Pump October 2017 - The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Jacki Morie

nick — Fri, 20 Oct 2017 05:13:12 +0000

The Scent Collar, developed by Jacquelyn Ford Morie while at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT) in collaboration with Anthrotronix, Inc., was first featured at the SIGGRAPH 2004 Cyber Fashion Show with the tag line: The Ultimate in Cyber Diva Chic Couture. It provides the sense of smell by way of an innovative, lightweight and fashionable wearable design. A patent was awarded in 2009. In 2016 the scent device was re-engineered and named RemniScent™, and works with today's VR technology as a personal scent release device for use in all types of virtual environment experiences. Dr. Morie believe scent should be included in more immersive experiences, to provide a more emotional connection to these realities.

With advanced degrees in both art and computer science, Dr. Morie has 25 years experience in developing innovative techniques for rich, emotionally evocative virtual reality (VR) environments. As part of this pioneering work, she invented a scent collar to bring the emotional power of smell to immersive experiences, and developed new types of functions for VR, such as connections to multiple sensor and feedback systems to make VR more effective. Dr. Morie spent 13 years as a Sr. Research Scientist at USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies (ICT), which she helped found. In the mid-1990s, Dr. Morie started comprehensive computer animation training programs at Walt Disney Feature Animation combining art and technology topics, which she later expanded to the special effects industries at studios such as Rhythm and Hues. She is the Founder and Chief Scientist of her VR company All These Worlds, LLC and serves on the Advisory Board of the Virtual World Society. She is also currently VP of Education at Upload LA.

type of work:

Scent/Olfactory

Virtual Reality

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Alexander Elliott Miller

sheri — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 04:43:52 +0000

TO….OBLIVION: Historic Landmarks Around Los Angeles

Alexander Elliott Miller is a composer and guitarist on the faculty of California State University Long Beach and Chapman University.

“TO….OBLIVION” is a suite of compositions for electric guitar, sound effects and video, inspired by historic landmarks around Los Angeles, of some societal or personal significance. In each video, a slideshow of images of a selected historic site are presented accompanied by environmental sounds, sound effects, and a live guitar soundtrack performed by the composer, examine the constantly changing landscape of our greater city and the forces driving it.

Performance includes presentations of: “The Belmont Tunnel,” an abandoned subway tunnel downtown; “The Walk of a Thousand Lights,” Long Beach’s Pike Amusement Park; “The Dunbar Hotel,” a hotel at the heart of Central Avenue’s mid-20th Century Jazz scene; “Zanja Madre,” the original aqueduct in LA, built by Spanish settlers in 1781; “At Sunset (and Horn Ave.),” the Sunset Strip’s Tower Records; and “Anaheim’s Center Street.”

type of work:

Sound Art

Sound Art Performance

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 7:30 PM to 10:00 PM

Chris Miller

sheri — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 20:12:58 +0000

Chris Miller was born in Hilo, Hawaii in 1977. He received his BFA from The Pennsylvania State University and his MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He currently manages the 3D Foundation program and teaches ceramics at the California State University, Long Beach. Miller is also a member of the artist-run gallery, Monte Vista Projects.

Forever Forgetting is an arrangement of hand-made sculptures on deteriorating plaster sheets. Born from both restrained technique and intuitive gesture, these unstable objects create an environment caught between forming and un-forming. Overall, this work functions as an open system, allowing exploration of both the self and the world through material and process.

chris-m-miller.com

type of work:

Sculpture/Assemblage

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, October 7, 2017 to Saturday, October 21, 2017

Cannibalistic Caterpillar

nick — Thu, 21 Sep 2017 01:57:49 +0000

Cannibalistic Caterpillar is a sound and vision project by Justin Scheid and Brian Akenoh. The group utilizes live projections, analog and digital synthesis, guitar pedals, homemade noise boxes, and live sampling to deliver intense and spontaneous improvisatory performances. Though primarily a duet, guest collaborators are not uncommon. The group is based in Long Beach, CA.

Cannibalistic Caterpillar performs as part of SynthLab.

type of work:

Sound Art

Sound Art Performance

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Friday, October 20th, 2017, 7:30 PM to 8:00 PM

Closing Reception The Icehouse

nick — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:52:36 +0000

Date:

Saturday, October 21, 2017

Time:

5:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Icehouse, Oct 21

RSVP: on Facebook or Eventbrite ( optional and not required for admittance)

Last chance to explore the interactive installation Drift by Margaret Noble

Performances by:
Martin Espino and William Almas
Alexander Elliott Miller

One night only interactive installation/performances curated by Michael Nannery:
Christine Hudson
Mimi Haddon
Kiyomi Fukui
Rob Brown and Davy Sumner
Neil Mathis
Ihab Ali
Matthew Dumpit
Sam Medeiros

One night only presentation of The Scent Collar by Jacki Morie

Last chance to visit installations by:
Lauren Ruth
Rob Brown
Brittany Mojo
Chris Miller
Ting Zhang and Sahy Uhns
Made of Hagop
Karen Holden
Bessie Kunath
Olga Lah
Rosalie Lopez
Beck and Col Stafford
Angelica Sotiriou
Matt Roberts - Humans of Long Beach

Opening Reception at The Icehouse

nick — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 01:42:37 +0000

Date:

Saturday, October 7, 2017

Time:

5:00pm - 10:00pm

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Icehouse, Oct 7

RSVP: on Facebook (optional and not required for admittance)

Performances by:
Takeshi Kanemura with Chris Law, Mei Hotta
Newtown Arts
Radio Machine Magazine
Beck and Col Stafford
Margaret Noble

First chance to see installations by:
Lauren Ruth
Rob Brown
Brittany Mojo
Chris Miller
Ting Zhang and Sahy Uhns
Made of Hagop
Karen Holden
Bessie Kunath
Olga Lah
Rosalie Lopez
Beck and Col Stafford
Angelica Sotiriou
Matt Roberts - Humans of Long Beach

Angelica Sotiriou

sheri — Sun, 17 Sep 2017 16:42:52 +0000

Angelica Sotiriou holds a Masters of Arts degree and a Masters of Fine Arts degree graduating Cum Laude from the University of California at Los Angeles. Angelica studied under the tutelage of artists Lee Mullican, Laddie John Dill, Tom Wudl and Ian Colverson.

Angelica Sotiriou has been exhibiting her art and teaching art in Los Angeles and the greater communities of California for over four decades. She has worked as a sculptor, creating narrative figurative bas-reliefs and currently creating large “contemplative narrative” acrylic paintings. Her works are in private and public collections of various individuals and organizations, of which are, The Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, (Los Angeles), Kim Wang and Associates, (New York), Linda Balahoutis (New York), Orange County Art Museum, The Terranea Resort (Palos Verdes), The Francisco Martinez Dance Theater (Los Angeles), Jerry Bruckheimer (Los Angeles) and Saint Katherine Greek Orthodox Church (Redondo Beach).

She has exhibited her works in various venues worthy of mentioning. Those art venues are; Takeuchi Galleries (Los Angeles Artwalk), The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, HAMA(Venice), Boritzer/Gray Gallery(Santa Monica), Sam Francis Gallery(Santa Monica), The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Manhattan Beach Cultural Arts Center, RE Congress (Anaheim), Fuller Theological Seminary, Brehm (Pasadena), Occidental College, The California State Universities of-Los Angeles, Dominguez, Fullerton, The Universities-U.C.L.A., UC Santa Cruz, Art Centers- The Irvine Fine Arts Center, Palos Verdes (Beckstrand), SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center, Venice) , The Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, L.A., San Francisco Art Institute, Colleges-El Camino College and College of the Canyons.

Angelica has been an active and exhibiting artist in the San Pedro community since 2001, showing at Studio 343, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Findings, White Box Gallery, VTB Studio and 2nd. Floor Gallery. Angelica currently has a studio/gallery (Loft2, 2nd. Floor Gallery) in San Pedro and recently/currently served(s) as Associate Professor at the University of Southern California, artist-in-residence and public artist for the Arts Council for the city of Long Beach, Angels Gate Cultural Arts Center-Artist Residency, Art consultant for Professional Development Programs for LAUSD, Cerritos Arts Center, The Getty, LACMA, MOCA and art specialist for Angels Gate High, Wildwood, Crossroads and the Port of Los Angeles High.

“I don’t know how
But suddenly there is no darkness left at all
The sun has poured itself inside me
From a thousand wounds.”- Nikoforos Vretakos

I have gone full circle.

For the first twenty years as a young artist I created large narrative bas-relief figurative sculptures. Working in such a large format required tremendous physical tenacity, which took its toll and, as if by “plan”, brought me back to where my art began many years ago. Over the last two decades, drawing and painting, line and color, contemplative compositions have become my ‘voice’ again.

My recent drawings and paintings from the last two decades have been a personal journey of uncovering and revealing pathways, windows and portals of light and of spirit. Inspired by the Byzantine process of iconography, my paintings have adopted the multi-layered application of paint starting from the darkest value finishing with the lightest value. My painting process is a tenacious pilgrimage on a quest to reveal the light in my works.
These days, when I face my canvas, I seem to be standing on a precipice. I am a witness to voyeuristic conversations exchanged between my mind, my heart and my artist hand. Each new work has illuminated another section of a path that takes me further into un-chartered visceral silence. Creating these works has become a wordless cry to find my way back home again.
I am grateful.

~Angelica Sotiriou, 2017

type of work:

Painting

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Exhibition Dates:

Saturday, October 7, 2017 to Saturday, October 21, 2017

Sam Medeiros

sheri — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:41:33 +0000

In a designated space, Sam Medeiros will take on challengers with a handmade wooden chess board requiring participants to drive the knife-like chess pieces into the board with each advancement. This game emphasizes psychological distinctions between participants and viewers.

Sam Medeiros is part of Michael Nannery’s Mind Games – Group Exhibition.

type of work:

Performance Art

Sculpture/Assemblage

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Matthew Dumpit

sheri — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:37:43 +0000

Matthew Dumpit graduated from California State University Long Beach in 2015 with a BFA in Metals and Jewelry. Matthew is well versed in a range of fine art metallurgy, as well as light-based installation and interactive works. He is inspired by motion, and seeks to integrate movement and interaction in his works as a means of evoking or triggering emotion. Conceptually, Matthew views both metal and our emotions as malleable, and under constant evolution.

Matthew Dumpit creates an ephemeral light sculpture by reflecting light off of pieces of metal, therein revealing a shimmering river of light on the walls of the dark basement.

Matthew Dumpit is part of Michael Nannery’s Mind Games – Group Exhibition –

type of work:

Installation

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM

Ihab Ali

sheri — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 03:31:21 +0000

Ihab Ali's PUMP performance involves walling off a section of the Icehouse basement using bricks. Visitors will be unable to access a portion of Ihab's installation as the evening progresses.

Ihab Ali was born and raised in Damascus, Syria, before relocated to Southern California as a teenager. He received his BFA in Ceramics in 2016 from California State University Long Beach. Nostalgia permeates Ihab's body of ceramic, performative, and installation work. Furthermore, his work reveals connections between art and life, particularly in regards to political structure, compromise, cultural understanding, and social collapse. Ihab's work has been recently featured at the Hason House exhibition. He currently works as a ceramics technician at Irvine Fine Arts Center.

Ihab Ali is part of Michael Nannery’s Mind Games – Group Exhibition.

type of work:

Performance Art

Location:

The Icehouse, 625 W Anaheim St, Long Beach, CA 90813

Performance date and time:

Saturday, October 21st, 2017, 5:00 PM to 10:00 PM