CELEBRATE THE SYNTHESIS OF ART & SCIENCE
DNA: Santa Monica’s Digital New Arts Festival to kick off as Annual Event
June 22-Nov. 21, 2024
A cultural initiative between Santa Monica College, Bergamot Station Arts Center & 18th Street Arts Center In cooperation with LA-SIGGRAPH, the Santa Monica Arts Commission’s Media Arts Subcommittee, and the EZTV Online Museum
The second half of 2024 will see the inauguration of a new, innovative six-month long festival in Santa Monica celebrating the synthesis of art and science with wide-ranging digital art from classic early works to current state-of-the-art experiences. Engaging, inspiring and educational, Santa Monica’s Digital New Arts Festival (“DNA”) will be an annual series of experiences ranging from art gallery exhibitions, live performances, large-scale video installations, experiments in telepresence, screenings and panel discussions. A cultural initiative between Santa Monica College, Bergamot Station Arts Center & 18th Street Arts Center In cooperation with LA-SIGGRAPH, the Santa Monica Arts Commission’s Media Arts Subcommittee, and the EZTV Online Museum
DNA’s expansive perspective of Digital Art included examples of digital technology and performing arts as well as in writing, architecture and even ethical and legal considerations, which are so central to our lives that we may take them for granted. Featuring a diverse roster of local and international, multigenerational artists, scholars and performers, DNA will showcase the range of the digital arts and its role in the origins of the networked world.
Featuring both local artists as well as artists from as far away as India, a diverse, culturally pluralistic roster of multigenerational artists, scholars and performers will showcase the range of the digital arts and demonstrate the origins of the networked world we now take for granted and the role the arts have played in developing that world.
The first year will be staged at three campuses of Santa Monica College (the main campus, the Center for Media & Design and the Center for the Performing Arts’ Barrett Gallery), seven venues at Bergamot Station Arts Center (Craig Krull Gallery, Robert Berman Gallery, Galerie XII, RoseGallery, Lois Lambert Gallery, bG Gallery and Writers Boot Camp) and as well as both campuses of the 18th Street Arts Center.
2024 will be the year of Art & Tech in Los Angeles, with a concurrent region-wide initiative “Pacific Standard Time: Art & Science Collide”, in which DNA will be officially participating with several of its events. DNA will ramp up to a multidisciplinary large-scale outdoor celebration in 2025, when Santa Monica turns 150. By 2028, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympics, DNA expects to be an internationally recognized and highly anticipated annual festival, branding Santa Monica as a global Digital Arts Capital.
