Color, Light, Motion - Episode 28
Frederick Janka & JoAnn Kuchera-Morin
Speaker: JoAnn Kuchera-Morin and Frederick Janka
Responders: Shannon Kennedy and Manjari Sharma
MAY 10, 2025, 10am PST / 1pm EST
Registration form: https://ucla.zoom.us/meeting/register/4KooA0e3QqmnqzpSjduCvw#/registration
Our two co-presenters will be discussing four objects from the David Bermant Foundation Collection: Nam June Paik, Participation TV, 1969; Otto Piene, Light Ballet I; Marcel Duchamp, Rotorelief (optical discs) 1935-1953, edition c. 1965, and Alejandro & Moira Sina, Spinning Shaft 1978, 1983. Drawing connections between these artworks and current and upcoming artworks and projects at the Allosphere and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, including DJ Javier: San Milano Drive (October 2025) and Falling into the Future: Kinetic Art at the Edge of the World (October 2026)
COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION is an online series featuring media artists and scholars in dialogue about artworks from the Bermant Collection of media and kinetic arts. Each featured presenter will discuss selected artworks in history and context and in relation to their own work and connections. This series is produced in collaboration with Harvestworks NY and the David Bermant Foundation.
David Bermant Foundation: https://davidbermantfoundation.org