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Design and Architecture

Smart nodes, CAFAM goes to the border, Crenshaw Cowboy

Hosted by Frances Anderton Sep. 26, 2017
DnA goes to check out CAFAM’s timely show of art and architecture, The U.S.-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility -- and on the way encounters the installation of LA’s pilot "smart node." Will the streetlight of the future contain cameras, charging stations, speakers and sensors to detect gunshots? And we meet the homeless artist whose Los Angeles studio was a freeway on-ramp, until he was moved on.

Photo: Ana Serrano's "Cartonlandia" (2007) at CAFAM's exhibition The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility (Avishay Artsy)

From this Episode:

Goodbye street lights, hello 'smart nodes'

Workers install a "smart node" on Wilshire Boulevard. It's part of a pilot project led by the City of LA's Bureau of Street Services.

11 min

CAFAM goes to the border

"The Wall: A Border Game" by Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, at CAFAM's exhibition "The US-Mexico Border: Place, Imagination, and Possibility."

9 min

What happened to the Crenshaw Cowboy?

Lovell Moore, the "Crenshaw Cowboy," on board one of his sculptures.

8 min

Credits

Host:

Frances Anderton

Producers:

Frances Anderton, Avishay Artsy

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