iotaSalon 2009

After a long hiatus, The iotaSalon is returning to Los Angeles! With the generous support of the UCLA Design and Media Art Department, iota will hold a salon on October 1st in the Broad Art Center on campus, first floor.

At the iotaSalon, we get together to screen and discuss new experimental works alongside some classics. For this first salon curator Jeremy Schwartz scoured some of the highlights from recent submissions, and curated those with older works from our film collection. The theme for this screening is 'strategies of abstraction' There are a few pieces from the 50s. 70s and 80s, with the bulk of the pieces having been digitally created recently. Abstraction ranges from the intangible to the geometric. Often it includes representational objects within a realm of abstraction. Sometimes a process exists wherein a concrete concept or image is abstracted. Concepts range from mathematical to spiritual, rhythm is ordained by musical, biological or poetic forces.