Giedion/Kircher is my vehicle for applying art, music and technology — along with concept and narrative development, information architecture, UX design, etc. — to create brand experiences, immersive environments and various other interactive media solutions for corporate clients, educational institutions and production companies.
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(more…)The Brewery Artwalk is a twice annual open studio weekend at the worlds largest art complex ….
The creation of the Brewery Arts Complex began in 1982 at the site of the Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery. With the passing of the Artist-In-Residence code, artists could rent live/work space in industrially zoned buildings. We rented only to artists and that is our policy to this day.
In July 1997, the LA Weekly called us “the world’s largest artist-in-residence community” and in a March 1999 Los Angeles Times article The Brewery was quoted as the “world’s largest art complex.” These are true lofts, not apartments, in industrial buildings that are a part of what has become a uniquely vibrant and creative community.
While moving forward on a new body of work in 2023 for Lightspace Modulator — my continuing intermedia art endeavor — I’ve also been taking some time for a look back at the history of the project and a review of some of the conceptual underpinnings of the process.
Over the last few months we’ve been working on building out our new studio: a hybrid playground where we can work with old-school synthesizers, effects, and mixers as well as all the latest digital tools. It’s been a pretty epic project, so far, as we not only had to rebuild a bunch of equipment, but we also had to get a number of the essential (and large) items from the east coast to Los Angeles.
From the pubs of Boston, through Nashville and Marfa, Texas, to long late-night hours with test equipment and soldering irons in our shop in downtown LA, it’s been a lot of work but also a lot of fun … and we’ve been documenting the process in the Coredark blog:
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