journal
LatinArt.com are pleased to invite you to the first panel in F.A.R.'s
2004 Art-Talk-Art Program and the continuation of LatinArt.com's ongoing
Offline Dialogues series. F.A.R.'s subsequent two panels will be presented
in December 2004 and January 2005; more will be announced at a later date.
The November 11th panel will be immediately followed by continued informal
discussions with panelists and participants at the Mountain Bar
in Chinatown. All are invited.
The theme of the 2004 Art-Talk-Art Panel Series Program is Picture I.D!
Far from abstract concerns, identification and surveillance figure
prominently in a range of interrelated debates from security to sovereignty,
from border-crossings to marketing. Picture I.D! is organized as a series
of three panel discussions addressed to the creative communities of Los
Angeles and the broader public. Looking at the possibilities and challenges
of Picture I.D! both within the Southern California context and within
a larger global circuit of cultural projects, the November 11th panelists
are Osvaldo Sánchez, Artistic Director of inSite_05; Michael Krichman,
Executive Director of inSite_05; Mark Bradford, Los Angeles-based artist
to be featured in inSite_05; Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Los Angeles-based
artist who was featured in inSite 97 and inSite 2000; and Miwon Kwon,
noted academic and art historian, currently teaching Contemporary Art
and Criticism at the University of California at Los Angeles. LatinArt.com
Director Bill Kelley, Jr. will facilitate the panel discussion.
Taking as its focus the San Diego-Tijuana collaborative inSite, the November
11th panel specifically explores themes of site, border, and
surveillance prevalent in contemporary art and culture. inSite is a network
of contemporary art programs and commissioned projects mapping the dynamics
of permeability and blockage that characterize the liminal border zone
of San Diego-Tijuana. Since its inception in 1992, inSite has acted as
a curatorial and creative laboratory, mixing international and local issues
in both artistic and political spheres. Thus far, inSite's exhibition
programs have occurred in 1992, 1994, 1997, and 2000. This panel will
consider the upcoming inSite_05 (2005).
The Picture I.D! Panel Series is part of ongoing public dialogue programs
supported by both the Foundation for Art Resources (F.A.R.) and
LatinArt.com. F.A.R.'s Art-Talk-Art Program is the longest-running non-academic
art dialogue series of its kind in Los Angeles, with more than
twenty years of programming history. LatinArt.com's series of Offline
Dialogues looks at the globalized role artists strategically exercise
in
Latin America and elsewhere, particularly here in the United States.
The Foundation for Art Resources (F.A.R.), a nonprofit organization, was
founded in 1977 to facilitate the production and presentation of
work by artists who challenge and expand the boundaries of established
notions of art and art making within the Los Angeles region. LatinArt.com
was created to investigate the increasingly globalized proposals in art-making,
institutional practices, and curatorial projects in the field of modern
and contemporary art from the Americas. Based in Los Angeles, LatinArt.com
extends its interest to include art produced in Latin America as well
the regions, countries, and cities with which it dialogues. For more information,
you may contact F.A.R. at info@farsited.org
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ART TALK ART : Spring 2003
Impossible Series, Spring 2003
F.A.R. in 2003 successfully re-introduced “Art-Talk-Art” the longest running non-academic art lecture series in Los Angeles with 20 + years of programming history.
This last series of programming was designed to engage the contemporary artists and thinkers in conversations of lively interest to the creative communities of Los Angeles.
Art Talk Art "The
Impossible" 2003
How do our conceptions of the possible, plausible and pragmatic shape
our understanding and creative responses to "the impossible"? Join us
to explore these questions with distinguished contemporary thinkers and
artists.
"The Impossible"
June 26, 2003
Joan Copjec
Location: the Municipal Art Gallery At Barnsdall Art Center
June 19, 2003
Sylvere Lotringer
Location: the Municipal Art Gallery At Barnsdall Art Center
June 5, 2003
Mark Wigley
Location: the Municipal Art Gallery At Barnsdall Art Center the (the lecture
at the re-opening of the Municipal Art Gallery)
May 1, 2003
Juli Carson
Location: the Japanese American National Museum
April 17, 2003
Achille Mbembe
Location: the Japanese American National Museum
April 3, 2003
Sande Cohen
Location: the Japanese American National Museum
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for Art Resources
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