Future Continuous: Present Stream is an online series of episodes featuring contemporary artists and scholars exploring parallel and competing visions of what the future holds for both art and the world it lives in. This series was developed with LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) and partnering organization JOAN Los Angeles. Future Continuous: Present Stream is created by Daniel R. Small and produced by David Matorin.
Join us at 12pm on March 26th for a virtual discussion with the series’ creator Daniel R. Small, and Producer David Matorin, in conversation with JOAN Director, Co-Founder & Curator, Summer Guthery.
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Featuring:
Daniel R. Small
Daniel R. Small (b.1984 in Centralia, Illinois, USA; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University. Small is an artist, anthropologist, educator, and writer. Recent exhibitions include the traveling exhibition “Never Spoken Again” organized by Independent Curators International which will travel for the next five years. “The Conspiracy Of Art: Part II,” Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles (2019), “74 million million million tons,” SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York (2018); “Seeing Eye Awareness,” Museum of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2018); “Mad Horizon,” Index- The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden (2017); “Concrete Island,” VENUS LA, Los Angeles (2017), “The Hierophant,” Galeria Nicodim, Bucharest, Romania (2017); “Made in L.A. 2016: a, the, though, only,” Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2016); “13th Biennale de Lyon,” Musee d’Art Contemporain Lyon, France (2015); “The Historical Society of Desert Archives,” The Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah (2015); “Bloody Red Sun of Fantastic L.A.,” PIASA, Paris, France (2015); “The Manifest Destiny Billboard Project,” Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) (2015). He received the Smithsonian Ingenuity Award in 2015 and the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Award in 2016.
David Matorin
David Matorin is a writer, curator, documentarian and arts journalist based in Los Angeles. His film & video projects for outlets including Arte, Thomson Reuters, The Intercept/Field of Vision and Janus Films have garnered Webby and Independent Spirit awards & nominations. His writing for publications such as Art in America, WSJ, Flash Art, Bomb Magazine, and Truthdig have earned him accolades from the Los Angeles Press Club. He has worked with foundations and nonprofits including the James Irvine Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the Southern Poverty Law Center. Previously based in New York City, his work is focused on the moving image in culture. He teaches at USC’s Annenberg School of Journalism.
Summer Guthery
Summer Guthery is the Executive Director of JOAN, a not-for-profit exhibition space focusing on emerging and underrepresented artists. Prior to JOAN she was the Curator of Performance and Public Programming at LAXART which brought her to Los Angeles from New York City in 2013. In NYC, she was the Assistant Curator of Performa Biennial 2013 & 2011. Her writing can be seen in Frieze, Artforum, ArtReview, and Art in America. Guthery received an M.A. from the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.
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