Short Videos – Nic Cha Kim

July 4, 2012 – Downtown LA – Fireworks Show Out My 10th Floor Window

Ever since I adopted my dog Jack, I haven’t been able to leave the house and celebrate Independence Day. I could bring him along, but he’d be a nervous wreck wherever we’d go and it doesn’t help they’ve been going off all week leading up to tonight. No dog likes fireworks, but my neighborhood really goes to town.

The only consolation is the fact I have the most amazing firework show out my 10th floor window near Downtown Los Angeles. No fancy editing here… just point, shoot, cut, upload.

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LA Express Park

LA Express Park

LOS ANGELES, CA – On May 21, 2012, Nic Cha Kim participated in the LA Express Park video featuring Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. A project of LADOT, LA Express Park is a new Downtown street parking strategy using veri-message signs, wireless sensors, pay stations, smart meters, and smartphone apps.

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New Video: White House AAPI Initiative “What’s Your Story?”

White House AAPI Initiative “What’s Your Story?”

LOS ANGELES, CA – On Oct 30, 2011, Niche.LA Video Art submits new video “Nic Cha Kim, Founder of Gallery Row” to the White House AAPI Initiative “What’s Your Story?” video challenge. Seeking stories about Asian-American community activists, Nic Cha Kim hopes to represent Downtown LA in Washington DC. A select few will be invited to the White House to attend a briefing concerning AAPI Issues.

New Video: Asbury Heights – A Conversation

Asbury Heights
Episode 1: A Conversation

Directed by Eric Heights
Written by Nic Cha Kim
Produced by Dogmeat

New Video: Vignette directed by Nic Cha Kim

VIGNETTE
written and directed by NIC CHA KIM
produced by Dogmeat in association with Niche.LA Video Art & Bootstrap Entertainment

starring (in order of appearance) KATHRYN CASTANEDA, ROBERT RENDEROS, JARED HUNGERFORD, REKO MORENO, D.T. MATIAS, MATT PETTINEO, PHIL YOUNG, CAROLINE LE DUC, ADDIE FOGLEMAN, MARLOW KNOBLE, RYAN POHANIC, JOHN HAMPTON

Game Art: Eric Medine’s “Christ Killa”

Game Art: Eric Medine’s “Christ Killa”

The 2007 Niche.LA show Christ Killa gets mentioned in this story.

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Niche.LA presents Transdissipation

Niche.LA Video Art presents Transdissipation
new digital artwork by James Adams
curated by Nic Cha Kim

LOS ANGELES, CA – On June 11, 2009 from 4-9PM during the Downtown Art Walk in Gallery Row, Niche.LA Video Art presents “Transdissipation,” original video and digital artwork by James Adams.

James lives and works in downtown Los Angeles. His work spans across media and disciplines from video and sound to sculpture, photography, printmaking, and painting. Adams has exhibited throughout Southern California at venues including The Constant Gallery, Kellogg Art Gallery, i-5 Gallery, Soundwalk and the University Art Museum at CSULB. His single channel videos have screened at the Experimental Edit International Video Festival in Auckland, New Zealand.

Niche.LA presents Motion

Niche.LA Video Art presents new works and video by Motion One
curated by Nic Cha Kim

LOS ANGELES, CA – From November 13th – December 6th, 2008, Niche.LA Video Art presents a collection of new works by LA artist Motion One as well as his video art debut Mear One – Live Art Experience, a video expression chronicling famed LA grafitti artist, Mear One.

MOTION was born as Ricardo Estrada in Los Angeles, CA in 1980. Growing up, he was your typical kid: video games, skating, chillin’ with the homies, and getting his ass wooped by his mom. He was bit by the graffiti bug in Jr. High. Once he got to high school, Ricardo started to socialize with all the other graff writers and he was taken under the wing of his fellow writers SODA and HECTIC.

Niche.LA participates in DigitalArt.LA

Niche.LA Video Art participates in DigitalArt.LA
digital international art expo curated by Rex Bruce

Rex Bruce and Los Angeles Center for Digital Art present:

DigitalArt.LA

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Niche.LA presents Gallery Rowan

NICHE.LA presents GALLERY ROWAN
video art by Ken Cravens, Lustre, Michael Allen & woodywise
curated by Nic Cha Kim

A video art explosion by Ken Cravens, Lustre, Michael Allen & woodywise

On March 13, 2008, Niche.LA Video Art presents Gallery Rowan, sponsored by Downtown Properties. A video art explosion on the side of the Rowan Building facing Spring St., artists Ken Cravens, Lustre, Michael Allen, and woodywise will project video art 6:30 – 10:30PM. Take a seat and enjoy complimentary popcorn in the Rowan parking lot as we light it up with the largest video art display to ever grace a Downtown loft wall!

Niche.LA presents Reverse

“Reverse”
new video by woodywise and Ken Cravens
curated by Nic Cha Kim

LOS ANGELES, CA – On Oct 11, 2007 (12:00 – 9:00PM), Niche.LA Video Art presents “Reverse,” featuring resident video artists woodywise and Ken Cravens.

Situated in the heart of Gallery Row on the 4th floor of the Spring Arts Tower, Niche.LA Video Art is a dedicated mixed-media & video art gallery. Located at 453 S. Spring St. #441, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (www.niche.la), Niche.LA Video Art is operated by Nic Cha Kim and Woody Wise.

Niche.LA presents Found Footage

“Found Footage”
new work by woodywise and Michael Allen
curated by Nic Cha Kim

LOS ANGELES, CA – On August 9, 2007 (12:00 – 9:00PM), Niche.LA Video Art presents “Found Footage,” featuring resident video artists woodywise and Michael Allen.

Christ Killa: The latest in religion-bashing art

Michelle Malkin blogs about the Niche.LA show, Christ Killa. She called her minions and I got 300 death threats due to this blog post.

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Niche.LA presents Christ Killa

NICHE.LA VIDEO ART PRESENTS “CHRIST KILLA”
new work by Eric Medine
curated by Nic Cha Kim

LOS ANGELES, CA – On April 12, 2007 (12:00 – 9:00PM), Niche.LA Video Art presents “Christ Killa,” featuring digital and video artist Eric Medine.

Described as the ultimate arbitration between politics and Christianity, “Christ Killa” is a video game linked to video projectors and television monitors. A first person shooter in which the player shoots hordes of homicidal Jesus Christs, the game landscape is filled with Googled images of Christian propaganda posters, religious shrines such as St. Peter’s in Rome, and clichéd representations of Christ who constantly mumbles messages of tolerance and compassion.
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Niche.LA presents Pull For Peace

NICHE.LA VIDEO ART PRESENTS “Pull For Peace”
new work by Craig Ruda
curated by Trish Lamantea

LOS ANGELES, CA – On February 8, 2007 (12:00 – 9:00PM), Niche.LA Video Art presents “Pull For Peace” curated by Trish Lamantea, featuring digital artist Craig Ruda and video artist woodywise.

Craig was born and raised on Long Island, New York. After a move to New York, Craig joined the band Gods Child and later Joe 90. Gods Child released two albums “Everybody” and “Aluminum” for Warner Brothers Records. Gods Child’s first single “Everybody’s One” topped both the Billboard “Modern Rock” and “Album Rock” charts simultaneously. Joe 90 based out of Los Angeles released two albums “Dream This” and “A Raccoons Lunch” for Interscope Records.

Niche.LA presents Etch A Sketch Man

NICHE.LA PRESENTS “Etch A Sketch Man”
new work by Christof Brown
curated by Nic Cha Kim

LOS ANGELES, CA – On November 9, 2006 (12:00 – 9:00PM), Niche.LA presents “Etch A Sketch Man,” curated by Nic Cha Kim.

Christoph Brown is known as the world’s fastest Etch A Sketch artist and can do your portrait in 5-10 minutes. This collection features over 100 Etch A Sketch artworks which explores Christoph’s body of work as he expands the Etch A Sketch medium with “The Evolution of Michael Jackson” – all 16 versions of him – and a piece titled “Old Hollywood,” a collection of 24 etch a sketch snapshots all around Los Angeles.

New Video: Pollen directed by Chil Kong

Peter thinks she’s an actress, Theresa thinks he’s a writer, Howard and John know the truth.

Set against the dark back street of downtown Los Angeles, POLLEN follows Peter and Theresa as they weave the web of lies we call relationship.

starring alec mapa, felix pire, becky baeling, and chil kong

directed by chil kong
producer nic cha kim, erin quill, chil kong
written by nic cha kim

New Video: Temporal Resonance directed by Sean Aldrin

Temporal Resonance is an experimental mix-media video piece that explores the consciousness of an elderly woman suffering from Alzheimer’s. Her fall into Dementia is shown by juxtaposing everyday objects against Nature’s backdrop and defined by mathematical formulas where variables are vegetables and numbers are tricycles. Images are arranged to evoke the idea that routine becomes repetition, which creates and cancels meaning where it once was understood.

Category: Short Videos