On Saturday, June 22, 2024, DNA: 4th of 4 Show opened at the Barrett Gallery in Santa Monica. There are additional events that take place in conjunction with DNA throughout the run. Visit the website for more info.
DNA 4th of 4
Digital image by Victor Acevedo (1990s)
Beginning in 2021, a collaborative project between LA ACM SIGGRAPH, and the EZTV Online Museum, has been annually presenting an online series of interviews with leading digital artists, whose work in some cases go back to the 1960s. Additionally, these previous three years, all were leading up to this year’s inaugural one-month long exhibition for DNA Festival Santa Monica, a new six-month long annual digital arts festival. The initiative runs between Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica College, 18th Street Arts Center, in cooperation with the City of Santa Monica, and also various community organizations.
EZTV 45th Anniversary
In celebration of EZTV’s 45th anniversary, as well as its 40 years of collaborations with LA ACM SIGGRAPH (as well as the entire international SIGGRAPH communities), a survey of 24 artists, whose work ranges form the late 1970s to today, will demonstrate the rich DNA of innovations that occurred between artists and technologists. Almost all the artists have been presented in events co-sponsored by LA ACM SIGGRAPH. Moreover EZTV, and all the artists presented have been active in the artistic movement that exists between the on-going collaborations between these two seminal Southern California media arts organizations.
Curated and Produced by Joan Collins and Michael J. Masucci with additional curating as well as production by Victor Acevedo. Special thanks to: Walter Meyer, Chair, Department of Art, and Sheila Cordova, Director, Center for Media & Design, Santa Monica College. Additional thanks: Diane Piepol, LA ACM SIGGRAPH, and the Santa Monica Arts Commission’s Media Arts Committee.
Artists
Artists include: Jon 9, Victor Acevedo, Rebecca Allen, Maija Beeton, Paul Brown, Kevin Mack, Clayton Campbell & Christian Knudsen, Mark Chavez, Coco Conn, Kate Crash, Matt Elson, David Em, Dave Curlender & David Goodsell, Federico Galavis, Kate Johnson, Sheriann Ki-Sun Burnham, Robert Lowden, Michael J. Masucci, Diane Piepol, Patric Prince, Karl Sims, Barbara T. Smith, Vibeke Sorensen, Michael Wright and materials from: LA ACM SIGGRAPH & EZTV Online Museum; For more info, visit the website.
On view: June 22, 2024 – July 21, 2024
What: DNA: 4th of 4
Where: SMC Barrett Gallery, 1310 11th St, Santa Monica, 90401 (next to the Broadstage)
Website: https://www.dnafestivalsm.com
