This Year's Competition Panel of Judges:

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.

 

Adam Hyman serves as the volunteer Executive Director and Programmer of Los Angeles Filmforum, the citys longest-running screening organization for experimental and avant-garde film, video art, documentaries, and animation.

In addition to his Filmforum work, Hyman has been a documentary filmmaker for the past ten years, producing and/or writing a variety of historical, archaeological, and topical documentaries that have aired on PBS, The History Channel, the Learning Channel, the Travel Channel, and others. Hyman has an MFA in Film Production from the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. He received his B.A. History and Science from Harvard College, focusing on Central and South American archaeology.

 

Jackie Kain is senior vice president of New Media at Los Angeles public television station, KCET. Jackie is responsible for developing and implementing the stations digital strategies for Internet and mobile platforms.

In 2001 she created the New Media department at KCET and since then has overseen the launch of over 30 websites for PBS and KCET which have won Peabody, Webby, Japan Prize and Communication Arts awards. Jackie began at KCET as Director of Broadcasting where she programmed the TV station, oversaw acquisitions and on-air promotion. She also developed and produced programs for national and local broadcast.

Prior to joining KCET, Jackie was director of TV/Video exhibition at the American Film Institute. She has worked for Channel 4 and the British Film Institute in London and the American Center and the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. Jackie was also curator at the Kitchen Center for Video, Music and Dance in New York City.

 

Julie Lazar directs a curatorial and consultancy company she founded in 2000, International Contemporary Arts Network (www.icanetwork.org). Prior to that, she was director of experimental programs and founding curator at The Museum of Contemporary Art, as well as a staff member at P.S. 1/MoMA Center for Contemporary Art, The Hudson River Museum, Rockefeller University, The Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Her independent curatorial projects focus on living artists and assisting their creation of artworks in all media.

 

Suzanne Stefanac, Director of the AFI Digital Content Lab, is a long-time technology strategist and innovator. From 1983 until 1994, she worked as a journalist, writing about digital issues for Macworld, PC World, Wired and Rolling Stone. In 1995, Stefanac was founding editor of Macworld Online and in 1996, she was named executive producer for MSNBC's THE SITE, an hour-long nightly program and companion website. In 1998, Stefanac co-founded RespondTV, an interactive television infrastructure company. In 2005, she authored Dispatches from Blogistan: A Travel Guide for the Modern Blogger, published by Peachpit/New Riders as part of their Voices That Matter series. Stefanac joined the AFI in 2006.

 

 

A City of Pasadena Public Art Program

PROJECTIONS @ Shops on Lake Avenue is a permanent, outdoor public showplace for silent artist-made films, videos and still images. Curated by David Bradshaw, work is chosen for its dynamics for the site and its ability to enrich the community's cultural experience. The projected images are cast directly on the wall adjacent to the Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf at 415 South Lake Ave. Free and easily accessible, the image size is approximately 15 x 20 feet. This website carries a schedule of each days programs, and a LCD screen on site displays the schedule of works on view. The program will rotate nightly each week, drawing from a growing library of works.

Throughout the year, special programs will feature special screenings, including the work of individual local, national, and international artists as well as that of students from area schools, special sound nights of works in the collection with compelling soundtracks and evenings of live video accompanied by audio mixes of live DJs. Watch this site for information on upcoming events.

Curated by David Bradshaw

Produced by

 

David Wasserman, Wasserman Real Estate Capital, LLC.

Developed by Michael Maloney / Maloney Fine Art Advisory, Santa Monica
Funding by