Los Angeles, California, May 16, 2007/ Los Angeles Center for Digital Art/ -- May marks LACDA's third anniversary and finds us healthy, thriving and succeeding at our mission. We have worked very hard to give exposure to the medium and a have shown a huge number of artists. We have truly realized our dreams to make this work collectable (we have sold 13 works by Pete Jackson, our current exhibitor http://lacda.com/exhibits/jackson.html ), and bring this work to the attention of major institutions and critics.

I have counted almost 50 exhibits, panels, and events we were involved in since our inception, including an exhibit at the Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, the "Synapse" show for SIGGRAPH, Dance Camera West videos in conjunction with UCLA Live, the LACMA Muse Art Walk, PhotoSF, PhotoLA and many more. We have appeared on broadcast television twice (ABC7 and PBS) and have had so many reviews and articles I couldn't begin to count (one of our first shows was in the L.A. Times and the L.A. Weekly). This year there have been reviews and interviews in Artweek, Coagula Art Journal, Artist Interviews, D'Art, C-NET, FlavorPill and the Downtown News amongst others. Our videos: http://lacda.com/press/eyeonla.html
http://lacda.com/press/kcet.html

Most recently we have had interactive work from the Silver Lake Film Festival (New York artist Julia Heyward) in the gallery as well as outdoor projections (ThinkAgain) for the Festival at the last Downtown Art Walk which was very exciting. There were more than 1,000 people through the gallery that day and evening.
http://lacda.com/exhibits/silverlakefringe.html
http://www.silverlakefilmfestival.org/slff2007/FESTEVENTS.html 

The downtown gallery scene (with over 30 galleries and venues for art) has clearly staked itself out as a very "happening" scene and continues to grow at a rapid pace.

Gallery Row article in Whitehot Magazine: http://whitehotmagazine.com/whitehot_articles.cfm?id=152

Last month I received a call from the Pompidou Center curators in Paris, who found our "Cell-Outs and Phonies" exhibit on the internet and was able to recommend artists for their "Festival Pocket Films" featuring videos shot with mobile phones, in which many LACDA artists will be screened early in June. http://www.festivalpocketfilms.fr/
http://lacda.com/exhibits/august.html

In another exciting development MOCA director Jeremy Strick, who I had met last year, recently recommended jurors for our current competition. The jurors Rebecca Morse and Gabriel Ritter curate exhibits at the museum (Museum of Contemporary Art http://moca.org ). This is very promising as I have been working quite diligently to make a connection between the current "art and technology" scene and these large, top venues. It is a great chance to get work in front of the eyes of these high level people, and we hope our efforts continue to advance the exposure of the digital medium. Info on competition: http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

Direct link for registration: http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=133352

Two huge artists from Los Angeles have recently been in adjoining galleries. Ed Ruscha curated a show at Pharmika the gallery next door, and Gronk exhibited at El Nopal (the gallery next door on the other side) with a series of prints he had created there. http://www.pharmaka-art.org/pages/past_wallworks.html

Read this feature on the Fifth Street Galleries: http://www.ladowntownnews.com/articles/2006/12/18/entertainment/entertainment01.txt

In my continual efforts to promote art and technology I have managed a number of "A-list" excursions: I attended ArtScene's 25th anniversary party at LACMA (L.A. County Museum of Art ( http://lacma.org/ ) where the subject for the panel was entirely about the influence of digital developments on the art establishment ( http://artscenecal.com ), I attended private receptions Ovitz Collection, and at the Getty Museum, and an anniversary party for DLANC (Downtown L.A. Neighborhood Council--the people who got us our space on Fifth St.) in the Tom Bradly Room at L.A. City Hall (it is at the top of the tower and was really amazing--the views were unreal!).

From our humble beginnings as an experiment in a small space in Hollywood we all have come very far together. It is clear that the way has been paved for immense possibilities for art and technology. We will continue to grow and maintain a dynamic environment and an international community for the digital artist for many, many years to come.

Source: Los Angeles Center For Digital Art

CONTACT: Rex Bruce, Director
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Website: http://www.lacda.com