L.A. Roka
The Celebrity Murder Party Crackdown
→ music + art roomL.A. Roka - 24 Nov 10 They’re interested in murdering the idea of celebrity, and to regain the people’s trust in the social creative power of music and art. CMP’s Jeremy (Jez) Biggs talks about the remix—with Kieron B who made the associated video—made for Billie Ray Martin featuring Stephen Mallinder, based on the...
DJ Jez & videographer Kieron talk shop
→ music + art roomL.A. Roka - 24 Nov 10 After the creative discussion of their Crackdown remix and protest video for Billie Ray Martin’s cover versions of Cabaret Voltaire’s classic Crackdown, Jez and Kieron talk about copyright and the state of the creative enterprise in music. L.A. Roka: How can one be successful in today’s music...
Ai Weiwei on CNN with Christiane Amanpour
→ Professional DevelopmentADP staff, L.A. Roka - 01 Jul 10 Are you prepared for media coverage success—or are you facilitating a media coverage disaster? A standard feature in the media/comm field, analyzing interviews, can help raise awareness to steer the communication in the desired direction. (ADP staff—) The bigger they are, the harder they fall—so...
Damien Hirst et al. diamond skull publicity
ft. Bloomberg News (2007)
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Art Design Publicity magazine
M. Contraband, Esq., the PUNK lawyer/artist, Yukiko Fujita, D.M. Gray, Kim Min Su, R.J. Preece (ADP), Rogue Dubai PR guy, L.A. Roka - 08 May 10 We prefer the position that the freaky diamond skull was not sold, that the mass & social media channels were "appropriated"—and that the journos, bloggers, the twitterati, etc. and recipients of the message were activated into a Sensational media...
Artist PR / MR strategy into the Social Media Age vs. Take the Power Back
→ Art Design Publicity magazineL.A. Roka - 07 Feb 10 The power structure of artist to PR / media relations to traditional journalism-and-other gatekeepers—to the public—remains. L.A. Roka dips back into history, flies into the present, and wants artists-and-educators to collectively get serious, train up, and Take the power back....
Know hope (A variation on an Obama theme)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineL.A. Roka - 01 Feb 10 Make sure to click the sound clip below to get the full effect... In bloom by Nirvana. Know hope. “Art is the greatest game, the supreme entertainment, because you discover the game as you play it.... We want to see, to feel, to understand, to respond in a new way. Why...
What the hell does that mean?
→ Art Design Publicity magazineL.A. Roka - 01 Feb 10 Inspired by the Beastie Boys Too many rappers. “Not afraid to use beauty in his work” WHAT THE HELL DOES THAT MEAN? “So, if I think a piece is ugly— if my response to a piece is ‘It is ugly,’ then it is, objectively.” “If I think a piece is sad, then it has the property of sadness.”...
Communicating eco-art 2010: The race is on!
→ Professional DevelopmentR.J. Preece (ADP), L.A. Roka - 27 Jan 10 When was the last time you saw an artist being interviewed on CNN—for thirty minutes? Before Maya Lin was interviewed by Christiane Amanpour last December talking about her What is missing? project, we couldn’t recall recent similar experiences that readily. We find this significant media...
Editorial 2(1): In between: An EP
→ Art Design Publicity magazineR.J. Preece (ADP), L.A. Roka - 03 Jan 10 Here we take inspiration from the EP format for musicians, and apply it to Art Design Publicity. We don’t think this issue will be as popular as the previous ones, but hey, we’re experimenting. Here, we’ve included what are key articles between two people, R.J. Preece and L.A. Roka, a PR guy,...
Mass & Swirl:
A secret installation for Tate Modern
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Art Design Publicity magazine
L.A. Roka - 31 Dec 09 As 2009 draws to a close, we finally release an article that the ADP editor has been grappling with for six months—a modest proposal for the Tate Modern exhibition Pop Life: Art in a material world. Loomer by My Bloody Valentine. Because the art publicity system still celebrates the...
Rage against the (PR) machine, Roka-style
→ Art Design Publicity magazineL.A. Roka - 26 Oct 09 For all of us "new" art/design show and music junkies, will we ever detox from the drug of sensation? Calm like a bomb by Rage Against the Machine. They wuz all punked. A year ago, at least ten million people buzzed about sharing a grainy-appearing YouTube video showing people...
Slammin with Green Day and various artists : Compare & contrast
→ music + art roomD.M. Gray, R.J. Preece (ADP), L.A. Roka - 01 Oct 09 First off in the music+art room, we offer you a university art classroom-style Compare and Contrast. Here, we show you nine paintings made by various visual artists that reflect a specific song on the Green Day CD 21st Century Breakdown in some way. We’ve also embedded YouTube clips of the nine...
