Art In Motion III
26/01/2002 - 27/04/2002 , Los Angeles

AIM Festival Lecture Schedule

From January through April 2002 AIM III, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, presents Luna Park: a series of critical inquiries into crucial issues raised by the nexus of art, technology, entertainment and activism in the context of globalization, the growing privatization of culture, and our fascination with the spectacular.

Luna Park comprises a series of four dynamic lectures, a two-day symposium, the AIM III International Online Student Competition, and a number of related events.

Join us at MOCA on Saturday, January 26, 2002 for the opening lecture with design engineer and technoartist Natalie Jeremijenko.

Also be sure to save the dates for lectures by Paul Miller, aka DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid (February 23); Coco Fusco, with Ricardo Dominguez (March 23); and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer(April 6). A full calendar of AIM III events is listed below.

The AIM III lecture series and symposium are programmed by Christiane Robbins, media artist, Professor and AIM Executive Producer.

All events are FREE and open to the public.

For further information visit http://www.usc.edu/aim, or send an email to aim@usc.edu.

Janet Owen
Co-founder + Executive Director, AIM


Art In Motion III

This year AIM III, in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, presents Luna Park: a series of lectures, events, and critical inquiries into digital art practice and culture, and the trajectories of globalization. During winter and spring 2002, a lecture series and two-day symposium will examine art, technology, entertainment, and activism in the context of globalization, the growing privatization of culture, and our fascination with the spectacular.

AIM is the annual international festival of time-based media presented by the University of Southern California School of Fine Arts. AIM is directed by artist Janet Owen. The AIM III lecture series and symposium are programmed by artist and AIM Executive Producer Christiane Robbins.

Events are free; museum admission is not included.
Info: aim@usc.edu, www.usc.edu/aim or 213/740-2787

AIM III Lecture #1
Natalie Jeremijenko
Saturday, January 26, 2-4pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Natalie Jeremijenko was recently named among the top 100 young innovators by the MIT Technology Review. A design engineer and technoartist, Jeremijenko is a 1999 Rockefeller fellow whose work has been included in the Rotterdam Film Festival (2000), the Guggenheim Museum, New York (1999), the Museum Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, and the LUX Gallery, London (1999).

AIM III: Luna Park Lecture #2
DJ Spooky
Saturday, February 23, 2-4pm
Ahmanson Auditorium
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Best known for the music he has recorded under the moniker "DJ Spooky that Subliminal Kid," NYC-based Paul D. Miller is also a writer and conceptual artist whose work has appeared in the Whitney Biennial, The Venice Biennial for Architecture (2000), the Kunsthalle, Vienna; and such publications as The Village Voice, The Source, Artbyte, and Artforum.

AIM III Lecture #3: Coco Fusco, with Ricardo Dominguez
Saturday March 23rd, 2-4pm
Ahmanson Auditorium , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Interdisciplinary artist Coco Fusco has performed, exhibited, and curated programs throughout the world. She is the author of English is Broken Here, a collection of essays on art, media and cultural politics; editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas. Her work has been included in, among others, the Whitney Biennial, the Sydney Biennale, and the London International Theatre Festival. Coco's recent collaborator, artist and theorist Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater, Senior Editor of The Thing , and currently a Worker with hybrid performance group Fake-Fakeshop.


AIM III Lecture #4: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Saturday April 6th, 2-4pm
Ahmanson Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Mexican-Canadian electronic artist Lozano-Hemmer works in relational architecture, technological theatre and performance art. His projects - including vectorial elevation which transformed Mexico City's Zocalo Square with immense light sculptures created by participants on the Internet have received numerous awards including: Interactive Art Golden Nica, Ars Electronica 2000, Best Installation at the Toronto Interactive Digital Media Awards, and an Excellence Prize at the CG Arts Media Art Festival, Tokyo.

The AIM III Symposium
Friday April 19, 10am-5pm, USC, Annenberg Auditorium
Saturday April 20, 10am -5pm, Ahmanson Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los Angeles
The Luna Park Symposium brings together an internationally diverse field of theorists and practitioners to address pivotal issues raised by the dominance of a technologized entertainment culture and digital art practice. The Symposium includes such dynamic participants as artists, theorists and h/activists Connie Samaras, Natalie Bookchin, Shu Lea Cheang George LeGrady, Jordan Crandall, James Der Derian, Maria Fernandez, Pamela Lee Sylvere Lotringer, Peter Lunenfeld, , Simon Penny, Lawrence A. Rickels, Julia Scher.

AIM III International Online Student Competition
Monday March 25, 2002: Online Premiere
Monday March 25, 2002 - Thursday March 28, 2002: Exhibition at the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery, USC

AIM III Related Events
Dolores From 10h - 22h: a video installation by Coco Fusco and Ricardo Dominguez
Santa Monica Museum of Art
11am - 11pm Friday April 5, 2002

Comfort Control
Raid Projects Gallery
April 6 - April 27, 2002


AIM III is presented by the USC School of Fine Arts and co-sponsored by: USC Annenberg School for Communication , USC Arts Initiative, Apple Æ ,CORAL, USC School of Engineering, USC Integrated Media Systems Center, USC James Irvine Foundation Center for Scholarly Technology, USC Matrix Program for Digital Media, Program 12, Panasonic Broadcast and Television Systems, Santa Monica Museum of Art, SuperHappyBunny, and USC Spectrum.


Locations
Museum of Contemporary Art
Ahmanson Auditorium,
250 South Grand Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Admission to all AIM events is free, general museum admission is not included.

USC Annenberg Auditorium
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Watt Way @ Hellman Way
University Park Campus
Los Angeles, CA 90089

www.usc.edu/aim
aim@usc.edu