Postopolis! LA

It still feels like Postopolis! only just happened, though it's been nearly two years. We've all moved on to new cities or we've had kids; books have been written; jobs have changed; the United States has a new president; the landscape of architecture and design websites continues to mutate, and... we've thus decided that it's time to do another one.
And we're doing it in Los Angeles.

[Image: Logo by Joe Alterio].

From Tuesday, March 31, to Saturday, April 4, 2009, from 5-11pm each day, in a location to be confirmed very soon, we're bringing art, architecture, music, film, design, planning, politics, sci-fi, special effects, geology, history, lost rivers, futurism, and archaeology to Los Angeles, that city of tar pits and movie stars, of beaches, landslides, and mountain lion attacks, of universities and parking lots, of real estate speculation and individualized automotive fractality, city of black magic, mass murder, and abandoned swimming pools, military simulation labs, Die Hard and plate tectonics. City of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, of ecologies, gravel pits, and infrastructure.
So who's involved? The first Postopolis! was hosted in the uniquely awesome perforated space of the Storefront for Art and Architecture; it was a collaboration between Inhabitat, Subtopia, City of Sound, and BLDGBLOG; and it was an exhilarating and exhausting five days' worth of back-to-back interviews, presentations, lectures, panel discussions, slideshows, short film screenings, roundtable discussions, slightly surreal international phone calls, and so on.
This time it will be all that plus more art, film, and music, a larger international scope, hopefully several Spanish-language events and lectures, hopefully at least one minor earthquake, and just a short drive west to views of the Pacific Ocean.
We'll be announcing the actual speakers and all other subsidiary events soon; for now, check out the Postopolis! LA page over at the Storefront for Art and Architecture, bookmark the other blogs involved in planning all this, and watch out for more info coming soon!
And each night will be free and open to the public, and all indications are that this thing will be as centrally located as something can be in Los Angeles. So come by at any point: from 5pm to 11pm each night.
Postopolis! LA is sponsored by the Storefront for Art and Architecture and ForYourArt, and it will be part of Los Angeles Art Weekend.

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Anonymous Anonymous said...

I can't wait! So many interesting potential speakers in LA, not to mention air conditioning ...

February 05, 2009 2:27 PM  
Blogger Clare Dudman said...

That looks brilliant! Think I'll see if I can go.

February 05, 2009 2:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

nice! congrats! look forward to hearing/reading/seeing

February 05, 2009 2:36 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

If you're still looking for venues, please let us know. We love this kind of thing

February 05, 2009 3:17 PM  
Blogger Brady Westwater said...

Great! And which LA blogs are participating? And are the venues going to be large enough? We've got some great spaces Downtown if you're still looking...

February 06, 2009 1:58 PM  
Blogger Billywilliam said...

Shoot I leave LA like two days before!
Sounds like it's gonna be awesome!

February 06, 2009 2:58 PM  
Blogger Geoff Manaugh said...

It should be a lot of fun – thanks for the comments. Clare, Daniel, Brady, Nicola, Betalevel, I'd love to see all of you there.

Brady, the bloggers are from all over, but the speakers – an estimated 45-50 people, possibly more - will all be from LA (or the greater southern California region). The overwhelming majority of people participating in the event, in other words, are LA-based, so there is no shortage of local representation!

February 07, 2009 2:55 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Looking forward to this event and I'm enjoying these other blogs.

February 08, 2009 7:21 PM  

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