Festival Schedule & Map
Night and Day; Thursday, October 9 through Monday, October 13, 2008. Most events are FREE!
Hollywood Boulevard between Wilcox Avenue and Orange Drive
The 2008 Freewaves 11th Festival of Experimental Media Art will fuse media art and Hollywood Boulevard. The theme for this year's festival, is a playful and evocative turn, both as an international symbol of the American entertainment industry and as a Los Angeles neighborhood, which are equally very much in flux.
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Festival Map (PDF)
DeTours Details (PDF)
Schedule of Continuous Events
Thursday, October 9 to Monday, October 13
In-Store Screenings Venues:
Stores Generally Open 10:00 am - 8:00 pm; Cafes and Restaurants Until Midnight
Abyssinia Gifts from Africa, Bizzy B, Café Audrey, Famima!!, H&H Center's LED sign, Hightech Electronics, Hollywood Book & Poster, Hollywood Camera and Music, Hollywood Magic, Hookah Lounge, Kayden Tattoo, King King Club, Kino Sushi, LACE, Larry Edmunds Bookshop, Los Burritos, Loteria Restaurant, Lucky Devils, MH Internet Lounge, MVA Jewelry, Outfitters Wig Co., Petros K, Prestige Jewelry, Second City Theater, Snow White Cafe & Restaurant, Skytalk, Suit City, Tarot Card Reader, 25 Degrees Restaurant, Venice Pizza, Virgin Megastore, Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions, World of Wonder, Yogurt Star, Yonni's Café.v
Remapping-LA Hollywould
Starting at LACE – 6522 Hollywood Boulevard
Noon - 6:00 pm Thursday and Sunday; Noon - 9:00 pm Friday; Noon - Midnight Saturday
- Pick up a mobile media device and explore the cultural itineraries and portraits created by neighborhood youth, seniors, street cleaners, movie star impersonators, Business Improvement District employees, and new loft owners
- Cultural Civic Computing by Fabian Wagmister and Jeff Burke of REMAP
- Superficial Superglow—an interactive LCD installation on the façade of LACE.
LA Forum/Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
6518 Hollywood Blvd
Friday Noon - 9:00 pm, Saturday Noon -12:00 am, Sunday Noon – 6:00 pm
Who Is in Charge Here: Authors, Authority and Authoritarianism. In an architectural installation, video projections by 10 artists investigate the small spectrum between creation and control in our times of political decisions and lethargy.
Happy Hours Screenings at Kung Pao Kitty
6445 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028 323.461.4481 kungpaokitty.com
Daily 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Visual Cocktail Mix, The End!, Bad Boys All Ages and CNN Remix, (music, violence, disasters and artists' tv interventions) will be showcased instead of the nightly news, in daily rotation.
Art Videos on National City Buses
All city buses will exhibit new Art Videos refreshed twice daily on Transit TV throughout Los Angeles, Chicago, Atlanta, Orlando and Milwaukee!
Hollywood & Highland Center's Façade
Animation by James Boulton will appear on LED sign at Hollywood & Highland Center's façade.
Schedule of Special Events
Park at Highland & Hollywood Center $2/4 hours with validation or Bike or Metro
Day 1: Art Launch – Thursday, October 9
Roosevelt Hotel Tropicana Bar
RSVP for The Art Launch at the Roosevelt Hotel Tropicana Bar >>
- Private Poolside Art Reception
- A throng of artists' short videos on screens around the pool and projections in the pool
- Complimentary hors d'oeuvres and drinks
- Free for members of Freewaves, LACE, LACMA, MOCA, and Hammer
- $25 to become a member of Freewaves at the door
7:00 pm – 10:00 pm
7000 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA 90028; 323.466.7000
www.hollywoodroosevelt.com
The Knitting Factory
DJ Christine Lang with VJ Safy Sniper
10:00 pm – 12:00 am
7021 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.463.0204
la.knittingfactory.com
Day 2: Visual Music – Friday, October 10
World of Wonder
Opening of Uncensored
A program of uncensored Freewaves' videos
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm
6650 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.603.6300
Musician's Institute
Screening of selection of artistically exceptional music videos 2002 – 2008. The Goethe-Institut Los Angeles presents: Style in Motion curated by Christoph Dreher
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm at The Green Room
6752 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.462.1384
www.mi.edu
The Knitting Factory
Pfadfinderei w/DJ Live V.J. performances, $10
Highly acclaimed visualist crew
10:00 pm – 12:00 am
7021 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.463.0204
la.knittingfactory.com
Day 3: Visual Music Part 2 and Streetwise Mobile Media – Saturday, October 11
Musicians Institute: The Passage
Christoph Dreher, Christine Lang, and Safy Sniper will be joined by Alan Calzatti to discuss the effects of music video on international culture; courtesy of Goethe-Institut Los Angeles
2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
6752 Hollywood Blvd, CA 90028; 323.462.1384 www.mi.edu, www.goethe.de/losangeles
6500 Block of Hollywood Boulevard
Eco activities along the street with info tables, street puppets, man-made parks by Park(ing) day L.A.!, solar-powered DJs The Sycons & Mark Farina, a Fender Blender juicer, Interactive Watershed Suitcase, Biodiesel FAQ's answers, etc.
3:00 pm – 9:00 pm
LACE + LA Forum/Woodbury + Paul G. Gleason Theater
Video screenings and installations
6:00 pm – 12:00 am
6518-6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.957.1777 www.welcometolace.org
Second City Studio Theatre
Pre-Election Improv Satire
Shows at 8:00 pm, 9:30 pm, and 11 :00 pm
6550 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.464.8542
Tickets: www.secondcity.com/?id=theatres/losangeles and www.etix.com
Mobile Media Nightmares
Reversed surveillance at MacDonald's, ballooned cameras at an altitude of 50 feet, drive by Horror projections counteract barcodes, RFID's and ID Targets.
8:00 pm – 12:00 am on Hollywood Blvd.
Bicycle Bell Ensemble, Bike Cite and Bike Ballet
Musical and dance performances on the street!
9:00 pm
Hudson St. at Hollywood Blvd opposite LACE
Bike Valet by LACBC on Hollywood Blvd near Hudson St.
7:00 pm to 11:00 pm
Hollywood Blvd near Hudson St.
DeTours Around Alt. Hollywood —Sunday, October 12
De/Tours around Alt. Hollywood
6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.871.1950
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Starting at LACE , 1.5 hour walking tours of Hollywood from alternative perspectives sponsored in part by LA Forum. Each group will receive mobile media devices to document their tour. (Media architecture by REMAP)
- 4:00 — Ryan Griffis, artist – Parking Public: a Tour of Parking Lots and Utopias: Hollywood
- 4:15 — Elizabeth Lovins – Excavating the Lost Hollywood Art Colony, a walking pod tour; BYO mobile video player
- 4:30 — Greg Goldin, architecture critic – Stepping on the Cracks: Skeptical Promenade thru Hollywood Redevelopment
- 4:45 — Matthew Reynolds, visual culture scholar – The Glamour of Surveillance: A User's Guide to Looking in Hollywood
- 5:00 — Sara Wookey, choreographer and Deborah Murphy, urban designer – Actions of Time and Space on the Walk of Fame
Workshop at LA Forum/Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions
5:00 – James Rojas, urban planner – playful brainstorming workshop with props and 3D model about Hollywood's future
Pig'n Whistle
5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
Tour groups will regroup and refresh at this classic Hollywood restaurant, while participating in the creation of a tour media collage courtesy of REMAP-LA
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Norman Klein talk and video: The World's Most Schizophrenic Street, Hollywood Boulevard's Imaginary 12-step Program
6714 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028; 323.463.0000
www.pignwhistle.com
American Cinematheque
Two media art screenings at the Egyptian-themed theater that is forever Hollywood.
- Steven Spielberg Theatre – LA Filmforum presents Freewaves' Holly Would If She Could: Artists' Replies to Hollywood
- Lloyd E. Rigler Theatre – Los Angeles Plays Itself, by Thom Andersen
8:00 pm – 10:00 pm – Tickets via Fandango.com or at the box office.
6712 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028; 323.461.2020
www.americancinematheque.com
Day 5: Remapping-LA Hollywould – Monday, October 13
Lucky Strike Lanes
REMAPPING-LA Hollywould, a smart-phone installation will project self-authored community media collages at the end of each lane.
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm, happy hour prices 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
6801 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, CA 90028; 323.467.7776
www.bowlluckystrike.com
