Art and DMA Collaborative Studio Workshop's Final Show

Art and DMA Collaborative Studio Workshop's Final Show:  Gray Wash: design art

Gray Wash: design art is an exhibition featuring 16 artists whose practices up until now have been rooted
largely in either design|media art or fine art. For this exhibition, the artists and designers work in four distinct
collaborative groups that have emerged from a student-led workshop at UCLA. This exploratory class
was designed to consider the varying methods and approaches attendant to each field, and to specifically
investigate the moments of commonality that may or may not be offered by various kinds of institutional
delineations. As a culmination of this inquiry, each group will present not only an artwork, but something
that underlines the result of differing modes of collaborative art making. Less a concise statement than a
broad investigation, this exhibition presents works that double as readable records of various collaborative
approaches, which among other things momentarily highlight, obliterate, generate and/or combine distinct
individual practices into one form.

June 9-16, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 9, 7-10pm

Control Room - 2006 E 7th Street - Los Angeles, CA 90021 - www.control-room.org
Gallery hours Sunday, 12-6pm or by appointment.

http://users.dma.ucla.edu/~rhazes2119/classes/s11/199/index.php

Advisors

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Erkki Huhtamo (D|MA)
James Welling (Art)
Instructors

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Alexis Hudgins

...is in the photo program at the UCLA Graduate School of Art. She incorporates media and the processes of image-making and editing into her practice and has a worked extensively in production for reality television and incorporates that experience into her practice. alexishudgins@gmail.com

Ivan Iannoli

...is also a graduate in the photo program in the UCLA Art department. He explores the relationship of images to the structures of image making/presentation. Recently, he has begun working on videos and projections ivaniannoli@gmail.com

Rhazes Spell, PhD

...is a first year graduate in D/MA MFA program. He has a MS and PhD in biomedical engineering from Duke University. His interests are in generative design and computational aesthetics. He is particularly interested in how social data, mathematical relationships and scientific phenomena can be enmeshed in generative practices. rhazes2119@ucla.edu

Tiffany Trenda

...is a video artist completing her MFA in the D/MA program. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in Fine Arts. Her process is to take technology (LCDs, video projectors, cameras, etc.) and create a digital environment with an embodied performance that simulates the human psyche. Her work is an investigation of how we are defined and redefined through the integration of technology. Trenda amalgamates LCD screens and her body making her identity interchangeable.. tiffany@tiffanytrenda.com

Tell them nothing of the things I thought about and created while I was sleeping

This is my final thesis show for UCLA Design and Media Arts Graduate Program.  

http://dma.ucla.edu/exhibitions/mfa/tellthemnothingofthethingsithoughtaboutandcreatedwhileiwassleeping/

Tell them nothing of the things I thought about and created while I was sleeping

• Opening Reception
• May 12, 5:00pm
• New Wight Gallery
• Broad Art Center

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• May 13 — 23
• Open 10a — 4p

I will be performing for Luigi Ontani's AmenHammerAmeno at the Hammer Museum

Wednesday, April 20

5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.

Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Blvd

Los Angeles, CA 90024

 

Luigi Ontani

Italian artist Luigi Ontani has been producing tableaux vivants, literally ‘living pictures’, since the late 1960’s. They are drawn from a combination of Western and Eastern iconographical traditions, with references to mythical and historical figures from past to present. Ontani’s idiosyncratic, satirical, and colorful scenes distinguish themselves from the more restrained work of his contemporaries in Italy and are significant precursors for younger generations of performance artists in Europe and the United States. AmenHammerAmeno, his new site-specific piece for the Hammer will take the form of a procession, with the performers clad in Balinese masks, lead by Ontani himself and accompanied by musicians.

In conjunction with the exhibition When in Rome organized by the Depart Foundation at the Italian Cultural Institute in Los Angeles

Luigi Ontani (b. 1943) is one of the most influential and remarkable Italian artists working today. Ontani’s idiosyncratic work represents a radical counter-position to that adopted by Arte Povera in the years he came to prominence. His photographs, drawings, installations, performances and tableaux vivants relate to an extremely rich western and eastern iconographical tradition. He is often the subject of his own work, wearing the clothing of mythical figures from history, religion or literature, drawing from very diverse sources, both near and distant in time.

He has exhibited his works in some of the most important museums and galleries around the world, from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to the Centre Pompidou, the Museo Reina Sofía to the Frankfurter Kunstverein. He has also participated in several editions of the Venice, Sydney, Lyon and Manifesta biennials. In the past few years, he was the subject of solo shows at MoMA PS1, S.M.A.K. in Ghent and MAMbo in Bologna. He recently presented a parade/tableau vivant at the Serpentine Gallery in London.

Public programs are made possible by Bronya and Andrew Galef, Good Works Foundation and Laura Donnelley, and an anonymous donor.

http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs/detail/program_id/805

MARCEL DZAMA AT DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY - OPENING CEREMONY

MARCEL DZAMA AT DAVID ZWIRNER GALLERY - OPENING CEREMONY

Very inspiring work.

Tiffany Trenda at UCLA Design and Media Arts at Fashion Symposium

I will be one of the 25 speakers this Saturday at the Fashion Symposium for the California Community Colleges at the Cal Mart in Los Angeles.

I have a video piece up at 18th Street Arts Center

http://18thstreet.org/subject/gallery

18th Street is a community which values art making as an essential component of a vibrant, just and healthy society.  "Terrarium" a performance documentation will be showcased there.

Project Room Hours: Wednesday-Friday 12:00 pm-5:00 pm
18th Street Arts Center is located at 1639 18th Street, Santa Monica, off of Olympic Boulevard.

BACKGROUND

The 18th Street Arts Center came into existence in 1988 as a complex of artist live-work spaces and the headquarters of High Performance magazine. Artist Susanna Bixby Dakin, writer Linda Frye Burnham and artist Steven Durland had
been working together for years, documenting the alternative art world through the magazine and Astro Artz publications. In the late ’80s, they decided artists needed more: affordable studio space. Dakin found an acre of land in Santa Monica’s Pico neighborhood, recently zoned specifically for manufacturing and the arts, and asked Burnham to help her develop it as affordable arts studios. The hodge-podge complex of five buildings, they discovered, had once incubated Judy Chicago’s groundbreaking feminist “Dinner Party” installation.
Burnham and Dakin conceived of the 18th Street Arts Complex as an intergenerational, intercultural, multidisciplinary beehive, as diverse as possible. Within a year it had become a creative cluster of studios, galleries, offices
and public spaces, housing some 30 tenants — artists ages 20-60 from many different ethnic and national backgrounds, working in the visual, performance and media arts. Some 30 tenants. alone and together, were making and exhibiting paintings and sculpture, operating arts-service organizations, creating film documentaries, presenting performances, publishing magazines and celebrating annually with a neighborhood festival. In residence in those early years
were The Empowerment Project, Highways Performance Space (founded by Burnham and artist Tim Miller), Emilie Conrad’s Continuum Movement, Kit Galloway and Sherrie Rabinowitz’s Electronic Café International, Community Arts Resources
(CARS), Joan Hotchkis’ Tearsheets Productions, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Keith Antar Mason, Dan Kwong, Jill Burnham, Francisco Letelier and Michael Barnard. Soon to join them were Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco, Phranc, Denise
Uehara and Side Street Projects.

Tiffany Trenda - 3rd Ward Open Call

Tiffany Trenda - 3rd Ward Open Call

Tiffany Trenda Malibu Times

This is a well written article about my work.  Enjoy!

It's narcissism of sorts, with a wink, a nudge and a nod to technology. Rigged with cameras and video screens, Trenda creates odd-sometimes eerie-personalities and characters during her live performances that leave children entranced and some grownups more than just a little creeped out... What she does exactly is tough to describe, and must be seen to be appreciated. But even then, it's still difficult to define, and that's its beauty. Cover of Malibu Times Malibu Life, Written by Patrick Timothy Mullikin "She's the Surreal Thing" August 26, 2009

http://www.tiffanytrenda.com/pressmalibutimes.html

Tiffany Trenda has a Disturbed Internet Stalker. Be Advised!

WARNING: Please ignore all emails from trendadoc@gmail.com or any other email that is NOT tiffany@tiffanytrenda.com. 

Unfortunately, this may or may not be a disturbed individual that is stalking harassing and impersonating Trenda over the internet.  Be advised. 

Tiffany Trenda in Artillery Magazine

Here is an an article from Artillery Magazine by David Cogan.  It was written in 2010 about my work and my background.  Enjoy!


Artillery Magazine, September October 2010. Vol 5 Issue 1, Page 30

Tiffany Trenda in Malibu Times

See this article about about me in the Malibu Times.

It's narcissism of sorts, with a wink, a nudge and a nod to technology. Rigged with cameras and video screens, Trenda creates odd-sometimes eerie-personalities and characters during her live performances that leave children entranced and some grownups more than just a little creeped out... What she does exactly is tough to describe, and must be seen to be appreciated. But even then, it's still difficult to define, and that's its beauty. Cover of Malibu Times Malibu Life, Written by Patrick Timothy Mullikin "She's the Surreal Thing" August 26, 2009

http://www.tiffanytrenda.com/pressmalibutimes.html

Tiffany Trenda's Odalisque

This is probably my best know piece so far:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7waQNiVljXE

Tiffany Trenda Information

 See more information on Tiffany Trenda here:
http://www.peoplepond.com/tiffanytrenda


A successful performance artist based in Malibu, California, Tiffany Trenda captures audiences everywhere with her compelling style and visceral installations.

Tiffany Trenda presented “Urban Devotion” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Part of an event for the museum’s Muse series, Tiffany Trenda performed alongside other artists in various disciplines. Earlier in the year, Tiffany Trenda traveled to Shanghai, China, to perform at the World Expo. A member of the UK Pavilion, Tiffany Trenda presented her work “Face Me.” Other performances in 2010 included works at several galleries in Los Angeles and Santa Monica, California.

Tiffany Trenda has won awards for her work as an artist. In 2008, Tiffany Trenda was selected as the “Artist of the Year” by the London International Creative Competition for her performance "Condemned Opera." She also won as a finalist in 2009 for "Death of an Icon."

Tiffany Trenda’s work has garnered positive and often enthusiastic reviews. U2.com referred to Trenda as "Tiffany, evidently a star in the making" for the Vertigo Tour 2006. Other online reviewers have considered her work "thought-provoking" and "spellbinding." Publications that have discussed Tiffany Trenda’s art include Los Angeles CityBeat, Artillery Magazine, The Malibu Times’ Malibu Life, DigitalArt.LA, LA Weekly, and the Las Vegas Review-Journal, among others.

To learn more about Tiffany Trenda, and to see examples of her past work, visit her website at tiffanytrenda.com.

Video Art: A Renewed Channel of Artistic Expression

Here is a new write up on my work.  The article is written by Craig Stephens for Art Week LA.  It contains an interesting info on Jennifer Steinkamp, Nam June Paik and other influential artists.


http://artweek.la/issue/march-14-2011/article/video-art-a-renewed-channel-of-artistic-expression

Tiffany Trenda Documented

WARNING: Please ignore all emails from trendadoc@gmail.com or any other email that is NOT tiffany@tiffanytrenda.com.

Unfortunately, this may or may not be a disturbed individual that is stalking and impersonating Trenda over the internet.




Tiffany Trenda's first short film, "Body Study 1" premiered at LACMA's Young Directors Night's reception at the A & D Museum for LACMA's Young Directors Night.  Victor Solomon was a collaborator on this project along with Joseph Bishara who designed the amazing music.  Elayssa was the dancer in the video and John Barzeley was the videographer.  Thank you for the wonderful people involved.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7waQNiVljXE
http://www.tiffanytrenda.com/events.html
 
Young Directors Night 03/05/11 The Tenth Annual Young Directors Night highlights the emerging talent of Los Angeles' film community. A celebration of film and the art of cinema, the showcase features 6 to 8 short films screened in the unique setting of an art museum followed by a conversation between the featured directors and the host panel. Reception follows the screenings.


Tiffany Trenda is a video installation performance artist based out of Malibu, CA. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design. She has exhibited at Robert Berman, Farmani Gallery, Photo San Francisco, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Korean Cultural Center, Highways, and Track 16. In 2009, she created an artist installation for Photo Los Angeles and performed live. Later that year she performed “Entropy” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Trenda won the prize of The Artist of the Year at the London Creative Awards in 2008 and 2009. Recently, she performed at the World Fair, Shanghai, China.

Her process is to take technology (LCDs, video projectors, cameras, etc.) and create a digital environment with an embodied performance that simulates the human psyche.  Her work is an investigation of how we are defined and redefined through the integration of technology. Trenda amalgamates LCD screens and her body making her identity interchangeable.  In retrospect, the viewer associates the screen as being human.  She questions how far can this loss of the human body be substituted until it loses all human connectivity.  In Trenda’s work the viewer is physically and visually immersed in how the psyche evolves to relate and survive with the machine.  She states that we are not only dealing with issues of machine-implemented bodies but our identities and human connection is through a screen.  This will change how we see others and ourselves with the assemblage of new technology.  This disconnection is a result of our desire for a total state of pure sensualism.

The Real Tiffany Trenda

 WARNING: Please ignore all emails from trendadoc@gmail.com or any other email that is NOT tiffany@tiffanytrenda.com.  

Unfortunately, this may or may not be a disturbed individual that is stalking and impersonating Trenda over the internet.


Tiffany Trenda is a video installation performance artist based out of Malibu, CA. She received her BFA from Art Center College of Design. She has exhibited at Robert Berman, Farmani Gallery, Photo San Francisco, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Korean Cultural Center, Highways, and Track 16. In 2009, she created an artist installation for Photo Los Angeles and performed live. Later that year she performed “Entropy” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Trenda won the prize of The Artist of the Year at the London Creative Awards in 2008 and 2009. Recently, she performed at the World Fair, Shanghai, China.

Tiffany Trenda's process is to take technology (LCDs, video projectors, cameras, etc.) and create a digital environment with an embodied performance that simulates the human psyche.  Her work is an investigation of how we are defined and redefined through the integration of technology. Trenda amalgamates LCD screens and her body making her identity interchangeable.  In retrospect, the viewer associates the screen as being human.  She questions how far can this loss of the human body be substituted until it loses all human connectivity.  In Trenda’s work the viewer is physically and visually immersed in how the psyche evolves to relate and survive with the machine.  She states that we are not only dealing with issues of machine-implemented bodies but our identities and human connection is through a screen.  This will change how we see others and ourselves with the assemblage of new technology.  This disconnection is a result of our desire for a total state of pure sensualism.

Tiffany Trenda (Documented): Tiffany @ Brewery Art Walk w/Marco

Tiffany Trenda / Amanda Silverman / Museum of Hyperreal Art

YouTube - tiffanytrenda's Channel

 Tiffany Trenda: "Specular".m4v - Watch Online Videos .

Saturday, August 14, 2010

Perform Now! in Chinatown!

I caught some groovy Performance Art at the Chinatown Galleries Perform Now! event last week. I'm glad they are holding this event yearly now. Also, last year I believe it was just one day but this time it was a three and a half days, Thursday night through Sunday. I didn't see as much as I wanted as I was all over the place during the weekend. But, I did catch a few interesting gems.

I've always liked Tiffany Trenda's work. It's well planned, thoughtful and compelling. She employs video projections, video cameras, bizarre costumes, and usually an interactive element. She was performing her piece Terrarium which included all of the above. Trenda was wearing a white body suit with an LCD and camera headdress. She crept around in slow motion on lucite heels reaching out to audience members behind a rope barrier mimicking their slow movements but never touching. All the while various futuristic city and environmental scenes were projected on top.


Tiffany Trenda Documented: Tiffany makes a living as a Go-To Artist in the art world! (Image: Tiffany in Pink (Lt.) 

Tiffany Trenda (Documented): May 2010

Tiffany Trenda is a Malibu CA based 30 something artist. Check out Tiffany's journey as documented ... Tiffany Trenda Graduate Profile Class of 2011