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1/17/2019

Distributed Web of Care is an initiative to code to care and code carefully. In January 17, 2019 6 – 8 PM at LACA, Taeyoon Choi will lead a skillshare about his archival process using centralized, decentralized, distributed and peer to peer networks. Taeyoon will share his ongoing research with a critical perspective towards technology, ethics, justice and sensitivity to the concept of personhood.

1/12/2019 to 1/18/2019

Can we code to care and code carefully? The Distributed Web of Care (DWC) is a research initiative on communication infrastructure, exploring the Distributed Web as a peer-to-peer, alternative web which prioritizes personhood, collective agency and individual ownership of data and code. Initiated by Taeyoon Choi, artist and cofounder of the School for Poetic Computation in NYC, in collaboration with various artists, writers, technologists and community organizers, DWC imagines distributed networks as a form of interdependence and stewardship, in critical opposition to the network platforms and infrastructures that dominate the world today.

1/1/2019

Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) is beginning a new conversation series titled, Common Ground, bringing together artists and scholars with seemingly disparate disciplines and backgrounds in and outside of the arts. This is an invitation to expand upon research similarities, find shared meaning, and enter into “common ground.”

Conversations will run for 45 minutes with a Q&A period at the end.
Common Ground will be free and open to the public and a recording can be made available.

Dates: TBA 2019
Participating List: TBA 2019

12/8/2018

OPEN HOUSE: With LACA, Bel Ami, Leroys, and Studios for the Holidays

This Saturday, December 8th LACA, Bel Ami, and Leroys invite you to a seasonal event. The open house will feature Lindsay August-Salazar, Scott Benzel, Carey Coleman, Sasha Dothan, Patricia Fernández, Andrew Freire, Miriam Laura Leonardi, Nour Mobarak, Carter Mull, and Sean Sprague. Mulled wine and 10lbs of gelt will be flowing.

11/5/2018

Los Angeles Artists Census Presentation and Community Meeting

Los Angeles Artist Census addresses the lack of knowledge of the life of working artists in Los Angeles. This research project proposal involves collecting basic financial data on LA-based artists to gain a better understanding of need versus resources-available to artists in the city.

10/12/2018 to 11/18/2018

Matthew Lax
Brunt Drama
October 12-November 18 2018
Opening Oct 12, 6-10 PM

8/31/2018 to 9/28/2018

Key Observation Point
Susanna Battin

Exhibition Aug 31 - Sept 28th
Opening Aug 31 6-10 PM

LACA hours
Wednesday-Saturday
12pm–6pm

Monday-Sunday
Appointment only

8/18/2018

MISS BERLIN FRAMED

A growing, medial archive of performative scenes, roles and places performed live. Between movement and frozen images in the medium and also with MISS BERLIN FRAMED. A field of tension live and in the projection. A back-and-forth. Who wins is unclear, and it is also not the question.

Performance: August 18, 8-9 PM

8/8/2018

W.E.B Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America

On Friday, June 8, 2018 at 8pm, The Southland Institute presents a talk by Silas Munro: "W.E.B. Du Bois’s Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America" at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. at 709 North Hill Street, Suite 104-108 (upstairs), Los Angeles, California 90012.

6/23/2018

LACA invites friends of the archive to join us, Saturday at 1 pm, for a working open house.

+ File and organize archival materials in the stacks
+ Learn how to process materials on-sight/the online database
+ Generate your descriptive meta data for items that are in laca you might be familiar with or have further insight
+ Come and hang out

* coffee + donuts *

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