Curious Minds LA Designs Neuroaesthetically-Informed Interiors to Heal
March 2021
Cultured Magazine article by Elizabeth Fazzare
Cultured Young Architects List
March 2021
For Cultured Magazine’s inaugural Young Architects list, Architecture and Design Editor Elizabeth Fazzare surveys the innovators transforming the field of architecture, designing for a sustainable future and working for social justice. CMLA is among these twelve designers to watch in 2021.
Expansiveness: Changing Perspective - live streaming performance
August 23, 2020
CMLA and MashUp Contemporary Dance Company, in collaboration with HomeMakeLabs, present the virtual restaging of Expansiveness: Changing Perspective.
Tickets are available here.
This immersive performance, which premiered at the A + D Museum in 2018, merges architecture and dance to evoke both spatial and social manifestations of expansiveness.
The virtual restaging of this work will be performed live at MashUp’s resident studio and streamed to the audience, creating a sensation of being in the action from your own home. Co-produced by two female-owned organizations, Expansiveness: Changing Perspective celebrates Women’s Equality Day with a live streaming performance on August 23rd.
This performance is made possible in part by the City of Culver City and its Cultural Affairs Commission, with support from Sony Pictures Entertainment and the Culver City Arts Foundation.
January 24, 2020
Vocal Warehouse, Los Angeles, California
CMLA presents Contour as part of EPHEMERA.
EPHEMERA is a unique, immersive art and performance experience. Deconstructing our traditional understanding of performance, EPHEMERA offers audience members a sense of autonomy and liberation about their own journeys as witnesses. Multidisciplinary performances, films, and installations will flow in and out of each other, opening up space and time for the pieces to interact with each other, and those experiencing them. Drawing inspiration from the famed Salon de Paris, our vision is to reframe our perspectives on the sharing and receiving of art, and how by creating a network of artists, creators, and witnesses, we strengthen our own artistic impulses, and open the space for communication, and the exchange of ideas and energies.
Performances, films, and installations by Curious Minds Los Angeles, Tyler Matthew Oyer, Alan Chin, Felicity Palma, Shasha Dothan, Sean Deckert, Milan Delvecchio, and many more.
Curated and produced by Caroline Haydon
Directed by Katherine Helen Fisher
Photo by Sunshine Acid
October 12-13, 2019
Fathom & Form, Los Angeles, California
Presented by Re:borN Dance Interactive, Project XYZ of Curious Minds Los Angeles, and Safety Third Productions, this interactive performance uses dance, architecture and technology to explore the emotional toll of mass surveillance. As physical and digital surveillance evolves during the show, audience and performer become observers and observed to help us understand each other’s fears of observation and desires to be seen. The significance of the show is to display an awareness of the emotional toll of mass surveillance and a shared responsibility to improve the psychological, social, and environmental well-being of humans and society.
New team member - Designer
September 25, 2019
Wahei Lam brings his curiosity about philosophy, computation, and regional culture to CMLA. Originally from Macau SAR, China, Wahei studied at Peking University and the University of Michigan before relocating to Los Angeles.
August 08, 2019
CO Architects, Los Angeles, California
Jana speaks about Neuroaesthetics at Speed Talks 2019, presented by the WiA, AWA+D, SoCalNOMA, and AAa/e. In a rapid-fire format, women accomplished at various levels of their careers present on an event, moment in time, project or person that has influenced them… and how they choose to influence others.
May 20-25, 2019
LA Dance Project Studios, Los Angeles, California
CMLA produces Contour, a site-specific installation in the foyer of the LA Dance Project Studios. The scenography is presented below rather than in front of the audience, providing a unique perspective on the performance. Audience members are encouraged to imagine the dancers’ movements and forms obscured by the flexible membrane. The combination of physical membrane, digital contours, and the human body augment the perception of each individual component.
Of Performance Architecture & Film Symposium
May 04, 2019
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas
Erin presents several of the Project XYZ films.
March 25, 2019
Jana attained the WELL AP credential by demonstrating her knowledge of the interaction between health and wellness within the built environment.
Tulane School of Architecture Alumni Lecture Series
March 11, 2019
New Orleans, Louisiana
Jana presents work samples that outline the trajectory of her professional development, from student at Tulane to co-founder of CMLA, to current thesis students and faculty.
November 22, 2018
Erin shares her thoughts on the mismatches between the social value of art and public consumers.
The role of Archinect’s series Cross-Talk is to bring forward the positive aspects of the polemic and allow for the resulting conflict to bring to life an otherwise still and comfortable climate of creativity—if there can be one. Cross-Talk attempts—if to only say that it did—to allow text the freedom that the image has accepted and embraced. Cross-Talk attempts to force the no, to contradict itself, to anger, to please and then anger again, if only to force a stance, to pull out the position of the self, of the discipline and of the hour as a means to begin and maintain conversations moving forward.
Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture (ANFA) 2018 Conference
September 20-22, 2018
Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California
CMLA presents Architecture of Effortless Attention
Expansiveness: Changing Perspective
August 24-25, 2018
A+D Museum, Los Angeles, California
Expansiveness: Changing Perspective is a multi-media performance merging architecture and dance from MashUp Contemporary Dance company and Curious Minds Los Angeles.
Architecture studio CMLA and MashUp Contemporary Dance Company, in collaboration with the A+D Museum and HomeMakeLabs, present Expansiveness: Changing Perspective. This immersive performance evokes both spatial and social manifestations of expansiveness. The physical and projected environment is a design implementation of CMLA’s ongoing research project Architecture of Effortless Attention, through which the studio is investigating means and methods for producing qualities of mystery and novelty to promote psychological wellness. MashUp’s choreography brings the audience through a narrative of identifying truth among the thoughts we each project upon ourselves and upon each other. The performance explores the potential of people recognizing a problem, considering solutions together, and collectively producing change through the expansion of one small idea. Co-produced by two female-owned organizations, Expansiveness: Changing Perspective celebrates Women’s Equality Day with performances on August 24 and 25.
Archinect Small Studio Snapshot
April 02, 2018
Archinect publishes Mackenzie Goldberg’s interview with CMLA as part of its Small Studio Snapshot series.
International Women’s Day Celebration
March 08, 2018
MashUp Dance Company, Los Angeles, California
Project XYZ is invited to share its work at MashUp Dance Company’s International Women’s Day performance through a site specific video installation projected on the building facade.
August 17, 2017
An immersive private dining experience hosted by CMLA and GHBW.
See - Live dance performance by Evoke Dance Company
Taste - Dining experience by Haute Chefs LA, Chef Jeffrey Nimer
Hear - Interactive sound installation by Scott March Smith and Max Suechting
All that is Solid: Interior Matters
May 15, 2017
Erin’s Harvard Graduate School of Design thesis work published.
Between Data and Senses: Architecture, Neuroscience and the Digital Worlds
March 24-25, 2017
University of East London, London, United Kingdom
CMLA presents relevant work and research under the topic of the relationship between social media and architecture.
USC Architecture Generation Next
March 08, 2017
USC School of Architecture, Los Angeles, California
Erin’s Harvard Graduate School of Design academic research is presented at an event celebrating young USC alumni who have started their own practices.
Material Performance: Fibrous Tectonics & Architectural Morphology
July 22, 2016
Fibrous Pneumaticity is published in Material Performance: Fibrous Tectonics & Architectural Morphology by Achim Menges.
February 15, 2016
Fibrous Pneumaticity is published in Platform 8: An Index of Design & Research, edited by Zaneta Hong.
