CODAWorx and the Architects Foundation Present: La Raza

September 9, 2021 @ 5:00PM — 6:00PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)

CODAWorx and the Architects Foundation Present: La Raza image

Hear from the CODAworx 2020 Awardee

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The internationally acclaimed CODAawards celebrate the projects that most successfully integrate commissioned art into interior, architectural, or public spaces.

Join us on September 9 to learn more about the "La Raza Interactive Experience," a 2020 CODAawards awardee featured in the Architects Foundation's virtual exhibition.


Tickets to the panel are free; $15 tickets will permit additional entry into a giveaway for various prizes. This course is pending for AIA Continuing Education credits; please provide member ID upon signup.

Project background

From 1967 to 1977 La Raza newspaper provided a voice to the Chicano Rights movement as it unfolded across Los Angeles. More than 25,000 images captured by the La Raza photographers bear witness to this struggle for social justice. Most had never been seen.

As part of the Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative, Narduli Studio was commissioned to bring the images to life in an interactive experience for the Autry Museum’s La Raza Exhibition, visualizing the vast archive, as well as developing a practical system for navigation and research. The La Raza Interactive Experience brings the viewer into that time to understand the significance of this work in an evolving Chicano movement and the importance of these citizen-journalists within the culture of 1960s-1970s Los Angeles and mainstream media.

Narduli Studio imagined the archive as a living ecosystem and the digital interactive as a neural universe – where the long-term memory effectively acts as a dynamic knowledge base similar to the human neural system. It places the viewer within the broader context of the Chicano Movement during this moment in history and brings a nuanced and tangible understanding of its relevance to personal expression, politics and culture.

Hear from our speakers:

Susan NarduliSusan Narduli

Susan Narduli is a Los Angeles based artist and architect who works at the intersection of art, technology and public space. She imagines a future based on the synergistic evolution of physical and virtual environments, creating projects that make visible a new typology of public space. At her creative core is a belief in the promise of a sentient built environment, exploring the boundaries of technology, human engagement and meaning to create works in which the individual becomes the catalyst within an emergent language of engagement.

Narduli holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts, a Masters of Architecture and is a licensed architect. As Principal and Creative Director of her interdisciplinary design practice Narduli Studio, she guides the conceptual evolution of the work. Narduli Studio has completed commissions in virtual environments, interactive public spaces, immersive architectural installations, light environments, buildings and landscapes. The studio has received awards for its integrated approach to art, technology and the environment and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Prior to starting her own firm, Narduli was Project Designer for Frank Gehry.

Amy ScottAmy Scott

Dr. Amy Scott is the Executive Vice President of Research and Interpretation and the Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator of Visual Arts at the Autry Museum. She received her B.A. in Art History at the University of Kansas and M.A. from the University of Missouri Kansas City while working as a curatorial assistant at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. In 2000 she assumed the role of Curator of Visual Arts at the Autry Museum and in 2013 earned her Ph.D. in Visual Studies at the University of California Irvine before being advanced in 2019 to her current role.

Throughout, she has curated several of the Autry’s signature exhibitions and core galleries including Yosemite: Art of an American Icon; Art of the West; La Raza; and Coyote Leaves the Res: The Art of Harry Fonseca. She has likewise contributed to books and catalogues on the art of the American West including Paul Pletka Imagined Wests (2017), La Raza (2019) and Art of the West, published by the University of Oklahoma Press with a grant from the Luce Foundation.

Luis C. GarzaLuis C. Garza

Luis C. Garza began his artistic career as a photojournalist recording the tumultuous social events of the 1960s and 1970s for LA RAZA magazine the journalistic voice of the Chicano civil-rights movement in Los Angeles.

He serves as Co-Curator of the critically acclaimed LA RAZA exhibition at the Autry Museum of the American West where his contributions facilitated the acquisition of this vast 30,000+ historical collection of film negatives now housed at the UCLA-Chicano Studies Research Center; thus furthering the collaborative efforts between La Raza photographic staff members, and the Autry Museum within the Getty initiative of Pacific Standard Time: Latin America/Los Angeles.

Both as an artistic medium and a powerful tool of social activism the LA RAZA exhibition has become the longest running and most sustained examination of Chicano photographic history to date: September 16, 2017 –– February 10, 2019 .

His fateful photographic encounter of 1971 with muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros provided the basis that initiated in 2010 the groundbreaking Autry exhibition wherein he served as both originator and Curator for Siqueiros In Los Angeles: Censorship Defied.

Nicole Carroll Moderator: Nicole Carroll

Nicole Carroll is Vice President of Business Development for CODAworx. CODAworx is the hub of the commissioned art economy. We connect all members of the industry, matching creative talent with creative opportunities, providing art commissioning services that streamline the commission workflow process resulting in successful art installations. We connect those looking to commission artwork with professional artists who create large-scale commission projects for installation in public and private settings.

This project is featured as part of the 2020 CODAworx exhibition hosted virtually at The Octagon. View the exhibition here.