The League of Imaginary Scientists: "X, Y, Z and U"

Location: Broad Art Center, Studio 5250

Join a group of artists from New York visiting Los Angeles for an exhibition downtown at the Outpost for Contemporary Art.

A discussion on participatory mapping with Lucy Hg from The League of Imaginary Scientists, media artists Andrea Polli and Chuck Varga, and xtine.

X, Y, Z, and U is an exhibition and series of discussions and workshops featuring the mapping projects of artists whose creative practices resemble field research and scientists who use DIY tactics and creative visualization to map scientific information. The exhibition and related community-based activities are scheduled throughout June at Outpost for Contemporary Art, and organized in partnership with apexart and The League of Imaginary Scientists.

Ecological concepts of continuity and interdependence are renegade forces. They not only transform existing patterns of material consumption and production, they destabilize social values and disrupt aesthetic conventions. Even the notion of beauty is overhauled by the ecological mandate to embrace all aspects of the life cycle – decay as well as growth. Artists who demonstrate radical beauty are renegade aestheticists. They demonstrate that the greening of society depends as much upon revising human values as reforming human behaviors.

For a listing of additional events, please visit: http://www.imaginaryscience.org/xyzu