Saturday, May 10th, 2025
10:00am PST // 1:00pm EST
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COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION, EPISODE 28

Co-presenters Frederick Janka and Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin will be discussing four objects from the David Bermant Foundation Collection: Nam June Paik, Participation TV, 1969; Otto Piene, Light Ballet I; Marcel Duchamp, Rotorelief (optical discs) 1935-1953, edition c. 1965, and Alejandro & Moira Sina, Spinning Shaft 1978, 1983.

Drawing connections between these artworks and current and upcoming artworks and projects at the Allosphere and the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, including DJ Javier: San Milano Drive (October 2025) and Falling into the Future: Kinetic Art at the Edge of the World (October 2026), exhibitions supported by grants from the David Bermant Foundation.

COLOR, LIGHT, MOTION is an online series that brings together artists, curators and scholars in conversation around works from the David Bermant Collection of media and kinetic arts. Featured presenters explore selected artworks within their historical and cultural context, drawing connections to their own practice and perspectives. The series is sponsored by the David Bermant Foundation and produced in collaboration with Harvestworks NY.

Composer Dr. JoAnn Kuchera-Morin is Director and Chief Scientist of the AlloSphere Research Facility and Professor of Media Arts and Technology and Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The culmination of her creativity and research is the AlloSphere, a 30-foot diameter, 3-story high metal sphere inside an echo-free cube, designed for immersive, interactive scientific and artistic investigation of multi-dimensional data sets. It is an instrument for the creation and performance of avant-garde new works and the development of new modes and genres of expression and forms of immersion-based entertainment.

Kuchera-Morin is a recipient of a 2025 Art Award and will be honored at the MCASB Art Awards on Sunday, July 13th.