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Daily Throughout November 2002
TV or NOT TV
LA Freewaves' 8th Celebration
of Experimental Media Arts
Permeates All of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA -
LA Freewaves,
the most extensive media arts advocate in the country,
launches TV or NOT TV, its 8th
Celebration of Experimental Media Arts, throughout Los Angeles
during the entire month of November 2002. Over the past 13
years LA Freewaves has become an unparalleled Southern
California phenomenon, presenting artists who are inventing
the future of art, culture and media.
This year’s festival
presents over 300 films, videos and new media works in panel
discussions, performance events, exhibitions, outdoor
community screenings and television broadcasts. Most events
and exhibits are free of charge, with approximately three
percent requiring nominal fees for entrance or parking. Daily,
from November 1st – 30th, the
festival will infuse 65 venues, television, the web and 3
video billboards with the newest, most innovative media art
from around the world. 350 artists will warp, twist and
redefine the distances between daily life experience and
televised reality, presenting puzzling questions and dynamic
alternatives to corporate-filtered entertainment and alarmist,
biased news reporting.
On Friday, November 1st TV or NOT TV
officially kicks off with a film and video screening at Cal
Arts, a month-long South American exhibit at Iturralde Gallery
on La Brea and a full evening of events in Chinatown featuring
multiple gallery openings in and around Chung King Road,
multi-media art at internet cafes, public address system
infiltrations, and large scale street projections. Once you’ve
filled your mind, head over to The Grand Star to shake your
booty at the infamous club Firecracker. And to think, there’s
another 29 days in the month of November filled with diverse
TV or NOT TV festival programming.
TV or not TV? In addition to visiting
the 65 museums, art galleries, night clubs, colleges and
universities, film theatres, art centers, karaoke bars and
Internet cafes all over Los Angeles you can also turn on your
television and tune in to KCET 28 at 11:00pm every Sunday
night throughout November or LA Channel 36 every Monday night
at 10:00pm. Also, Pasadena Channel 56 will run 2-hour blocks
in rotation of TV or NOT TV programming.
And of course, a great portion of the
festival happens online as well. Remember, this IS a media
arts festival. Watch www.freewaves.org for comprehensive video
streaming, calendar of events, artists’ bios and links,
archives of past LA Freewaves’ festivals, their extensive
media resource tools and complete festival details.
LA Freewaves is Southern California's
preeminent advocate for independent, experimental,
noncommercial and under-represented media. Its ground-breaking
biennial festivals, low-cost workshops, curriculum materials
and comprehensive web site serve as an energetic,
multicultural, multimedia arts network and an optimistic model
for art in the electronic age.
LA Freewaves is funded by The
Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the
Visual Arts, The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs
Department, National Endowment for the Arts, Los Angeles
County Arts Commission, California Arts Council, California
Community Foundation and Pasadena Art Alliance.
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For more information or to interview
festival founder and executive director Anne Bray
please contact Lynn Hasty at Green Galactic at 323-466-5141 or
lynn@greengalactic.com.
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