Fwd: AUDC Wilshire Boulevard Facility Opening

> AUDC [http://www.audc.org] announces an inaugural reception and
> preview of its Wilshire Boulevard Facility on Friday, June 17, 7-9pm,
> 6128 Wilshire (at Fairfax), Suite 211, Los Angeles.
>
> AUDC's Wilshire Boulevard Facility [http://www.audc-office.com]
> consists of a small, flexible exhibit space and office. During the
> month of June, the Wilshire Boulevard Facility will be open by
> appointment only. We intend to establish regular hours beginning in
> the third week of July.
>
> In June and July, AUDC's Wilshire Boulevard Facility will host an
> interpretive exhibit on "Ether" [http://www.audc.org/ether], analyzing
> the role of the individual, objects, and telecommunicational society
> from the Cold War to the present day. For Ether, AUDC focuses its
> investigation on a building purported to be both the world's most
> connected location and the most expensive space in North America,
> telecom hotel One Wilshire, located in downtown Los Angeles.
>
> In other AUDC news, we recently published "Ether" in Verb: Connections
> [http://www.actar.es] and "Immaterial Culture" in Textfield 3
> [http://www.textfield.org]. "Site:Nonsite:Quartzsite," our
> installation about Quartzsite, Arizona on the web
> [http://www.audc.org/quartzsite] and at the 2004 High Desert Test
> Sites [http://www.highdeserttestsites.com] is part of City/Observer,
> an online exhibition curated by New Museum of Contemporary Art
> associate curator Yukie Kamiya on rhizome.org
> [http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/city/]. Kazys Varnelis also
> lectured on AUDC's work in April at the University of Washington,
> Seattle.
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> AUDC's goal is to speculatively investigate the contemporary city
> using the tools of the architect, the historian, and the designer.
> AUDC blurs traditional divisions between media by working
> simultaneously in print, web, video, photography, drawings, models,
> dioramas, and installations while addressing the particularities of
> each medium. Likewise, AUDC breaks down the boundaries between theory
> and practice by uniting both scholarship and design research.
>
> AUDC was founded by Robert Sumrell and Kazys Varnelis in 2001.
>
> Robert graduated from SCI_Arc with a Master's in Architecture and
> after practicing as an architect and teaching history and theory of
> architecture, is now a production designer. See
> http://www.robertsumrell.com
>
> Kazys has a Ph.D. from Cornell University and has taught at SCI_Arc
> since 1996. After a semester teaching at the University of
> Pennsylvania this spring, he is Senior Research Associate at the
> Annenberg Center for Communications at the University of Southern
> California during the 2005-2006 academic year, working on his project
> on the Network City. See http://www.varnelis.net
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