Anne Bray

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Anne Bray
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Anne Bray in Hollywood, March 2017
Education UCLA
Colgate University
Known forVideo art
Website www.annebray.com

Anne Bray is an American artist. Using video, audio, slides, 3-D screens, sculpture, and performance, Bray "spectacularizes still unresolved conflicts about the vulnerable" through temporary installations at public sites and art venues. [1]

Bray is the co-founder of Freewaves, [2] a Los Angeles-based nonprofit organization that advocates for and exhibits new, uncensored, independent media. [3] Since 1989, Bray has planned the Freewaves Festival, which features independent and experimental media, that "exhibits a resistance to corporate capitalism." [4] In addition to other programming, each festival includes Spanish-language arts organizations and content related to African-American and Asian-American communities. As of 2017, eleven biennial festivals presenting more than 3000 artists with the partnership of 125 curators and more than 100 organizations have been held at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the Getty Center, Hammer Museum, and on Hollywood and Chinatown streets. The festival is supported by National Endowment for the Arts, MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Rauschenberg Foundation , and the Warhol Foundation. [5] [4]

In 2011, in association with Freewaves, Bray launched Out the Window, a project which streamed video art on Los Angeles County bus system. Largely created by Los Angeles teenagers, animations, documentaries, narratives, and experimental videos about and in Los Angeles were presented on Transit TV. A GPS-sensitive banner image at the bottom of each screen changed to correspond to the bus location. [6]

Bray served as the video art consultant on the "See Change" installation that opened in 2012 at Tom Bradley International Terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. [7]

In 2014, as part of "Out of the Window," Bray curated Long Live LA, which featured 35 videos on various health issues such as heart disease, obesity, mental health, lead exposure, and exercise. "“Our country’s public-health crisis has received a lot of attention in the traditional media... We thought that artists could bring a fresh perspective to these issues and reach people in a way that conventional public service announcements," Bray said in an interview with the Los Angeles Daily News . The videos were shown on more than 2,000 Los Angeles Metro buses across the county. [8]

Bray was born in New London, Connecticut, and attended UCLA and Colgate University. [9] She has taught at universities including Cal Arts, Claremont Graduate University, and UC Santa Barbara. Her work has been exhibited and performed in New York, Milan, Montreal, Boston, and throughout Southern California. [10]

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  1. ↑ Looseleaf, Victoria (November 4, 2004). "It's not TV, and it's not HBO". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  2. ↑ Sanders, Matt (2007-12-07). "'New media' joins First Friday offerings". Southeast Missourian. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  3. ↑ Senn, Evan (February 17, 2014). "Long Live L.A.: Bringing Video Art and Public Health Awareness to Mass Transit". KCET. Retrieved 11 March 2017.
  4. 1 2 James, David (February 2, 2003). The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in L.A. Temple University Press. pp. 174–194. ISBN   9781439901373.
  5. ↑ Snowden, Don (February 27, 1991). "Wave of Enthusiasm for L.A. Freewaves : Video: The second edition of the monthlong festival of independent works attracts artists from diverse backgrounds and cultures". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 16 March 2017.
  6. ↑ Wagley, Catherine (June 2, 2011). ""Out the Window" Brings Art to L.A. Buses". LA Weekly. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  7. ↑ Gammon, Katharine (2012-06-14). "'See Change' at LAX's Tom Bradley International Terminal, a Massive New Video Installation". L.A. Weekly. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  8. ↑ Abram, Susan (February 9, 2014). "Los Angeles rolls out public-health videos on 2,000 Metro buses". Los Angeles Daily News. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
  9. ↑ "Anne Bray - Claremont Graduate University". www.cgu.edu. Archived from the original on 2017-04-18. Retrieved 2017-04-17.
  10. ↑ "Awardee: Anne Bray". durfee.org. Durfee Organization. Retrieved 26 March 2017.
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