NOW Art LA

Plan your visit to 3.0, happening this Saturday, October 5, 2024 from 7:00 - 11:30 PM! Join us in the South Park neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles for this magnificent exhibition, featuring ten INCREDIBLE artists.

LUMINEX will begin with an Opening Ceremony at Site 7 (1119 S Olive St). Join us for opening remarks at 7 pm to kick off the evening. 👏🏽

We encourage everyone to take public transit, use rideshare services, or to carpool with friends, as parking will be limited. Arrive early to secure a space and have dinner at one of the fabulous restaurants in South Park!

Learn more about everything we have planned at luminexla.com, and if you haven’t already, please RSVP at the link in our bio! See you on Saturday! ✨

NEW TIME! Tune in to our upcoming LIVE STREAM! 🎥 Join Now Art for an exciting talk with JOJO ABOT (! Don’t miss out on this conversation this Wednesday, October 2nd at 12:30 pm! 🔥 RSVP at the link in our bio and see our upcoming schedule of live streams: https://nowartpublic.com/artists-portal/

JOJO ABOT is an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and healer who explores the abilities of new and ancient technologies for universal healing. In her artmaking and ritual, the artist draws from her heritage as an Ewe woman from West Africa and her nomadic lived experiences across Ghana, Copenhagen, the United States, South Africa, Kenya, and elsewhere around the world.

We’re so excited to work with artists like JOJO ABOT, an interdisciplinary artist, performer, and healer who explores the abilities of new and ancient technologies for universal healing. joins the incredible line-up of artists for this year’s LUMINEX 3.0. Read on and learn more about the artist:

✨In her artmaking and ritual, JOJO ABOT draws from her heritage as an Ewe woman from West Africa and her nomadic lived experiences across Ghana, Copenhagen, the United States, South Africa, Kenya, and elsewhere around the world.

✨ For LUMINEX 3.0, JOJO ABOT presents “Re.Member,” a spiritual call to gather oneself, reclaiming our worth as we reconnect with our true essence. It calls us to integrate fragmented parts of ourselves, rediscovering what has been lost or forgotten.

✨ JOJO ABOT describes this work as “A journey of acknowledging, uncovering, confronting, and releasing outdated beliefs, leading us to a deeper and more authentic truth that nourishes life and promotes harmonious well-being. A portal to past, present and future, connecting ancestors to the unborn in love. An active practice of inner liberation, rewilding and decolonization that ultimately fuels collective liberation.”

Visit luminexla.com for updates and details about this year’s LUMINEX exhibition, and RSVP for our upcoming livestream with JOJO ABOT at the link in our bio!
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We are so grateful to be working with our incredible community sponsor, City of Los Angeles, Council District 14! Their team is key to making a reality.

“As a proud sponsor of LUMINEX 3.0, I’m thrilled to see this event light up Downtown LA and bring our community together. By transforming our vibrant cityscape into a canvas for world-class digital art, we’re creating an inclusive space where creativity and connection flourish. This exhibition makes art accessible, celebrating the diverse voices that enrich our neighborhoods and inspiring all of us to engage with the beauty that surrounds us.” - Kevin de León, LA City Councilmember, 14th District

Learn more about LUMINEX 3.0 and our partnerships at luminexla.com, and RSVP for this exciting event at the link in our bio!

We are so grateful to be working with our incredible sponsor, Show Imaging! Their team is key to making a reality.

“We are proud to sponsor LUMINEX 3.0: Landscape Frequencies, an innovative event that resonates deeply with our mission to enrich lives through world-class experiences. As a solutions-driven community of creators, we believe in the power of art to connect people from all backgrounds. By partnering with LUMINEX, we aim to help amplify the works of renowned artists while allowing creative voices to connect with the wider community. Together, we’re creating a unique experience where creativity thrives, and communities come together to view the beauty of digital art.”
- Mark Lopez, CXO of Show Imaging

Learn more about LUMINEX 3.0 and our partnerships at luminexla.com, and RSVP for this exciting event at the link in our bio!

On this we’re remembering the brilliance of all the artists who’ve participated in over the years. We’ve had the most incredible creative people involved in the exhibition, who have made the event special for all of us and our audiences. A huge thank you to all ✨

We hope to see many familiar faces at LUMINEX 3.0 ❤️ Happening NEXT WEEK - October 5, 2024 from 7 pm - 11:30 in South Park DTLA. RSVP at the link in our bio!

Shoutout to all the fantastic artists whose work can be seen in these images:

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We’re so excited to work with artists like Refik Anadol, an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. joins the incredible line-up of artists for this year’s LUMINEX 3.0. Read on and learn more about the artist:

✨Anadol is the Director of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and Lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts.

✨ For LUMINEX 3.0, Refik Anadol presents “Artificial Realities: California Landscapes.” Collaborating with a dataset of 153 million publicly available images of California’s National Parks, Anadol and his studio transformed this raw material into an AI Data Sculpture that offers a fresh perspective on nature, shaped by human-machine collaboration.

✨ This project holds special significance for Refik Anadol Studio, as it’s a tribute to the city of Los Angeles, where Anadol’s artistic journey was embraced and nurtured.

Visit luminexla.com for updates and details about this year’s LUMINEX exhibition, and RSVP for our upcoming livestream with Refik Anadol at the link in our bio!

NOW Art wishes you a Happy Fall! There’s so much to look forward to this season, especially with all of the incredible exhibitions and events happening with . We have a lot to see, but here are a few things we’re particularly excited about:

- Coming this November: “Lightscape” is an innovative multimedia artwork created by the artist in collaboration with the and the . It’s a modern mythology propelled by music that asks the questions, “where are we now?” and “where are we going?” “Lightscape” is a shapeshifting act of contemporary storytelling that unfolds in various stages: a feature-length film, a multi-screen fine art installation, and a series of live musical performances.

- “Concrete is Fluid” at is open NOW! This solo exhibition by eco-hacktivist Lauren Bon () features room-scale installations of ancient soils and subterranean seedbanks reconfigured into magical assemblages for ecological thinking. Bon’s post-industrial earthworks, photographs, and sculptures index two decades of collaborative interventions and champion the Earth’s immutable cycles of upheaval, abundance, and reparation.

- And TONIGHT at : Check out a series of short film screenings, “Future Ancestral Technologies,” by artist , who illuminates his approach to Indigenous futurism, blending media, place, storytelling, and documentation of a living practice. Cannupa Hanska Luger is featured in the new exhibition, “Breath(e): Toward Climate and Social Justice” on view at the Hammer.

We’ll continue to share some of the magnificent projects underway throughout the rest of the year!

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We are SO EXCITED about our merch this year! Designed by artist Silvia Lasmar (), our incredible suite of posters, bandanas, and tote bags are available online NOW and will be available at LUMINEX 3.0 for purchase. Limited quantities available!

Visit luminexla.com/plan-your-visit/ to pre-order your merch or stop by one of our info booths at Site 4 or 7 to buy on site! And RSVP for LUMINEX 3.0 today using the link in our bio.

Tune in to our upcoming LIVE STREAM! 🎥 Join Now Art founder Carmen Zella for an exciting talk with Refik Anadol ()! Don’t miss out on this conversation this Friday, September 27th at 11 am PT! 🔥 RSVP at the link in our bio and see our upcoming schedule of live streams: https://nowartpublic.com/artists-portal/

Refik Anadol (b. 1985, Istanbul, Turkey) is an internationally renowned media artist, director, and pioneer in the aesthetics of data and machine intelligence. He is the Director of Refik Anadol Studio in Los Angeles and Lecturer in UCLA’s Department of Design Media Arts. Anadol’s work locates creativity at the intersection of humans and machines. Taking the data that surrounds us as primary material, and the neural network of a computerized mind as a collaborator, Anadol offers us radical visualizations of our digitized memories and expands the possibilities of interdisciplinary arts. Anadol’s site-specific data paintings and sculptures, live audio/visual performances, and immersive installations take many forms, while encouraging us to rethink our engagement with the physical world, collective experiences, public art, decentralized networks, and the creative potential of AI.

We’re so excited to work with artists like LAVA (Los Angeles Video Artists), a community of video artists and creative technologists working primarily in the field of immersive experiential digital art. joins the incredible line-up of artists for this year’s LUMINEX 3.0. Read on and learn more about the artists:

✨The goal of the LAVA community is to promote and nurture the evolution of video art with the latest technological magic in the greater Los Angeles area. LAVA members are constantly contributing to the current discourse around live mult-media performances/ activations/ installations/ LED pixel mapping, 360 dome visuals, 3D and 4D projection mapping, interactive and immersive experiences, AudioVisual software and hardware customization, content consciousness, ethics, and best practices.

✨ LAVA is thrilled to host BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) as a marquee event at LUMINEX 3.0. This ongoing project invites a diverse group of projection mappers, guerrilla projectionists, and visionary video artists for an extraordinary night of creative innovation.

✨ Set in the historic Morrison Hotel alleyway, LAVA BYOB at LUMINEX 3.0 will transform this iconic urban space into an immersive, interactive gallery of light, color, and motion.

Visit luminexla.com for updates and details about this year’s LUMINEX exhibition, and RSVP for our upcoming livestream with LAVA at the link in our bio!

Tune in to our upcoming LIVE STREAM! 🎥 Join Now Art founder Carmen Zella for an exciting talk with LAVA ()! Don’t miss out on this conversation this Wednesday, September 25th at 6pm! 🔥 RSVP at the link in our bio and see our upcoming schedule of live streams: https://nowartpublic.com/artists-portal/

Founded in 2003, LAVA (Los Angeles Video Artists) is a community of video artists and creative technologists working primarily in the field of immersive experiential digital art. The goal of the LAVA community is to promote and nurture the evolution of video art with the latest technological magic in the greater Los Angeles area.

We are so grateful to be working with our incredible community sponsor, South Park BID! Their team is key to making a reality.

“Communities around the world are reconnecting with public space in exciting and innovative ways, and city governments, hospitality industry leaders, and local businesses are recognizing the importance of activating the public realm through art, music, and expressions of culture. The economic and social vibrancy of a neighborhood like South Park is enriched through events like LUMINEX, and we’re excited to continue our partnership with NOW Art.” - Nolan Marshall, Executive Director of South Park Business Improvement District

Learn more about LUMINEX 3.0 and our partnerships at luminexla.com, and RSVP for this exciting event at the link in our bio!

We’re so excited to work with artists like Nao Bustamante, whose precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, filmmaking, sculpture and writing. joins the incredible line-up of artists for this year’s LUMINEX 3.0. Read on and learn more about the artist:

✨Writing about Bustamante, the New York Times says, “She has a knack for using her body.”

✨ For LUMINEX 3.0, Nao Bustamante will reprise her work “Brown Disco,” inviting the spectator to defamiliarize the optical trick by which a disco ball disperses light into fantasy. At once light source and spaceship, this exuberant installation interposes itself into the art historical debate over minimalism’s “theatricality.”

✨ Bustamante has long been one of the theorists and practitioners of brownness, seen here as the uncanny and sometimes awkward alchemy that happens when bodies collide. “Brown Disco” is a soft memorial, emphasizing the care and comfort we find in the club.

Visit luminexla.com for updates and details about this year’s LUMINEX exhibition, and RSVP for our upcoming livestream with Nao Bustamante at the link in our bio!

TODAY marks the incredible opening of ! PST ART: Art & Science Collide will create opportunities for civic dialogue around some of the most urgent problems of our time by exploring past and present connections between art and science in a series of exhibitions, public programs, and other resources. Project topics range from climate change and environmental justice to the future of artificial intelligence and alternative medicine.

To kick off this incredible initiative, artist Cai Guo-Qiang hosts “WE ARE,” a spectacular fireworks display at the Coliseum. Happening tomorrow, nearly 10,000 twinkling mini-firework shells will transform the historic stadium into a matrix of animated light. Choreographed in collaboration with an artificial intelligence model, more than 1,000 aerial drones carrying pyrotechnic products will ignite the sky above and around the bowl with bursts of colorful imagery.

This and so many other events and programs are launching soon! Check out “Beyond the Human?: From the Metaphysical to the Physical,” a daylong symposium exploring the impact of AI on the arts at the USC happening on Monday, September 16th or visit Olafur Eliasson’s new site-specific installation made for The Geffen Contemporary at , also opening today. Learn more at pst.art!

NEW FEATURE! 📣 For LUMINEX 3.0, we are excited to be offering special curated tours via pedicab, as well as hop-on hop-off passes for purchase.

Hour-long curated tours will feature a special visit to each site where a guide will offer insight into the artworks and artists. Learn deeply about the ten incredible installations, and even meet some of the artists who created them! 🎉

If you’d rather take a tour on your own but still want a pedicab experience, we have hop-on hop-off passes available for only $20! 😮This pass allows you to jump on any of our pedicabs that will be rotating between stations throughout the night.

We also have VIP Experiences available! 🥂 Enjoy access to our VIP lounge at the Downtown LA Proper before your curated tour and other exciting perks during and after the event.

Visit the link in our bio to learn more about all of these incredible opportunities! ✨

Tune in to our upcoming LIVE STREAM! 🎥 Join Now Art founder Carmen Zella for an exciting talk with artist Nao Bustamante ()! Don’t miss out on this conversation this Wednesday, September 18th at 6pm! 🔥 RSVP at the link in our bio and see our upcoming schedule of live streams: https://nowartpublic.com/artists-portal/

Nao Bustamante is a legendary artist, residing in Los Angeles, California. Bustamante’s precarious work encompasses performance art, video installation, filmmaking, sculpture and writing. The New York Times says, “She has a knack for using her body.”

We are so grateful to be working with our incredible Platinum Sponsor, ARUP! Their team is key to making a reality.

“Arup is pleased to partner with Luminex, providing our technical expertise to help create an exceptional video art experience. We ensure that each installation is presented as the artists intended with the goal of creating a memorable and meaningful way to encounter Los Angeles. We’re honored to be part of this collaborative effort to bring dynamic video art and engaging installations to DTLA.” - Paul Chavez, Experience Designer, Arup

Learn more about LUMINEX 3.0 and our partnerships at luminexla.com, and RSVP for this exciting event at the link in our bio!

We’re so excited to work with artists like Sarah Rara, a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the position of witness within fragile systems. joins the incredible line-up of artists for this year’s LUMINEX 3.0. Read on and learn more about the artist:

✨Sarah Rara’s recent work focuses on human-technology relationships and the tension between human-built environments and wild ecologies. Sound-image relationships in particular are integral to their work.

✨ For LUMINEX 3.0, Sarah Rara presents “ORCHIS KISS” (2024), a video and sound work that examines orchid flowers and their relationship to gender, queerness, politics, and desire.

✨ Wildly diverse, gender-bending, and found in nearly every habitat on Earth, ORCHIS KISS looks at natural and cultural histories of the orchid as queer-coded, while also wielded as symbols of military and economic power.

Visit luminexla.com for updates and details about this year’s LUMINEX exhibition, and RSVP for our upcoming livestream with Sarah Rara at the link in our bio!

Tune in to our upcoming LIVE STREAM! 🎥 Join Now Art founder Carmen Zella for an exciting talk with artist Sarah Rara ()! Don’t miss out on this conversation this Wednesday, September 11th at 6pm! 🔥 RSVP at the link in our bio and see our upcoming schedule of live streams: https://nowartpublic.com/artists-portal/

Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice—including video, sound, writing, performance—explores the position of witness within fragile systems. Their recent work focuses on human-technology relationships and the tension between human-built environments and wild ecologies. Sound-image relationships in particular are integral to their work.