Encoding Futures: Speculative Monuments for L.A. Panel Discussion

October 7, 2021 | 7:00pm

Panel

**THIS IS A ZOOM EVENT**

Over 3 months during the summer of 2021, Nancy Baker Cahill, Audrey Chan, Joel Garcia with Meztli Projects, and Patrick Martinez researched and created original augmented reality artworks through Oxy Arts’ artist-in-residence program. The prompt was to create a future monument for a chosen site in Los Angeles. The collection of artworks created through this residency represent new sociotechnical imaginaries for the city.

Join us for a panel discussion between our resident artists, moderated by Tricia Kim, Associate Director of Public Engagement at Monument Lab and Editor of the Bulletin. Artists will share about their process throughout the residency, speak about their original AR monuments, and discuss the future of monuments with leading scholar in the field, Tricia Kim.

Monument Lab is a public art and history studio whose mission is to facilitate critical conversation around the past, present and future of monuments. Monument Lab was a key partner throughout the residency.

About the Panelists

Nancy Baker Cahill

Audrey Chan

Joel Garcia

Patrick Martinez

Tricia Kim

Nancy Baker Cahill is a new media artist who examines power, selfhood, and embodied consciousness through drawing and shared immersive space. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) art platform exploring resistance and inclusive creative expression.

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Audrey Chan (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles-based artist, illustrator, and educator. Her research-based projects use drawing, painting, public art, and video to challenge dominant historical narratives through allegories of power, place, and identity.

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Joel Garcia (Huichol) is an artist, arts administrator and cultural organizer with 20+ years of experience working locally and transnationally focusing on community-centered strategies. He is the co-founder of Meztli Projects, an Indigenous-based arts & culture collaborative centering indigeneity into the creative practice of Los Angeles.

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Patrick Martinez maintains a diverse practice that includes mixed media landscape paintings, neon sign pieces, cake paintings, and his Pee Chee series of appropriative works. These works serve to evoke place and socio-economic position, and further unearth sites of personal, civic and cultural loss.

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Patricia Eunji Kim is Associate Director of Public Programs at Monument Lab and Editor of the Monument Lab Bulletin. She also serves as Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University.

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