The Zeitgeist Media Festival Hollywood Featuring My Art!!!

I got the most amazing news the other day. One of my art pieces has been selected to be featured at The Zeitgeist Media Festival's Art Gallery at Avalon Hollywood this year!!

The Zeitgeist Media Festival is a not-for-profit global annual event advocating social consciousness through ‘artivism’ (art + activism).

The main event held in Hollywood, Sunday, 4th of August, will be featuring over 30 performances/screenings of music, visual and interactive art, comedy, film, speakers and theatrics lasting over 7 hours!!.. 

Tickets for the Hollywood Zeitgeist Media Festival are already available here.

Check out what 'Hollywood Today' had to say about last years media festival.

Can't tell you how incredibly honoured I was to be asked. I must say it's always been a dream, and there is nowhere I would rather have my work shown than at The Zeitgeist Media Festival 'Shifting Cultural Values Through The Power of Art'. 

The Zeitgeist Movement's principle focus is, to quote from the official site..

"... the recognition that the majority of the social problems which plague the human species at this time are not the sole result of some institutional corruption, scarcity, a political policy, a flaw of "human nature" or other commonly held assumptions of causality. 

Rather, The Movement recognizes that issues such as poverty, corruption, collapse, homelessness, war, starvation and the like appear to be "Symptoms" born out of an outdated social structure. While intermediate Reform steps and temporal Community Support are of interest to The Movement, the defining goal here is the installation of a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions. " .....read more

On a side note,.. when asked to submit my art, they also requested my "..personal view on the role art plays in influencing culture to change in positive and progressive ways". This was my reply...

"Visual art has the inexplicable advantage of conveying an idea or message almost immediately, opening a door for new concepts to slowly permeate a culture and increase receptiveness of individuals to new and potentially culture-shifting trains of thought. Will this translate to more in-depth self-exploration of the concepts portrayed?.. If so, art has played a fundamental role in influencing said culture, be it positively or negatively. The intention is, of course, usually the former. In the end, art does not exist in a bubble, and as with nature, systemically evolves and functions thus in intertwined layers with the culture at large. We are all artistic creators of our collective future, so let's make it a good one."

Thanks for the visit!! :)

Don't forget to check out the site to see if there's a Zeitgeist Media Festival event near you!!