Posted by cafpress on: Mon 31st Oct, 2011

Saturday, November 5, noon - 1 pm

Canary Hotel, Valley Room

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum and New Noise Music Foundation present a discussion of access and free speech in the contemporary media landscape. With panelists Kodwo Eshun, writer/theorist; Lee Montgomery, Neighborhood Public Radio; Ted Coe, KCSB; Marko Peljhan, Arctic Perspective Initiative; Daniel Perlin, artist/sound designer; and Michael Trigilio, Neighborhood Public Radio. Moderated by Elizabeth Lovero, Wireless curator. Hosted at the Canary Hotel's Valley Room in conjunction with the New Noise Music Conference. The Canary Hotel is located at 31 West Carrillo, Santa Barbara, CA  93101.

CAF MEMBERS: BRING YOUR MEMBERSHIP CARD AND RECEIVE FREE ADMISSION TO THE NEW NOISE CONFERENCE (A $30 VALUE)!  For questions regarding the smART Salon or CAF MEMBER admission, please email education@sbcaf.org or call (805) 966-5373 x103. Not a CAF MEMBER? Join Today.

Please visit: http://www.newnoisesb.org/ for more information on the New Noise Music Conference or http://www.newnoisesb.org/buy-a-badge/ to purchase a New Noise Music Conference Badge.

Image: Neighborhood Public Radio, Park Park Revolution, 2011, Site-specific performance MOCA, Los Angeles , CA. Photo: Mark Woodworth

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Posted by cafpress on: Thu 27th Oct, 2011

Friday, November 4, noon - 1 pm at Storke Plaza, UCSB

Join us on Friday Nov. 4th, 12p-1p when KCSB, Neighborhood Public Radio and YOU will occupy your FM dial with Picnic Revolution, an INTERACTIVE radio-art installation in Storke Plaza on the UCSB Campus.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=236957949694940

Neighborhood Public Radio will use looping broadcast streams and analog synthesizers to generate a live sound composition that will be broadcast on a low power FM frequency. Your battery operated radios will be our amplification for a quadrophonic mix of sound swirling around the square.

Participate in real-time and add your voice (or other sounds) to the mix by calling our 800-number from your cell phone and Occupy the Airwaves with us!

Join us from 12pm-1pm in Storke Plaza and bring a radio and portable phone if you can. We need you to add your voice to this participatory, community art project. Make your own media!

That's Friday November 4th from 12-1 at Storke Plaza.

Come early to grab a good spot!

KCSB 91.9 FM presents Neighborhood Public Radio, in collaboration with Free Karate of Albuquerque, New Mexico, the communities of UC Santa Barbara & beyond!

Picnic Revolution is part of the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum's Wireless art exhibition honoring KCSB's 50 Years of People-Powered Radio.

CAF’s exhibition Wireless is a collaboration between KCSB 91.9 FM, New Noise Music Foundation, and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum on the occasion of KCSB’s 50th anniversary and the New Noise Digital Music Conference & Festival 2011. Visit sbcaf.org, kcsb.org, and newnoisesb.com for more information.

Image: Neighborhood Public Radio, Park Park Revolution, 2011, Site-specific performance MOCA, Los Angeles , CA. Photo: Mark Woodworth

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 21st Oct, 2011

Thursday, November 3, 7 pm

Influential theater and film director Peter Glantz presents his multi-media solo performance, Being Impossible. With original unreleased music by Baltimore musicians Twig Harper and Dan Deacon, Glantz performs an ongoing, ever-changing show, featuring pure love, humor, colorful videos, and interstellar travel about a student’s journey to the sun. On both stage and screen, Peter has a signature whimsical visual style that combines a total commitment to fun and capturing the spirit and truth of the subject, story, or song.

Support for Forum Lounge 2011-2012 is generously provided by: the National Endowment for the Arts, Andrea Lang Fund, Daniel Clark, Endevermusic Productions, the Franciscan Inn, KCSB, Santa Barbara Independent, Santa Barbara Winery,and Therese Schweidler. Forum Lounge is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s 1st Thursday.

ADMISSION IS FREE

Teaser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VoUaRqgiVI

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Posted by cafpress on: Tue 18th Oct, 2011

Friday, October 28, 5:30 pm

Join Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum (CAF) and Kunin Wines for an evening of ghoulish delights just before the witching hour, when local celebrity judges Kathryn Graham, C'est Cheese co-owner; John Palminteri, television journalist; and Mayor Helene Schneider select the most devious and delightful pumpkins, and award special prizes. Prize categories for both children and adults! Co-host Kunin Wines, known for some of the most exceptional vintages on the Central Coast, will offer tastings of their premiere selections, with a special focus on Autumnal pairings. Also, get ready for Halloween with free face painting and hair tinseling from the professional stylists and Paul Mitchell The School!

This event is presented in association with the Santa Barbara Conference & Visitors Bureau and Film Commission and Santa Barbara Downtown Organization’s epicure.sb. Thank you to our sponsors: Arts & Letters Cafe, Aveda, California Pizza Kitchen, Coffee Cat, Natural Cafe, Santa Barbara Independent, and Santa Barbara NewsPress.

ADMISSION IS FREE, ALL ARE INVITED TO ENTER A PUMPKIN! Please submit your carved pumpkin at CAF between noon, October 27, and noon, October 28, to be eligible for awards, and provide your own candle. Participants are invited to carve their pumpkin at CAF on Thursday, October 27, at 7 pm.

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Posted by cafpress on: Tue 11th Oct, 2011

Friday, October 14, 7 pm

“Information overload leads to pattern recognition” Marshall McLuhan

Harry Reese will be speaking on his recent work and ideas, highlighting particular visual, conceptual, and perceptual patterns that appear in or accompany the various projects he has made or participated in over the last three decades.

Harry Reese is a Professor in the Department of Art and the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the Associate Dean of the College of Creative Studies. In partnership with his wife Sandra Liddell Reese, he publishes limited edition books and prints for their Turkey Press & Edition Reese imprints. He has received grants and significant recognition from a number of organizations, including the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts Council. ADMISSION IS FREE

The smART Talks program serves to increase awareness of local artists through a series of three talks a year by local artists about their work, careers, and creative process. The series, begun in 1996, was created in honor of Helen Rosenberg, mother of Susan Rose, and grandmother of Julie Weiner, and pays tribute to artists who live and work in the Santa Barbara area.

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Posted by cafpress on: Fri 7th Oct, 2011

The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum announces our annual open Call For Entries!

Online Applications Accepted: September 1 - October 14, 2011

Call For Entries (CFE) is an annual juried exhibition that encourages artists from the local community to produce newly commissioned work and is open to visual artists of all mediums currently living and working in Santa Barbara, Ventura, and San Luis Obispo Counties. Applicants may not be closely affiliated with CAF or have participated in a past CFE exhibition.

Three to six artists will be selected by a panel of jurors made up of artists and art professionals to exhibit new work in a group exhibition held at CAF in 2012. The panel of distinguished jurors includes: Grace Kook-Anderson, Curator at Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; John Spiak, Director/Chief Curator of the California State University, Fullerton, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA; Shane Tolbert, Past CFE Artist, Houston, TX; and Geoff Tuck, Independent Art Writer, Los Angeles, CA. Selected artists will work with a curator through series of studio visits to propose and create new work.

Visit http://www.sbcaf.org/exhibitions/opportun.html for up-to-date details and online application.

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