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3/17/2016 to 3/18/2016

All That is Solid Melts into Data
Screening: Thursday March 17 & Friday March 18, 8pm

Thursday’s screening will be followed with a panel discussion and Q&A with filmmaker, Ryan S Jeffery and LACA archivist Clarice De Veyra moderated by Travis Diehl.

3/15/2016

Wik-Ed Women is a monthly series of informal Wikipedia editing workshops/sessions for Los Angeles women-in-the arts to contribute their expertise to Wikipedia, specifically expanding its content about women artists. Considering that 90% of Wikipedia’s editors (information-distributing-enthusiasts, really) are men, these evenings advocate against the systemic bias inherent to Wikipedia, one of the ten most popular websites in the world.
Editing Wikipedia is something everyone has the capability to do, though initiating oneself into the "editing realm" can be daunting. Not an Edit-a-thon per se,

3/12/2016

Nostalgia for the Present: Two Years of LACA
Curated by Eli Diner

Opening Saturday, March 12, 7-9pm

“The first problems arose when the first books arrived"

3/8/2016

Friends" Series, Corazon De Sol and Lisa Jugert

A talk about their shared interest in scientific and unconventional research around trauma, compassion, and the importance of self-care.

3/5/2016 to 4/5/2016

Memory is in Progress

I walked where the mass graves had been uncovered and then re-covered. You could tell where the bodies had been dug up; the yellow dirt had a slight shift and change in color. That summer in Estepar they recovered the bones of 40 political prisoners that where shot by Franco’s Civil Guard as they were under the illusion that they being freed from prison. Near the onset of the Spanish Civil War, on September 29 and 30, 1936 the freed men were all taken to this field and shot. There are about 700 more bodies that were executed and dumped out here. My grandmother thinks Sotero her uncle is there.

2/16/2016

"No Looking After the Internet" is a looking group that invites participants to look at an image (or a series of images) they are unfamiliar with, and “read” the image out-loud together. Chosen in relation to an exhibition, an artist’s body of work, or an ongoing research project, "No Looking" examines images without the traditional frameworks of the caption, gallery exhibition, or artist's talk. Instead, it offers the space and time for immersive looking, asking what we might see when we look at images slowly and collectively.

2/15/2016

Human Resources, in collaboration with Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, presents an evening of music performed by Sun Foot (Brian Mumford, Ron Burns, Chris Johanson) and Sally Timms (of The Mekons) accompanied by Sun Foot + Money Mark.

Organized by Tim Leanse.

Please note that this event will take place at LACA (2245 E. Washington Blvd LA CA 90021)

February 15, 2016
8pm

$10 Suggested Donation

2/13/2016

Join Arcadia Missa and Dominica at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive on Saturday, February 13th at 8pm for readings by Hannah Black, Sarah M. Harrison, Rin Johnson, and Arian Dean on the occasion of two new releases, and in connection with the exhibition Martine Syms: “Black Box” on view at Human Resources!

please note that the reading will take place at LACA (2245 E Washington Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90021), not at HR

February 13, 2016
Time:
8:00 pm

2/12/2016 to 2/15/2016

This week at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA)

Programming for February 12-15th.

2/12/2016

Feb 12th

A group of talks by

Shelter Press, William A

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