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2024 is the year art & science collide!

In collaboration between LA ACM SIGGRAPH & EZTV Online Museum - The festival began when Santa Monica College wished to do an exhibition in acknowledgement of the 45th anniversary of EZTV and its 40 years of collaborations between EZTV and SIGGRAPH.

Three of Santa Monica’s leading cultural institutions: Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica College, and 18th Street Arts Center in collaboration with Santa Monica Arts Commission's Media Arts Subcommittee, LA ACM SIGGRAPH & the EZTV Online Museum introduces a new, innovative six-month long festival that celebrates the synthesis of art and science by focusing on the diverse and highly fascinating works of digital art.

There has never been a time when art and technology were not synergistically intertwined. Ever-informing and evolving each other, inspiring each other to greater heights, and inventing innovation from two differing, yet inter-related perspectives.

DNA Festival Santa Monica delves into the very ethos at the heart of this creative love affair and celebrates the best in both recent creativity, as well as recognizing and honoring the early developers and adopters of digital art history.

Many DNA Events are simultaneously a part of The Getty’s PST Art: ‘Art & Science Collide’ events

Tom Van Sant- working at NASA and independently, rendered first digital images of Earth, paving the way for things like Google Earth. View Exhibition

TRIBUTE

DNA Festival is proud to honor this event in the name of digital art visionaries Kate Johnson (1969-2020) and Patric Prince (1942-2021)

  • 1969 - 2002

    “ Kate’s practice was hybrid, working in forms often presented outside conventional platforms. She exhibited large-scale projections and videos and critically acclaimed works in a variety of media and genres, exploring the nexus and connections between art, anthropology, technology and social justice. She is at the forefront of women working in large-scale site-specific digital projection, creating massive original projections that locally graced iconic places such as the Getty Center, LA City Hall, West Hollywood Park and Japan American Cultural Center. “

    Excerpt from - https://artillerymag.com/kate-johnson-1969-2020/https://artillerymag.com/kate-johnson-1969-2020/

  • 1942 - 2021

    “ Patric D. Prince was a pioneering American collector of digital art. As a key figure in early computer and digital art, she was one of the first to recognise the importance and potential of these new art forms. Over the course of her career, she had many different roles: as collector, curator, gallery founder, art historian, and Professor at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), as well as a supporter and friend to many of the artists she worked with.”

    Excerpt from - https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/patric-d-prince-digital-art-visionary