Rex Bruce

2011-05-17T09:25:00.000-07:00

New competition doing well, lots of great stuff coming in! http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

Santa Monica Bl. (Weho Gateway to 101)

2010-05-19T18:34:00.000-07:00

2010-05-15T15:39:00.000-07:00

Downtown Film Festival L.A. is deciding dates for the festival. They want to make LACDA's DigitalArt.LA a premier whole day event on their schedule. We shall see...

2010-05-15T15:37:00.000-07:00

Derek Haugen from iotaCenter approached me about showing my video work. Other curatorial collaborations possible also. http://bit.ly/bzhJl9

LACDA is sponsoring a screening by Dance Camera West in the bank vault that is underneath the Los Angeles Theater Center (cool new space!).

2010-05-01T09:27:00.000-07:00

http://digitalart.la
http://lacda-archives.com

2010-05-01T09:24:00.000-07:00

Created a row of social network/web 2.0 links on the pages of lacda website. Below is link to LACDA flickr page festooned with various snaps of lacda events, installations, etc.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacda

2010-02-19T12:16:00.000-08:00

Rex Bruce: my new intern today was cool (he was wearing '70s jewish lady sunglasses /camo hat--it was working somehow), made prints.sold and dropped off a piece (of mine) in Venice to Fran Kranz --look him up, t.v. actor (was in a thing called Dollhouse). Gigantic loft condo thing. a cartoon of him was made by Simpsons people he showed me... L.A.... One of those parties at that collector Ann Jann's house tonight. heading off to that.

2010-02-19T12:15:00.000-08:00

I met someone that was on Buffy the Vampire tonight at LOOK gallery. She was describing how she got ripped apart all gooey and everything. Got invited to a party at Raligh Studios for a new "Budapest" post-production some thingy or other. Not that hard up for free food and drinks, passed on that one.

2009-12-30T11:59:00.001-08:00

Collectively 'the rest of us' have way more money than 'the ultra-rich' or 'corporate interests' to use for political clout. If on average each American spent $100 this month, that would be 30 BILLION dollars. Just place your best bets... moveon.org, repower america, organizing for america, National Initiative for Dem...ocracy, there are hundreds... The new and extremely powerful tool is the "Money Bomb." Exercizing this is the key to radical and immediate empowerment of the American populace. Below is a money bomb link to fund a political documentary (as an example).

2009-06-16T13:21:00.000-07:00

Just sent this out:

LACDA at Orange County Center for Contemporary Art
"LA to OC - emphasis:EXTREME"

July 3rd - July 25th, 2009
Reception: Saturday July 18, 2009, 5-10pm at OCCCA

Orange County Center For Contemporary Art (OCCCA)
117 North Sycamore
Santa Ana, CA

"An artist can, whenever he or she feels like it, take things to a new level. In fact, this urge to challenge themselves and push the creative envelope is often nagging away at their brain. The question is, will the artist choose to listen or not? Will they take the plunge? Will they risk failure? Will they take their art to the extreme…?"

--Jeff Alu, Curator

On Saturday July 18, 2009 the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art will be hosting an opening reception at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, for the exhibition "LA to OC - emphasis:EXTREME". This exhibit brings ten of the downtown Los Angeles art galleries down to the OC to exhibit works of art from select artists. The galleries exhibiting are:

Bert Green Fine Art
Crewest Gallery
Deborah Martin Gallery
Hive Gallery
Integrated Circuits Gallery
Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
MONA
Pharmaka
Phyllis Stein Art
Todd/Browning Gallery

This exhibition, curated by Jeff T. Alu, brings together emerging, mid career and tenured artists with a common emphasis: each is committed to taking their art and creative process to a unique imaginative level. The artwork on display will range from kinetic sculpture to neon creations, computer generated imagery to more traditional art forms.

The exhibition will run July 3rd - July 25th at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

LACDA Artist's included:

Christopher Blum
Alex and Felix
Evan Yovaisis
Matthew Krueger
Rocky Reasoner
Rex Bruce

2009-04-23T10:56:00.000-07:00

Emailing Charlotte Cotton (photography curator at LACMA) my info., I talked to her earlier--she has a great U.K. twang. I worked for days putting together a shining eKit (new term?) for her (re-did my website, etc.), whew! I am artist, gallerist and P.R. firm in one. The art world is one of multiple hats -- esp. these days! Anyway sold (actually have $ for) 11 pieces at last count for this exhibit. Bites on more...

http://lacda.com/exhibits/rexbruce_LACDA_2009.html

2008-07-08T09:30:00.001-07:00

Tomorrow Howard Fox from LACMA is coming in to the gallery and we are going to look at all of the video that was submitted for DigitalArt.LA which was considerable in quantity. A piece came in from Bitforms Gallery produced by Steven Sacks in N.Y. that was particularly exciting. Howard is really funny, not what you would expect (pompous and academic--to be sure he does have the credentials). He is full of weird and somewhat transgressive art anecdotes. Very open minded, my favorite quality in a person.

2008-04-21T08:53:00.000-07:00

Rex Bruce and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) Organize Digital Art Expo

DigitalArt.LA

digital art expo international
in downtown los angeles

Rex Bruce and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) are organizing a multi-site international digital art expo in the Gallery Row area of Downtown Los Angeles. The event involves exhibits by area galleries, the use of empty storefronts as exhibit spaces for out of area institutions and galleries (the equivalent of a free booth at an art fair), video installations at the Regent Theatre, circuit bender street music, street projections, video screenings at theaters and galleries, a plethora of tables promoting art friendly magazines, newspapers, the creative commons and all electronic frontiers, etc. As well there will be an international exhibit of juried submissions hosted by LACDA to be judged by Howard Fox, curator of contemporary art, LACMA.

The event will take place August 14-17, opening with the Downtown Art Walk. We are in collaboration with the Downtown Los Angeles Film Festival, which is running on those exact dates and are providing support for the presentation at the Regent Theater (curated by Rex Bruce and Kelly Hargraves). As well, SIGGRAPH (a huge computer graphics and art convention) is at the L.A. Convention Center that week, we are hoping to line this up as an orbiting event. The last time SIGGRAPH was in L.A. we had a show "SYNAPSE" and a panel at the convention in collaboration with them.

Our event will bring enormous draw to the neighborhood, generate international promotion associated with important cultural institutions (raising the bar for Gallery Row), and generate traffic for our much beloved businesses, developers and restaurants. It will also be an art event of meritorious significance and great multicultural bounty satisfying all "brows" from low to high (at least in Rex's little head).

We are looking for available local spaces and galleries that wish to participate (even an add on digital "mini installation" in a window or performance/projection --you name it-- in front of the gallery outside of your scheduled event). We are also seeking out of area institutions and galleries that wish to be hosted by us. We are not hosting individual artists.

We already have a roster of some great names that will be participating confirmed, and unanimous support all around our community from those with whom I have discussed the concept.

Current roster of sponsors and participants:

• Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
• Howard Fox, Curator of Contemporary Art, LACMA
• UCR | California Museum of Photography
• Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Danzig / Poland
• Downtown Film Festival - Los Angeles
• Austin Museum of Digital Art
• Niche.LA Video Art
• Found Gallery L.A.
• Phantom Galleries L.A.
• Creative Commons
• Spring Arts Collective
• Pharmaka Gallery
• Rowan Gallery
• Dale Youngman Gallery
• El Nopal Press
• Bert Green Fine Art
• Crewest Gallery
• Sphinx Studio
• Gilmore Associates
• Regent Theatre
• Artillery Magazine
• Coagula Art Journal
• Citizen L.A.
• Absolute Arts
• Art Deadlines
• It's Liquid
• FLUX Business Communications

Your input, participation and brilliance is welcome and needed!

Thanks,

Rex Bruce
Director
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art
107 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
http://www.lacda.com
http://digitalart.la

2007-09-01T15:06:00.000-07:00

Super swifter quicker upper ultra crunchy absorbent family size industrial strength speedy maximum dosage extra strength instant super snack pak 100% Beef actual All Real Juice cheesier all natural extra extra large mega monster farm fresh total ultimate enriched complete outrageous concentrated deluxe luxury hyper spacious wall to wall Olympic size radical extreme action packed accelerated fast acting fast fast fast bulk pak super size it quantity purchase carton big grab super fancy Real Cheese home theater estate select mega broadband first class longer bonus legroom extended turbo king size commercial janitorial strength extravagance.

2007-08-30T08:35:00.000-07:00

Party pic: Artist Fumiko Amano in foreground, Morgan Lyons (host) in blue in background. Big place.

2007-08-28T12:54:00.000-07:00

My two best collectors threw an artists' party at their outrageous penthouse loft downtown last Sunday for Rex Bruce and Pete Jackson (we show him at Los Angeles Center For Digital Art). They are super people and we had an engaging crowd of collectors, gallery people, arts writers, quality artists, as well as music and film people. It was a great salon environment. There were 138 people counted at the door. Peter Frank, Artillery people, a famous photographer I can't remember, tons of PWMs (people with money), a councilwoman from West Hollywood, lots of artists and downtown gallery people. I'm a white tornado.

Pic is of me with Peter Frank (L.A. Weekly critic and chief curator at Riverside Art Museum and various PWMs. There were two huge balconies, you could see the Hollywood sign and all of the skyscrapers and famous buildings downtown.

2007-08-24T09:32:00.000-07:00

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2007-08-23T14:07:00.001-07:00

Cybernetic Eye

All views simultaneously in equal amplitudes illuminate the newly mediated grid of the cybernetic network. A full bandwidth ontology unfurls where all theories collaborate and communicate instantaneously over a reverberant labyrinth of optical fibers. This is discursive critical mass-- no opinion can exist at the expense of another and all identities, genders, skins, species, preferences and desires are transmutable. The didactic dissolves and philosophy is aesthetisized as infinitely malleable and interactive audio-visual texts. Anteriorly recursive plagarisms download, mutate, intermix and upload again. Vocabulary becomes a poetics of redefinition, and concepts become the vertigo of a shimmering ideological spectrum moving at light speed.

This is the new music of the technologized psyche: the electronic symphony of every instrument and every note synchronously blended to one monolithic and ecstatic tone. A meditation. A multicultural morphing where all colors combine to create a brilliant light. Each computer screen is a glimpse-a partitioned selection-of this luminous digital site, of the total epistemic memory residing in the global database for instant retrieval, update, recombination and re-storage. This vortical workstation of the cybernet is a tributary, a feeding bottle or breast, and an hermaphroditic genital of the info-communicative circulatory/nervous system where through interaction we sate the antique dictum for being the smarter monkey that better survives a hostile nature, that better survives its own hostile nature.

2007-08-23T14:04:00.000-07:00

n o i s e 2 s i g na l

Noise becomes the signal. Find the signal in the noise. Overexposed, overloaded, distorted, meters in the red. Hissing, scratched, discolored, alaised, unintelligble and unreadable. Lens flares. Warped, faded, clipping, bleeding, and humming. Dot screens, moiree patterns. Raster lines. Corrupted data. Feedback. Modem hash. Channel offsets. Degenerated dubs, replications and simulations.

Allow random access thoughts. Art is assembly language. Be a noise-to-signal processor. Processing and filtering all input. Be electronic. Sampling, capturing. Reconfiguring. Inputting, communicating, disseminating. Be a feedback loop. Be an answering machine. Be a disconncected number, out of service. Be a busy signal, unreachable. Be a signal. Be a system error, crash applications. Be an error message. Be an error. Be an assembly language translator. Be machine level code. Be code. Be corrupted streaming data. Be an alaised side effect. Be aliased.

Be noise.

2007-08-23T12:40:00.000-07:00

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art "Snap to Grid" is fired up, we have 300 people so far and the deadline is September 2. This show is total anarchy, everyone that sends in an image gets it printed and hung. We get hundreds of people from all over. Someone from Vietnam sent us two images yesterday.

Every year for 50 years the L.A. Municipal Gallery has held its "Open Call" exhibit where any artist can show up with their art and an entry fee (to benefit gallery programs) and the piece is shown. The Los Angeles Center For Digital Art decided to launch an international experiment of the same nature where the artists upload images that are printed and hung by the gallery. The hundreds of works are displayed in a grid like installation (reminiscent of postcard art shows of the 1980's) where every work submitted is exhibited. The usual (less than democratic) selection process where only the precious few are chosen is turned on its head in a curatorial anarchy where everyone gets to participate and the viewer is literally left to be the judge.

http://lacda.com/juried/juriedshow.html

2007-04-24T20:03:00.000-07:00

Pics of stuff from Radio Shack, "The Artist's Superstore"

2007-04-24T18:14:00.000-07:00

Today was an eventful day. My BF (that means boy friend on gay sites) is into cats, his cat had six (SIX) kittens, it took all day. He is serious, takes them to shows and wins ribbons and bows. It is so GAY it is hard to handle, I know. I have video I will post soon, suffice with this pic for now.

I also went to ©Radio Shack© and bought a radio scanner and an infrared wireless surveillance camera that is a great combination! You can listen to the police and aim the surveillance camera at the scanner radio and project it. I instantly made art out of it. by combining them with a projector. I am going to us them to collect sounds and images. We have a show coming up with Pete Jackson who does infrared ultra-ultra-ultra-wide (90") landscapes of la la land. I want to do the lo res version of course, so this camera is perfect. It gets audio too.

I am going to record night time bottom feeder action on the streets downtown. *Bottom Feeder" is a not P.C. term for a brain damaged drug addict that attracts artists and photographers. I heard these local guys call them "L.B." which I found out stands for "Low Budget." How perfect. They were talking about a person who was defecating on the sidewalk. Very low budget. It is a war out there, I feel like I live in Calcutta on crack. I think it is getting better.

I was with an art broker in the earlier days of downtown, she was all pearls and hair and very adorable. We were walking down Main near Fifth and suddenly a woman bent over and urinated out from behind while we were exactly two feet away. It didn't even phase the woman I was with, it was amazing. She said "I used to work down here, don't worry." I knew she had the score. Never a dull moment. This was ten paces from the spot where I met Ed Ruscha (NAME DROP) two years later.

I decided not to use these people in my work, but now that I want to be a "FILM MAKER" it is such potent material, I will have to figure out how to weave it in. Its like we have this concentration camp of drug, alcohol, mental-health and poverty victims in the middle of our city, it is some sort of holocaust. I have been picking my way over it for years. Hollywood is the same but it is all hiding in the bushes. It all smells. I won't make art out of the smells.

2007-04-23T15:31:00.000-07:00

"Name Drops Keep Falling on My Head"
This will be the first of an ongoing series, when I think of my glamour moments... here are a few to start on

I met Jack Black at an opening in Culver City last weekend. I had too much wine, it was hard to remain coherent--what a night--I think he liked me. I asked if he could get my nephew a job (joking of course), I am a weird guy, but he liked me and asked me to stay when I tried to fade out. His wife is an artist, cool sexed-out voyeuristic stuff. She plays cello too, I found out. She is one of triplets and daughter of a famous jazz bassist.

I met Kenny Scharf at an opening in Culver City last weekend. I had too much wine, it was hard to remain coherent--what a night--he already knew me from before, went to his studio about a year ago. I asked him if we could show a video piece he did at the gallery and he said yes. He left the original behind, and has other tapes in a suitcase somewhere. Every single thing in his studio is painted up Dr. Sues / Kenny style. He has a whole painted up room in it with nothing but fish tanks.

I met director Joel Schumaker at an opening in my gallery. I had too much wine, it was hard to remain coherent--they were shooting the Number 23 in my building. It came out about a month ago. Jim Carry was standing outside, Beau Flynn, the producer came in and bought art. Joel bought the most bizarre thing we had. They were gay (not Jim) and hilarious, wearing fucked up jeans and longish hair. I had an opening at Niche L.A. of my art, so I had to leave, They are unbelievably rich. We dropped off art at Joel's house, I was the size of the TItanic. Did he direct that movie? He did Phantom of the Opera. His house was the size of the Paris Opera. Beau bought another bizarre piece when they finished the move ("a wrap" they call it, really), to give to Joel. It was picture of buffalo stampeding in a diorama at a natural history museum (by Diane Fox). Really odd photo, they loved it. I dropped it off at their studio offices in Hollywood, everyone stared at me at once when I came in, then Beau came out and got it from me. The famous people thing is totally nerve wracking, but I love it.

Mark Mothersbaugh (DEVO singer, movie composer, artist) was at an opening we had, he was in the show. I had too much wine, it was hard to remain coherent--he liked me, but too many people were taking pictures and video. It was hard to have a conversation with his wife, everyone kept butting in. We are showing him solo in 2008. His agent lives in North Carolina, which is odd, and is a really cool guy. He might start booking my art shows, he said he would years ago, I think I will ask him to do some now that I have a good new series going. Goddess knows he is hooked up with some galleries.

Went to a party at LACMA last wednesday for ArtScene, I can't remember everyone I met. I have a friend I take with me to remember everything, she will tell me who I met later so I can tell you.

Eddie Murphy walked by me once, I was drinking coffee at Buzz. Drew Barrymore was in line in front of me at Rite Aid and I didn't even know until my nephew flipped out all of a sudden. It was her. I had nothing to drink, I was at Rite Aid.

I talked to the Director of MOCA last week, I talked to two curators at MOCA last week, I talked to the contemporary art curator at LACMA last week. I had nothing to drink, it is just at the openings sometimes.

I really did all this, it is all true. I am really fucking tired, but I am doing this on my time off. I am determined to keep this blog going.

More name drops later.

2007-04-21T14:56:00.000-07:00

They are showing this video "WIDESCREEN" at the Pompidou in June, 2007. Finished it a couple of weeks back. Video is my new addiction. I just posted it to YouTube. I went to the ArtScene 25th anniversary party at LACMA on Wednesday and the whole panel was a big rant on digital this, youTube that, podcast this and blog that. I felt like a hog, since I have the only digital gallery in town and I do digital art. But I felt like I needed to get my shit together and start posting. So here it rolls...

2007-04-21T14:48:00.000-07:00

In light of all of the new "combo" inventiveness (camera text web email moblog phone pda alarm clock radio music player...) I thought I would create some new combination product ideas. I made them into a poem for you today. You may steal my ideas and sell them.

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