Hors-champs
Stan Douglas and George Lewis in conversation Saturday February 16, 3pm FREE In Stan Douglas’ Hors-champs (1992), a quartet of musicians—Kent Carter, Douglas Ewart, Oliver Johnson,…
Javanese Gamelan Workshops with Sutrisno Hartana
WORKSHOP SERIES INTRO to Javanese Gamelan | Mondays*, 5-7pm *Except February 25 and Mar 18 Cost: $150 General / $100 WF Members Registration is now…
Support Media Art History
Western Front is dedicated to the preservation and sharing of its Media Archive, that goes back over 40 years! In the past two years, we…
Chris Lee
Chris Lee will be in residence to develop part 1 of LDM, a new project that reimagines a laser distance measurement device as a tool for converting…
Octophonic: Sound Immersion
TICKETS $6 This new electronic music series immerses listeners in a world of surround sound while showcasing Western Front’s brand new 8.2 octophonic speaker system.…
Innovation from Bali: A World Premiere
FREE Indonesian Gamelan has seen an explosion of innovative and ground-breaking composers in the past decade, with young musicians experimenting with forms and instrumentation in…
Pacific Crossings: On Attachments and Unknowns
On Attachments and Unknowns Talk by Erin Gleeson Luxe Hall This presentation by independent curator and writer Erin Gleeson will touch on how contemporary art…
Sam Amidon
Advance Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students & WF Members Door Tickets: $20 General / $15 Students & WF Members Acclaimed fiddler, banjoist and guitarist…
Shahzad Ismaily
Advance Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students & WF Members Door Tickets: $20 General / $15 Students & WF Members From Lou Reed and…
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46th Anniversary Gala Dinner & Auction
Join us for Western Front’s annual Anniversary Gala, featuring a live auction of 30 works, musical performances, dinner by Hawksworth Restaurant and cocktails. Proceeds from…
Gyan Riley
Advance Tickets: $15 General / $10 Students & WF Members Door Tickets: $20 General / $15 Students & WF Members Guitarist Gyan Riley is…
Art + Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon 2019
Grand Luxe Hall As a form of information activism for women, trans, and gender non-binary people and artists, Western Front Media Arts invites people of…
Hildegard Westerkamp’s Kits Beach Soundwalk & Bill Frisell Solo Guitar from 1986
FREE One of the best things about touring the world as a musician is listening to music with fellow artists and learning from their combined years…
That which identifies them, like the eye of the cyclops
Performance with Marién Valez: March 23 @ 2pm Monique Wittig’s 1969 novel Les Guérillères envisions the aftermath of a violent war of the sexes in a future…
Text to Speech
Lisa Gitelman Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents
Text to Speech #21 Paper Knowledge: Toward a Media History of Documents Paper Knowledge addresses what is remarkable about the mundane: the library card, the…
STSTS
Launch Event: Walk followed by a reading and a discussion with Maggie Groat Date and Time: Saturday, June 9th at 2pm ***Special Location Note: The event…