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Our chic complimentary shuttle to the @santamonicaartstudios, next to @alacontemporary is running all 3 days of the fair! Ride in style and catch 2 incredible art fair experiences 👀 Get tickets to stARTup LA 2019 now! Link in bio 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #artandtechnology #friezeweek
Featured Artist @tiffanytrenda's 1st performance of Body Code at #startupartfairla 👀 See it again at 8pm at our Opening Night party Get tickets to stARTup LA 2019 now! Link in bio 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #artandtechnology #friezeweek #newmedia #newmediaart #QRcode #tiffanytrenda #performanceart #performanceartist
Our beautiful stARTup LA 2019 program designed by @angieolee 🖤 stARTup LA 2019 is at the hip and stylish Kinney Venice Beach Hotel @thekinneyvenicebeach this February 15-17, 2019. See 70 of today's leading contemporary artists with works in all mediums, and Special Projects exploring art and technology. Opening Night Party is TODAY from 7-10 PM. Get tickets now in our bio, or at the door 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #artandtechnology #emergingartist #friezeweek #designinspo #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #graphicdesigndaily #graphicdesigners #programming
The beautiful Museum Bar by @effenvodka, our lounge in the West Courtyard of @thekinneyvenicebeach 🖤 stARTup LA 2019 opens TODAY from 2-10 pm. Tickets are available in our bio link, or at the door. 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #designinspo #effenvodka #friezeweek #designyourlife
For our 4th Los Angeles fair, our Special Programing explores art and technology. Panel Discussions include Augmented Reality in Art: A Conversation between Jill Taffet @jilltaffet and Camila Magrane @camilamagrane, and Collecting and Archiving the Future with Featured Artist Tiffany Trenda @tiffanytrenda. Because of that, we interviewed two curators from our friends at Artfinder @artfinder_com, the leading platform to shop original art from independent artists around the work - including Emma, Artfinder's AI curator. Read our interview on our blog: https://www.startupartfair.com/blog/artfinder-curators #startupartfair #startupartfairla #artfinder #blogs #artblog #artandtechnology #losangelesart #artfairs #AI #artificialinteligence #curation #losangelesgrammers #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #womeninart
stARTup LA 2019 Programming: Featured Artist Tiffany Trenda's @tiffanytrenda performs Body Code Friday at 1pm and 8pm in @thekinneyvenicebeach's Main Courtyard Body Code is a live performance that conceptually focuses on the human body's relationship to data. As a data-driven culture, we are more interested in the activity of scanning then to experience our surroundings. That is, we are no longer absorbing the details of our world. Instead, we have become obsessed with the act of looking at data without understanding it. Therefore, we have become a culture of scopophilia- today’s obsession of looking. Body Code is a reaction to how the flesh body is disappearing through this virtual obsession of scanning. The word “scan” twenty years ago, defined an action of the body. It helped us to understand the physical world around us. Today “Scan” refers to how we interact with the screen (cell phone screens, computer screens etc.). Now we are experiencing the world through these devices and are no longer living in the present. This is from our usage of the camera on our phone and social media. For example, we record our lives instead of living in the moment. This effects how we create memories. We are relaying on the devices to become our database of mediated memories. Sigmund Freud coined the term “screen memory” as a “substitute for something else” Screens are a substitute for our real-time interactions. Get tickets to stARTup LA 2019 now! Link in bio 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #artandtechnology #newmedia #newmediaart #performanceart #performanceartist #tiffanytrenda
stARTup LA 2019 Panel Discussions: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 5:30pm: Lezley Saar and Peter Frank in Conversation Lezley Saar @lezleysaar is a mixed-media artist and painter. Her artwork deals with themes of identity, race, gender, beauty, normalcy, and sanity. She has exhibited internationally, and nationally and is from a family of artists with her mother Betty and sister, Allison. Peter Frank is a poet, curator, and the Associate Editor at Fabrik magazine. He is former critic for Angeleno magazine and the L.A. Weekly, served as Editor for THE magazine Los Angeles and Visions Art Quarterly, and contributes articles to publications around the world. Please join Saar and Frank in free-flowing discussion about artistic dynasties, portraiture, and identity in contemporary painting. Get tickets to stARTup LA 2019 now! Link in bio 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #womeninart #womenartists #lezleysaar #womenwhopaint #conversations
stARTup LA 2019 - Lilli Muller - "Look when you don’t want to see. Listen when you don’t want to hear. Speak out loud what you don’t want to say, Walk from the outside in, to discover the inside, outside. Getting people engaged in the artmaking process offers them a different awareness while mirroring their own life experiences. As I have witnessed over the years, it is no longer simply about the artwork itself, but the personal impact it has on each individual, and any further change it may cause. This inspires me to continue making art for the people, with the people, and about the people. My inspirations are drawn from the colors of life, human experiences, and the puzzle pieces of emotional states of mind, weaving like a red thread through layering visuals, hidden messages and symbols, assuming obvious perceptions and surprise reveals." Lilli Muller comes to stARTup LA 2019! Get tickets for our Opening Night Party ahead of time - link in bio 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #mixedmediaart #sculptural #mixedmediaart #womeninart #womenartists
stARTup LA 2019 Panel Discussions: SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 17 2:30pm: Getting There From Here: Career Advice for Artists Join MOAH Executive Director, Andi Campognone @acprojects in discussion with a gallerist, curator, and artist, about how artists can build professional relationships, approach dealers and curators, consider alternative exhibition strategies, for a satisfying and successful career. Get tickets to stARTup LA 2019 now! Link in bio 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #emergingartist #independentartist #moah #museums #artcareer #artmarket
stARTup LA 2019 Panel Discussions: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16 2:30pm: Alexander Reben: Human-Machine Collaboration and Artificial Intelligence As artificial intelligence makes its appearance as a powerful art-making tool, where do humans come into the equation? Alex will discuss the implications of AI within the contexts of synthetic psychology and artificial philosophy, including a screening of his recent AI generated TED talk performance: "Five Dollars Can Save Planet Earth". Get tickets to stARTup LA 2019 now! Link in bio 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 🗣 #startupartfair #startupartfairla #losangelesart #losangelesgrammers #venicebeach #artfair #artfairs #laevent #laevents #losangelesevents #contemporaryartist #artandtechnology #newmedia #newmediaart #AI #artificialintelligence #tedtalk #panels #conversations #tedtalk
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