ARTALK with Taeyoon Choi May 30th / 9PM

May 30th / 9PM
ARTALK Taeyoon Choi

CultureHub
47 Great Jones St/ 3rd Floor
FREE PLEASE RSVP / LIVESTREAMED
Join CultureHub’s live in studio/telematic ARTALK with Taeyoon Choi. Taeyoon is a new media and performance artist. He earned his B.F.A at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and M.S at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in 2007. His work has been exhibited at Dislocate Yokohama, Japan Upgrade! Skopje, Macedonia, Nam June Paik Art Center Seoul, South Korea, Spanien 13c  Aarhus, Denmark. He lectured at Parsons School of Design and lead workshops in many places including Ars Electronica Linz, Austria and Medialab Prado Madrid, Spain. Choi received Arts Council Korea ‘Young artist award’ in 2007 and residency and fellowship at Eyebeam New York in 2008 and 2011. Choi collaborates with engineers, actors and activist groups. Choi runs a residency program for cultural producers in Seoul Temporary Space, and a commercial gallery for conceptual art at New Normal Business, based in New York.

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ARTALK with Esther Chae May 2nd / 9PM

May 2nd / 9PM EST
ARTALK Esther Chae
CultureHub LA / CalArts XBOX (Main Gallery Conference Room) /
LIVESTREAMED
Esther Kyung-ju Chae will share her personal stories of where she came from and how she got to her current professional life as an artist working across multiple mediums. She is a Hollywood actress in tv shows/ commercials/films/voice overs, a stage actor and playwright of solo performance “So the Arrow Flies,” and cultural provocateur who challenges notions and ideas of what it means to be an Asian American female artist through her leadership and educational work. She created a play called “Ae-ri in Otherland” that features Korean percussion music sa-mul-nol-i and characters from both Korean folktales and Alice in Wonderland.She has always identified herself with Alice/Ae-ri and now presenting her telepresence seminar through this state-of-the-art technology for students world wide, she is indeed living her childhood dream through the looking glass.

FUTURTECHNOTERROR / GATTACA

CULTUREHUB PRESENTS / FUTURTECHNOTERROR / GATTACA

Monday April 16 / 7PM

From IMDB: "In the not-too-distant future, a less-than-perfect man wants to travel to the stars. Society has categorized Vincent Freeman as less than suitable given his genetic make-up and he has become one of the underclass of humans that are only useful for menial jobs. To move ahead, he assumes the identity of Jerome Morrow, a perfect genetic specimen who is a paraplegic as a result of a car accident..."

ARTALK with Steven Chang April 12

CULTUREHUB ARTALK PRESENTS / STEVEN CHANG

Thursday April 12 / 9PM

Live in studio / telematic discussion with Steven Chang. Steven discussed his life and work with students at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Steven Joonha Chang, AIA, LEED AP BD+C is an architect and educator based in New York City. He is a Senior Designer/ Project Architect at Ennead Architects and teaches at Pratt Institute's Graduate Architecture and Urban Design Program. After studying Architecture at U.C. Berkeley, he traveled and worked his way around the world for five years with stints in architecture offices in Portugal, Germany and Korea before returning to U.S.

LOCO 7 / URBAN ODYSSEY APRIL 6

LA MAMA ETC / LOCO 7 PRESENTS: URBAN ODYSSEY

Friday April 6 / 7:30 PM

Show followed  by a telematic talkback with El Colegio Del Cuerpo in Cartagena, Columbia. Conceived by Federico Restrepo and Denise Greber. Designed, Directed & Choreographed by Federico Restrepo. Music Composed by Elizabeth Swados. Text by Elias Khoury.

Urban Odyssey depicts the experience of immigration to America through movement and visual theatre. This new work is the culmination of a ten-year investigation that began in 2002 with a production created from Federico Restrepo's personal experience as a Columbian immigrant...The New York Times Called Loco7's Room to Panic an 'elegant multimedia show...consistently touching and evocative' and described Open Door as "a striking, evocative theater experience.'

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FUTURTECHNOTERROR / BRAZIL

CULTUREHUB PRESENTS/ FUTURTECHNOTERROR Movie Night

Thursday March 22/ 7PM

Brazil (1985) Directed by Terry Gilliam. Come watch Brazil with us at CULTUREHUB! Enjoy some snacks and bring some to share. The more the merrier. From IMDB, "A bureaucrat in a retro-future world tries to correct an administrative error and himself becomes an enemy of the state."

ARTALK with Lorie Novak / April 5

CULTUREHUB ARTALK PRESENTS / LORIE NOVAK

Thursday April 5 / 9PM

Live in studio / telematic ARTALK with Lorie Novak. Lorie discussed her life and work with students at the Seoul Institute of the Arts. Lorie Novak is an artist and Professor of Photography & Imaging at New York University Tisch School of the Arts and Associate Faculty at the Hemespheric Institute of Performance and Politics. She used various technologies of representation to explore issues of memory and transmission, identity and loss, presence and absence, shifting cultural meanings of photographs, and the relationship between the intimate and the public. Novak's photographs, installations, and internet projects have been in numerous exhibitions and her photographs are in many museums permanent collections. She has been the recipient of NEA and NYFA Fellowships, a Tiffany Foundation Grant, and residencies at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center (Italy), Bogliasco Foundation, (Italy); ArtSway (England), Mac Dowell Colony, Yaddo, and the Djerassi Foundation. See www.lorienovak.com for more information.

ARTALK with Caveh Zahedi March 21 / 9PM

CULTUREHUB ARTALK PRESENTS/ CAVEH ZAHEDI

Wednesday March 21/ 9PM

Caveh Zahedi is an autobiographical American independent filmaker whose films include I Am A Sex Addict(2005), In The Bathtub of the World (2001), I Don't Hate Las Vegas Anymore (1994), and A Little Stiff(1991). This ARTALK event was shared with an audience at the Seoul Institute of the Arts via telepresence and LIVE-STREAMED online.

HIP Hop Re: Education / All City Vol.1 CD Release Party

CULTUREHUB PRESENTS/HIP HOP RE:EDUCATION /All City Vol. 1 CD Release Party

Tuesday March 20/ 8pm

The Hip Hop Re:Education Project celebrated the release of All City, Vol.1, a youth compilation music album dedicated to bringing together young people from throughout the five boroughs of New York City and Beyond! The show featured work from some of NYCs most talented youth poets, emcees and vocalists, as well as a handful of very special guests from New York City's underground Hip Hop scene! All the proceeds went to support future Hip Hop Re: Education Project programming!

ARTALK with Joel Zwick September 26 / 9PM

CultureHub Artalk Series / Joel Zwick / A Life in the Creative Arts

September 29 / 6PM PST
California Instiute of the Arts / 24700 McBean Pkwy Valencia, CA 91355

JOEL ZWICK / Director of Theatre, Television and Cinema / began his theatrical career at La Mama, as director of the La Mama Plexus. He directed My Big Fat Greek Wedding, the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. Recent films include Fat Albert and Elvis Has Left the Building. Mr. Zwick directed the Broadway production of George Gershwin Alone at the Helen Hayes Theatre. He has directed on Broadway, Off-Broadway and Broadway touring companies. He and Hershey Felder have collaborated on Monsieur Chopin, Beethoven as I knew him and Maestro. Currently, Mr. Zwick is recognized as one of Hollywood’s most prolific director of episodic television, having the direction of five hundred and fifty episodes to his credit.

In this Artalk session, Mr. Zwick spoke about his experience working internationally in the fields of Theater, Television and Cinema as both a director and teacher.

A Life in the Creative Arts was held at the California Institute of the Arts in collaboration with CultureHub L.A. The event was shared with an audience at the Seoul Institute of the Arts via telepresence.

To watch the recorded live feed please click on the link below.

SeoulArts / Korea Feed

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