Thu Aug 27, 2015 18:00 - Thu Aug 27, 2015

Los Angeles, California
United States of America

For the closing reception of ‘HOW TO WATER’, Eastside International brings you a night of collective performances and new media experiences.

The Institute for New Feeling (IfNf) is an art collective led by Scott Andrew, Agnes Bolt and Nina Sarnelle, committed to the development of new ways of feeling, and ways of feeling new. For the closing reception they present “Watermark.mov”, a hi definition steam room featuring personal sauna pods. Bring a bathing suit and sandals or borrow a towel on site. Warning: anyone with epilepsy or sensitivity to strobing should not enter the space. The saunas are free to use as long as you’d like; we suggest sitting for a 15 min session.

Come early, space is limited. You will get wet. More about IfNf here: www.InstituteForNewFeeling.com

Work & Play, an artist collective out of Savannah, GA (Rebekah Price, Jake Himovitz, and Ryan B. Gillam), presents “Watering the Plants: a Liquid Symphony”. Work and Play analyzes moments of creative enthusiasm as they occur amidst life's daily chores. More info here: http://www.workworkplayplay.com/

'HOW TO WATER', curated by Shelley Holcomb and Theo Triantafyllidis, is a multimedia exhibition that explores the internet’s fluidity, ephemerality, and essentiality in our daily lives. The digital content we endlessly consume moves steadily onward like a babbling brook. Are we descending into an abyss of increasingly homogenous, dopamine-triggering listicle clickbait? Or are we surfing along a rising tide of awareness and togetherness, finally shattering our own solipsisms and creative limitations? The works consider these notions by conflating the basic characteristics of water with found media from the internet and visual software including GIFs, YouTube videos, live webcam video and WebGL shaders. Even the overall amalgam of projected videos was made to present the other 16 works, along with the show’s visitors (seen through an interactive work by Alex Rickett and John Brumely), as though they are all immersed in water. The exhibition is sponsored by UCLA Design Media Arts

ARTISTS:
Adam Ferriss
Alex Rickett
Brenna Murphy
Eva Papamargariti
Ezra Miller
Gergo Kovacs
Joe Hamilton
John Brumley
Julieta Gil
Katie Torn
Rachel Archibald
Sam Newell
Scott Andrew
Steve Gurysh
Theo Triantafyllidis
Vince Mckelvie

*Special Thanks to The Drift (http://www.the-drift.org/)*

Sun Aug 09, 2015 19:00 - Fri Aug 28, 2015

Los Angeles , California
United States of America

Eastside International is pleased to present the group exhibition HOW TO WATER, curated by Shelley Holcomb and Theo Triantafyllidis. HOW TO WATER is a multimedia exhibition that delves into the depths of the internet to frame the commanding force of our most basic element. Similar to water, the internet is an immersive environment— fluid by nature and residual in its lasting ability to augment our experience of time and space. As our localized crisis continues to grow, and our reservoirs drain barren, will technology present a promising potential sea for preservation or simulation? Utilizing web-interfaces, internet-sourced imagery, installations, and interactive new media as an archival medium for experimentation and mediation, the artists showcased here capture the ephemeral essence of water through virtualizing the basis of its temporality.

ARTISTS:
Adam Ferriss
Alex Rickett
Brenna Murphy
Eva Papamargariti
Ezra Miller
Gergo Kovacs
Joe Hamilton
John Brumley
Julieta Gil
Katie Torn
Rachel Archibald
Sam Newell
Scott Andrew
Steve Gurysh
Theo Triantafyllidis
Vince Mckelvie

Sponsored by UCLA Design Media Arts