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Freewaves Seeks Two Summer Interns

by freewaves on April 13th, 2013

FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates this summer through generous support from The Getty Grant Program. FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2013 are for 2 positions, Web Intern and Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary in Hollywood. In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be: Members of underrepresented …Read More

OPEN CALL for VIDEOS for LA BUSES due Jan 21

by freewaves on December 3rd, 2012

OPEN CALL for VIDEOS for LA BUSES due Jan 21 by freewaves on December 3rd, 2012 OUT THE WINDOW Freewaves is seeking 2-minute artists-activists-storytellers’ videos about health, environment, rights, or anything else on your mind to show to I million riders per day on all 2,000 Metro buses in L.A. County in 2013. On Transit …Read More

A series of discussions about Socially Engaged Art in L.A., Fall 2012

by freewaves on September 13th, 2012

Say passé to the sculpture in the square; the leading edge of public art is changing. Art is passing from isolation, to intervention, to participation, to engagement, to integration. SOC(i)AL: Art + People is a free, public series of roundtable discussions and weekend events that explores socially engaged art in Southern California from East to …Read More

iGallery: Art in Transit

by freewaves on July 26th, 2012

While I know some people find art to be alienating, the intensely commercialized streetscape of Los Angeles can feel alienating to me. I wanted to find out if other L.A. pedestrians and public transit users felt the same way, and if putting art on the bus could be a force for de-alienation. In 2010, my …Read More

Is That Art In Your Pocket?

by freewaves on June 14th, 2012

Can art be everywhere? Freewaves’ presents Out the Window UNcensored a new app of video art pieces now FREE for download on iPhones and iPads in collaboration with game designer, Happy Dojo.  This app includes 16 radical video experiences about L.A., created by L.A.-based digital artists. Public but personal media, and viewable from anywhere, Out …Read More

“SEE CHANGE”

by freewaves on June 13th, 2012

Los Angeles, Calif. – CELEBRATE with Freewaves and the artists the completion of “SEE CHANGE,” 2 groundbreaking video installations featuring 27 original, site-specific artworks, located in the lower-level arrivals hall of the Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, permanently accessible to the public. The reception, on Saturday, June 16, from 5 to 8 p.m. is …Read More

::Artbound 2:: Rorschach Revelations vs. Israeli Jewish White Male

by freewaves on May 25th, 2012

When we are presented with something new, we instantaneously judge with minimal information regardless of being wrong or right.  Allowing our perception to be clouded by volley of information, we absorb what we can from art and strangers. The short art clips of Aaron Bourget’s Rorschach Revelations and Lior Bar’s Israeli Jewish White Male uses …Read More

Two paid Getty internships this summer – please apply!

by freewaves on April 6th, 2012

FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates this summer through generous support from The Getty Grant Program. FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2012 are for 2 positions, Web Intern and Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary in Hollywood. In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be: Members of underrepresented …Read More

Artists’ videos to infuse Transit TV on 2,000 LA Metro buses with art throughout October and November

by freewaves on September 16th, 2011

Los Angeles, Calif. – Through short-form videos, presented across the Los Angeles County Metro bus Transit TV system, Out the Window shares artists’ diverse perspectives about/by/in Los Angeles.  With a different video featured each day in October and November, the project links physical and virtual worlds through digital media offerings that coax viewers to explore …Read More

Out the Window bus tours, 6/18 & 6/19

by freewaves on June 11th, 2011

Watch video art on the bus as part of Freewaves’ latest project, OUT THE WINDOW   BUS TOUR 6/18: East LA meet up and ride Out The Window Bus Ride + Video Watching Meet Up Saturday, June 18 at 9:30am with Public Matters and East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy students MEET UP and take an …Read More

Kinoforum: media art in Brazil

by freewaves on May 20th, 2011

This is the first in a sporadic series of Freewaves dispatches intended to connect you with media arts resources around the world.  Artists are doing some amazing inventive stuff out there….read on….. “Culture is the most democratic human tool able to create other possible worlds.” The use of video as a means of aesthetic expression …Read More

Bus screenings June 13-19 launch mobile community TV network

by freewaves on May 6th, 2011

Short videos, presented across the entire Los Angeles County Metro bus system, will share diverse perspectives on Los Angeles, as seen through the creative eyes of its young people for its 4400 existing TV screens on public buses.   WHAT 40 short videos by LA youth will be shown on all 2200 L.A. Metro buses …Read More

DREAMING + ACTING

by freewaves on May 2nd, 2011

In case you missed it, here are some photos from Saturday’s program at Self Help Graphics & Art, Dream + Act…

DREAM + ACT Film, videos and activism on immigration

by freewaves on April 8th, 2011

Who has the right to study and work in the U.S.? When people contribute socially and economically to a society, are they not citizens? Is there a way for the politically disenfranchised to feasibly gain American citizenship?   On April 30 at 7:30pm, Freewaves, Self Help Graphics & Art, La Causa and TELA SOFA (The …Read More

Call for Multicultural Interns

by freewaves on March 31st, 2011

FREEWAVES is offering two paid internships for undergraduates this summer through generous support from The Getty Grant Program. FREEWAVES Multicultural Undergraduate Summer Internships 2011 are for 2 positions, Web Intern and Marketing Intern, both for 10-weeks, full-time, $3,500 gross salary in Hollywood. In accordance with The Getty Grant Program, candidates must be: *  Members of …Read More

Open Call :: Dream + Act

by freewaves on February 17th, 2011

Open Call by Freewaves, Self Help Graphics & Art, The East LA Society of Film and Arts (TELA SOFA) and La Causa DREAM + ACT Film, videos, activism and information on immigration On April 30 and May 1, Freewaves, Self Help Graphics & Art, TELA SOFA and La Causa are collaborating to present Dream + …Read More

Open Call :: Out the Window

by freewaves on January 27th, 2011

SHOW YOUR VIDEO SHORTS TO 1 MILLION L.A. BUS RIDERS Submission deadline for ROUND 3 is January 14, 2011 Freewaves is seeking two-minute artists-activists-storytellers’ videos about health, environment, rights or anything else on your mind to show to I million riders per day on all 2000 Metro buses in L.A. County in 2013. On Transit …Read More

Press Release – OUT THE WINDOW

by freewaves on January 12th, 2011

Out the Window Freewaves, Public Matters, Echo Park Film Center and UCLA REMAP broadcast videos about Los Angeles on 2,200 buses Los Angeles, Calif. – Through short-form videos, presented across the entire Los Angeles County Metro bus system, Out the Window shares diverse perspectives on Los Angeles, as seen through the creative eyes of its …Read More