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 groups, particularly individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent.

Currently enrolled as undergraduates, who will have completed at least one semester of college by June 2013, and will not graduate before September 2013.

Residents of or attending college in Los Angeles County. Students who have previously served as interns for this program more than twice are not eligible for this internship.

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Overview:  From early June through mid August 2013, The Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Interns will undertake a variety of tasks, all entailing a high degree of computer literacy and communications competency.  All of the tasks will be part of Freewaves long time initiative to disseminate the new media arts.

Location: Both internships are located at Freewaves’ office at LACE (6522 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood CA)

Marketing Intern

Marketing Intern Responsibilities: Provides promotional support for bus video project, Out the Window and online archive.

Out the Window – assist with marketing implementation

Free Associations  Video Fest initiative – outreach to student demographic

Online marketing and optimization of Freewaves’ new web site, including blog (in conjunction with web intern).

Requirements for Marketing Intern:

Good writing skills

Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough.

Knowledge of media arts preferable.

Good computer skills (will need to use/learn Word, FileMaker, Photoshop and the internet, including social media).

Ability to work in a small, busy office with concentration.

Ability to work independently.

Web Intern

Web Intern Responsibilities:  Projects related to both to the Freewaves organizational website and Out the Window project-specific website.  This includes enhancements planned for the future:

Assist adding new content (videos to the back-end database), including compressing artist videos and preparing screen shots

Work with Freewaves staff, technical advisors, programmer and designer to develop enhanced site pages and perform technical troubleshooting.

Assist with site optimization.

Produce written and visual materials for web site and related marketing efforts.

General database maintenance.

Requirements for Web Intern:

Knowledge of html/css, Dreamweaver and WordPress preferred.

Ability to code highly desirable though not required.  (Javascript, MySQL and/or PHP).

Good writing and communication skills.

Ability to work diplomatically in a team environment (in meetings, via email and on the phone).

Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough including ability to troubleshoot own work for errors and functionality.

Knowledge of media arts preferable.

Knowledge of both Mac and PC environments required.

Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Freewaves strives to offer summer interns practical work experience and a range of assignments. Interns will be trained by and work under the supervision of Freewaves Director Anne Bray.

In past years, Freewaves interns have developed skills in numerous software programs including:

Filemaker

Final Cut Pro

Dreamweaver/HTML

Excel and Word (advanced features)

Photoshop

Illustrator

Video compression programs

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How to Apply for this Internship:

First familiarize yourself with Freewaves’ programs through its web site (www.freewaves.org and www.out-the-window.org). If the sites and Freewaves interest you, forward a resumé and a cover letter explaining reasons for interest and addressing how you meet the eligibility guidelines for the internship set by the Getty. If you are applying for the web internship, please send us URLs of your work (sites you’ve designed or worked on). We will be interviewing in late April/early May, and will contact you for a phone or in-person appointment if we are interested.

Email your application materials to:

Norberto@freewaves.org

By Friday, April 26, 2013.

OPEN CALL for VIDEOS for LA BUSES
due Jan 21

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 TV we will show animations, documentaries, narratives and experimental videos. Riders include more women, more people of color, and more low income Angelenos. Demographics are linked at transitv.
In a mobile environment with competing sounds, visuals are more important. Accepted videos will be included in a one-hour program of news, ads, and quizzes. Videos will be shown for approximately 2 days as part of the Summer or Fall screening periods. Freewaves will post accepted videos on our web site (if you agree) for at least two years with a GPS location tag on our L.A. map.
Freewaves will pay $100 – $400 per video. ($100 for pre-existing, $200 for custom editing, $400 for newly commissioned works). Freewaves will ask bus riders to text us in response to messages appearing on Transit TV about places in L.A. *For more information, and to submit your video, Visit the Open Call.

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 West.  Join the dialogue with SoCal artists, scholars, activists, and administrators as we think about socially engaged art in relation to zoning, technology, ethics, food, ritual, performance, gentrification, museums, democracy, nature and art support structures in the here-and-now.   Where is our collective dialogic imagination now?

The series of individually produced events takes place at venues across L.A.,

• instigated by Anne Bray as part of Freewaves.org,
• promoted by media partner ForYourArt,
• interviewed by Sue Bell Yank  in advance of each event at KCET.org/Artbound
• As many as of the talks as permissible were audio recorded and posted below.

PAST but posted:

 USC Price School: Is LA the Creative or Anti-Creative City?

What are lines that our regulations and laws draw around the arts, exploring the edges between art and the city? Do artists represent only gentrification for our communities? How does art, and how do artists add value to urban life? How should planners consider art and artists? How do planning regulations aid the creation of a creatively vibrant city that adds not only economic value but also cultural excitement to the lives of urban residents?

• Urban Growth Seminar on Tuesday, September 18, 12 noon to 1:30 pm
• At USC Lewis Hall 101
• Elizabeth Currid-Halkett (USC Price) and Sarah Schrank (History, CSULB), moderated by David Sloane (USC Price)
• VIDEO:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3NoL5YTmzI
• ARTICLE and AUDIO: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/artistsinstitutions-where-is-the-common-ground.html

MAK Center, ARTISTS + INSTITUTIONS: What Is The Common Ground For Artists and Institutions?

Salon-style discussions about collectives and artists-run initiatives, graduate programs in social and public practice, and museums dedicated to novel fulfillment of educational programming.  Dialog prompts, generated by well-known artists and institutions, will be presented to the public for an evening of critical discussion and lively debate, comfortably hosted within the historic rooms and gardens of the Schindler house.

• Thursday, October 4, 7-9pm
• 835 North Kings Road, West Hollywood, CA
• organized by Kimberli Meyer (MAK Center), David Burns (Fallen Fruit) and Sara Daleiden (Los Angeles Urban Rangers);  features artists Sarah Beadle, Notch, and Christina Sanchez; Special thanks to Whole Foods Market for their generous support.
• PHOTOS: www.facebook.com/ArtistsInstitutions  
• Q&A: http://suebellyank.com/2012/10/10/artists-institutions-appendices
• AUDIO: http://archive.org/details/ArtistsinstutionsCommonGround-TrackOne
• USTREAM: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/common-ground-artists-and-institutions

Creative Time Summit- a global annual conference exploring the intersection of art-making and social justice, streaming from NYC

• Friday, October 12, 7 am to 3:30 pm
• Watch On Livestream.com and respond on twitter #CTSummit
• Share the Summit with L.A. via streaming at Metabolic Studio, 1745 N. Spring St. #4, 90012, coffee, bagels and comfy seats provided
• ARCHIVE: http://new.livestream.com/creativetime/summit  &  http://creativetime.org/summit/

Occidental College:  Can the Sidewalk be a Stage?

• Thursday, October 18, 7 pm
• Dumke Commons,  Swan West 119B, 1600 Campus Dr  LA 90041
• Speakers: bodycity, Tucker Neel, Cristina Paul,  Lake Sharp, Geneva Skeen, Stephen Van Dyck, and Meagan Yellott,
• Coordinated by artist Mary Beth Heffernan with support from the Center with Community Based Learning, the Occidental Office of Alumni Engagement, and the Department of Art History and Visual Arts.
• Followed by a reception with wine, beer   and appetizers
• ARTICLE: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/occidental-college-social-symposium-can-the-sidewalk-be-a-stage.html
• AUDIO: http://archive.org/details/CanTheSidewalkBeAStageOccidentalOct18th

EVENT: Public Matters Event: Market Makeover Smackdown

Fun, hands-on activities to help green the food desert and support sustainable change in the East L.A. food environment.

• Saturday, October 20, 10am-1pm
• Ramirez Meat Market, 3618 Folsom Street at Rowan and
• Yash La Casa Market, 3968 Hammel at Hazard, in East L.A.
• Participants: Mike Blockstein and Reanne Estrada, Public Matters; students from School of Communications, New Media and Technology (CNMT) at Roosevelt High School, with UCLA-USC Center for Population Health and Health Disparities (CPHHD)
• ARTICLE: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/public-matters-market-makeover-smackdown-public-matters.html
• WEBSITE: http://www.publicmattersgroup.com/2012/10/market-makeover-smackdown-saturday-10-20-2012-1000am-100pm/

Otis MFA Public Practice Studio at 18^th Street Art Center:

What Can We Learn from dOCUMENTA (13)?

Through presentations from artists and curators who participated in or visited one of this year’s most important exhibitions in contemporary art, the evening will look at projects and reflect on the relation to social practice right now.  What can we learn from the art projects, curatorial practice, expanded notions of location, pedagogy, and their intersections?

• Wednesday, October 24, 7 pm
• 1657 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
• moderated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, Director of Residency Programs at 18th Street Arts Center
• Ciara Ennis, Director/Curator, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College
• Leslie Labowitz-Starus, artist
• Tamarind Rossetti,  intern with Mariam Ghani at dOCUMENTA(13) and Graduate Public Practice artist
• John Tain, art historian and curator for Modern and Contemporary Collections at the Getty Research Institute
• AUDIO: http://archive.org/details/18thStreetOct24th

ACLA Park, La Culebera: Can Artists Heal Nature in LA?

Artists address the question in the format of a PechaKucha and roundtable discussion outdoors

• October 25, 7 pm
• 240 S. Ave. 57, Highland Park, CA 90042
• coordinated by Janet Owen Driggs and Tricia Ward
• artists:  Hadley Arnold, Allison Behrstock, Olivia Chumacero, Sarah Dougherty, Janet Owen Driggs, Ron Finley, Anne Hars with Erik Knudsen, Mark Lakeman, Andy Lipkis, Jenny Price, Jane Tsong, and Tricia Ward.
• Potluck at 6 pm. Bring food to share, or just your utensils to help make this a zero waste event.
• AUDIO: http://archive.org/details/LaCulebraOct24th

Freewaves and UCLA IMLab at LACE:

Can Artists Use Technology to Enable Communities? 

Artists  working  on  various civic projects  with diverse goals will share one project each.  A roundtable discussion will follow  with questions  about  collective process and individual creation,  technology’s  assets and limitations,  corporate and community involvement,  documentary and artistic aspirations,  and other complications.

Roundtable discussion, Everyone Welcome 

• Saturday November 3, 1 pm
• at LACE  6522 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 90028  (NEW LOCATION!!!)
• Fabian Wagmister (UCLA IMLab), Pedro Joel Espinosa (IDEPSCA’s Mobile Voices), Vicki Callahan (USC IML), Micha Cardenas (Local Autonomy Networks, http://autonets.org), Shagha Ariannia  (Long Story Short), Anne Bray (out-the-window.org)
• AUDIO: http://archive.org/details/CanArtistsUseTechnologyToEnableCommunities

18th Street Art Center:  Museum Programming and their constituencies: The case of the Queens Museum of Art and Corona Plaza

• Saturday, November 3, 5 pm
• 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, CA 90404
• Hosted and moderated by Bill Kelley Jr., 18th Street Art Center Curator in Residence
• Prerana Reddy has been the Director of Public Events for Queens Museum of Art in New York City since 2005. Reddy also spearheads the Museum’s community engagement initiatives combining arts and culture with social development goals in nearby neighborhoods predominately comprised of new immigrants, including programs that address language access, healthcare, public space advocacy, and the mortgage crisis.

EVENT: Tongva Talk, a Cultural Campfire,

is a time to gather around the fire and exchange knowledge and stories of indigenous history, culture and traditions, organized monthly by Olivia Chumacero. This event highlights storytelling by Tongvans.

• Friday, November 9, 7:30 pm
• Anabolic Monument, Native Plant Garden ceremonial space, at north end of the Los Angeles State Historic Park, 1245 N. Spring Los Angeles, CA 90012. Parking available on Baker Street. Bring a blanket or chair to sit on the sand.  Join in potluck dinner by bringing your own utensils.
• www.everythingismedicine.wordpress.com

LACE: How Does Socially Engaged Art Happen in Los Angeles?

Roundtable Workshop to explore the possibilities and limits of current organizational models and curatorial strategies that support Social Engagement Art practices. From trust building and community process to  funding and timing, this session invites participants to grapple with fundamental questions –  How to sustain a project?   How to represent in the community?  How long will the work really take?

• Saturday, November 10   1 to 4pm
• 6522 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood 90028
• Kim Abeles (artist),  Raquel Gutierrez (writer, Cornerstone Theater) Emily Hopkins (Executive Director of Side Street Projects), Amanda Mears (artist, filmmaker), John Spiak (curator/director, Grand Central Art Center), Carol Stakenas (LACE Executive Director) and and Aandrea Stang (Independent curator and educator)
• alongside the current exhibition (Re-) Cycles of Paradise
• AUDIO: http://archive.org/details/LaceHowDoesSociallyEngagedArtHappenInLosAngeles
• PODCAST: http://sidestreet.org/documentation-amanda-mears-drew-tewksbury/
• PODCAST: http://sidestreet.org/collaboration-antagonism-john-spiak-robert-crouch/
• PODCAST: http://sidestreet.org/communityconversation-kim-abeles-emily-hopkins-2/
• PODCAST: http://sidestreet.org/situations-aandrea-stang-bill-kelley-jr/
• PODCAST: http://sidestreet.org/performance-raquel-gutierrez-geneva-skeen/

Getty Museum: Do We Need Artists in Art Museums?

Does the role of an artist at museums stop once his or her art enters the collection and is displayed in the galleries? A growing number of museums are bringing artists into the fold – whether or not their art is displayed – and asking them to call on their own practices to devise creative opportunities for engaging diverse audiences and communities.  This panel of artists who have engaged museum audiences, and museum staff who have engaged artists, explores how museums reach communities through artists, and asks whether this is true engagement or mere flirtation.

• November 14, 7 pm
• 1200 Getty Center Dr.  Los Angeles, 90049
• Panelists include Mark Allen and Elizabeth Cline from Machine Project, who worked together on projects at the Hammer Museum; and artist Olga Koumoundouros, who created a Wall Works installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Art;  Asuka Hisa, director of education and public programs at the Santa Monica Museum of Art;  Bob Sain, former director of LACMA Lab; and Christoph Korner, a partner at GRAFT architects, which designed the Lab’s Seeing exhibition.
• Free; reservations recommended. Call (310) 440-7300 or click here.
• AUDIO:   http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/what-can-we-learn-from-artists-projects-in-museums/
• ARTICLE: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/wall-works-santa-monica-museum-of-art.html

Self Help Graphics + The School of Echoes: 

How Can Artists and the Eastside Generate Change Together? 

Is the community or the artists the protagonists? What is the role of the artist as community and vice versa? How can Artists/community drive the visioning and planning of an arts district before it happens?  How do we move beyond participants, observers, beautifiers and “decorators” and into a more integrated part of development planning?

• November 17, 4 pm
• 1300 East 1st Street, Los Angeles, CA 90033
• Evonne Gallardo (Self Help Graphics), Sandra de la Loza (artist), Alfred Fraijo Jr. (LURN: Leadership for Urban Renewal Now), Elizabeth Blaney, Leon Mostovoy, Dont Rhine, Leonardo Vilchis, (members of groups Ultra-red, The School of Echoes, Union de Vecinos, Woodcraft Rangers)  and visiting artist X. Andrade  in residence  at Outpost @ Armory.
• ARTICLE: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/ultra-red-east-la-social-art-people.html
• AUDIO: http://archive.org/details/HowCanArtistsAndEastsideGenerateChangeTogether

USC Roski School of Fine Art:

Occupy the Mind: Pedagogy, ‘Capitalocentrism’* and the Arts Fantasy

Faculty and students from the Roski School of Fine Art’s M.F.A. Program and M.A. program in Art and Curatorial Practice in the Public Sphere, as well as from the American Studies Program join together to discuss the implications of Occupy, the movement’s relationship and effect on academia and on the multiple artworlds, and the Capitalocentric nature of our economy.  The panel will be followed by a discussion with the audience.

• November 30, Friday 5:30-7:30 pm
• Fisher Courtyard in front of Fisher Gallery at 823 Exposition Blvd on USC CAMPUS
• or rain location is 118 Watt Hall (beside Fisher Gallery)
• Noura Wedell, The Political Uses of Fantasy
  Santi Vernetti and Kelly Akashi, Arrested Vegetation: The Blessed Unrest
  Connie Butler, Trying to Forget Fear: Occupy and the Berlin Biennial 2012
  A L Steiner, What Kind of Workers Are We?
  Jack Halberstam, No Church in The Wild: Anarchy Now
  Discussion with the audience
• ARTICLE:  http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/social-art-people-occupy.html

We invite you to read the following texts in preparation of our discussion:

Anonymous, After the Fall: Communiques from Occupied California (February 2010)
Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E): FAQs
Occupy LA Comprehensive Analysis from the Los Angeles City Hall
Artur Zmijewski, “Foreword,” Galit Eilat in Conversation with Artur Zmijewski, “A Good Drug Dealer,” Renzo Martens in Conversation with Artur Zmijewski, “Artists Come to Create Beauty and Kindness,” Forget Fear, Artur Zmijewski and Joanna Warsza, 7th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (Berlin: KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Verlag der Buchhandlung, Walther König, 2012)

Public Tranportation:

Go Metro and receive a FREEWAVES DVD. For more details, click here. Metro provides Bus and Rail transportation all over Los Angeles County. For your best route or more info on service till 2AM on Fridays and Saturdays, visit the Metro Trip Planner or call (323) Go Metro or (323.466.3876).

Inspired by riders’ profound reactions, we wanted to find efficient systems to reach new audiences inexpensively. Then, at the very same time, game designer Happy Dojo’s Joe Kim emerged out of the media-activist mist. Together, Freewaves and Happy Dojo developed a video art gallery app highlighting the most challenging and controversial Out the Window videos that didn’t make it onto the Metro Bus screens. The app, called Out the Window UNCENSORED, makes these videos viewable in the privacy of your own mobile device! Out the Window UNCENSORED is available for iPhones and iPads via iTunes for free until September 30th.

See samples of the 16 eclectic video experiences about LA:

Introduced by me, Freewaves’ director Anne Bray, the program’s brief text helps viewers enter an edgy set of two-minute animations, narratives, performances and documentaries created by L.A. artists:

• Skip Arnold
• Peter Bill
• Carolina Cayedo and David de Rozas
• Megan May Daalder
• Zig Gron
• Micol Hebron
• Arturo Romo-Santillano
• Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib
• Nancy Jean Tucker
• Elana Mann
• Poli Marichal
• Lisa Marr
• Patrick Miller
• Michael Mouris
• Yoshua Okon
• Arnoldo Vargas

Info about the videos concludes the app, so that viewers can compare their interpretations with the curator’s. If you’re among the culturally hungry, you can follow a link to even more artwork at the end of the app.

Public – yet – personal media, and viewable from anywhere, Out the Window UNCENSORED offers new opportunities to bring art with you; to share on the bus, at a party, even at school.

Art can go anywhere. This art is both collectible and sharable. iGallery!

Read the Kcet Article

• Skip Arnold, Peter Bill, Carolina Cayedo and David de Rozas
• Megan May Daalder, Zig Gron, Micol Hebron, Arturo Romo-Santillano,
• Nadia Hironaka and Matthew Suib, Nancy Jean Tucker, Elana Mann
• Poli Marichal, Lisa Marr, Patrick Miller, Michael Mouris, Yoshua Okon, and Arnoldo Vargas

These videos were intended for the L.A. Metro buses, but a few did not make it to public screens. Through this app, the most challenging and controversial videos are available for viewing in the privacy of your phone. Info about the videos concludes the app so viewers can compare their interpretations with the curator’s. Even more artwork is linked at the end for the culturally hungry!

Download the app for FREE and enjoy video art made by/in/about LA

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 free and open to the public. Parking will be validated.

“SEE CHANGE” includes 2 large-scale displays: a 58-screen, 90-foot linear video filmstrip is suspended from the ceiling, and a 25-screen media wall. The installations provide 4 hours of original programming.

Video Wall Programming by Jon 9
Public media arts consultant and curator Anne Bray
Sponsored by LAX and City of L.A. Department of Cultural Affairs

• The 17 artists’ featured works:

Monika Bravo/BREATHING_WALL_LAX
Patty Chang and Noah Klersfeld/Current
Seoungho Cho/City of Light
Felipe Dulzaides/Taking Chances
Todd Gray and Joseph Santarromana/Intersect
Kurt Hentschläger/View
Louis Hock/Homeland
Hilja Keading/Splash
Ryan Lamb/Five-Dimensional Parade
Chip Lord/To & From LAX
Megan McLarney/Landscapes
Esther Mera and John Reed/Crossroads
Paul Rowley and David Phillips/Local Time
Steve Shoffner/Cloud 29
Pascual Sisto/Cumulous
Scott Snibbe/Transit
Caspar Stracke/Cities Out of Cities

People, SoCal objects, nature and places are the artists’ subjects. Half of them are from L.A. and some of them refer specifically to L.A. but all considered the factors: airport, waiting, and international travelers. The videos range from meditative to chaotic from heavily montaged to linearly documentary, and from digitally manipulated to hand drawn animations.

Artists, engineers, curators, administrators and a programmer negotiated over 7 years to make this complex system come to life. Each artist took this colossal opportunity in a different direction; yet each explored the arena between space and time  (3d to 4d), compressing or expanding “real time” of human eyes.

Trillions of pixels swim around the 80+ synchronized TV screens of video art at LAX.  These many screens’ significant advantage over one screen is their accent on differences. Different images side by side beg for comparison. Difference is their norm.

The modernists’ decisive moment has been replaced by many moments often from different angles, like from different window seats in a plane. Are you looking from the point of view of travelers, greeters, airport managers or cleaners? The multiple monitors of related images ask viewers to compare and contrast frames unconsciously. How they differ hints at artists’ intentions. Some present micro-changes between frames asking one to analyze subtle variations in nature, specific neighborhoods and distant cities.  How similar are they?  The meaning inhabits their differences, for example, are we careening around the world or spying on one patch of nature?

The results remind us that motion is the blend of time and space. Categories can be blurrier than we think. Chance might play a role. The frames’ relationships show how far in time or space we have moved. Which place or time is right? Can they both or neither tell the truth? Can we separate them to see each independently? How many truths are there? Come to LAX to find out!

Click here to view the embedded video.

The short art clips of Aaron Bourget’s Rorschach Revelations and Lior Bar’s Israeli Jewish White Male uses different methods but both play with identity. As Rorschach Revelations’ images gradually become identifiable, labels keep being hurled on top of the inkblots, words contradicting images. Israeli Jewish White Male on the other hand uses a fixed approach with slight variations of specific words to suggest a controlled number of distinctions.

Both clips display the power of the ideas and labels that are given to specific groups and simultaneously show how we struggle to shake the labels that we are given.

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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 groups, particularly individuals of African American, Asian, Latino/Hispanic, Native American, or Pacific Islander descent.
• Currently enrolled as undergraduates, who will have completed at least one semester of college by June 2012, and will not graduate before September 2012.
• Residents of or attending college in Los Angeles County. Students who have previously served as interns for this program more than twice are not eligible for this internship.

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Overview:  From early June through August 2012, The Getty Multicultural Undergraduate Interns will undertake a variety of tasks, all entailing a high degree of computer literacy and communications competency.  All of the tasks will be part of Freewaves long time initiative to disseminate the new media arts.

Location: Both internships are located at Freewaves’ office at LACE (6522 Hollywood Blvd in Hollywood CA)

Marketing Intern

Marketing Intern Responsibilities: Provides promotional support for bus video project, Out the Window; book and DVD sales; DIY Video Fest initiative; and website.

• Out the Window – assist with marketing implementation
• Book/DVD – assist with sales activities
• DIY Video Fest initiative – outreach to student demographic
• Online marketing and optimization of Freewaves’ new web site, including blog (in conjunction with web intern).

Requirements for Marketing Intern:

• Good writing skills
• Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough.
• Knowledge of media arts preferable.
• Good computer skills (will need to use/learn Word, FileMaker, Photoshop and the internet, including social media).
• Ability to work in a small, busy office with concentration.
• Ability to work independently.

Web Intern

Web Intern Responsibilities:  Projects related to both to the Freewaves organizational website and Out the Window project-specific website.  This includes enhancements planned for the future:

• Assist adding new content (videos to the back-end database), including compressing artist videos and preparing screen shots
• Work with Freewaves staff, technical advisors, programmer and designer to develop enhanced site pages and perform technical troubleshooting.
• Assist with site optimization.
• Produce written and visual materials for web site and related marketing efforts.
• General database maintenance.

Requirements for Web Intern:

• Knowledge of html/css, Dreamweaver and WordPress preferred.
• Ability to code highly desirable though not required.  (Javascript, MySQL and/or PHP).
• Good writing and communication skills.
• Ability to work diplomatically in a team environment (in meetings, via email and on the phone).
• Detail oriented, accurate, and thorough including ability to troubleshoot own work for errors and functionality.
• Knowledge of media arts preferable.
• Knowledge of both Mac and PC environments required.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively.

Freewaves strives to offer summer interns practical work experience and a range of assignments. Interns will be trained by and work under the supervision of Freewaves Director Anne Bray.

In past years, Freewaves interns have developed skills in numerous software programs including:

• Filemaker
• Dreamweaver/HTML
• Excel and Word (advanced features)
• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Video compression programs

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How to Apply for this Internship:

First familiarize yourself with Freewaves’ programs through its web site (www.freewaves.org and www.out-the-window.org). If the sites and Freewaves interest you, forward a resumé and a cover letter explaining reasons for interest and addressing how you meet the eligibility guidelines for the internship set by the Getty. If you are applying for the web internship, please send us URLs of your work (sites you’ve designed or worked on). We will be interviewing in late April/early May, and will contact you for an appointment if we are interested.

Email your application materials to:

Jason Lipshin, Program Assistant, at jason@freewaves.org

By Thursday, April 26, 2012.

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Freewaves

6522 Hollywood Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA  90028

323.871.1950

www.freewaves.org

Freewaves is dedicated to the creative exhibition of innovative and culturally relevant independent new media from around the world.  Freewaves facilitates cross-cultural dialogues by inventing dynamic new media exhibition forms at experimental and established venues.

The 60 artists’ videos reflect a range of subjects and styles including performances in urban public spaces, background information about LA neighborhoods, animated scenarios, ruminations about nature and investigations of other art forms.  The programming tells stories, shares creative impressions and offers critical insights about Los Angeles.

Jesse Fleming, Apart/Together

Artists

Isabel Avila, Katie Bachler of Bodycity, Zanny Begg, Raul Paulino Baltazar, Laurel Beckman, Peter Bill, Carolina Caycedo, The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Jeff Chabot, Allen Colombo, Megan May Daalder, Paolo Davanzo, Victoria Delgadillo, Jeremy Eichenbaum, Alyse Emdur, Jesse Fleming, Joe Forney, Zig Gron, Micol Hebron, Nadia Hironaka & Matthew Suib, Roman Jaster, Ann Kaneko, Annetta Kapon, Regina Kimbell, Ivan Limas, Elana Mann, Poli Marichal, Lisa Marr, Willie Middlebrook, Patrick Miller, Yoshua Okón, Suzanne Oshinsky, Will Oloughlen, Camilo Ontiveros, Oscar Muñoz, Tucker Neel of 323 Projects, Michael Parker, Gala Porras-Kim, Reyes Rodriguez, Arturo Romo, Michael Rippens, Khari Scott, Pascual Sisto, Marie Sullivan, Teatro Jornalero Sin Fronteras, Nancy Jean Tucker, Stephen Van Dyck, Jovanna Tosello & Cecelia de Jesus, Arnoldo Vargas and Jody Zellen.

The videos will be shown on buses in October and November 2011 and will be archived on the project website, www.out-the-window.org and on Freewaves’ Vimeo channel, http://vimeo.com/outthewindow. Additionally, the website will provide a map of Los Angeles County, geocoded according to the subjects and themes of the videos.  Other resources may also be accessed via the website, including a list of area media art centers where anyone can learn how to create digital media.

Micol Hebron, Make Out Session

Interactivity

The project is conceived with Transit TV’s interactivity in mind, both for bus riders and web users. Bus riders can text responses to questions posed at the end of each video by artists and community curators. Questions will be presented in English and Spanish. Web users may comment on the videos after viewing them on www.out-the-window.org or on the Vimeo channel. The website also provides instructions for submitting videos for future screenings on the buses.

“Out the Window is creating a new social fabric in LA County. Networked Transit TVs, buses, riders’ cell phones and artists’ videos are all strands in the weave pulling LA closer together. Riders’ answers to evocative questions at the end of each video will shift who gets to define what’s out the window,” says Anne Bray, Executive Director of Freewaves, LA’s public media arts organization. Sample bilingual questions:  “Who is invisible in L.A.?” “What’s the difference between L.A. and Hollywood?” “Can you imagine L.A. in 1492?” “What’s your soundtrack for L.A.?”

Michael Parker, Relay

Bus riders and access to technology

Greater Los Angeles has a wonderfully diverse population widely dispersed across its basin.  The buses with Transit TV broadcasting inside of them 24/7 crisscross its neighborhoods and social boundaries, passing unique, local cultural resources.  Out the Window targets where even the web doesn’t always reach and Transit TV allows for this logical weave.  Bus riders represent a population less reached by the Internet and new media, but our research revealed that four out of five riders have cell phones. Of those, four out of five text. We aim to bridge older and newer technologies for these riders, bringing them into a citywide public dialogue.  The videos produced for Out the Window are created by L.A. artists with this complex audience in mind and technology of Transit TV.

A one-minute Youtube video provides an overview of the project: http://youtu.be/W-ekiTrnYW0

Video screenings on the bus will take place in October and November. A different 2-minute video will play each day, appearing once per hour, every hour. For more information or to watch the videos online, visit www.out-the-window.org.

Out the Window is supported by grants from the HASTAC Digital Media and Learning Competition, The James Irvine Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, California Arts Council, National Endowment for the Arts, the Getty Grant Program, and the Pasadena Art Alliance.

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 LA Metro bus ride tour of the East L.A. food
(desert) landscape with East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy students!

Tips for bus riding:

There are usually two Transit TV screens in each bus — one towards
the front door, and one near the back. You’ll be riding between two
and four buses for this meet up (not counting your return trip). There
are no bus transfers available. Buses cost $1.50 per ride, so be sure
to bring some change with you! Alternately, you can purchase a Metro
Day Pass for $6.00 aboard most buses or at a Metro ticket vending
machine (such as at Union Stations or other train stations).

Meet up OPTION #1:

9:30 AM at UNION STATION – Cesar E Chavez & Vignes.
Meet up on the SW corner of Cesar E Chavez & Vignes (back side of
Union Station) at the eastbound bus stop. Get on the 770 or 84/68 bus
no later than 10AM to make the next destination in time. There are
buses scheduled to depart at 9:35am, 9:48am and 9:55am. The bus will
go down Cesar E Chavez Ave into East L.A., and will give you time to
watch Out The Window videos on board. Don’t forget to look out the
window! Get off the bus at the corner of Cesar E Chavez & Eastern.

Meet up OPTION #2:

10:15 AM at Cesar E Chavez & Eastern in front of Jack In The Box.
Arrive by bus from Union Station (see Meet up OPTION #1) or
independently.
Meet up with East Los Angeles Renaissance Academy Students & Public
Matters here. Students will speak about their work in and about the
East L.A. food landscape, which they’ve captured in the videos that
are screening on the buses. We will then take the 251 bus headed south
on Eastern and transfer to the 720/18 bus headed east on Whittier to
see more of East L.A. and its lack of healthy food options. The tour
will end around 11:30am at Arctic Hotspot Bakery & Cafe (2509 E 4th
Street) in Boyle Heights, where all are welcome to continue the
conversation over healthy snacks.

For your return trip, you can catch the bus (770 or 84/68) at Cesar E
Chavez & Soto or take the Gold Line at 1st & Soto.

BUS TOUR 6/19: Echo Park meet up and ride to the beach

Out the Window Bus Ride + Video Watching + Picnic on the Pier
Sunday, June 19
Meetup at 12pm
Ride at 1pm

with Echo Park Film Center and students

Meet at EPFC at noon for snacks, then catch the 704 Metro Rapid Bus at Sunset & Alvarado at 1 pm. We’ll ride all the way to the beach (about an 80 minute journey)… spend an hour having a picnic and making a Super 8 film (the Santa Monica Pier is featured in one of the films being shown as part of OUT THE WINDOW), hop on the 704 and ride back home to Echo Park by about 5:30 pm.

Tips for bus riding:

There are usually two Transit TV screens in each bus — one towards
the front door, and one near the back.  Buses cost $1.50 per ride, so be sure
to bring some change with you! If you plan to take more than one bus line that day, you can purchase a Metro Day Pass for $6.00 aboard most buses or at a Metro ticket vending machine (such as at Union Stations or other train stations).