A kaleidoscopic meditation upon the city in motion, Los Angeles Is Endless Like a Scroll explores the infinite cities of L.A., from the incidental backdrop city found in early Hollywood productions, music videos, and classic skateboarding tapes to the virtual city of social media and video sharing sites.
We were asked by Public Matters, a creative studio for civic engagement, to lead a walk for their incoming group of Urban Futures Lab fellows.
7-mile hike exploring some of the hills and trails in and around the Montecito Heights and Rose Hill neighborhoods.
An outdoor screening of short videos that look at Los Angeles. From documentary to video art to performance video to experimental animation, a diversity of forms reflect a multitude of perspectives upon the city’s places, people, and history.
The material mass of the city — the roads, the bridges, the buildings — must come from somewhere. For Los Angeles, that somewhere has often been Irwindale. Over millions of years, the San Gabriel Mountains and their largest river deposited a massive pile of rocks and gravel ideally suited for construction underneath the inland city. And so, as Los Angeles has risen upward and outward, Irwindale has sunk downward. On this flat, 20-mile, morning bicycle tour, we will peer down into the City of Irwindale’s finest craters and visit some former pits that have been (mostly) filled and transformed.
Janna Ireland and Valerie J. Bower will talk about their work. Part lecture series, part social club, the Los Angeles Photography Congress explores a wide range of practices, from commercial to fine art, from the amateur to the academic to the historical and beyond — as well as the blurry boundaries in between.
A 6.5-mile walking exploration of some of Los Angeles’ best rail, storm, and pedestrian infrastructure — sometimes neglected, sometimes revitalized, always in flux.
Sinziana Velicescu and Spencer Harding will talk about their work. Part lecture series, part social club, the Los Angeles Photography Congress explores a wide range of practices, from commercial to fine art, from the amateur to the academic to the historical and beyond — as well as the blurry boundaries in between.
