LA Freewaves
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LA Freewaves, also known as Freewaves, is a Los Angeles–based nonprofit organization that exhibits new, uncensored, independent media, and produces free public art projects to engage artists and audiences on current social issues. Anne Bray, with representatives of other communities, founded LA Freewaves in 1989 and has worked to administer the non-profit since it was launched as an exhibition of multicultural video art at the American Film Institute's National Video Festival.[1] Bray serves as director of the organization [2] and has been working in the field of media arts since the mid-1970s as an artist and teacher.[3]
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Founded | 1989 (1989) |
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Founded at | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Type | media arts |
Focus | new media art |
Headquarters | Los Angeles, California, USA |
Area served | Worldwide |
Director | Anne Bray |
Website | freewaves |
Over the years, the Freewaves has broadened its programs to include hosting performance art events, Instagram live dialogues, and a large, free digital video art archive.[4] They also expanded their output to online distribution and performance art in public spaces. The organization is known for its unconventional and far-reaching approaches to exhibiting experimental media art, venturing into Metro buses, nomadic “Road Shows”, cable television, video billboards, sidewalks, public parks, libraries, and high schools. Media artists including Cassils, Tony Cokes, Roger Guenveur Smith, Lynn Hershman, Miranda July, Alex Rivera, Bill Viola and Qui Zhijie have shown works in Freewaves programs.
Freewaves has held biennial art festivals showcasing independent and experimental media in venues throughout Los Angeles[3] and hosts a variety of speakers on the topics of education, art, technology, race, gender, and media.[5] The California Institute of the Arts described the festival as "The internationally renowned festival of independent film, video and new media."[6] It has also been described as an "important voice for social justice and change in L.A.",[7] and "the largest theatrical exhibition of alternative video in the greater Los Angeles area".[8]