Living Room Light Exchange (LRLX)
Curatorial Project, 2014-present.
Co-founded in collaboration with Elia Vargas. Additional co-curators over the years have included Dorothy Santos and Tanya Gayer.
Description
The Living Room Light Exchange (LRLX) is a salon series dedicated to new media art forms and dialogues that meets in rotating living rooms in the San Francisco Bay Area. In each ‘season’ of LRLX, we hold monthly salons where we curate three artists or cultural producers who present recent work. Engaged discussions with attendees follows. LRLX was founded in 2014 to delve more deeply into the intersection of art and technology, highlighting current creative undertakings, unanswered questions, and the ways artistic practice can challenge a changing technological world. LRLX emphasizes inclusion and intersectionality to expand ethical concerns at the intersection of art and technology.
LRLX was co-founded by Berdugo in 2014, and has been co-curated by Berdugo since its inception. LRLX has curated 52 events in the San Francisco Bay Area featuring 147 artists, and also supports a satellite LRLX series in New York city. LRLX has produced four annual publications which are held in private collections as well as libraries. It is a fiscally sponsored non-profit organization.
Exhibitions
“Survey: Artist-run Spaces of Oakland,” Aggregate Space Gallery, Oakland, CA. Feb 17 - Mar 25 2017.
“The Society for the Advancement of Bureaus and Offices,” Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA. Aug 20 2016.
Grants
Alternative Exposure Round 13, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2020.
Community Arts Grant, Zellerbach Family Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 2017.
Creative Capacity Fund Quick Grant, Center for Cultural Innovation, San Francisco, CA, 2017.
Arts Mini Grant, Clorox Company Foundation, Oakland, CA, 2017.
Alternative Exposure Round 9, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA, 2015.
Press
KQED Arts | East Bay Express (2107) | East Bay Express (2016) | LitHub | Miami Rail | Brooklyn Rail | Rhizome | Vice
